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Fed Chair Powell says he's powerless to protect the economy if Congress lets the US default on its debt | won't come to the economy's rescue if the US defaults on its debt, Jerome Powell, the chair of the central bank, said Wednesday. Congress is, once again, coming dangerously close to a debt-ceiling crisis. Lawmakers have until mid-October to either raise or suspend the borrowing limit, or allow the US to default on its... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Our largesse as a generous nation can overcome pandemic and famine: William Lambers | People living in a slum in Kolkata, India line up to receive a free meal distributed by a voluntary organization during a lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)AP By Guest Columnist, cleveland.com CINCINNATI -- When Father James Hoban spoke to students at M... | Famine | null | null |
UK formally leaves the European Union and begins Brexit transition period | The U.K. finally left the EU on Friday evening after 47 years of membership, marking one of the biggest political and economic shifts in modern European history. Brexit brings about the end of a tumultuous three-and-a-half year departure process that has caused turmoil in the U.K.’s political establishment, economic un... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
CAPSTONE, a small cubesat bound for the moon, is preparing for an October launch | NASA's plan to "reboot" human exploration of the moon will get kick-started soon by a spacecraft the size of a microwave oven. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation cubesat, or CAPSTONE for short, is scheduled to launch in October from New Zealand aboard a Rocket Lab Electron r... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
2013 Balochistan earthquakes |
The 2013 Balochistan earthquakes took place in late September in southwestern Pakistan. The mainshock had a moment magnitude of 7.7 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 825 people were killed and hundreds more were injured. On 28 September, a M6.8 aftershock occurred to the north at a depth of 14... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Koza riot | The Koza riot (コザ暴動, Koza bōdō) was a violent and spontaneous protest against the US military presence in Okinawa, which occurred on the night of December 20, 1970, into the morning of the following day. Roughly 5,000 Okinawans clashed with roughly 700 American MPs in an event which has been regarded as symbolic of Oki... | Riot | null | null |
Opémiska Community Hall fire | On December 31, 1979, 350 people attended a New Year's Eve party held at the Opémiska Community Hall in Chapais, Quebec. [1] During the event, pine branches used as Christmas decorations were accidentally set on fire, with the resulting blaze killing 48 people and injuring 50 others. The rural community of Chapais was ... | Fire | null | null |
Congressman Higgins recovering at home after surgery for old injury | Congressman Clay Higgins is recovering after surgery he underwent on Tuesday. According to Higgins' office, he underwent a successful surgical procedure Tuesday morning at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in Lafayette. In a statement, Higgins says the surgery was necessary after aggravating an old internal ... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
Issa Rae Announced Her Marriage to Louis Diame in the Most Issa Rae Way Possible | Issa Rae and Louis Diame are married, although we wouldn't blame you for being momentarily confused. On July 26, the Insecure star shared a series of wedding pictures to her Instagram alongside a hilarious caption. "A) Impromptu photo shoot in a custom @verawanggang dress. B) My girls came to help me, but they all coin... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Carbery requires elbow surgery in latest injury nightmare | Joey Carbery is once again facing the prospect of months on the sideline, with Munster confirming... 14.47 14 Dec 2021 Joey Carbery is once again facing the prospect of months on the sideline, with Munster confirming he requires surgery. The out-half sustained a fractured elbow in Sunday's 35-14 win away to Wasps in ... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
Great Flood of 1881 | The Great Flood of 1881 refers to flooding events along the Missouri River during the spring of 1881. The flood began around Pierre, South Dakota and struck areas down river in Yankton, South Dakota, Omaha, Nebraska, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Nebraska City, Nebraska, Kansas City, Missouri and farther south between April 1,... | Floods | null | null |
Meet the Women Who Won Nobel Prizes This Year | Every product on this page was chosen by a Harper's BAZAAR editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy.
Louise Glück, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer A. Doudna, and Andrea M. Ghez just became Nobel laureates.
Since the Nobel Prize was established in 1895, less than 60 women have been ho... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
2009 World Outgames | The 2009 World Outgames, the 2nd World Outgames, a sporting and cultural event hosted by the gay community, was hosted by Copenhagen, Denmark from July 25 to August 2, 2009. [1] It was one of the largest international sports and cultural events ever held in Denmark, with 8,000 people from around the world expected to... | Sports Competition | null | null |
2003 San Simeon earthquake | The 2003 San Simeon earthquake struck at 11:15 PST (19:15 UTC) on December 22 on the Central Coast of California, about 7 miles (11 km) northeast of San Simeon. Probably centered in the Oceanic fault zone within the Santa Lucia Mountains, it was caused by thrust faulting and the rupture propagated southeast from the hy... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Mother, daughter charred to death in LPG leakage blaze in southeast Bengaluru | TNN / Updated: Sep 22, 2021, 13:48 IST
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Bengaluru: Bescom, BBMP, building owner booked for culpable homicide
Lakshmidevi, 82, was taking a walk in enclosed balcony when the fire broke out in the house
BENGALURU: An 82-year-old woman and her 59-year-old daughter were burnt alive in a blaze suspected to be triggered by... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Fernwood Park race riot | The Fernwood Park Anti-Black Terrorism was a Race Massacre instigated by white residents against African American residents who inhabited the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) veterans' housing project in the Fernwood Park neighborhood in Chicago. Area residents viewed this as one of several attempts by the CHA to initia... | Riot | null | null |
2000 ASA Pesada Antonov An-24 crash | The 2000 ASA Pesada Antonov An-24 crash occurred on 15 November 2000 when an Antonov An-24 registered as D2-FCG operated by Angolan airliner ASA Pesada crashed shortly after taking off from Quatro de Fevereiro Airport in Angola's capital Luanda. The aircraft was carrying 52 passengers and 5 crewmembers and was heading ... | Air crash | null | null |
La Girona: Investigation over suspected shipwreck theft | The authorities are investigating the alleged removal of artefacts from a protected wreck of the Spanish Armada off the County Antrim coast. Reports were received that divers may have taken objects from La Girona, an Armada warship, which sank off Portballintrae in 1588. Access to the site of La Girona is restricted un... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Tunisian bread riots |
The Tunisian bread riots were a series of violent demonstrations in Tunisia that occurred from December 1983 to January 1984, triggered by a rise in the price of bread due to an IMF-imposed austerity program. President Habib Bourguiba declared a state of emergency and the riots were put down by force. Over 100 rio... | Riot | null | null |
Gas manufacturing firm, CEO fined over lab explosion that killed chemist in 2015 | SINGAPORE — A gas manufacturing firm’s safety lapses led to a laboratory fire at its Jurong factory more than five years ago, killing a 30-year-old chemist and injuring other employees.
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The Leeden National Oxygen laboratory in Jurong after the fire on Oct 12, 2015.
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The explosion in 2015... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Hit Hard by Pandemic, Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center to Merge | By joining forces, the two institutions hope to bounce back from the severe losses brought by the coronavirus. By Javier C. Hernández The pandemic forced many American arts organizations to resort to mass layoffs and deep pay cuts as ticket sales vanished for more than a year. Now one of the nation’s most prominent ens... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Otto Lilienthal crash | On August 9, 1896, he crashed and died. But why? Photographs, drawings, letters, and patents from flight pioneer Otto Lilienthal can now be viewed online as part of the digitalized collection of the museum named after him in the small northeastern German town of Anklam. Among the objects is the first-ever glider from ... | Air crash | null | null |
Maria Taylor to deliver Commencement address | ESPN reporter and UGA alumna Maria Taylor will deliver the University of Georgia spring undergraduate Commencement address. Her live remarks on May 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Sanford Stadium will be recorded and shared with graduates at the May 14 and May 15 ceremonies.
David Lee, Vice President for Research at the University ... | Famous Person - Give a speech | null | null |
1969 EC-121 shootdown incident crash | On 15 April 1969,[Note 1] a United States Navy Lockheed EC-121M Warning Star of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One (VQ-1) on a reconnaissance mission was shot down by a North Korean MiG-21 aircraft over the Sea of Japan. The plane crashed 90 nautical miles (167 km) off the North Korean coast and all 31 Americans (30... | Air crash | null | null |
April 2015 Nepal earthquake |
The April 2015 Nepal earthquake (also known as the Gorkha earthquake) killed nearly 9,000 people and injured nearly 22,000. It occurred at 11:56 Nepal Standard Time on 25 April 2015, with a magnitude of 7.8Mw[1] or 8.1Ms[9] and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of VIII (Severe). Its epicenter was east of Gorkha District a... | Earthquakes | null | null |
California drought takes toll on world’s top almond producer | FIREBAUGH, Calif. (AP) — As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a deepening drought threatens one of the state’s most profitable crops. Del Bosque doesn’t have enough water to properly ... | Droughts | null | null |
Indonesia hails 'new era' for U.S. ties, hosts biggest joint military drills | Indonesian army soldiers take part in Garuda Shield Joint Exercise 2021 at the Indonesian Army Combat Training Center in Martapura, South Sumatra province, Indonesia August 4, 2021. Antara Foto/Nova Wahyudi/via Reuters. JAKARTA, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Indonesia's foreign minister said on Thursday her nation had entered a "n... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Guinea’s swift action in detecting, curbing Marburg | Gueckedou – When a man in Temessadou M’Boket – a village in the densely forested southern Guinea region – died in early August 2021 after suffering fever, headache and haemorrhage, a medical team was quickly dispatched, and within hours of his death, laboratory analysis revealed that he had been ill with Marburg. This ... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Bank robbery suspects in Colorado Springs now face charges including kidnapping | COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Three bank robbery suspects were arrested and face charges related to a series of robberies and one attempted robbery in Colorado Springs, according to police. Police say the robberies and one attempted robbery ranging from late February to mid-June showed a pattern where at least two ... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
1985 Wuqia earthquake | The 1985 Wuqia earthquake occurred on August 23, 1985, at 20:42 local time (12:42 UTC) near the border of Wuqia County and Shufu County, Xinjiang, China. It had a magnitude of Ms 7.4 and caused 71 deaths, 162 injuries, and left 15,000 homeless, as well as destroying 85% of buildings and highways. [1] The source of this... | Earthquakes | null | null |
France canceled an event celebrating US-French relations amid outrage over a scrapped submarine deal | France is upset with the US and others after it was cut out of a lucrative international defense deal. Amid tensions, France decided to cancel an event celebrating ties with the US in Washington, DC, The New York Times first reported Thursday afternoon. A spokesman for the French embassy told Insider "the c... | Organization Closed | null | null |
The Weaponisation of Disease Outbreaks | This brief examines how fear and anxiety during a disease outbreak can be exploited by state and non-state actors to further their political, strategic, or ideological agendas. Such fear, compounded by religious and cultural strife, or unfamiliarity with socio-cultural beliefs can provide fertile ground for the spread ... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Mine collapse kills two in Louisiana | AVERY ISLAND, La. (WAFB) - On Wednesday, December 16, the Iberia Parish Coroner’s Office identified two miners killed Monday during a roof collapse at the Cargill salt mine on Avery Island.
The victims were identified as 27-year-old Lance Begnaud, II of Broussard and 41-year-old Rene Romero, Jr. of New Iberia.
Company ... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Official: Israel army preparing for war on six fronts | A senior Israeli military official said on Wednesday that the Israeli army is preparing for war on five fronts, in addition to another with Iran. Deputy Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, Aviv Kochavi, said: "Iran is fuelling many terrorist activities in the Middle East", adding that the Israeli army continues to grow... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Infectious disease | Soap and water dispensers have been installed across Mexico City to encourage passers-by to wash their hands and listen to information about how to prevent contracting Covid-19. Our vision is a world in which escalating infectious diseases are under control in the communities most affected. Infectious diseases are est... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
1916–17 Nantou earthquakes | The 1916–17 Nantou earthquakes (Chinese: 1916年南投地震系列; pinyin: 1916 nián Nántóu dìzhèn xìliè) affected central Taiwan in 1916 and 1917, causing heavy damage in sparsely populated Nanto Chō (modern-day Nantou County) and claiming 71 lives. The strongest quake registered at 6.8 ML and besides the loss of life caused wides... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Woman injured in Dunwoody apartment explosion hires attorney | Residents are trying to pick up the pieces after an explosion rocks a Dunwoody apartment complex. It happened at Arrive Perimeter apartments not far from Perimeter Mall. Four people are recovering from their injuries. About 50 people are out of their homes.
DUNWOODY, Ga. - A woman hurt in the explosion at a Dunwoody ap... | Gas explosion | null | null |
NDIS fines Integrity Care SA for failing to report death of Ann Marie Smith | A Victorian man who flew from Brisbane to Hobart on flight VA702 today has tested positive to COVID-19 and has not been allowed to board a flight to Melbourne
A Watch & Act warning is in place for a fire in the northern parts of Mokine, in WA's Northam Shire. Keep up to date with ABC Emergency
National Disability Insur... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Six-month sentence for former journalist, INM director Michel Venne | Former director and founding member of the Institut du nouveau monde was convicted of sexual assault of Léa Clermont-Dion when she was 17. Former journalist Michel Venne was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison for having sexually assaulted documentary filmmaker Léa Clermont-Dion, but won’t be behind bars for lon... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
Airborne Express Flight 827 crash | Airborne Express Flight 827 was a functional evaluation flight (FEF) of an Airborne Express Douglas DC-8-63F (registration N827AX) that had undergone a major modification. On December 22, 1996, during the test flight, the aircraft stalled and crashed, killing all six people on board. Accident investigators determined t... | Air crash | null | null |
Wind turbine installation vessel capsizes in Southern China | A wind turbine installation vessel capsized off the coast of South China’s Guangdong on Sunday morning local time, causing close to 70 people to fall into the sea. The accident took place at around 11,00 hrs local time, near the Honghaiwan wind measurement tower in the Red Bay area of Huizhou. The video (see below) s... | Shipwreck | null | null |
1938 Kyeema crash | The Kyeema airline crash occurred on 25 October 1938 when the Australian National Airways Douglas DC-2 Kyeema, tail number VH-UYC, flying from Adelaide to Melbourne, commenced final approach to Essendon Airport through heavy fog and crashed into the western slopes of Mount Dandenong, also known as Mount Corhanwarrabul,... | Air crash | null | null |
President Obama lifted a decades-long American arms embargo on Vietnam on Monday | HANOI — President Obama lifted a decades-long American arms embargo on Vietnam on Monday and touted a new friendship with the United States' former enemy.
"Just a generation ago, we were adversaries and now we are friends," Obama said during a news conference in Hanoi with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang 41 years a... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
2015 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship | The 2015 Men's EuroHockey Championship was the 15th edition of the men's EuroHockey Nations Championship, the biennial international men's field hockey championship of Europe organised by the European Hockey Federation. It was held from 21–29 August 2015 in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, England. [2]
The Ne... | Sports Competition | null | null |
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have made an unannounced Christmas visit to US troops in Iraq | US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have made an unannounced Christmas visit to US troops in Iraq.
They travelled there "late on Christmas night" to thank troops for "their service, their success and their sacrifice", the White House said.
Mr Trump said the US had no plans to pull out of Iraq.
The tr... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
Great Railroad Strike |
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) cut wages for the third time in a year. This strike finally ended some 69 days later, after it was put down by unofficial militias, the Nationa... | Strike | null | null |
MassMutual settles case involving ‘Roaring Kitty’ with $4 million fine | A subsidiary of MassMutual has agreed to pay a $4 million fine to resolve accusations involving Keith Gill, the former employee who gained wide notoriety under the name “Roaring Kitty” on YouTube for his astronomical gains during the GameStop stock rally earlier this year.
MassMutual, the Springfield-based financial se... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Passing Wins Top Prize at LGBTQ+ NewFest 2021 | Rebecca Hall ’s acclaimed directorial debut, “ Passing ,” won the U.S. Narrative Feature Jury Award at the 33rd installment of NewFest, New York City's LGBTQ+ film festival. According to the jury's official statement, “The film’s expressive cinematography, beautiful performances, and clear directorial vision all come t... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
Archaeological Finds Shed Light on Battle of Salamis | The Battle of Salamis, fought between the Persians and a vastly outnumbered Greek force in September of 480 BC, is considered by many historians to be one of the most decisive in history, and much archaeological evidence found there has shed light on the battle and its aftermath. Although the exact date in the month of... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Police find stolen car used in bank robbery | A stolen car used during a bank robbery in Western Australia's south-west has been found by police near Mandurah. The robbery happened at a branch of the Bendigo Bank in Collie on Friday afternoon. Police say a man aged between 21 and 30-years-old entered the bank, threatening staff and demanding money. The man fled an... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
1897 Red River flood | The 1897 Red River flood took place in April 1897, along the Red River resulting in significant damage to the city of Fargo, North Dakota. The conditions which led to the flood of 1897 were similar to the conditions behind the 2009 flood, however the 1897 flood was different in terms of the human response to it. [1] A... | Floods | null | null |
Philippine Airlines Flight 434 crash | Philippine Airlines Flight 434, sometimes referred to as PAL434 or PR434, was a flight on December 11, 1994 from Cebu to Tokyo on a Boeing 747-283B that was seriously damaged by a bomb, killing one passenger and damaging vital control systems. [1] The bombing was a test run of the unsuccessful Bojinka terrorist attacks... | Air crash | null | null |
Husband Of San Antonio Couple Found Dead, Wife Still Missing After Colorado Mudslide | Updated at 7.28.21, 8:18 p.m. on Monday, July 26, to reflect additional details. David Brown — a longtime San Antonio resident — was killed in a mudslide that occurred 45 minutes outside of Fort Collins, Colorado, according to the Larimer County Coroner. The mudslide swept away six cabins in Poudre Canyon Tuesday night... | Mudslides | null | null |
California commits $500 million more to student housing: “A drop in the bucket” | Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature reached a deal that will provide $500 million toward affordable student housing this year and possibly up to $2 billion in future years. Experts say it’s “a drop in the bucket” compared to what’s needed. Lea este artículo en español. Free tuition is great, and California excels at... | Financial Aid | null | null |
Salmonella Outbreak Detected in 29 States; Experts Still Don’t Know Cause | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning of a fast-growing Salmonella outbreak that has been detected in 29 states. It’s unclear what’s causing the Salmonella Oranienburg infections, but multiple cases have been traced back to restaurants. As of Sept. 21, 279 people have contracted an infec... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Latin America to Africa to Asia: U.S. military might on display through global military and naval exercises | | The British Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender arriving at the Black Sea port of Odessa, Ukraine, on June 18. U.S and Moroccan special forces taking part in a drill as part of the military exercise African Lion 2021, in Tafraout base, near Agadir, Morocco, on June 14. Photo: Mosa’ab Elshamy/AP A still image... | Military Exercise | null | null |
2009 French riots | A series of riots took place in July 2009 in France. On Bastille Day in the commune of Montreuil, an eastern suburb area of Paris, French youths set fire to 317 cars. [1] Thirteen police officers were injured. [2] On July 9, many youths started a protest in Firminy near Saint-Étienne, after the death of a young Algeria... | Riot | null | null |
Thai Q1 jobless rate at 12-year high amid virus outbreaks | Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Apple Podcast, Spotify or Pocket Cast. Just as some patients recovering from Covid-19 suffer long-lasting symptoms, it’s becoming clear that the same will be true for the global economy once this year’s V-shaped reboun... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
9 celebrity couples who had two wedding ceremonies | Why get married just once when it can be twice as nice (with the same person)? For some celebrity couples, it would mean their walk down the aisle was not one special occasion, but two. That’s double the ceremonies, double the bridal ensembles, double the pictures, and double the fun. In 2019 alone, a slew of stars inc... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
NACE International, SSPC Merge to Form Association for Materials Protection and Performance | To create a unified voice for the corrosion control and protective coatings industries, a new association launched Jan. 6 at a global virtual event. The new organization, the Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP), was formed by a merger between Houston-based NACE International, The Corrosion Socie... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Huge swarm of locusts descends on Mecca | Daily Mail Online | The holiest site in Islam has been hit by a plague of locusts, forcing cleaners into action to drive the insects out.
Footage shared on social media showed the insects swarming around the Great Mosque in Mecca, which hosts millions of Muslim pilgrims every year. In one of the videos the insects can be seen clearly wh... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Trump Formally Abandons the Open Skies Treaty | Friday on this date in 1963, CIA assassins killed JFK, a moment in time I vividly remember. At lunch with colleagues when the news broke, the work day halted. Five years later in April and June 1968 respectively, MLK and RFK met the same fate — by similar deep state assassins. Anyone of prominence against permanent wa... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Sanxingdui relics: Bronze altar replicated from 100 broken pieces | The 3,000-year-old Sanxingdui ruins site in Southwest China's Sichuan province has yielded some quite extraordinary archaeological finds. Over 100 bronze pieces were discovered in Pit No. 2 of the Sanxingdui ruins and were replicated into an altar. Three fragments of a bronze altar were discovered in... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Eastern Air Lines Shuttle Flight 1320 crash | Eastern Air Lines Shuttle Flight 1320, carrying passengers from Newark to Boston, was hijacked around 7:30 p.m. on March 17, 1970, by John J. Divivo who was armed with a .38 caliber revolver. [1] Captain Robert Wilbur Jr., 35, a former United States Air Force pilot who had only been promoted to captain six months prior... | Air crash | null | null |
Chilean miner trapped underground a decade ago recalls the day he saw the light | SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The spectacular rescue a decade ago of 33 miners trapped for two months underground in Chile´s far-flung Atacama desert made headlines around the world. One of the survivors recalled in an interview with Reuters on Monday the drama of the last few moments before his escape, when rescuers threaded h... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
AdvancED l Measured Progress Is Changing Its Name to Cognia. | ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AdvancED | Measured Progress, which was formed as a result of two leading education nonprofits merging in November 2018, announced today that it is changing its corporate name to Cognia™. “Education is ever evolving and so are we” The new name comes from the Latin word cognitio, which... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Ukraine holds military drills with US, Poland, Lithuania | Servicemen from Poland take part in a large military exercise entitled "Three Swords-2021" involving more than 1,200 servicemen and more than 200 combat vehicles from Ukraine, U.S., Poland and Lithuania at Yavoriv training ground in Lviv region, Ukraine July 27, 2021. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich LVIV, Ukraine, July 27 (Reute... | Military Exercise | null | null |
The Drought In The Western U.S. Is Getting Bad. Climate Change Is Making It Worse | Warmer temperatures are leading to emptier reservoirs across the West, such as Lake Oroville in Northern California. Warmer temperatures are leading to emptier reservoirs across the West, such as Lake Oroville in Northern Calif... | Droughts | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 1036 crash | Aeroflot Flight 1036 (Russian: Рейс 1036 Аэрофлота Reys 1036 Aeroflota) was a domestic scheduled passenger flight operated by Aeroflot that crashed during takeoff from Sochi International Airport on 1 October 1972. All 109 people aboard the Ilyushin Il-18V perished in the crash. It is the second worst accident involvin... | Air crash | null | null |
1988 Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences fire | The 1988 fire in the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences) broke out on Sunday, February 14, 1988, in the newspaper section on the third floor of the library; the cause of which is still unknown. According to the library's acting director Valeriy Leonov, the fire alarm... | Fire | null | null |
Supergame (association football) | The SuperGame (Swedish: SuperMatchen) is an annual football match at Nya Ullevi in Gothenburg, Sweden. Starting in 2012, it is usually played as a game between two top club teams in July or August. While mostly being an exhibition game it's given major attention, as its played between major clubs. Draws are followed up... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Voghera train crash | The Voghera train crash is considered one of the most serious incidents in the history of the Italian railways. It happened at track three of Voghera railway station, on the night of 31 May 1962. Sixty-four people lost their lives, and 40 were seriously injured. [1]
At 2.35 on 31 May 1962, freight train №. 8151, from ... | Train collisions | null | null |
2011–2013 Russian protests |
The 2011–2013 Russian protests, which some English language media referred to as the Snow Revolution,[14] began in 2011 (as protests against the 2011 Russian legislative election results) and continued into 2012 and 2013. The protests were motivated by claims by Russian and foreign journalists, political activists ... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Atlanta Bicycle Coalition, PEDS formalize merger | The Atlanta Bicycle Coalition and PEDS — two of the Southeast’s leading organizations dedicated to sustainable transportation advocacy —recently announced they have formally merged as of June 17, 2021, according to a press release. This merger comes after the two groups first entered into talks in February of this year... | Organization Merge | null | null |
10 Of The Most Expensive Celebrity Divorces That Prove Love Does Cost A Thing After All | ENTERTAINMENT Srishti Magan Breakups are never easy. And at times, they ain't cheap either. At least that was the case with these hella expensive divorce settlements:
1. Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos: $38 billion
When Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie split, after 25 years of marriage, their divorce settlement made news for... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
Ten years after the financial crisis, business journalism awaits its reckoning | Ten years ago, Lehman Brothers, the venerable Wall Street firm, shut down after a failed rescue effort by the US Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve. Panic spread, along with rumors that other Wall Street banks were next. Stock markets plummeted as regulators and central bankers scrambled to save one big financ... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Best Solar Eclipse Photos: See A Spooky ‘Crescent Sunrise’ And ‘Ring Of Fire’ As Moon Bites The Sun | A annular (partial solar) eclipse is seen as the sun rises over Scituate Lighthouse in Scituate, ... [+] Massachusetts on June 10, 2021. - Northeast states in the U.S. will see a rare eclipsed sunrise, while in other parts of the Northern Hemisphere, this annular eclipse will be seen as a visible thin outer ring of the... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
Space weather forecast: Solar storm expected to hit Earth on Sunday | Yesterday, the Sun released a powerful solar flare in the direction of Earth. Astronomers who have been tracking the flare said the bombardment of particles are currently making their way across the solar storm. Experts predict it could hit our planet on Sunday, April 25. The particles from the Sun were released as a ... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
Partly false claim: “Every election year has a disease” | A claim on social media alleges that “every election year” has had a major disease outbreak. The claim lists the diseases SARS, Avian flu, Swine flu, MERS, Ebola, Zika, and the coronavirus, matching them up to the years 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020 (presumably meaning U.S. election years and some m... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
1936 Gulf Coast maritime workers' strike | The 1936 Gulf Coast maritime workers' strike was a labor action of the splinter union "Maritime Federation of the Gulf Coast" lasting from October 31, 1936 to January 21, 1937. The strike's main effects were felt in Houston and Galveston. The Gulf Coast strike was parallel to a similar West Coast maritime strike, calle... | Strike | null | null |
Earth's shadow creeps across moon ahead of super blood moon | WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Earth's shadow crept across the moon on Wednesday night as people in New Zealand and around the world waited for a cosmic event known as a super blood moon. As the eclipse deepened, it appeared as though half the moon had vanished. The other half looked fuzzy in the center with a bright o... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
1833 Bihar–Nepal earthquake |
The 1934 Nepal–India earthquake or 1934 Bihar–Nepal earthquake was one of the worst earthquakes in India's history. The towns of Munger and Muzaffarpur were completely destroyed. This 8.0 magnitude earthquake occurred on 15 January 1934 at around 2:13 pm IST (08:43 UTC) and caused widespread damage in northern Bihar ... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Switel Hotel fire | The Switel Hotel fire took place on 31 December 1994 during a New Year's Eve party in the Switel Hotel at the Kievitplein in Antwerp, Belgium. On New Year's Eve in 1994 about 450 guests were attending a party at the hotel. At about 22:50 a fire began in the Tenerife party hall when the party decorations caught fire. Th... | Fire | null | null |
A longtime Methuen police officer and his wife are the victims of a carbon monoxide leak in the couple's home, according to the Methuen Police Department. | A longtime Methuen police officer and his wife are the victims of a carbon monoxide leak in the couple's home, according to the Methuen Police Department. The Essex District Attorney's Office said an 86-year-old man and 85-year-old woman were victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. On Sunday, the Methuen Police Departmen... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
NRL St George Illawarra players fined $305,000 after breaching COVID-19 orders | The NRL has fined St George Illawarra players $305,000 and issued match suspensions for breaching COVID-19 stay-at-home orders after attending a gathering at a home on the weekend.
The league says Dragons prop Paul Vaughan invited 12 teammates to his home on Saturday.
All 13 players players were slapped with sanctions ... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Maharashtra reports 3,741 new Covid-19 cases, 52 deaths | MUMBAI: Maharashtra on Monday reported 3,741 new cases of coronavirus and 52 deaths. With that, the total case count surged to 64,60,680 and the number of fatalities to 1,37,209. The official said 4,696 patients were discharged from hospitals across the state in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative number of recove... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Two health information exchanges from different states have joined together to form a regional organization | Two health information exchanges from different states have joined together to form a regional organization with the aim of driving growth, innovation and sustainability. Named Contexture, the organization was formed through an affiliation agreement between CORHIO and Health Current, which are HIEs based in Colorado an... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Great Baltimore Fire | The Great Baltimore Fire raged in Baltimore, Maryland, United States from Sunday, February 7, to Monday, February 8, 1904. More than 1,500 buildings were completely leveled, and some 1,000 severely damaged, bringing property loss from the disaster to an estimated $100 million. [1] 1,231 firefighters helped bring the bl... | Fire | null | null |
Air Rhodesia Flight 827 crash | Air Rhodesia Flight 827, the Umniati, was a scheduled civilian flight between Kariba and Salisbury in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) that was shot down soon after take-off on 12 February 1979 by Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) guerrillas using a Strela 2 missile. The circumstances were very similar to the shootin... | Air crash | null | null |
Saguenay flood | The Saguenay flood (French: Déluge du Saguenay) was a series of flash floods on July 19 and 20, 1996 that hit the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. It was the biggest overland flood in 20th-century Canadian history. [1]
Problems started after two weeks of constant rain, which severely engorged soils, r... | Floods | null | null |
1953 Torud earthquake |
The 1953 Torud earthquake occurred at the northeastern border of the Great Salt Kavir in Torud, Semnan, Iran on 12 February. The shock had a moment magnitude of 6.6 and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). At least 800 people were killed. Sources
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WestConnex contractor CPB fined for 'offensive odours' emitting from Sydney St Peters M5 interchange | A Victorian man who flew from Brisbane to Hobart on flight VA702 today has tested positive to COVID-19 and has not been allowed to board a flight to Melbourne
A Watch & Act warning is in place for a fire in the northern parts of Mokine, in WA's Northam Shire. Keep up to date with ABC Emergency
A WestConnex contractor h... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Whaleback Fire | The Whaleback Fire was a wildfire that burned on Whaleback Mountain in Spaulding, approximately 20 miles northwest of Susanville in Lassen County, California, in the United States. First reported on July 27, 2018, the Whaleback Fire burned 18,703 acres (76 km2), before it was fully contained on August 7. The fire cause... | Fire | null | null |
Famine Stela | The Famine Stela is an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs located on Sehel Island in the Nile near Aswan in Egypt, which tells of a seven-year period of drought and famine during the reign of pharaoh Djoser of the Third Dynasty. It is thought that the stele was inscribed during the Ptolemaic Kingdom, which rul... | Famine | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 141 crash | Aeroflot Flight 141 was an international flight from Moscow to Prague. On February 19, 1973, the Tupolev Tu-154 crashed half a kilometer short of runway 25 (today's 24) of Prague Ruzyně Airport. Most of the passengers survived the crash, but many died in the fire that followed. Out of the 87 passengers and 13 crew memb... | Air crash | null | null |
1912 Brooklands Flanders Monoplane crash | The 1912 Brooklands Flanders Monoplane crash was the first aviation accident in which an investigation was made into the cause of the accident and a report subsequently published, thus marking the start of aviation accident investigation worldwide. A Flanders F.3 Monoplane crashed at Brooklands, Surrey, United Kingdom,... | Air crash | null | null |
Drinking water repeatedly contaminated with pathogens in rural NSW towns |
NSW Health documents obtained by the ABC reveal areas where deadly pathogens are regularly detected at dangerous levels in unfiltered drinking water pumped from rivers, lakes and dams.
The water safety reports, obtained after a lengthy freedom-of-information battle, also show more than 100,000 NSW residents were issue... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Locust attack: Excessive pesticide use will take its toll on Thar ecology | The strongest pesticides used to counter locust invasions will leech into waterbodies and crops, say experts Lethal pesticides used to counter locust swarms invading the Indian side of the Thar desert will irrevocablly harm the fragile desert ecology, experts have said. As there was no co-ordination with Pakistan when... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
2008 Skåne County earthquake | The 2008 Skåne County earthquake occurred at 06.20am CET (05.20 UTC) on 16 December and affected the southern part of Sweden and eastern parts of Denmark. The epicenter was 5 km southwest of Sjöbo and 60 km east of Malmö. The earthquake was considered "moderately strong" with a moment magnitude calculated at 4.2–4.3 . ... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Huge Military Exercise Kicks Off in Australia Amid Tensions with China | On its surface, Talisman Sabre is a chance for more than 17,000 troops from the Australian and U.S. militaries, as well as forces from the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea, to practice operating together. However, the exercise also comes at a challenging time in U.S.-China relations.... | Military Exercise | null | null |
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