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Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913 | The Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913 and the subsequent police mutiny and riots was a breakdown in public order in Indianapolis, Indiana. The events began as a workers strike by the union employees of the Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Company and their allies on Halloween night, October 31, 1913. The company wa... | Strike | null | null |
U.S. notifies U.N. of withdrawal from World Health Organization | WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has formally notified the United Nations of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, although the pullout won’t take effect until next year, meaning it could be rescinded under a new administration of if circumstances change. The withdrawal notificati... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Hotel 't Silveren Seepaerd fire | The Hotel 't Silveren Seepaerd fire took place in the night of 28 September 1971 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. [1]
Hotel 't Silveren Seepaerd was a hotel-restaurant on the Stationsplein in Eindhoven. A fire broke out during the night, causing a flashover on the ground floor, and swiftly expanded over all four storeys of ... | Fire | null | null |
When to see the total lunar eclipse and 'flower' supermoon | Here is what else you can look forward to in 2021: Meteor showers The Milky Way is seen from the Glacier Point Trailside in Yosemite National Park, California. The Delta Aquariids meteor shower is best seen from the southern tropics and will peak between July 28 and 29, when the moon is 74% full. Interestingly, anothe... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
President Announces Withdrawal From JCPOA and Reimposition of Nuclear-Based Sanctions on Iran | On May 8, 2018, President Trump withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an agreement reached in July 2015 between Iran, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, Russia, and Germany in which Iran agreed to curtail its nuclear program in exchange for phased economic sa... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
2020–2021 Serbian protests |
Shortly after protests spread to following cities:
Protests also spread to Serbian diaspora in following cities:[1][2]
Anti-government protesters
On 7 July 2020, a series of protests and riots began over the government announcement of the reimplementation of the curfew and the government's allegedly poor handling... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Contamination warning signs for Freycinet area beaches following sewage alert |
On the outskirts of one of Tasmania's most pristine locations, recreational water users will soon be advised to avoid swimming near two creeks that flow onto popular beaches due to faecal contamination concerns.
The Glamorgan Spring Bay Council will put up the signs at two Coles Bay creeks — one that flows on Muirs Be... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268 crash | Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268 was an Airbus A300, registration AP-BCP, which crashed while approaching Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport on 28 September 1992. All 167 people on board were killed. It is the deadliest aviation crash that has occurred on Nepalese soil. [1][2]
The aircraft involved ... | Air crash | null | null |
China’s Chang’e 5 spacecraft enters lunar orbit | Five days after taking off on a heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket, China’s Chang’e 5 sample return spacecraft entered orbit around the moon Saturday, moving into position for a descent to the lunar surface in a bid to gather specimens and bring them back to Earth. The Chang’e 5 spacecraft fired its main engine at 1258 GMT... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
Sterling Airways Flight 296 crash | On 14 March 1972, Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashed into a mountain ridge on approach to Dubai near Kalba, United Arab Emirates. Flight 296 was a charter flight from Colombo to Copenhagen with stops in Bombay, Dubai, and Ankara. All 112 passengers and crew on board died in the crash which was attributed to pilot erro... | Air crash | null | null |
General Hospital: Rays Injury Updates | With the Rays’ roster crunch settled (for now), let’s take a look at which injured players at the MLB and AAA level are expected to come back in 2022, and possibly make an impact to the MLB roster. Nick Anderson - RHP - Right Elbow Surgery Anderson didn’t make too many appearances in 2021, and when he did, he was only ... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
Mudslide closes Highway 1 from Lytton to Cache Creek | Another potential headache for B.C. drivers on Tuesday, as Highway 1 was closed in both directions from Lytton to just outside of Cache Creek. Drive BC said the highway was closed due to a mudslide between Junction Highway 12 in Lytton and Airport Road, about four kilometres south of Cache Creek. No detour was availabl... | Mudslides | null | null |
Manabe was awarded the Nobel Prize in physicsTuesday | Up until the new millennium, scientists only had two ways to expedite the process of linking atoms, the AP reported . One used required complicated enzymes; the other used metal catalysts. The process MacMillan helped develop, known as asymmetric organocatalysis, has aided the development of medicines, limit manufact... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
Cambodia Suspends Annual Military Exercises With China | Cambodia’s government has decided to suspend its two-week military exercise with China next month, citing a need to cut spending amid the coronavirus pandemic, despite claims by the opposition that it did so to avoid angering the new administration in Washington. Speaking to RFA’s Khmer Service last week, Defense Minis... | Military Exercise | null | null |
An Emergency Backup Plan for Canceled In-Person Events | Rob Carey | Sep 02, 2021 When the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses canceled its 5,000-attendee annual meeting just 10 days out due to a resurgence of Covid in their host destination, its leadership made the risky decision to keep the same August dates to execute the event online. Working almost around t... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Auroras in southern Canada a possibility after 'intense' solar flare: astronomers | TORONTO -- After a massive solar flare emerged from the sun on Thursday, astronomers say auroras could dazzle the skies as far south as Toronto during the Halloween weekend. Thursday's solar flare was accompanied by a large eruption of plasma, which astronomers call a "coronal mass ejection," aimed in our planet's di... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
2 Suspects Now Charged In Gary Bank Robbery In Which Security Guard Was Shot Dead; Federal Prosecutors Could Seek Death Penalty | HAMMOND, Ind. (CBS) — Two suspects now face federal charges in a bank robbery in Gary earlier this month in which a security officer was shot dead, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. Charges in the June 11 robbery and shooting had already been filed against James Anthony King Jr., 24, of Miami, Florida. He is charg... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
EgyptAir Flight 181 crash | EgyptAir Flight 181 was a domestic passenger flight from Borg El Arab Airport in Alexandria, Egypt, to Cairo International Airport. On 29 March 2016 the flight was hijacked by an Egyptian man claiming to wear an explosive belt and forced to divert to Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus. Most passengers and crew wer... | Air crash | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 25 crash | Aeroflot Flight 25 (Russian: Рейс 25 Аэрофлота Reys 25 Aeroflota) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight that crashed on 4 April 1963 in the region of Rybnaya Sloboda, Tatar ASSR, Russian SFSR the while en route from Moscow-Sheremetyevo to Krasnoyarsk Airport, Russian SFSR. All 67 people aboard were killed in the ac... | Air crash | null | null |
At least 34 dead, many feared buried in mud after Brazil dam collapse | by: Associated Press BRUMADINHO, Brazil — The death toll from the collapse of a dam holding back mine waste in southeastern Brazil rose to 34 on Saturday as searchers flying in helicopters and rescuers laboring in deep mud uncovered more bodies. An estimated 300 people were still missing and authorities expected the... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Purley station rail crash |
The Purley station rail crash was a train collision that occurred just to the north of Purley railway station in the London Borough of Croydon on Saturday 4 March 1989, leaving five dead and 88 injured. The collision was caused by the driver of one of the trains passing a signal at danger; he pleaded guilty to mansla... | Train collisions | null | null |
2005 Logan Airport runway incursion crash | The 2005 Logan Airport runway incursion was a runway incursion incident and near collision that occurred at approximately 7:40 p.m. EDT on June 9, 2005 between US Airways Flight 1170 (US1170) and Aer Lingus Flight 132 (EI132). EI132 was an Airbus A330-300 aircraft, owned and operated by the Irish airline Aer Lingus, de... | Air crash | null | null |
2008 San Diego F/A-18 crash | The San Diego F/A-18 crash was the crash of a United States Marine Corps (USMC) F/A-18 Hornet in a residential area of San Diego, California on December 8, 2008. The pilot, First Lieutenant Dan Neubauer (28) from VMFAT-101, was the only crewmember on board the two-seat aircraft; he ejected successfully, landing in a tr... | Air crash | null | null |
Martha Stewart recovering from surgery to repair ruptured Achilles tendon | The “Martha Knows Best” host, 79, revealed that she is recovering from surgery to repair her ruptured Achilles tendon. Stewart told her Instagram followers that she underwent a three-hour operation at NYU Langone Health on Tuesday after injuring herself a while back. “Not the prettiest photo nor the happiest back story... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
1988 Writers Guild of America strike | The 1988 Writers Guild of America strike was a strike action taken by members of both the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) against major United States television and film studios represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). The strike... | Strike | null | null |
Morrison has red eyes!To forcibly take back Darwin Port, the United States is anxious to take over, but China does not agree | After tearing up the "Leading the Way" agreement between Victoria and China , Australia has intensified and started to focus on the economic agreement between Chinese companies and Western Australia, the 100-year lease of Darwin Port and other Sino-Australian economic agreements.
The relevant Australian authorities hav... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
National Airlines Flight 83 crash | National Airlines Flight 83 was a United States domestic flight from Newark International Airport, serving New York City, to Philadelphia. On January 14, 1951, the Douglas DC-4 of National Airlines crashed on landing at Philadelphia International Airport. The aircraft over-shot the runway, ran into a ditch and caught f... | Air crash | null | null |
Influence of leptospirosis | French Polynesia: After a peak at the end of April (W16-W17), the number of leptospirosis cases is decreasing; 2 cases were confirmed in weeks 25 and 26. The blue alert is removed from the map. – Source: Bulletin de surveillance sanitaire de Polynésie française n°13 (period 21/06/2021 to 04/07/2021) sent on PacNet on 1... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Western U.S. may be entering its most severe drought in modern history | Extreme drought across the Western U.S. has become as reliable as a summer afternoon thunderstorm in Florida. And news headlines about drought in the West can seem a bit like a broken record, with some scientists saying the region is on the precipice of permanent drought . That's because in 2000, the Western U.S. enter... | Droughts | null | null |
Justin and Hailey Bieber are one of the world's most famous couples. But their marriage hasn't been easy. | The singer, who was 24 at the time, tied the knot to model Hailey Bieber, then 21, in a courthouse wedding in September 2018, before marrying in front of family and friends during a lavish ceremony a year later. But while the world watched the young couple start a new life together as husband and wife, behind the scene... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
1914 World Allround Speed Skating Championships | The 1914 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 14 and 15 February 1914 at the ice rink Frogner Stadion in Kristiania, Norway. Oscar Mathisen was defending champion and succeeded in prolonging his title. Oscar Mathisen became World champion for the fifth time. He is together with Clas Thunberg and Sve... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Two female CRISPR scientists make history, winning Nobel Prize in chemistry for genome-editing discovery | Take that, U.S. legal system. In a decision that reflects the views of many (but far from all) experts on genome editing, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to American biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, and French microbiologist Em... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
Pittman and Paul Gatward welcome their first child on last December | The 39-year-old champion hurdler shared the happy news today via New Idea , telling the magazine that she was excited yet worried about the "logistical nightmare" over the coming arrivals. "I never thought I'd have six children, I don't know how we are going to cope," she told the publication, before joking, "How will ... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake |
The 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake occurred on July 17 with a moment magnitude of 7.0 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). The event occurred on a reverse fault near the north coast region of Papua New Guinea, 25 kilometers (16 mi) from the coast near Aitape, and caused a large undersea landslide which... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Former executive director of Eden Chamber charged in connection to financial irregularities | EDEN — The former executive director of the Eden Chamber of Commerce has been charged in connection with financial irregularities discovered earlier this year.
Jennifer Barton, 47, of Eden is charged with seven counts each of larceny by employee and obtaining property by false pretenses, Eden police said Tuesday in a n... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
India records 33,376 new coronavirus cases, 308 deaths take total toll to 4,42,317 | The number of people who have recuperated from the disease increased to 3,23,74,497, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.33 per cent, the data showed. NEW DELHI: India saw a single-day rise of 33,376 coronavirus infections, taking the overall tally of cases to 3,32,08,330, while the number of active cases i... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
- | ROME — The Obama administration intends to use some of the billions of dollars in frozen assets belonging to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi and his government to provide humanitarian and other assistance to Libyans affected by the ongoing civil war, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday. The move, ann... | Diplomatic Talks _ Diplomatic_Negotiation_ Summit Meeting | null | null |
2008 Dodecanese earthquake | The 2008 Dodecanese earthquake occurred near Kattavia on the island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on 15 July. The quake struck at 06:26 a.m. local time (UTC+3) and one woman was killed when she slipped and fell as she tried to flee her home. [3] However, the earthquake did not cause any major damage. The ... | Earthquakes | null | null |
2018 Jordanian protests |
The 2018 Jordanian protests started as a general strike organized by more than 30 trade unions on 30 May 2018 after the government of Hani Mulki submitted a new tax law to Parliament. The bill followed IMF-backed austerity measures adopted by Mulki's government since 2016 that aimed to tackle Jordan's growing public ... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Phivolcs to launch 1st cluster hub for earthquake, tsunami | MANILA – The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Institute of Volcanology andSeismology (DOST-Phivolcs) will inaugurate its Mindanao Cluster Monitoring Center for Earthquake and Tsunami (PMCMCET) on Friday (Sept. 24) via Zoom. The ceremony will be facilitated through the InfoSentro sa Phivolcs online press ... | Tsunamis | null | null |
1946 Dominican Republic earthquake | The 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake occurred on August 4 at 17:51 UTC near Samaná, Dominican Republic. The mainshock measured 8.1 on the surface wave magnitude scale and an aftershock occurred four days later on August 8 at 13.28 UTC with a magnitude of 7.6. A tsunami was generated by the initial earthquake and caus... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314 crash | On 11 February 1978, Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, a Boeing 737-200, crashed at Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport, near Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, killing 42 of the 49 people on board. [1]
The scheduled flight from Fort McMurray International Airport to Castlegar Airport via Edmonton, A... | Air crash | null | null |
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 17 crash | Pakistan International Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled domestic flight from Dacca to Faridpur in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) operated by a Sikorsky S-61 twin-engined helicopter of Pakistan International Airlines. On 2 February 1966 the helicopter operating the flight crashed near Fardipur after an oil leak develo... | Air crash | null | null |
UK and South Korea sign 'continuity' trade agreement | The UK has signed a "continuity" trade agreement with South Korea, allowing businesses to keep trading freely after Brexit.
International Trade Secretary Liz Truss signed the agreement with her South Korean counterpart Yoo Myung-hee in London.
The two countries agreed to a preliminary deal in June, marking the first po... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Nepali swimmer Gaurika Singh broke the national record in women's 100m freestyle | Nepali swimmer Gaurika Singh broke the national record in women's 100m freestyle preliminary heats at the Tokyo Olympic Games today.
Singh, the youngest athlete of the Rio Olympic Games in 2016, finished the distance in one minute and 0.11 seconds in the Heat-1 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. She finished third among fou... | Break historical records | null | null |
The 2007–2008 Financial Crisis in Review | (Bloomberg) -- Warnings that China’s campaign to cool its property market will go too far are multiplying. Economists at Nomura Holdings Inc. are calling the curbs China’s “Volcker Moment” that will hurt the economy. The credit squeeze in the property sector is “unnecessarily aggressive” and may weigh on industrial de... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
'Disgrace on humanity': UN urges Yemen aid to continue amid famine | TORONTO -- The United Nations has issued a new warning about starvation in Yemen, calling it one of the worst famines the world has seen where the level of suffering is so staggering the head of the World Food Program (WFP) says it is a "disgrace on humanity." WFP Executive Director David Beasley recently visited Yem... | Famine | null | null |
Toxic firefighting chemicals found in WA airports and defence sites under investigation |
Authorities are scrambling to determine the extent of contamination from toxic firefighting chemicals in Western Australia, with airports, firefighting training facilities and defence sites under investigation.
Five airport sites across the state, including Perth Airport, are known or suspected to be contaminated with... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Kaley Cuoco files for divorce from Karl Cook | According to People, the former 'Big Bang Theory' star submitted divorce papers to the Los Angeles Superior Court to end her marriage to the 30-year-old equestrian on the same day (03.09.21) the pair announced their split.
The 35-year-old actress and her ex announced they are separating after three years of marriage, a... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
Earthquake swarm triggers volcano alert on Spain's La Palma | Authorities on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma have warned that a sudden increase in seismic activity could herald a volcanic eruption in the coming days or weeks. Spain's National Geographic Institute has detected 4,222 tremors in a so-called "earthquake swarm" in the Cumbre Vieja national park, around the Ten... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
US withdraws from UNESCO, the UN’s cultural organization, citing anti-Israel bias | The United States will withdraw from UNESCO at the end of next year, the State Department said Thursday, in order to stop accumulating uppaid dues and make a stand on what it said is anti-Israel bias at the U.N.’s educational, science and cultural organization. In notifying UNESCO of the decision Thursday morning, the ... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Woman inventor wins top award for male birth control | “When my partner and I were looking for an alternative method, we became aware of the lack of male contraceptives,” the inventor said.
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A woman inventor in Germany took home the Dyson Award for her groundbreaking work in creating male contraception, which will now go on to the international stage of th... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
Lebanese Army dispatches helicopters to deal with plague of locusts | Lebanese Army helicopter fight a swarm of desert locusts in Lebanon's northeastern town of Arsal on the border with Syria. AFP A plague of locusts that swept across the Middle East has reached Lebanon, threatening precious farmland in an event described by the UN as “very rare”. Helicopters were deployed by the Lebanes... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Athletics: Venezuela's Rojas smashes women's triple jump world record to take gold | CELEBRATION. Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela celebrates after breaking the world record in the women's triple jump.
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Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela ju... | Break historical records | null | null |
Britain leaves the EU on 31 January 2020 | The British Thoroughbred Racing Association has been preparing for this position for many months. The racing sport’s governing body has reassured the industry that the Tripartite Agreement, which covers the UK, France and Ireland, will continue throughout 2020 after Britain leaves the EU on 31 January 2020. The United ... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Brazil’s deadly dam disaster may have been preventable | Only 1,177 days separate accidents of the Fundão ore reject dams in Mariana and the Córrego do Feijão mine in Brumadinho in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, both in southeastern Brazil. In the first incident, in November 2015, the toxic sludge expelled by the structure killed 19 people, buried villages, left ... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Ex-cop Noor set for June release after resentence in Ruszczyk killing | A Hennepin County judge on Thursday resentenced ex-Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor to nearly five years in prison, the maximum allowed for second-degree manslaughter, for the 2017 killing of 911 caller Justine Ruszczyk after the Minnesota Supreme Court last month overturned his murder conviction. With time alre... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Release | null | null |
1995 Guerrero earthquake | The 1995 Guerrero earthquake occurred on September 14, 1995, at 14:04 UTC (08:04 local time). This earthquake had a magnitude of Mw 7.4, with the epicenter being located in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. Three people were reported dead. In the rural part of southeast Guerrero, many houses with adobe of poor quality suf... | Earthquakes | null | null |
2009 North Dakota floods | The 2009 Red River flood along the Red River of the North in North Dakota and Minnesota in the United States and Manitoba in Canada brought record flood levels to the Fargo-Moorhead area. The flood was a result of saturated and frozen ground, spring snowmelt exacerbated by additional rain and snow storms, and virtually... | Floods | null | null |
TWA Flight 6963 crash | TWA Flight 6963, a scheduled Transcontinental & Western Air flight from Paris Orly Airport to New York City with scheduled stops at Shannon Airport and Gander, crashed on 28 December 1946 about 1.5 kilometres (0.81 nmi) west-northwest of Shannon Airport on the island of Inismacnaughton. [1]
The flight was being operat... | Air crash | null | null |
Long-term care outbreaks are rising, and provinces have different strategies for keeping COVID-19 out | TORONTO -- As the fourth wave continues across Canada and community spread climbs, outbreaks are also on the rise inside Canada’s long-term care homes, leading experts to stress the importance of staff being vaccinated — an issue which varies province to province. While many provinces are introducing vaccine mandates... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Cranston Fire | The Cranston Fire was a wildfire that burned in southwest Riverside County, California, in the United States. The fire was started on July 25, 2018, by Brandon M. McGlover, in an act of arson. The fire burned a total of 13,139 acres (53 km2), before it was fully contained on August 10. The Cranston Fire impacted the co... | Fire | null | null |
National Airlines Flight 16 crash | National Airlines Flight 16 was a domestic (U.S.), scheduled passenger flight from Miami, Florida, to Lakeland, Florida, that crashed on October 5, 1945. The aircraft was on the last leg of a Miami-Fort Myers-Sarasota-St Petersburg-Tampa-Lakeland route. The cause of the crash was determined to be a faulty missed approa... | Air crash | null | null |
A Mild COVID-19 Case May Still Result in Long-Term Symptoms | All data and statistics are based on publicly available data at the time of publication. Some information may be out of date. Visit our coronavirus hub and follow our live updates page for the most recent information on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since last spring, experts have been sounding the alarm about COVID-19 “long-... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
On Thursday last week, President Vladimir Putin spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He urged the sides involved in the conflict “to display restraint,” not to follow the path of escalation of violence, and to do “everything possible to bring the situation back to normal.” | Moscow labeled rocket attacks against Israeli territory unacceptable, while calling Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip disproportionate. Russia vowed to engage the UN Security Council and the Middle-East mediating Quartet (the UN, EU, Russia, and the US) to normalize the situation."Moscow deems necessary the soonest end... | Diplomatic Talks _ Diplomatic_Negotiation_ Summit Meeting | null | null |
2007 M1 motorway coach accident |
On 3 September 2007, a National Express single-decker coach, travelling southbound on the M1 motorway was involved in a crash. It was operating the 777 service from Birmingham to London Stansted Airport, via London Luton Airport, and had recently stopped at Coventry. [1] There were 33 passengers on board at the time ... | Road Crash | null | null |
2003 Broadway Musicians Strike | The 2003 Broadway musicians strike was a strike by the Associated Musicians of Greater New York, American Federation of Musicians Local 802 union members, and other Broadway unions such as Actors' Equity Association and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. [1][2] The strike lasted from Friday, March 7... | Strike | null | null |
Most Shocking Celebrity Splits: From Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan to Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin | To the next chapter. Many celebrity splits have rocked Hollywood over the years, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin as well as Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan .
Tatum and Dewan’s love story began on the set of 2006’s Step Up, where they costarred as onscreen love interests. The duo tied the knot in 2009 and wel... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
The Straits Times | SINGAPORE - A four-year-old boy whose breathing is being supported by mechanical ventilation in the children's intensive care unit is one of four children in Singapore who developed a rare form of inflammatory syndrome linked to Covid-19.
These four cases were among the 8,000 paediatric Covid-19 cases in Singapore sinc... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
Funding for Northwestern University | The Patrick G. ’59, ’09 H and Shirley W. Ryan ’61, ’19 H (’97, ’00 P) Family has made the largest single gift in Northwestern University’s history, a $480 million gift that will accelerate breakthroughs in biomedical, economics and business research and enable the University to redevelop Ryan Field and construct a best... | Financial Aid | null | null |
2020–21 United States election protests |
Protests began in multiple cities in the United States following the 2020 United States presidential election between then-President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Vice President Joe Biden, held on November 3, 2020. Biden won the election, receiving 81.3 million votes (51.3%) to Trump's 74.2 million (46.9%)[... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Three killed after Russian apartment block gas explosion | A scene of a gas explosion in a residential building in the village of Solidarnost, Lipetsk region, Russia September 11, 2021 in this still image taken from a video. Russian Emergency Ministry/Handout via REUTERS
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Outbreak Brief 71: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic | Outbreak Update: Since the last brief (18 May 2021), 4,087,197 new confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases and 84,475 new deaths have been reported globally. To date, a total of 166,869,922 COVID-19 cases and 3,460,428 related deaths (case fatality ratio (CFR): 2.1%) have been reported from 225 countries an... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
1964 Mount Isa Mines Strike |
The 1964 Mount Isa Mines dispute was an Australian eight-month industrial dispute between miners and management at Mount Isa Mines (MIM) in Mount Isa, Queensland. A previous 1961 strike at MIM was precipitated by legislation that threatened employees' contract bonuses. It ended with an uneasy truce when State Premier... | Strike | null | null |
Increasing droughts will drive ‘billions’ in economic losses in Europe | Economic damages from droughts in the EU and UK could rise by one third by the end of the century, new research finds – even if warming is limited to 1.5C and countries implement adaptation measures. The study, published in Nature Climate Change , finds that droughts currently drive around €9bn in annual economic losse... | Droughts | null | null |
12 Male Celebs Who Got Divorced | Divorce is becoming more and more common in modern-day society. By now, everyone knows several people who have gone through a divorce. It affects everyone from everyday citizens to celebrities. In fact, there are MANY celebrities who have gone through at least one divorce. Here is a list of 12 celebrities who got divor... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
Winter storm triggers mudslides, clogs roadways in Southern California | Heavy rain from a winter storm system pounded Southern California on Friday, triggering car accidents, road closures, mudslides and lightning flashes that temporarily closed L.A. County beaches. There was moderate mud and debris flow near the area burned last year by the Bond fire, which scorched over 6,000 acres in Or... | Mudslides | null | null |
Joe Gorga tells Melissa he’s ‘done’ with their marriage on ‘RHONJ’ | Melissa and Joe Gorga’s marriage problems came to a head in the new “RHONJ” midseason trailer . The Gorgas got into an explosive argument about their changing relationship, with Melissa suggesting they were growing apart before saying, “I’m not going to give up what I want to do in life. You’re holding me back.” Joe th... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Diesel emissions from trains not monitored or regulated, despite possible health risks |
David Price shakes his head as he watches a diesel train make its way towards the Esperance Port.
The locomotive is visibly releasing diesel emissions and the former heavy industry electrician is concerned that may be putting his community at risk.
Diesel emissions are carcinogenic and studies into them at higher conc... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
1906 Helsinki bank robbery |
1906 Helsinki bank robbery was an armed robbery on 26 February 1906 in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland. A branch of Russian State Bank was robbed by members of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party to fund Bolshevik revolutionary activities in Russia. [1]
The robbery was organized by Russian revolutionary Ni... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
1810 Crete earthquake | The 1810 Crete earthquake occurred at 22:15 on 16 February. It caused great destruction in Heraklion, some damage from Malta to northern Egypt and was felt from central Italy to Syria. 2,000 fatalities were reported from Candia (Heraklion). [3]
The Hellenic arc is an arcuate tectonic feature related to the subduction ... | Earthquakes | null | null |
1957 Nutts Corner BEA Viscount crash | The 1957 Nutts Corner BEA Viscount crash was a British European Airways (BEA) flight from London to Belfast that crashed at Nutts Corner Airport on 23 October 1957, killing all seven passengers and crew. [1]
The aircraft was a Vickers Viscount 802, registration G-AOJA, built and delivered to BEA the previous year. [1]... | Air crash | null | null |
2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak | The 2009 Gujarat hepatitis B outbreak was a cluster of hepatitis B cases that appeared in Modasa, northern Gujarat, India in 2009. Over 125 people were infected and up to 49 people died. [1][2] Several doctors were investigated and arrested after the outbreaks. The hepatitis B virus infects the liver and causes an inf... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
2017 China floods |
The 2017 China floods began in early June 2017. More than 14.9017 million people in 10 provinces and municipalities and regions were affected, especially the southern and central provinces and regions of Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Shandong, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu and... | Floods | null | null |
1956 B-47 disappearance crash | The 1956 B-47 disappearance occurred on 10 March 1956 over the Mediterranean Sea. A Boeing B-47 Stratojet, call-sign Inkspot 59, took off from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, in the United States for a non-stop flight to Ben Guerir Air Base, Morocco,[1] and completed the first of two planned aerial refuelings without ... | Air crash | null | null |
Russia and China Cozy Up In Joint Military Exercises | The two countries have a common enemy—so they can't afford to skip out on a friendship. Last week, Russian and Chinese forces completed a new round of military exercises meant to increase interoperability between the two countries' armies in a potential war. The "Zapad/Interaction 2021" exercises were meant to help ... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Karabakh movement |
The Karabakh movement (Armenian: Ղարաբաղյան շարժում, also the Artsakh movement[7][8] Արցախյան շարժում) was a national mass movement[9] in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh from 1988 to 1991 that advocated for the transfer of the mainly Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of neighboring Azerbaijan to ... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
U.S. F-15s and Romanian MiG-21s taking part in Dacian Eagle 2016 exercise in eastern Europe | On Jul. 2, eight F-15C Eagles belonging to the 131st Fighter Squadron, Barnes Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, and the 194th Fighter Squadron, Fresno Air National Guard Base, California, depolyed to the 71st airbase Campia Turzii, Romania, to take part in exercise Dacian Eagle 2016. The Eagles belong to the lat... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Southern Airways Flight 932 crash | Southern Airways Flight 932 was a chartered Southern Airways Douglas DC-9 domestic United States commercial jet flight from Stallings Field (ISO) in Kinston, North Carolina, to Huntington Tri-State Airport/Milton J. Ferguson Field (HTS) near Kenova and Ceredo, West Virginia. At 7:36 pm on November 14, 1970, the aircraf... | Air crash | null | null |
CHC Helikopter Service Flight 241 crash | On 29 April 2016, a CHC Helikopter Service Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma helicopter, carrying oil workers from the Gullfaks B platform in the North Sea, crashed near Turøy, a Norwegian coastal island 36 kilometres (22 mi) from the city of Bergen. The main rotor assembly detached from the aircraft and the fuselage plummet... | Air crash | null | null |
Springs Fire | The Springs Fire was a wildfire in Ventura County, California in May 2013. Although the fire burned only 15 homes,[2] it threatened 4,000. This threat passed when rain shower moved through the California area because of a low-pressure system off the coast. Some places got more than half an inch of rain. [3]
The fire s... | Fire | null | null |
1998 St. Cloud explosion | The 1998 St. Cloud explosion was a gas explosion that occurred in St. Cloud, Minnesota on December 11, 1998. A work crew installing a utility pole support anchor punctured an underground natural gas pipeline, causing the explosion. The blast killed four people, injured eleven, destroyed six buildings, and caused an est... | Gas explosion | null | null |
1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash | On April 3, 1996, a United States Air Force Boeing CT-43A (Flight IFO-21) crashed on approach to Dubrovnik, Croatia, while on an official trade mission. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-200 originally built as T-43A navigational trainer and later converted into a CT-43A executive transport aircraft, was carrying United State... | Air crash | null | null |
UNICEF, WHO, IFRC and MSF announce the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile | The Ebola vaccine needs to be kept at a temperature of – 80°C. These vaccine storage devices use jet fuel to keep the right temperature for up to 5 days in the field, even if the storage container is opened several times a day. © Credits UNICEF, WHO, IFRC and MSF announce the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine sto... | Organization Established | null | null |
RZIM will stop doing apologetics work this year | Update (March 10): Once the largest apologetics ministry in the world, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) will stop doing apologetics work this year. CEO Sarah Davis announced to staff Wednesday morning that over the next six months, the downsized ministry will remake itself as a grant-making charity. It pl... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Air Afrique Flight 056 crash | On 24 July 1987, Air Afrique Flight 056, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 operating the Brazzaville–Bangui–Rome–Paris service was hijacked and diverted to Geneva Airport. [1] One passenger was killed and 30 people were injured. [2]
The hijacker was 21-year-old Hussein Hariri, a Lebanese Shiite who claimed to be a member o... | Air crash | null | null |
'Mom, we need food': Thousands in South Sudan near famine | After nearly a week of hiding from conflict, the South Sudanese woman watched two of her young children die On Location: November 17, 2021 LEKUANGOLE, South Sudan -- After nearly a week of hiding from conflict, Kallayn Keneng watched two of her young children die. “They cried and cried and said, ‘Mom, we need food,'" s... | Famine | null | null |
The Titanic: The unforgotten stories of the four Greek passengers who perished in the shipwreck | 109 years ago, one of the darkest pages of the world history was written. The transatlantic Titanic, one of the largest ships to ever be built, and the largest ship of its time, sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, carrying 2,224 passengers and crew. After colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voya... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Sudan Airways Flight 109 crash | Sudan Airways Flight 109 was a scheduled international Amman–Damascus–Khartoum passenger flight, operated with an Airbus A310 by the flag carrier of Sudan, Sudan Airways. On 10 June 2008, at approximately 17:00 UTC, the Airbus A310 crashed on landing at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 of the 214 occupants on... | Air crash | null | null |
70% of fully vaccinated prisoners caught COVID-19 in a Texas Delta outbreak, the CDC says - but vaccines protected against severe disease | 70% of fully vaccinated prisoners caught COVID-19 in a Texas Delta outbreak, the CDC says - but vaccines protected against severe disease Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce September 22, 2021, 8:04 PM A nurse filling a syringe with a COVID-19 vaccine. A CDC study of an outbreak in a Texas prison in July suggested that vacci... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
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