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Almost $50,000 in fines handed out to churchgoers who broke COVID rules by attending The Christ Embassy service in Blacktown | Almost $50,000 in fines have been handed out to churchgoers who broke public health orders by attending a service in Sydney's west.
Sixty people, including children, travelled to The Christ Embassy at Blacktown from COVID hotspots on Sunday evening.
Police were called to Fourth Avenue after a member of the public cont... | Organization Fine | null | null |
East Africa is suffering its worst invasion of desert locusts in 25 ... | East Africa is suffering its worst invasion of desert locusts in 25 years
By Bethlehem Feleke, CNN
Updated 1524 GMT (2324 HKT) January 25, 2020
Swarms of millions of locusts strike East Africa 01:34
Nairobi (CNN)
The Horn of Africa has been hit by the worst invasion of desert locusts in 25 years, the UN's Food and Agr... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Swimming-Rattled by ripped trunks, Hungary's Milak settles for gold | Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Swimming - Men's 200m Butterfly - Medal Ceremony - Tokyo Aquatics Centre - Tokyo, Japan - July 28, 2021. Kristof Milak of Hungary poses with his gold medal on the podium REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel
TOKYO, July 28 (Reuters) - Hungarian gold medallist Kristof Milak was left furious, flustered and co... | Break historical records | null | null |
India and Pakistan brace for worst locust attack in 27 years |
NEW DELHI -- In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, India and Pakistan are battling another crisis -- their worst locust attack in nearly three decades. | Insect Disaster | null | null |
2010 Slovenia floods | The 2010 Slovenia floods, on the weekend of 17–19 September 2010, were caused by heavy rains in Slovenia, resulting in one of the worst floods in the country's history. Among the regions affected were the capital Ljubljana, the Central Sava Valley, Laško, the Slovene Littoral and Lower Carniola. [3][4] Initial damage w... | Floods | null | null |
President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran deal | New York: President Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the Iran deal, one of the biggest foreign policy moves of his presidency and a decision that will have repercussions in every corner of the globe. After months of threatening that he would abandon what he called "the worst deal ever made", Trump confi... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Read: David Brooks’s message to the Boston College Class of 2021 | On Monday, May 24, the Class of 2021 graduated from Boston College. At the in-person ceremony, the graduates and their guests were addressed by David Brooks, a columnist at The New York Times and the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life, among other books. Mr. Brooks spoke... | Famous Person - Give a speech | null | null |
FBI searching for suspects in string of suburban bank robberies | Surveillance footage shows two men accused of robbing banks in Lombard and Wilmette before attempting to rob a Naperville bank Monday, according to the FBI. Courtesy of FBI Chicago Two men are accused of robbing banks in Wilmette and Lombard before attempting to rob a third in Naperville on Monday afternoon. Courte... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Thomas Mills | Mark Meadows unwittingly outlines a coup | Donald Trump’s former Chief-of-staff Mark Meadows, who was also a Congressman from North Carolina, has never been the sharpest tool in the shed. He once dumped money into an organization that believes the earth is only 6,000 years old and that humans lived side-by-side with dinosaurs. Now it appears he created a Powerp... | Regime Change | null | null |
Return of the rabbit plague: South Island's environmental fiasco | The saying goes: “Never turn your back on a rabbit, especially in Central Otago”. But New Zealand has. And now the population has exploded - again. This week, Newsroom Investigates launches an in-depth series about the South Island rabbit rampage. Rabbits are eating their way through parts of the South Island... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
2017 Patan riots | The 2017 Patan riots refers to the riots between Muslims and Hindus in the Vadavali village in Gujarat’s Patan district. [1]
According to the police the violence started following a minor fight between two students of different communities. [2][3] Sunsar residents stated that Muslim students had beaten Hindu students ... | Riot | null | null |
2014 East Harlem gas explosion |
The 2014 East Harlem gas explosion occurred at 9:31 a.m. on March 12, 2014,[1] in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The explosion leveled two apartment buildings located just north of 116th Street at 1644 and 1646 Park Avenue,[2] killing eight people, injuring at least 70 others, and displac... | Gas explosion | null | null |
1929 Arthur's Pass earthquake |
The 1929 Arthur's Pass earthquake occurred at 10:50 pm NZMT on 9 March. The sparsely settled region around Arthur's Pass of the Southern Alps shook for four minutes. [1] Tremors continued almost continuously until midnight and sporadic strong aftershocks were felt for several days. The earthquake was measured at 7.1 ... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888 |
The Burlington railroad strike of 1888 was a failed union strike which pitted the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (B of LE), the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen (B of LF), and the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association (SMAA) against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) its extensive trackage in the M... | Strike | null | null |
Philippines and Kuwait sign agreement on workers' rights | A bitter dispute between Kuwait and the Philippines over the treatment of domestic workers is set to end with the signing of a new agreement.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte had banned workers travelling to Kuwait amid allegations of abuse.
Public outrage followed the murder of a young maid whose body was found in... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Tokyo Olympics: Namibia’s Christine Mboma Breaks U20 Record Twice as Nigeria Secure Wrestling Medal | Namibian sprinter Christine Mboma twice broke Allyson Felix’s under-20 world and Olympic record as she reached Tuesday’s final of the women’s 200m on day ten of the Tokyo Olympics.
Her compatriot Beatrice Masilingi twice set a personal best to progress as well, both athletes were forced to withdraw from their preferred... | Break historical records | null | null |
Judge ordered a man with a long criminal history to receive rehabilitation and four years instead of the seven-year prison sentence | In a sentencing hearing Friday, Chief Judge Doug Walker ordered a man with a long criminal history to receive rehabilitation and four years in a Durango halfway house instead of the seven-year prison sentence recommended by the Assistant District Attorney. Samuel John Clark pleaded guilty to reduced charges of felony ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
A majority of infected Indians with mild symptoms are recovering at home or in state-run centres | A patient with an oxygen mask sitting outside a hospital in New Delhi on April 22, 2021. BANGALORE - Even as critically ill patients with Covid-19 in India are desperately seeking hospital beds with oxygen support in many states, a majority of infected Indians with mild symptoms are recovering at home or in state-run ... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
Warnings of economic catastrophe come as Congress prepares to debate debt ceiling | A general view of the White House in Washington, U.S. July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's top aides and local officials nationwide pleaded with U.S. lawmakers on Friday to resolve a government debt showdown that they warned could spark an economic crisi... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
2017 Brazilian general strike | The 2017 Brazilian general strike took place on April 28, 100 years after Brazil's first general strike in June 1917. [1] The movement was a protest against reforms of labor laws, which were later adopted and social security proposed by Michel Temer government and pending in National Congress of Brazil. [2][3][4]
More... | Strike | null | null |
1975 Near Islands earthquake | The 1975 Near Islands earthquake occurred at 08:43 UTC on February 2 off the coast of Attu Island, Alaska. The earthquake had a surface wave magnitude of 7.6 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). It caused heavy damage on Shemya Island, injuring 15 residents. The runways of Shemya Air Force Base sustained c... | Earthquakes | null | null |
22-YEAR-OLD STARTS THE YOUNG BLACK PANTHER PARTY IN LANSING, MICHIGAN | After learning about last year’s tragic police killing of George Floyd and also witnessing the remnants of police brutality and racial injustice in this country, a young Black man in Lansing, Michigan, decided to form a party that would be reminiscent of the original Black Panther Party. According to Lansing State Jour... | Organization Established | null | null |
White House: U.S. to Withdraw from INF Treaty | Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty at the State Department Friday. The United States will withdraw from a key international agreement governing the development of nuclear weapons, the White House has announced. Acting on an ultimatum given late last year, Secretary of Stat... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Broken gas line leads to road closure near 59th Avenue and Thomas Road in Phoenix | A major road had to be closed Wednesday afternoon after a gas line leak at a construction site in the West Valley.
Firefighters shut down Thomas Road just west of 59th Avenue after receiving reports at about 3:30 p.m. of a broken underground gas line, according to Phoenix Fire Department spokesperson Capt. Todd Keller.... | Gas explosion | null | null |
White House says Ebola outbreaks in Africa need swift action to avoid ‘catastrophic consequences’ | The two burgeoning Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Guinea require swift action “to avoid catastrophic consequences,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday. It’s the first official statement from the White House on the reemergence of Ebola in the two African countries. Psaki said... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Delhi: Malls, markets can now open as per normal timings from Monday, says CM. Details here | Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said restrictions on timings to open market, shopping malls and others amid Covid-19 have been lifted from Monday and they will be allowed to function as per normal timings. Earlier, the Delhi government had allowed markets to remain open only till 8 pm in view of... | Organization Closed | null | null |
2010 University of Puerto Rico Strike | The 2010–2011 University of Puerto Rico strikes (UPR) refer to the student strikes which took place between May 2010 and June 2010 in ten of the university system's eleven constituent institutions, as well as the protests that occurred from October 2010 to February 2011. The 2010 strike began as a 48-hour walk-out on A... | Strike | null | null |
Egypt dig uncovers a 2,200 year old 'Alexander the Great' statue | Alexander III of Macedon, also known as Alexander the Great, was a Greek king who ruled the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He was born in 356 BC in Pella, Greece, as a member of the Argead dynasty. The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has discovered a statue of Alexander the Great w... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
ConocoPhillips Completes Acquisition of Concho Resources | HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Concho Resources (“Concho”) (NYSE: CXO) following approval by shareholders of both companies. “We appreciate the strong support for this transaction from the shareholders of both companies, which we view as fur... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Deadly virus’s pathway to infect cells identified | Mosquito-borne Rift Valley fever virus slips into cells via protein linked to cholesterol metabolism by Tamara Bhandari•September 23, 2021 Goats shelter inside a pen during an investigation into a Rift Valley fever outbreak in Saudi Arabia in 2000. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis a... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
China Airlines Flight 334 crash | China Airlines Flight 334 was a Boeing 747-2R7F/SCD freighter aircraft that was hijacked by pilot Wang Hsi-chueh (Chinese: 王錫爵) on May 3, 1986 while en route to Don Mueang, Thailand. Wang managed to subdue the two other crew members and changed course to land the 747 in Guangzhou, where he defected to the People's Repu... | Air crash | null | null |
Women in the yellow vests movement | Women have been involved in the yellow vests movement since its inception. This is a result of women on the whole being more affected by poverty in France than their male counterparts, in part because many are heads-of-household and need to take time off from paid employment to give birth to children. Their role is gre... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Tokyo Olympics 2021: Kaylee McKeown wins gold, sets OR in 100m backstroke final | Australia's Kaylee McKeown won gold and set an Olympic record in the final of the 100m backstroke at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday.
In doing so, she became the first Australian woman to ever win the event at the Olympics - and promptly celebrating by saying "f--k yeah' on live TV.
McKeown, 20, clocked 57.47 to lead hom... | Break historical records | null | null |
Kenya: Five family members die of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning | A police official said that an autopsy is planned to identify the exact cause of death.
January 2, 2021
1 min read
A middle-aged couple and their three children were found dead on Saturday morning inside their house in Githurai 45 area, Kiambu County, Central Kenya .
They are suspected to have died due to inhaling of c... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Black Ribbon Movement Myanmar |
The Black Ribbon Movement Myanmar was a movement of medical professions and medical students against the appointment of military officers to positions within Ministry of Health in Myanmar (Burma) in August 2015. [1][2][3]
Successive Burmese governments since the military took over in the 60s have transferred retired... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Rotting camels pollute sacred waterholes |
Masses of rotting camels are littering thousands of sacred Indigenous sites across outback Australia.
The past few weeks have seen a focus on damage caused by a plague of camels in the Northern Territory's Docker River community, with an aerial cull of 3,000 to be carried out in the next fortnight.
But perishing camel... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Yemen: Building capacity to prevent new swarms of desert ... | World Bank, the
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The first thing that comes to mind when we think of the desert locust is destruction. Traveling in swarms that can number in the billions, or even trillions, and spread over large swathes of land, this small insect causes catastrophic damage to pasture and to crops. A small sw... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 crash | Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 was a scheduled passenger flight between Baku and Aktau, Kazakhstan that crashed into the Caspian Sea at ca. 22:40 on 23 December 2005. [1] The flight was operated by an Antonov An-140. Around five minutes after a night-time departure from Baku Airport the crew reported a systems failure.... | Air crash | null | null |
Japanese Yakuza Boss Who Was First To Receive Death Sentence Sent Chilling Threat To Judge | The boss of the Japanese Yakuza gang sent a chilling threat to the judge after he was sentenced to death by a Japanese court. On Tuesday, 74-year-old Satoru Nomura was found guilty of ordering four assaults by Fukuoka District Court, and received what is believed to be the first death sentence in Japan. One of the vic... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
Suspended sentence for Cork man who caught partner by throat and threatened to kill her | The judge imposed a sentence of two years which he suspended on condition that the accused would keep the peace for a period of three years and not harass or beset the victim during that period. A Cork man caught his ex-partner by the throat, started trying to strangle her and threatened to kill her and now he has been... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
Report: 150 starved to death in Ethiopia’s Tigray in August | NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A least 150 people starved to death last month in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region amid a near-complete blockade of food aid by federal and allied authorities, the Tigray forces say, while close to half a million people face famine conditions. The starvation deaths occurred in six communities as... | Famine | null | null |
Bank robbers tied hostages to cars and used them as human shields during heists in Brazil | Authorities say they have arrested a New Jersey bank robbery suspect seen on surveillance video as a red dye pack explodes during his escape. (July 5) AP After ransacking two banks in Brazil, a group of robbers escaped with hostages strapped onto their getaway cars Monday morning. Photos and videos on social media show... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
2010 Air Service Berlin Douglas C-47 crash | On 19 June 2010, a vintage Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft crashed shortly after take-off from Berlin Schönefeld Airport for a sightseeing flight over Berlin, which was operated by Air Service Berlin, a provider of event flights. There were no fatalities, but seven out of the 28 passengers and crew were injured. The air... | Air crash | null | null |
2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division II |
The 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division II consisted of two tiered groups of six teams each: the fourth-tier Division IIA and the fifth-tier Division IIB. For each tier, the team which placed first was promoted to the next highest division, while the team which placed last was relegated to a lower divi... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Would-be Hobart bank robber sought after two hold-ups in Moonah | Police are hunting a man who tried to rob a bank and later held up a department store in the Hobart suburb of Moonah. The man went into the Westpac branch on Main Road just before 1:30pm and demanded $1,000 in cash from a teller, police said. No money was handed over and he fled on foot. Police said about 10 minutes la... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Live-fire Han Kuang exercises begin | The live-fire component of this year’s annual Han Kuang military exercises, Taiwan’s major war games involving all military branches, began yesterday morning and is to run until Friday to test the armed forces’ capability to fend off a Chinese invasion. The 37th edition of the annual event officially began after the Mi... | Military Exercise | null | null |
1977 Houston Anita Bryant protests | In 1977, the Texas State Bar Association invited country singer Anita Bryant to perform at a meeting in Houston, Texas. In response to Bryant's outspoken anti-gay views and her Save Our Children campaign, thousands of members of the Houston LGBT community and their supporters marched through the city to the venue in pr... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
The Fed wins another round, but the endgame has not changed | Kirsten Rohrs Schmitt is an accomplished professional editor, writer, proofreader, and fact-checker. She has expertise in finance, investing, real estate, and world history. Throughout her career, she has written and edited content for numerous consumer magazines and websites, crafted resumes and social media content f... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Great Fire of New York | The Great Fire of New York was a devastating fire that burned through the night of September 20, 1776, and into the morning of September 21, on the West Side of what then constituted New York City at the southern end of the island of Manhattan. [1] It broke out in the early days of the military occupation of the city b... | Fire | null | null |
Fatal crash on Ford Road in Busselton | The WA Police Major Crash Investigation Section are investigating a fatal crash that occurred in Busselton on August 30 2021. The crash occurred around 8:30am when a Suzuki motorcycle travelling south on Ford Road collided with a Nissan Navara as it reversed from a driveway. The 40-year-old male motorcyclist was flown ... | Road Crash | null | null |
2013 Jakarta flood |
The 2013 Jakarta flood was a flood in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, which, in addition to areas in downtown Jakarta, also affected several other areas surrounding the city, such as West Java and Banten. Severe floods have been reported to have hit Jakarta in the past, including in 1621, 1654, 1918, 1942, 1976, 1... | Floods | null | null |
US Ambassador Makes First Visit to Taiwan in More Than 40 Years | Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen shares a toast with Palau’s President Surangel Whipps Jr. at a banquet in Taipei on Mar. 30, 2021. U.S. Ambassador to Palau John Hennessey-Niland is also present (seated, second from left).
U.S. Ambassador to Palau John Hennesey-Niland became the first sitting envoy to travel to Taiwan i... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
1986 FBI Miami shootout | The 1986 FBI Miami shootout occurred on April 11, 1986, in a then-unincorporated region of Dade County, Florida (incorporated as Pinecrest in 1996) when a small group of field agents for the FBI attempted to apprehend William Russell Matix and Michael Lee Platt, who were suspected of committing a recent series of viole... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Four-car PILE-UP on Great Eastern Highway in Bellevue causes traffic CHAOS on Perth roads | A four car pile-up has caused traffic chaos along Great Eastern Highway after a car collided with a motorhome earlier tonight. Police and the Department of Fire and Emergency Services were called to the scene at the Farrall Road intersection in Bellevue just before 6pm tonight, where a driver of a Toyota sedan collided... | Road Crash | null | null |
13 Shocking Autopsy Stories From Medical Examiners That'll Send Shivers Down Your Spine | 1. "When I was in EMS training, we had to do [medical examiner] rotations to learn gross anatomy. The ME told us of a case they had the previous month where they had an unattended death in a rental property of a single fortysomething person with no known medical history. The autopsy was unremarkable until the labs came... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
1974 Zhaotong earthquake | The 1974 Zhaotong earthquake occurred at 19:25 UTC on 10 May. It had a magnitude that was measured at 7.0 on the moment magnitude scale[4] and 7.1 on the surface wave magnitude scale. It had a maximum perceived intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale. The epicenter was located in Zhaotong prefecture i... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Mount Morgan abandoned mine site brings environmentalists and farmers together | It is not often you hear environmentalists and farmers asking government to help out a mining company — but that is what is happening in central Queensland as a resources project hangs in the balance.
Since 2014, Australian company Carbine Resources has been working on a proposal to pull copper, pyrite and gold tailing... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Happy Olympic Day! | Sir Mo Farah and Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands set respective men’s and women’s world one-hour records at the Wanda Diamond League exhibition meeting here tonight.
Britain’s multiple world and Olympic champion held off the challenge of his training partner, home athlete Bashir Abdi, to set a new mark of 21,330 metres... | Break historical records | null | null |
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 crash | Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 was a regularly scheduled domestic Austral Líneas Aéreas flight operating a route between Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata in Argentina that crashed after encountering poor weather conditions during landing on 16 January 1959, killing 51 of the 52 passengers and crew on board. At the time... | Air crash | null | null |
1990 Bijnor riot | In October 1990, there was a major communal riot in Bijnor, a town in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Stemming from a celebratory procession by local Hindu groups, it was the most destructive riot in the wake of concurrent Hindu nationalist campaigns, which eventually led to the demolition of Babri Masjid. The riots... | Riot | null | null |
2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea | An outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus occurred in South Korea from May 2015 to July 2015. [5] The virus, which causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), was a newly emerged betacoronavirus that was first identified in a patient from Saudi Arabia in April 2012. From the outbreak, a total of 1... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Locust invasion in Afghanistan - A race against time - FAO | AYBAK, Northern Afghanistan, May 2002 -- Farmers in Northern Afghanistan are fighting a silent enemy. Afghanistan's bread basket, hit hard by three years of drought and many years of war, is finally blooming with crops and relative peace - but is threatened by hundreds of millions of locusts marching across fields and ... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Korean Air Flight 85 crash | On September 11, 2001, Korean Air Flight 85 was on route to Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska, when information about the September 11 attacks was relayed to the crew. The pilot in command's ACARS message reply included the letters "HJK", a prompt interpreted as a distress signal indicating that th... | Air crash | null | null |
Russia, China Hold Joint Anti-Terror Drills – TASS | Russia and China have kicked off multinational anti-terrorism military exercises as the countries seek to fill a regional security void left by the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, Russian state media reported Monday. The two powers will hold the Peace Mission 2021 drills in Russia's Orenburg region near the... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Shropshire Star | Businesses in Bridgnorth High Street were briefly evacuated after a loud explosion was heard. Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service scrambled two appliances from Bridgnorth and Much Wenlock at 9.24am after receiving reports of a "hole in the pavement following explosion."
They initially classified the incident as a gas le... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Baba Adhav diagnosed with cancer | Pune: Eminent social activist Baba Adhav (92) on Tuesday confirmed that he had been doing well at home post-diagnosis of cancer.
The nonagenarian has appealed to citizens to refrain from visiting him during the course of his illness.
“I am doing well at home and recovering. Please do not rush to meet me out of worry. I... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
2024 European Women's Handball Championship | The 2024 European Women's Handball Championship will be held in Austria, Hungary and Switzerland in November and December 2024. [1] This will be the first tournament to feature 24 teams. The vote took place on 25 January 2020 at the EHF Extraordinary Congress in Stockholm. The solo bid of Russia was eliminated in the f... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Modern Capitalism and Sunflowers | LONDON — European banks have seemingly weathered the coronavirus crisis well, but there are still some major challenges ahead that have the potential to rattle the sector. There’s been a noticeable difference between the pandemic and the global financial crisis of 2008: European banks have a much stronger capital posit... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Morrison government quashes Victoria’s Belt and Road deal with China | Michelle Grattan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU.
View all part... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
The Latest: UN chief to hold meeting on Afghanistan funding | UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations chief will convene a ministerial meeting in Geneva on Sept. 13 to seek a swift scale-up in funding to address the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where nearly half the country’s 38 million people need assistance. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric made the announcement Frid... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
Global Cold Chain Alliance | Cape Town, South Africa – Members of the Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA) South African have pledged their time and commitment to serve on the newly created GCCA Food Safety & Compliance Committee. This committee was created so members could discuss the laws and regulations impacting cold chain logistics and refriger... | Organization Established | null | null |
Solomon Islands oil spill report leaked to ABC reveals economic losses of up to $50 million | Solomon Islands oil spill report leaked to ABC reveals economic losses of up to $50 million
Documents leaked to the ABC have estimated the economic losses caused by an oil spill near a world heritage-listed area of Solomon Islands last year could be as high as $50 million.
More than 300 tonnes of heavy fuel oil leaked... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Ukrainian President accomplishes years-long quest for a White House visit with Biden meeting | Updated 2322 GMT (0722 HKT) September 1, 2021
President Joe Biden meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, in Washington.
(CNN)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with President Joe Biden in Washington on Wednesday, the culmination of a ... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
Gabon Express Flight 221 crash | Gabon Express Flight 221 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on 8 June 2004. The Hawker Siddeley HS 748 was carrying 26 passengers and 4 crew and was flying from Gabon's capital Libreville to Franceville via Port-Gentil when an engine failed. The crew tried to return to Libre... | Air crash | null | null |
Dibbles Bridge coach crash |
On 27 May 1975, a coach carrying elderly passengers crashed at the bottom of a steep hill at Dibbles Bridge, near Hebden in North Yorkshire, England. Thirty-three people on board were killed, including the driver, and thirteen others injured. It was the worst-ever road accident in the United Kingdom by number of fata... | Road Crash | null | null |
HotSpots H2O: As Famine Looms in East Africa, Humanitarian Groups Call for Urgent Action | Drought has left millions in the region facing food insecurity—and conditions are expected to get worse. The landscape of Kulaley Village in northern Kenya lays barren after a drought in 2011. Photo © OxFam East Africa / Wikimedia Commons. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 18, 2021 In 2011, two failed rainy se... | Famine | null | null |
Fish kill fears as blackwater floods Richmond River |
There are growing concerns about a fish kill on the New South Wales north coast, and renewed calls for a long-term solution to the problem.
Oxygen levels in the water have crashed as dissolved vegetation flows back into the Richmond River in the wake of recent heavy rain.
Phil Hilliard, from the Ballina Fishermen's Co... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
North Adams strike | The North Adams strike was a strike in 1870 by shoe workers of the Order of the Knights of St. Crispin, against Calvin T. Sampson's Shoe factory, in North Adams, Massachusetts. The strike itself was broken when Sampson imported seventy-five unskilled male Chinese strikebreakers, from California. The craft union itself ... | Strike | null | null |
North Macedonia joins NATO as 30th Ally | Today (27 March 2020), North Macedonia became NATO’s newest member, upon depositing its instrument of accession to the North Atlantic Treaty with the US State Department in Washington DC. NATO Allies signed North Macedonia’s Accession Protocol in February 2019, after which all 29 national parliaments voted to ratify th... | Join in an Organization | null | null |
Race riots in Miami | Race riots in Miami include a series of violent events that occurred in Miami mainly through the 1980s. After desegregation, much of the racial violence in Miami had calmed only to be reignited by the 1980s. The decade of riots were the result of policing controversies and ethnic tensions fueled by the perceived threa... | Riot | null | null |
Tasmanian town Rossarden takes out best water award at event deemed Olympics of water |
A former mining town in Tasmania's north-east has taken out top honours at an international water judging event deemed the Olympics of water.
Rossarden, in the Fingal Valley, was once the centre of the state's mining industry and produced the bulk of Australia's supply of tin.
Until three years ago, the town's drinkin... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Egypt announces new archaeological discovery | Egypt's Tourism and Antiquities Ministry has announced the discovery of a number of ancient churches and rooms in the Bahariya Oasis, southwest of Cairo. Cairo Published on: March 14, 2021 12:00 IST Egypt announces new archaeological discovery Egypt's Tourism and Antiquities Ministry has announced the discovery of a n... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown crash | The 1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown was an incident on 21 June 1978, when four Boeing CH-47 Chinook of the Imperial Iranian Air Force strayed into Soviet airspace during a training mission, with the end result being that two of the aircraft were shot down by the PVO.
During the 1970s, numerous incidents, probably incl... | Air crash | null | null |
2002 Prestige Airlines Boeing 707 crash | On 4 July 2002 a Boeing 707-123B operated by Prestige Airlines and owned by New Gomair, crashed during an emergency landing at Bangui Airport. 28 people on board were killed and two survived. [1] The flight was bound to Brazzaville, but the crew decided to divert to Bangui when the landing gear had not retracted. The i... | Air crash | null | null |
After deadly accident Cargill will shut down salt mine, but company claims its not because of recent collapse | Six weeks after a roof collapse killed two miners at its Avery, La., rock salt mine, Cargill has announced plans to permanently close the facility. One of three Cargill mines in the U.S. that produce rock salt used to deice winter roads, Avery produces about 2 million tons of salt a year — roughly the same amount as i... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
1842 General Strike | The 1842 general strike, also known as the Plug Plot Riots,[1][2] started among the miners in Staffordshire, England, and soon spread through Britain affecting factories, mills in Yorkshire and Lancashire, and coal mines from Dundee to South Wales and Cornwall. The strike was influenced by the Chartist movement – a mas... | Strike | null | null |
EgyptAir Flight 648 crash | EgyptAir Flight 648 was a regularly scheduled international flight between Athens Ellinikon International Airport in Greece and Cairo International Airport in Egypt. On 23 November 1985, a Boeing 737-200[2] airliner, registered SU-AYH, servicing the flight was hijacked by the terrorist organization Abu Nidal. The subse... | Air crash | null | null |
December 2013 Stockholm riots |
Rioters:
On 15 December 2013, violent clashes took place during an anti-racist demonstration in the Kärrtorp district of Stockholm, Sweden. The demonstration was organised by Linje 17, its name referring to the Stockholm Metro Line 17 that runs through Kärrtorp. The demonstration was violently attacked by neo-Nazis.... | Riot | null | null |
ESPN | TOKYO -- Ryan Crouser wrote the note, stuck it in his backpack and brought it out to the field just in case.
"Grandpa. We did it. 2020 Olympic champion!" it said.
The world's best shot-putter had a feeling he'd win. After he did just that on Thursday, he pulled out that piece of paper and showed it to the world. Crouse... | Break historical records | null | null |
Enraged about Japan's tendentious textbooks and territorial disputes in the East China Sea, Sun Wei, a college junior, joined thousands of Chinese in a rare legal protest march on the streets of Beijing last weekend. | BEIJING, April 14 - Enraged about Japan's tendentious textbooks and territorial disputes in the East China Sea, Sun Wei, a college junior, joined thousands of Chinese in a rare legal protest march on the streets of Beijing last weekend.
Yet the police herded protesters into tight groups, let them take turns throwing ro... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Woman, 70, filmed allegedly poisoning husband's coffee with roach killer multiple times | A 70-year-old woman in has been arrested after being filmed allegedly poisoning her husband’s coffee with ant and roach killer on more than one occasion.
The incident occurred on Jan. 12, when 70-year-old Suncha Tinerva of Queens in New York City was caught on video surveillance placing a “white powdery substance” from... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Textile workers Strike (1934) | The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in the labor history of the United States at the time, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days. The textile industry, once concentrated in New England with outposts in New... | Strike | null | null |
Zambia becomes second nation to tear up Mauritius tax deal | Zambia will now try to estimate how much revenue was lost under its tax treaty with Mauritius, which one official described as “not balanced or fair.”
Zambia has torn up its tax treaty with Mauritius, the latest African nation to cancel an agreement with one of the world’s leading offshore havens.
President Edgar Chagw... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
McNally Fire | The McNally Fire was a massive wildfire in the Sequoia National Forest which burned 150,696 acres (609.8 km2) in July and August 2002, and the largest wildfire of the 2002 California wildfire season. [1] The fire burned from July 21 to August 29, 2002 through the Sequoia and Inyo National Forest, as well as 5% of Giant... | Fire | null | null |
Mann Gulch fire | The Mann Gulch fire was a wildfire reported on August 5, 1949, in a gulch located along the upper Missouri River in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness (then known as the Gates of the Mountains Wild Area), Helena National Forest, in the U.S. state of Montana. A team of 15 smokejumpers parachuted into the area on the ... | Fire | null | null |
2021 French labor protests | Jean CastexPrime Minister of France
Gérald DarmaninMinister of Interior
In 2021, protests and strikes emerged among the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), a national trade union, and French citizens dissatisfied about their country's economic situation in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. The protests ha... | Strike | null | null |
Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man sign taxation agreement | The three UK Crown dependencies have signed double taxation agreements aimed at helping businesses and individuals to avoid paying in two places.
The agreements also allow the exchange of tax information between Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
They were signed in London by representatives of each government.
Rob ... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Plague threat as millions of locusts swarm into Cyprus - The ... |
Tens of millions of locusts have descended on Cyprus and the island now has less than 10 days to act before the invasion turns into a self-perpetuating plague.
Tens of millions of locusts have descended on Cyprus and the island now has less than 10 days to act before the invasion turns into a self-perpetuating plague.... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
1987 Bintaro train crash | The 1987 Bintaro train accident occurred in Pondok Betung urban village, Bintaro, Tangerang, West Java (currently in Banten), Indonesia on Monday 19 October 1987. Two passenger trains collided, causing 139 fatalities, making it the worst railway crash in Indonesia to date. A train departing from Rangkasbitung Station i... | Train collisions | null | null |
RISE, Stand Strong reveal organization’s new name: Lumina | San Luis Obispo Tribune | RISE and Stand Strong, two San Luis Obispo organizations that support survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence, have announced their new name following their merger into one organization: Lumina Alliance. “Lumina,” a word with Latin roots, means “to light, to illuminate, to shine and to enlighten,” Lumina CEO ... | Organization Merge | null | null |
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