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2017 Serbian protests |
Anti-government protesters;
President of SerbiaGovernment of Serbia
up to 20,000 in Belgrade,[1]
The 2017 Serbian protests against perceived dictatorship were ongoing mass protests organized across Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš and other cities and towns in Serbia, against Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić, as a result of... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
2014 Cameron Highlands mud floods |
The 2014 Cameron Highlands mud floods took place in Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia on 5 and 6 November 2014. More than 20 houses in Ringlet town, Ringlet new village, Kampung Ulu Merah Ringlet and Bertam Valley are submerged in knee-deep flood waters. [1] At least three people were killed while other five injure... | Floods | null | null |
Ancient city discovered underneath Hangzhou | The ancient Yijin City excavated in Hangzhou’s Lin’an District was shortlisted in the top 10 archeological discoveries in China last year following a rigorous debate among professionals, experts and project leaders in Beijing. Buried underground for centuries, the ancient city finally saw the light of day thanks to the... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
June 2011 Christchurch earthquake |
The June 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a shallow magnitude 6.0 Mw earthquake that occurred on 13 June 2011 at 14:20 NZST (02:20 UTC). It was centred at a depth of 7 km (4.3 mi),[1] about 5 km (3 mi) south-east of Christchurch,[7] which had previously been devastated by a magnitude 6.2 MW earthquake in February 201... | Earthquakes | null | null |
2011 Musselshell River flood | The 2011 flooding on the Musselshell River in Montana began about May 21, affecting large parts of central Montana. [1][2] At Mosby, Montana, the river crested at 16 feet (4.9 m) on Monday, May 23. The flood level at Mosby is 8 feet (2.4 m) and the record crest at that point along the Musselshell is 17.7 feet (5.4 m), ... | Floods | null | null |
BOAC Flight 777 crash | BOAC Flight 777-A was a scheduled British Overseas Airways Corporation civilian airline flight from Portela Airport in Lisbon, Portugal to Whitchurch Airport near Bristol, England. On 1 June 1943, the Douglas DC-3 serving the flight was attacked by eight German Junkers Ju 88 fighter planes and crashed into the Bay of B... | Air crash | null | null |
Atlas Air Flight 3591 crash | Atlas Air Flight 3591 was a scheduled domestic cargo flight operating for Amazon Air between Miami International Airport and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. On February 23, 2019, the Boeing 767-375ER(BCF) used for this flight crashed into Trinity Bay during approach into Houston, killing the two crew m... | Air crash | null | null |
1955 MacArthur Airport United Airlines crash | On April 4, 1955, a United Airlines Douglas DC-6 named Mainliner Idaho crashed shortly after taking off from Long Island MacArthur Airport, in Ronkonkoma, Islip, New York, United States. The flight was operated for the purpose of maintaining the currency of the instrument rating of two of the airline's pilots. Shortly ... | Air crash | null | null |
1963 Intercontinental Cup | The 1963 Intercontinental Cup was a two-legged football match contested between 1962–63 European Cup champions Milan and 1963 Copa Libertadores winners Santos. It was the fourth edition of the competition. The first leg was played at the San Siro in Milan, on 16 October 1963. Milan won the home game 4–2. The return leg... | Sports Competition | null | null |
President’s Task Force for Green Agriculture formed | COLOMBO : President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has set up a Presidential Task Force for Green Agriculture, by virtue of the powers vested in him by Article 33 of the Constitution. This was announced in a Gazette Extraordinary published by the Secretary to the President, P.B. Jayasundera on Friday (October 15). The 14-member ta... | Organization Established | null | null |
40 dead, 300 estimated missing after dam holding back waste bursts in Brazil | The death toll from the collapse of a dam holding back mine waste in southeastern Brazil rose to 40 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 death toll to increase during a search made ... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Kweilin incident crash | The Kweilin incident occurred on August 24, 1938 when a Douglas DC-2 airliner (the Kweilin) carrying 18 passengers and crew was destroyed by Japanese aircraft in China. There were fourteen fatalities. It was the first civilian airliner in history to be shot down by hostile aircraft. [2] The pilot was American and the c... | Air crash | null | null |
Aer Lingus Flight 712 crash | Aer Lingus Flight 712 crashed en route from Cork to London on 24 March 1968 killing all 61 passengers and crew. The aircraft, a Vickers Viscount 803 named "St. Phelim", crashed into the sea off Tuskar Rock, County Wexford. Although the investigation into the crash lasted two years, a cause was never determined. [1][2][... | Air crash | null | null |
NorthShore HealthSystem to merge with west-suburban Edward-Elmhurst | NorthShore University HealthSystem and its six area hospitals officially announced Wednesday, Sept. 8, its intention to merge with Edward-Elmhurst Health, a three-hospital group that serves the western suburbs. According to a release from the organizations the merger should be complete by the end of year. “NorthShore a... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Officials in Hong Kong are investigating carbon monoxide poisoning in a restaurant that left 14 people needing hospital treatment. | Officials in Hong Kong are investigating carbon monoxide poisoning in a restaurant that left 14 people needing hospital treatment.
The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health reported that the group ate a “hot pot” dinner using charcoal as cooking fuel in one room at a restaurant in Wan Chai. Hot... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Gigi Hadid & Zayn Malik & All the Celebrity Splits of 2021 | We might only be a few days in 2021, but we’re already seeing a few celebrity relationships come to an end — and are sure to see more surprising splits as the year goes on. Zoë Kravitz was the first to catch our eye with a new year’s divorce filing from husband of 18 months Karl Glusman, and we hadn’t even enjoyed a we... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
Bengali language movement |
The Bengali Language Movement (Bengali: ভাষা আন্দোলন Bhasha Andolôn) was a political movement in former East Bengal (renamed East Pakistan in 1952) advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as an official language of the then-Dominion of Pakistan in order to allow its use in government affairs, the cont... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Erskine Fire | The Erskine Fire was a wildfire that was burning in the Lake Isabella area of Kern County. [1] It was the second-largest wildfire of the 2016 California wildfire season. It was also the first fire of the year to have fatalities and is the 15th most destructive fire in state history. [3]
The fire, which was first repor... | Fire | null | null |
Aeropesca Colombia Flight 217 crash | Aeropesca Colombia Flight 217 was an internal scheduled passenger flight in Colombia from La Vanguardia Airport, Villavicencio to El Dorado International Airport, Bogotá. [1] On 26 March 1982 the flight was operated by a four-engined Vickers Viscount turboprop registered HK-2382 which collided with a mountain at 7,700 ... | Air crash | null | null |
Locust swarms: South Sudan latest to be hit by invasion - BBC | Efforts to control the locust infestation have so far not been effective. Aerial spraying of pesticides is the most effective way of fighting the swarms but countries in the region do not have the right resources.
Media caption,
How East Africa is battling devastating locust swarms
There are now fears that the locusts ... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Off-the-shelf rat poisons killing owls too - and Bunnings asked to act | It was probably a painful death for the eastern barn owl that Blairgowrie resident Kent Stannard found while walking on the Mornington Peninsula in September.
The owl lay on its stomach with its pale, heart-shaped face turned towards the sand, and next to it lay the body of its intended prey, a dead rat.
A dead owl, an... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Transocean Air Lines Flight 512 crash | On July 12, 1953, Transocean Air Lines Flight 512, a Douglas DC-6A operated by Transocean Air Lines from Guam to Oakland, California, crashed into the Pacific Ocean roughly 630 km (340 nmi) east of Wake Island while en route to Honolulu for a planned stopover. All 58 passengers and crew on board were killed. [1][2]
O... | Air crash | null | null |
UPS Airlines Flight 6 crash | UPS Airlines Flight 6 was a cargo flight operated by UPS Airlines. On September 3, 2010, the Boeing 747-400F flying the route between Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Cologne, Germany, developed an in-flight fire which caused the aircraft to crash, killing both crew members, the only people on board. [1][2][3] It was t... | Air crash | null | null |
Great Belt Bridge rail accident |
The Great Belt Bridge rail accident occurred on 2 January 2019 on the Great Belt Fixed Link in Denmark when a passenger train collided with a semi-trailer from or on a passing freight train. The Great Belt Fixed Link is an 18 km (11 mi) long bridge–tunnel connection between the Danish islands of Zealand and Funen, an... | Train collisions | null | null |
A manhunt is underway for a gunman who shot and seriously wounded presiding Travis County, Texas State District Judge Julie Kocurek at the driveway of her home in West Austin, Texas. | A police manhunt was underway Saturday for a suspect who shot and seriously wounded the presiding state district judge of the Texas county that includes Austin.
Travis County State District Judge Julie Kocurek, was gunned down in the driveway of her home in West Austin on Friday night. She was listed in serious conditi... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
'Nothing but Problems': Shipwreck Teardown Now in Its Fifth Month | When salvage crews in early November began cutting apart the capsized Golden Ray, a shipwreck the size of a 70-story office building with 4,200 cars within its cargo decks, they predicted the demolition could be wrapped up by New Year's Day. Months later, the job remains far from finished. Both ends of the cargo ship h... | Shipwreck | null | null |
American Airlines Flight 191 crash | American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight in the United States operated by American Airlines from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California. On the afternoon of May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 op... | Air crash | null | null |
Woman, 45, receives S$100,000 compensation for severe burns from hotpot explosion after 6 years | A diner suffered severe burns when a stove suddenly exploded at a hotpot restaurant back in 2015.
Six years later, the 45-year-old victim finally reached a settlement agreement with the hotpot restaurant this month to be compensated S$100,000.
Woman suffered severe injuries from hotpot explosion
According to the report... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Lake Ontario shipwreck photos captured by Greece photographer | Since 1974, when he was 13 years old, Jim Montanus has been fascinated by the Laura Grace, a wood tugboat that sank in Lake Ontario during a winter storm in 1918. But rarely had he glimpsed the 76-foot vessel, built in 1901 in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada, through anything but murky water. And never had he gotten a ful... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Bible scroll fragments among dazzling artifacts found in Dead Sea Cave of Horror | In a stunningly rare discovery, dozens of 2,000-year-old biblical scroll fragments have been excavated from Judean Desert caves during a daring rescue operation. Most of the newly discovered scroll fragments — the first such finds in 60 years — are Greek translations of the books of Zechariah and Nahum from the Book of... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
1967 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak | The 1967 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak was a major outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom. The only centre of the disease, in contrast to the three concentrated areas in the 2001 crisis, was on the Wales border with Shropshire. [1] France and other European countries were also affected by the... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Niue joins the ADB | The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is an Asia regional development organization dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. Photo: AFP/ Jay Directo
The Asian Development Bank says Niue faces serious challenges in achieving sustained social and economic development.
Niue has become the Bank's latest member.
The... | Join in an Organization | null | null |
Great Fire of 1846 | The Great Fire of 1846 occurred in St. John's, Newfoundland, a colony of the United Kingdom on 9 June 1846. The fire started at the shop of a cabinetmaker named Hamlin, located on George Street off Queen Street, when a glue pot boiled over. The fire spread along Water and Duckworth Streets destroying all of the buildin... | Fire | null | null |
Richmond Hill explosion |
The Richmond Hill explosion took place on November 10, 2012, in the Richmond Hill subdivision in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The home of Monserrate Shirley was the center of the explosion that resulted in the deaths of next-door neighbors John "Dion" Longworth and his wife Jennifer (née Buxton), the injurie... | Gas explosion | null | null |
2013 Grand Rapids flood |
The 2013 Grand Rapids flood lasted from April 12 to 25, 2013, affecting multiple areas in the Grand Rapids metropolitan area. [2][3] Sudden heavy rainfall, saturation of the ground from rainwater and the flow of tributaries caused the Grand River to rise dramatically, with the river cresting at 21.85 feet (6.66 m) in... | Floods | null | null |
Israel hit by worst locust plague since 1950s - ReliefWeb | Israel hit by worst locust plague since 1950s
Format
21 Nov 2004
By Megan Goldin
JERUSALEM, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Millions of locusts swarmed through Israel's Red Sea resort town of Eilat on Sunday, devouring crops and flowers in the country's south.
Israeli agriculture officials sent crop dusters into the air to spray ag... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Civil Air Transport Flight 10 crash | Civil Air Transport Flight 10 was a passenger flight from the now-closed Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong to Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan. The flight was operated by a Boeing 727-92C with registration B-1018 and named "Super Cuihua." On 16 February 1968,[1] the aircraft crashed into Hunan village in Linkou Township, ... | Air crash | null | null |
As Resistance To Myanmar's Coup Grows, The Country Slips Further Into Chaos | As Resistance To Myanmar's Coup Grows, The Country Slips Further Into Chaos More than 800 civilians in Myanmar have been killed by security forces since the February coup. Members of the U.N. Security Council were told Myanmar stands at the brink of state failure. As Resistance To Myanmar's Coup Grows, The Country Slip... | Regime Change | null | null |
Everbridge Wins 2021 Top Tech Award for Company Culture | BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG), the global leader in critical event management (CEM), today announced recognition as a Tech Top 50 company by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) for its Company Culture. MassTLC honored Everbridge for the array of resources and ... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
2013 Hong Kong dock strike |
The 2013 Hong Kong dock strike was a 40-day labour strike at the Kwai Tsing Container Terminal. It was called by the Union of Hong Kong Dockers (UHKD), an affiliate of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) on 28 March 2013, against contracting companies to whom workforce management had been out-sour... | Strike | null | null |
Lunar eclipse 2021: Rare Super Blood Moon to be seen on 26 May | The first lunar eclipse 2021 is going to take place in the early hours of 26 May. This will be a superlunar event, as it will be a supermoon, a lunar eclipse and a red blood moon all at once. In India, the eclipse will only be visible partially at a few places in the eastern parts of the country. It will be best see... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
‘Memoria’ wins top award at Chicago film festival | Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a School of the Art Institute grad, says he’s ‘overjoyed’ by the prize.
The 57th Chicago International Film Festival on Friday gave its top award — the Gold Hugo in its International Competition — to “Memoria” by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Tilda Swinton stars as a woman... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
To infinity and beyond: After Space Station, China has plans for a kilometer-long mega spaceship | Every 92.2 minutes, 400 kilometres in the sky, there is a Chinese Space Station circumnavigating the earth marking Beijing's challenge to US domination of space. Over the last two decades, China has been on an overdrive to catch up with and overtake every other space-faring nation, which has seriously alarmed strategis... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
Celebs Who've Opened Up About Life During & After Divorce | "I was just going through the motions and I wasn't happy," she told Vogue in October 2021. "Neither of us did anything wrong ... It just wasn't … It just wasn't right for me anymore. I didn't want to end up like a lot of other people I knew."
Appearing on the covers of both Vogue and Vogue U.K., the British singer o... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
Air Canada Flight 621 crash | Air Canada Flight 621 was an Air Canada Douglas DC-8, registered as CF-TIW, that crashed on July 5, 1970, while attempting to land at Toronto Pearson International Airport. It was flying on a Montreal–Toronto–Los Angeles route. [2] It crashed in Toronto Gore Township, now part of Brampton. [3]
All 100 passengers and 9... | Air crash | null | null |
2007 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships | The 14th Pan American Junior Athletics Championships were held in São Paulo, Brazil at the Estádio Ícaro de Castro Melo on July 6 to July 8, 2007. A detailed report on the
results was given. [1]
Detailed result lists can be found on the CACAC,[2] on the CBAt,[3] on the Tilastopaja,[4] on the USA Track & Field,[5] and ... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Austin's Pecan Street Festival canceled because of COVID-19 pandemic | The delta variant is one of the most contagious respiratory illnesses. Find out why it’s easily transmissible. Just the FAQs, USA TODAY An Austin tradition has been called off this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic. Pecan Street Festival recently announced the "difficult, but necessary decision" to cancel its fa... | Organization Closed | null | null |
China’s Military Exercises Near Taiwan: The Lowdown on an Uptick | Since August, the PLA has carried out exercises aimed at testing its alongshore air defenses. A P-8A Poseidon assigned to the Fighting Tigers of Patrol Squadron (VP) 8 takes off from a runway at Kadena Air Base, Japan, November 29, 2017 . On October 9 — one day before Double Tenth Day, the National Day of Taiwan — the ... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Changes in the climate system caused by anthropogenic climate change make locust plagues more likely | Changes in the climate system caused by anthropogenic climate change make locust plagues more likely. The 2019/2020 desert locust plague in Eastern Africa, the worst of its kind in more than 70 years, was likely exacerbated by shifts in rainfall patterns and intensity, as well as high cyclone activity in late 2019. Due... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Cats midfielder sidelined after knee surgery | MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 29: Sam Menegola of the Cats celebrates kicking a goal during the round 15 AFL match between the Western Bulldogs and the Geelong Cats at Etihad Stadium on June 29, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. Geelong midfielder Sam Menegola will miss a large portion of the pre-season after undergoing kne... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
Oldest and Best Preserved Shipwreck in Adriatic Discovered Near Ilovik | September the 10th, 2021 - Did you know that the best preserved shipwreck is from the 2nd century BC and was found in the waters surrounding Losinj near the island of Ilovik? This important archeological discovery was discovered at a depth of only two and a half metres, and previously undertaken research has confirmed ... | Shipwreck | null | null |
2019 Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crash | On 14 January 2019, a Boeing 707 operated by Saha Airlines on a cargo flight crashed at Fath Air Base, near Karaj, Alborz Province in Iran. Fifteen of the sixteen people on board were killed. This aircraft was the last civil Boeing 707 in operation. [1]
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 707-3J9C, c/n 21128, registrat... | Air crash | null | null |
Climate change and drought threaten a way of life for Arizona farmers | U.S. officials on Monday declared the first-ever water shortage from a river that serves 40 million people in the West, triggering cuts to some Arizona farmers next year amid a gripping drought. Nancy Caywood recalls the days when the white tufts on the cotton plants on her family’s 255-acre farm popped out against the... | Droughts | null | null |
U.N. warns catastrophe looms in Ethiopia's north, urges government to end de facto aid blockade | Ethiopian porters unload food aid bound for victims of war after a checkpoint leading to Tigray in Mai Tsebri town, Ethiopia June 26, 2021. Picture taken June 26, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo NAIROBI, Sept 2 (Reuters) - A de facto blockade on aid to the Tigray region in Ethiopia's north is bringing millions of peo... | Famine | null | null |
Albany police release photos of suspect in July 2 Key Bank robbery | Updated: July 15, 2021 08:56 PM Created: July 15, 2021 01:30 PM Albany police are asking for your help as they investigate a bank robbery from earlier this month. Police put out pictures Thursday of a suspect in the New Scotland Avenue Key Bank robbery from July 2 around 2 p.m. B... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
1998 Sudan famine | The famine in Sudan in 1998 was a humanitarian disaster caused mainly by human rights abuses, as well as drought and the failure of the international community to react to the famine risk with adequate speed. [1] The worst affected area was Bahr el Ghazal in southwestern Sudan. In this region over 70,000 people died du... | Famine | null | null |
Cornwall's Stithians Community Primary School forced to close for ten days due to Covid | A primary school in Cornwall has been forced to close after coronavirus caused more than a quarter of its pupils to self-isolate. Stithians Community Primary School has announced it is closing for 10 days from Wednesday 22 September. It will reopen again on Monday 4 October. The site is moving to online teaching only d... | Organization Closed | null | null |
NASA has announced that it will launch Psyche in August 2022 to reach the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter | Carl Sagan, the legendary astronomer, once imagined a solar sailer, a starship that uses sunlight to propel itself through the solar system. Decades later, we are witnessing the development of such spacecraft - Psyche, which will travel across space using a "solar electric propulsion" system. NASA has announced that it... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
2019 São Paulo helicopter crash | On 11 February 2019, a Bell 206B helicopter crashed while trying to land on the Rodoanel Mário Covas highway, following an unspecified malfunction. Among the victims was journalist Ricardo Boechat. The pilot, Ronaldo Quatrucci, was also killed and one person on the ground was injured. [1] The aircraft crashed around 12... | Air crash | null | null |
Hampshire news: Five top stories you might have missed including an exploding van in Aldershot | There has been a lot going on in Hampshire so you can be forgiven for missing some of the top stories online.
Megan Stanley covered the distressing news that two teenage boys had been found with stab wounds in Aldershot on Monday. The boys suffered serious injuries and were taken to hospital to be treated.
In another i... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Georgian weightlifter breaks three world records, lifts nearly 1,100 pounds at Olympics | U.S. 400m hurdler Sydney McLaughlin earned gold in world record time. Thursday may be the last time we see several USWNT players in the Olympics.
Sandy Hooper, USA TODAY
TOKYO – The only way Lasha Talakhadze wasn’t winning the Olympic super-heavyweight competition was if he missed the bus.
But the Georgian weightlifter... | Break historical records | null | null |
1980 Panorama Fire | The Panorama Fire was a wildfire which began on November 24, 1980 and was 100% contained December 1, 1980. The fire was set by an unknown arsonist about 10:50 a.m. near Panorama Point,[1] a county equipment depot along SR-18 in the San Bernardino Mountains in California. The fire's growth was exacerbated by 90 mph Sant... | Fire | null | null |
John Mulaney and Olivia Munn: A Gossip Blindside | Gossip has been buck wild lately, all the pent-up energy of the pandemic bursting out with hookups and breakups and “what the f-cks?”
In the latter category is this: the Internet’s best boy John Mulaney and fashion blog nemesis Olivia Munn are dating, per PEOPLE, which broke the story yesterday afternoon.
Apparently, ... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
Suspect sought: Man walked up to Abbotsford bank teller, passed a note demanding money, fled with cash | Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Copy Url Police in Abbotsford are investigating after a bank robbery in the city Tuesday evening. Officers were called to the TD Bank at 30788 Fraser Hwy. at 5:50 ... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Hanging Lake Trail To Close Indefinitely Due To Damage From Mudslides | Due to damage sustained by mudslides in the Grizzly Creek burn scar area, Hanging Lake will be closed for the foreseeable future, officials announced Wednesday. The lake itself is fine, although it looks a little murky due to mud. However, debris from the July 29 mudslide caused major damage to the trail leading up to... | Mudslides | null | null |
329-pound bull shark caught off Florida coast wins top spot in contest | DESTIN, Fla. ( WKRG ) — Some fishermen may say it’s beginner’s luck when they hear angler Shelby Wagner’s shark story. Wagner claimed the top prize for private and overall shark fishing in the 73rd annual Destin Fishing Rodeo for a 329.2-pound bull shark. ‘Resolution reached’ after teen shot and killed at Tampa cop’s ... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
1983 Ice Hockey World Championships |
The 1983 Ice Hockey World Championships took place in West Germany from 16 April to 2 May. The games were played in Munich, Dortmund and Düsseldorf. Eight teams took part, with each playing each other once. The four best teams then play each other once more with no results carrying over this time, and the other four ... | Sports Competition | null | null |
The explosion on Sunday evening targeted members of the minority sect leaving a mosque in this port city, and underlined the increasing threat faced by Shiites as Sunni militant groups target them in ever-bolder attacks. | Members of Pakistan's Shiite community were digging Monday through the rubble of a massive car bombing in Karachi looking for loved ones as the death toll from the blast the day before reached 45, a Pakistani doctor said.
The explosion on Sunday evening targeted members of the minority sect leaving a mosque in this por... | Armed Conflict | null | null |
1977 Aviateca Convair 240 crash | The 1977 Aviateca Convair 240 airplane crash was a scheduled Aviateca passenger flight that crashed near Guatemala City, Guatemala on April 27, 1977. All 28 people on board survived, but the aircraft was destroyed. [1][2]
The aircraft, a Convair 240, took off from La Aurora International Airport (GUA/MGGT) in Guatemal... | Air crash | null | null |
Continental Airlines Flight 1883 crash | Continental Airlines Flight 1883 was a Boeing 757 that mistakenly landed on a taxiway at Newark Liberty International Airport on the evening of October 28, 2006. There were no reported injuries or damage, but the narrowly averted disaster was investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board, and caused the Fede... | Air crash | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 101/435 crash | Aeroflot Flight 101/435 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight that was hijacked on 19 December 1985 by the co-pilot en route from Takhtamygda to Chita. Co-pilot Shamil Alimuradov, who was a member of the Lezgian ethnic group and who was armed with a hatchet, demanded that captain Vyacheslav Abramyan divert the Antonov... | Air crash | null | null |
StanChart robber David Roach sentenced to jail in Singapore 5 years after high-profile bank heist and escape | David Roach stole more than S$30,000 from a Standard Chartered bank branch in Holland Village. (Photo: Singapore Police Force) SINGAPORE: A man who robbed the Standard Chartered branch in Holland Village of S$30,450 before fleeing the country five years ago was sentenced by a Singapore court on Wednesday (Jul 7). Ca... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Fatal crash on Bussell Highway in Ludlow claims two lives, three seriously hurt | Two women have died and three people have been seriously injured after a crash on a notorious stretch of road on the Bussell Highway near Ludlow, in Western Australia's South West. Police said two cars and a truck were involved in the horrific collision about 3:45pm (WST) on Friday. It is not clear how the tragedy happ... | Road Crash | null | null |
Guinea declares end of Marburg virus disease outbreak | Brazzaville/Conakry – Guinea today declared the end of the Marburg virus disease outbreak having recorded no new cases over the past 42 days—two incubation periods, or the time between infection and the onset of symptoms. The virus was confirmed on 9 August, marking the first time the disease emerged in the country and... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Mexican Indignados Movement |
The Mexican Indignados Movement (Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad) is an ongoing protest movement that began on 28 March 2011 in response to the Mexican Drug War, government and corporate corruption, regressive economic policies, and growing economic inequality and poverty. The protests were called by M... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Florida Commuter Airlines crash | The Florida Commuter Airlines crash occurred on September 12, 1980, when Flight 65 operating from West Palm Beach, Florida to Freeport, Bahamas, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near West End Settlement on Grand Bahama Island. The Douglas DC-3A used on the flight was not recovered and all 34 persons on board were killed... | Air crash | null | null |
Archaeologists surveying the construction site at Xi’an Xianyang International Airport discovered more than 4,600 historical relics, including some 3,500 tombs | Experts say the recent discovery will help to better understand thousands of years of Chinese civilization. An airport expansion project in China’s northwestern Shaanxi province is likely to provide historical context about the country’s past, after thousands of ancient artifacts were found in the area in recent weeks.... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
TEAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 6865 crash | TEAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 6865 (TIM6865) was a short-haul domestic passenger service between Macaé and Rio de Janeiro that flew into a mountain on 31 March 2006. The aircraft, a Let L-410 Turbolet, was conducting a VFR approach to Macaé Airport with 17 passengers and 2 crew on board when it hit the top of Pico da Pedra... | Air crash | null | null |
Worker trapped in Tasmanian gold mine named | The worker trapped underground by a collapse at the Henty gold mine on Tasmania's west coast has been named as 44-year-old Cameron John Goss. Mr Goss was working in the Henty Gold Mine, near Zeehan and Queenstown in Tasmania's west, on Thursday when a section of the mine collapsed about 4:00am. His colleagues raised th... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Egypt hopes new discoveries from ancient times will tempt post-pandemic tourists | CAIRO (AP) — Workers dig and ferry wheelbarrows laden with sand to open a new shaft at a bustling archaeological site outside of Cairo, while a handful of Egyptian archaeologists supervise from garden chairs. The dig is at the foot of the Step Pyramid of Djoser, arguably the world’s oldest pyramid, and is one of many r... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Battle of Blair Mountain | United States Army
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. [3] The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia. Up to ... | Strike | null | null |
Trump threatens to rip up Iran nuclear deal unless US and allies fix 'serious flaws' | Donald Trump has threatened to terminate the 2015 Iran nuclear deal if Congress and US allies fail to amend the agreement in significant ways.
In a vituperative speech on Friday that began by listing Iran’s alleged crimes over the decades, Trump announced he would not continue to certify the agreement to Congress, but ... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
America’s biggest companies are flourishing during the pandemic and putting thousands of people out of work | As the coronavirus pandemic devastated small businesses and plunged millions of Americans into poverty this summer and fall, executives at some of the country’s largest corporations sounded surprisingly upbeat. “I don’t think we’ve ever been more excited or energized about our prospects,” PayPal finance chief John Rain... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Swarm of Bees Invade Dodger Stadium, Blanket Left Field |
Stadium security will gladly take down a grown, naked man running on the field, but nobody—I repeat, nobody—wants to deal with a throng of buzzing bees at the stadium.
A swarm of the insects descended on Dodger Stadium on Sunday night, camping out near the left field pavilion prior to the Dodgers ’ matchup against t... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
‘South Park’ Creators Sign Massive New $900 Million Deal With ViacomCBS | The creators of “South Park” have signed a new deal with ViacomCBS Inc. that will pay them more than $900 million over the next six years, one of the richest deals in TV history.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone will use the money to make new episodes of “South Park” for Viacom’s Comedy Central network and to create several... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Connellan air disaster crash | The Connellan air disaster was a suicide attack at Alice Springs Airport, Northern Territory, Australia, on 5 January 1977. The attack was carried out by a disgruntled former employee of Connellan Airways (also known as Connair), who flew a Beechcraft Baron into the Connair complex at the airport. The attack killed the... | Air crash | null | null |
Four jailed over botched bank robbery | Four people have been jailed for the botched robbery of an Auckland bank which police have likened to a scene from the comedy movie Dumb and Dumber. Those arrested include the bank's manager, who helped hatch the plot for the heist then pretended to be a victim. Former US Marine and Gulf war veteran Mark Scott was sent... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Pentagon to launch task force to investigate UFO sightings | The Pentagon is forming a new task force to investigate UFOs that have been observed by US military aircraft, according to two defense officials. Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist will help oversee the task force, which is expected to be officially unveiled in the next few days, according to the officials. Pre... | Organization Established | null | null |
Severe drought led to not only a shortage of water, but of funding to address its impacts | This year’s severe drought caught elected officials and state environmental agencies off guard which led to not only a shortage of water, but of funding to address its impacts. Today, the entirety of Washington state is abnormally dry, and three-quarters of the state is experiencing drought, according to the National ... | Droughts | null | null |
e-CAB provides proposals to resolve e-commerce crisis | e-CAB believes that the Digital Commerce Cell under the Ministry of Commerce needs to be activated. Furthermore, the ministry should increase the manpower in the cell The e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB) has given six proposals to the Ministry of Commerce and relevant regulatory bodies to resolve the curren... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
United States withdraws from UNESCO (again) | UNESCO’s recognition of the Hebron Tomb of the Patriarchs in 2017 pushed the U.S. to abandon the organization. As of January 1, 2019, the United States has officially withdrawn from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), one of the world’s best-known global cultural heritage... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
With growing COIVD-19 cases and falling employment, the incoming Biden administration will be facing a mounting — not waning — crisis | “‘With growing COIVD-19 cases and falling employment, the incoming Biden administration will be facing a mounting — not waning — crisis.’” — Elise Gould, senior economist at the EPI Some 1.2 million people applied for unemployment insurance benefits last week, up 304,000 on the previous week; that included 965,000 peop... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Taiwan Row: China Sets-Up ‘Strategic Defense Perimeter’ To Repel Attack By Foreign Forces – Military Experts | Amid tensions with Taiwan, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has conducted more than 100 drills in major “Chinese seas” in the past three months, according to the state-controlled media. The revelation comes at a time when the US military is conducting month-long war games in the Indo-Pacific region with its allies su... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Ursus rail crash |
Ursus rail crash (Polish: Katastrofa kolejowa w Ursusie) was a major accident, which occurred at 6:20 a.m. on 20 August 1990 near the Warszawa Ursus railway station on the western part of Polish capital in which 16 people died and 43 were injured. At 6:20 am, InterExpress no. 41008 Silesia from Praha hl.n. to Warsza... | Train collisions | null | null |
2012 North Belfast riots |
During the 2012 North Belfast Riots sectarian disorder and rioting between loyalists and republicans occurred when rival parades, authorised by the Parades Commission, took place. The first incident occurred on 12 July 2012 during "The Twelfth" Loyalist celebrations. There was also violence in the Bogside area of Der... | Riot | null | null |
Xuxa Park fire | The Xuxa Park fire was a flash fire that erupted on a Brazilian TV soundstage in Rio de Janeiro during a 2001 taping of the children's television show Xuxa Park. There were no casualties. The incident was captured on videotape. [1]
On January 11, 2001, a taping of Xuxa Park was in progress on a soundstage of the Brazi... | Fire | null | null |
1974 Leningrad Aeroflot Il-18 crash | On 27 April 1974, an Aeroflot Il-18 airliner crashed while operating a charter flight from Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) to Zaporizhzhia, continuing to Krasnodar, Russia. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Pulkovo Airport in Leningrad. None of the 109 people on board survived. [2]
The aircraft had been in s... | Air crash | null | null |
2002 Burica earthquake | The 2002 Burica earthquake occurred on July 30 at 19:16:48 local time off the coast of Panama. It had a magnitude of Mw 6.5. [5] The epicenter was located off the southeastern coast of Burica Peninsula, close to the Costa Rica–Panama border. Some homes collapsed and at least 11 people were reported injured, both in Pan... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Trump Discussed Pulling U.S. From NATO, Aides Say Amid New Concerns Over Russia | President Trump with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, and the national security adviser, John R. Bolton, at the NATO summit meeting in Brussels last year. Mr. Trump’s threats to withdraw from the alliance had sent officials scrambling to prevent the annual gathering from turning into a disaster. By Julian E. Barne... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
CDC: No Warning Issued for Acute Flaccid Myelitis in 2021 | Posted on September 9, 2021 | Updated on September 13, 2021 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been tracking outbreaks of acute flaccid myelitis — a serious condition mainly affecting children — since 2014. The CDC hasn’t seen a reason for concern this year, but Facebook posts have wrongly claimed that ... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
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