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2009 Gabonese protests |
The 2009 Gabonese protests was rioting and popular disturbances with immediate unrest and violent opposition-led street demonstrations and growing civil disobedience movement across Port Gentil and Libreville in Gabon after the immediate results of the 2009 Gabonese presidential election was announced. Tow were left ... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in ... |
Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers
Three-quarters of flying insects in nature reserves across Germany have vanished in 25 years, with serious implications for all life on Earth, scientists say
Flying insects caught in a malaise trap, used by entomologists to collect samples. Ph... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2254 crash |
On April 9, 1990, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2254, a scheduled passenger flight from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Gadsden, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia, was involved in a mid-air collision with a Cessna 172 over Gadsden. The collision resulted in the death of the pilot and passenger of the Cessna 172. [1][2]
A... | Air crash | null | null |
2018 East Java earthquake | On 11 October 2018, an earthquake struck off the coast of East Java, Indonesia, with the epicentre located off the coast of Situbondo Regency. The earthquake, which struck at dawn, killed 4 people in addition to destroying or damaging hundreds of houses, mostly in the small island of Sapudi. The earthquake occurred at ... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Guinea's Military Declared A Coup. What Happens Next Is Uncertain | People celebrate in the streets with members of Guinea's armed forces after the arrest of Guinea's president, Alpha Conde, in a coup d'etat in Conakry on Sunday. People celebrate in the streets with members of Guinea's armed forces after the arrest of Guinea's president, Alpha Conde, in a coup d'etat in Conakry on Sun... | Regime Change | null | null |
Vietnam Airlines Flight 831 crash | Vietnam Airlines Flight 831, a Tupolev Tu-134, crashed in a rice field near Semafahkarm Village, Tambon Khu Khot, Amphoe Lam Luk Ka, Pathum Thani, Thailand while operating a flight from Hanoi to Bangkok in 1988. The cause of the accident is undetermined, however the pilots reported the aircraft may have been struck by ... | Air crash | null | null |
Arrest made following Thursday shooting at Harris Teeter, neighboring businesses react | One man has been arrested in connection to a Thursday night shooting at the Harris Teeter on Oleander Drive.
According to a news release from the Wilmington Police Department, 51-year-old Robert Taylor has been arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of dr... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
County reports 1,068 new COVID-19 infections, 7 deaths as CDC endorses booster shots | by: City News Service SAN DIEGO (CNS) – San Diego County reported 1,068 new COVID-19 infections and seven new deaths Friday, as one county official prepared for the possibility of vaccine booster shots. “The FDA and CDC approval of the Pfizer vaccine booster for certain groups of people is another step in our fight ... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Fiscal policy of next Dutch government probably expansionary | Policy proposals by parties in the Dutch coalition government ahead of the 17 March election imply higher spending and lower taxation in the next 4 years, leading to a GDP impulse of 1.3%. Known for its after-crisis austerity, Dutch politics made a turnaround. Despite an increase, Dutch public debt will remain low comp... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
2002 Africa One Antonov An-26 crash | The 2002 Africa One Antonov An-26 crash occurred on 26 July 2002 when an Africa One Antonov An-26 (9Q-CMC) faced a rejected takeoff at Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. As a result of the rejected takeoff, the nose gear and the main gear legs collapsed, and the Aviation Safety Netw... | Air crash | null | null |
More eligible voters have cast ballots in Bulgaria's presidential runoff vote as of 13:00 on Sunday, officials say. | More eligible voters have cast ballots in Bulgaria's presidential runoff vote as of 13:00 on Sunday, officials say.
Activity was 27.2%, or more than 1.847 million people, as of that hour, according to Central Election Commission (CEC) data.
The figure is higher than both the one in the first round, when 26.2% of all el... | Government Job change - Election | null | null |
Husband in dire straits as Indian woman struggles with severe injuries following explosion in Dubai apartment | Dubai: Three men have been accused of causing a gas explosion at a Dubai apartment that resulted in the death of a tenant and horrific burn injuries to an Indian woman.
According to the Dubai Court of Misdemeanours, the 32-year-old Egyptian manager of operations, a Pakistani technician, aged 34, and a 32-year-old India... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Alice Cooper's Bald Hill concert canceled | Alice Cooper's elaborate concert set is too big for the stage at Farmingville's Long Island Community Hospital Amphitheater at Bald Hill. By David J. Criblez david.criblez@newsday.com @DavidJCriblez Updated June 29, 2021 9:31 PM fbShare Tweet Email Alice Cooper just got canceled — not by society, but rather his ... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Giordano Saudi Arabia establishes internship program in conjunction with Entrepreneur Organization Jeddah | JEDDAH — Giordano Saudi Arabia recently rolled-out its new internship program, in conjunction with the Jeddah Chapter of the Entrepreneur Organization (EO). The innovative internship program has been tailor-made for the Saudi market, offering participants a full range of site visits and tours, followed by work experien... | Organization Established | null | null |
Black Saturday (1983) | Black Saturday, 24 September 1983, is the name given to the crisis when the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate versus the United States dollar was at an all-time low. On that day, US$1 exchanged for HK$9.6. [1] For a period, Hong Kong stores began quoting products in US dollar prices, because of the uncertain fluctuation i... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Memphis sanitation strike |
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The Memphis sanitation strike began on February 12, 1968, in response to the deaths of sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker. [1][2] The deaths served as a breaking point for more than 1,300 African American men from the Memphis Departmen... | Strike | null | null |
Harris becomes first female US Naval Academy commencement speaker | Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday became the first woman to give the commencement speech at the United States Naval Academy when she addresses the 2021 graduating class. During the speech, Harris touched on some of the biggest threats to the nation and its armed forces, including the pandemic, cybersecurity and cl... | Famous Person - Give a speech | null | null |
JBS meat processing fined after 19-year-old employee falls into tripe washing vat | A Victorian man who flew from Brisbane to Hobart on flight VA702 today has tested positive to COVID-19 and has not been allowed to board a flight to Melbourne
A Watch & Act warning is in place for a fire in the northern parts of Mokine, in WA's Northam Shire. Keep up to date with ABC Emergency
Australia's largest meat ... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Myojo 56 building fire | Coordinates: 35°41′41″N 139°42′05″E / 35.69472°N 139.70139°E / 35.69472; 139.70139
The Myojo 56 building fire (明星56ビル火災, Myōjō Gojū-Roku Biru Kasai) began at about 01:00 local time on September 1, 2001 in the Myojo 56 building, located in the Kabukicho section of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. The fire, the fifth-deadliest... | Fire | null | null |
Buffalo 461 crash | Buffalo 461 was a Canadian military de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo assigned to the second United Nations Emergency Force force in Syria in support of United Nations Security Council Resolution 340. Assigned to a peacekeeping force, Buffalo 461 was shot down by three Syrian missiles[1] on August 9, 1974 killing all n... | Air crash | null | null |
The Michigan Poison Center at the Wayne State University School of Medicine reminds residents that power outages caused by recent storms and flooding increase the risk for carbon monoxide exposure. | The Michigan Poison Center at the Wayne State University School of Medicine reminds residents that power outages caused by recent storms and flooding increase the risk for carbon monoxide exposure.
Each year, exposure to carbon monoxide leads to more than 20,000 emergency room visits, 4,000 hospitalizations and 400 dea... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Partial Solar Eclipse coming to Buffalo on June 10 | June 10's partial solar eclipse will be a good practice run for when Buffalo is within the path of totality in 2024. Within two weeks, Western New Yorkers will have been able to see two incredible celestial events: the Supermoon Eclipse that already happened on May 26 and a (partial) Solar Eclipse that we could see on... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
2003 Wrocław football riot | The Wrocław football riot 2003 was an organised fight between Polish football hooligans in Wrocław, Lower Silesia Poland on 30 March 2003. As a result of the incident, one person died, 229 hooligans were arrested and more than twelve were taken to the hospital.
Arranged football hooligan fights in Poland are known a... | Riot | null | null |
Hirz Fire | The Hirz Fire was a wildfire that burned near Lakehead, California in the Shasta National Forest. The fire burned a total of 46,150 acres (187 km2), before it was fully contained on September 12. The fire was burning only a few miles from the enormous Carr Fire, the sixth-most destructive fire in California history. [1... | Fire | null | null |
Hostages strapped to getaway cars as robbers target banks in Brazil | A gang of armed robbers in Brazil carried out a series of deadly bank heists using human shields strapped to their getaway cars on Monday. The attackers targeted banks in the small city of Aracatuba in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo early Monday. In a bid to distract law enforcement, the robbers positioned bombs a... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Meghalaya mine collapse: 2 dead in fresh incident as 15 remain trapped at older site | In a fresh incident in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills, at least two miners were killed when an illegal mine collapsed in the region on Sunday, January 7. The incident took place at Mooknor, Jalyiah village, and came to light only when one Philip Bareh told the police that his nephew hadn't returned home since Friday. T... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Potential Landslide-Generated Tsunami in Prince William Sound’s Barry Arm Likely Less Severe than Previously Thought | ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Waves from a potential landslide into the Barry Arm of Prince William Sound could reach heights up to 7-feet just offshore Whittier, according to a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey. This “worst-case scenario” is much less severe than the preliminary 30-foot-high wave assessment previously is... | Tsunamis | null | null |
Allegheny Airlines Flight 737 crash | Allegheny Airlines Flight 736 was a regularly scheduled flight that crashed while attempting to land at Bradford Regional Airport in Bradford, Pennsylvania on December 24, 1968. Twenty of the 47 occupants on board were killed. [1]:1
Flight 736 was operated using a Convair CV-580 (registration number N5802). The aircra... | Air crash | null | null |
2014 Vrancea earthquake | The 1738 Vrancea earthquake occurred on 11 June [O.S. 31 May] 1738, during the third rule of Constantin Mavrocordat. The seism aroused great panic and is mentioned in several sources. It occurred in the lower lithospheric block, at a depth of 130 km. Its effects were violent on large areas, the hardest hit being Buchar... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Southern Airways Flight 49 crash | The hijacking of Southern Airways Flight 49 started on November 10, 1972 in Birmingham, Alabama, stretching over 30 hours, three countries, and 4,000 miles (6,400 km), not ending until the next evening in Havana, Cuba. [1] Three men, Melvin Cale, Louis Moore, and Henry D. Jackson Jr. successfully hijacked a Southern Ai... | Air crash | null | null |
Police 'amazed' by customers who thwarted armed bank robbery in Abbotsford | Police say a suspect is in custody after customers in a bank in Abbotsford, B.C., refused to obey orders from a shotgun-brandishing robber and tackled the person instead. A statement from Abbotsford police says a person entered a Scotiabank branch in the city just before noon Wednesday and ordered customers to the flo... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us | As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget. The influenza pandemic that began in 1918 killed as many as 100 million people over two years. It was one of the deadliest disasters in history, and the one all subsequent pandemics are now compared with. At the time, The Atlantic... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
The future of the Belt and Road Initiative in Australia | While the future of Victoria’s Belt and Road projects might seem uncertain, Australia has far more reasons to keep to its agreements than to turn away from them, Jon (Yuan) Jiang writes.
Since 2013, Australia has been at pains to adopt a cautious approach towards the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It is worth noting t... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
US to announce withdrawal from UN Human Rights Council | Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, and Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the UN, will address the Geneva-based organisation on Tuesday. Washington Published on: June 19, 2018 23:16 IST The council’s current membership includes 14 countries that are ranked as “not free” by Freedom House. The United States is expected to ... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
The discovery of a 3,000-year-old civilization at Sanxingdui raised profound questions about China’s ancient past | The discovery of a 3,000-year-old civilization at Sanxingdui raised profound questions about China’s ancient past. Now, researchers believe they’re finally close to finding some answers. SICHUAN, Southwest China — Xu Feihong has spent the last decade working at archaeological sites all over China. But his latest dig is... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Manx2 Flight 7100 crash | Manx2 Flight 7100 was a scheduled commercial flight from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Cork, Republic of Ireland. On 10 February 2011, the Fairchild Metro III aircraft flying the route with ten passengers and two crew on board crashed on its third attempt to land at Cork Airport in foggy conditions. Six people, includi... | Air crash | null | null |
Loose Women star Coleen Nolan and her extremely famous EastEnders star ex-husband Shane Richie | Coleen Nolan is very well-known herself but she has also been married to a famous EastEnders star. The Loose Women panellist joined ITV's hit daytime show in 2000 but before that she married actor Shane Richie. The couple wed in 1990 and were together until 1999, sharing two children Shane Jr, now 32, and Jake, 29... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
More than 500 relics discovered in 'sacrificial' pits in China | Gold ceremonial masks dating back 3,000 years, possibly worn by a priest and used for sacrificial purposes, are some of more than 500 items unearthed from six rectangular pits in China. The priceless cultural relics – unearthed at the Sanxingdui archaeological site in the province of Sichuan, southwest China – also i... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Jony Ive Delivers Virtual Commencement Speech, Courtesy of Nick Knight | The British designer also urged students to think sideways, and told them not to be “distracted or limited” by their particular areas of expertise. Ive, who worked closely with Steve Jobs at Apple and helped to design the iPhone, iPad and MacBook, among many other products, stressed the important of curiosity, and coop... | Famous Person - Give a speech | null | null |
Teenager in critical condition after Port Kennedy motorbike crash | A teenage motorbike rider is fighting for life after colliding with a car in Port Kennedy last night. Emergency services were called to the crash at 5.42pm after reports a motorcycle, travelling southbound on Warnbro Sound Avenue, and a Nissan Patrol, travelling north on the same road, collided near Blackburn Drive. T... | Road Crash | null | null |
1969 Yukhnov mid-air collision crash | The 1969 Yukhnov mid-air collision occurred when an Ilyushin Il-14M, operating as Aeroflot Flight 831, a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Moscow-Bykovo Airport to Simferopol Airport, Crimea collided in the air on 23 June 1969 with an Antonov An-12BP of the Soviet Air Force over the Yukhnovsky district of Kaluga... | Air crash | null | null |
2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake |
The 2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake occurred just after 8:04 p.m. PDT on October 27. The shock had a moment magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of VIII (Severe). The earthquake's epicentre was on Moresby Island of the Haida Gwaii archipelago (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands). This was the secon... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Full Membership in SCO Hailed as Diplomatic Achievement | resident Ebrahim Raeisi said the approval of Iran’s application for permanent membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a “diplomatic achievement”, calling on the Foreign Ministry and other relevant ministries to seize the new opportunity to connect to major Asian economic sources.
“Iran’s permanent member... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
Small gas pipe crack caused massive explosion that injured three people | This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.
A small split in a Powerco gas main was behind a massive explosion that left one man in an induced coma and injured two other New Plymouth residents, an investigation into the fire has revealed. Taranaki special... | Gas explosion | null | null |
President Trump signs executive order formally withdrawing from Trans-Pacific Partnership deal | President Donald Trump on Monday will start to unravel the behemoth trade deal he inherited from his predecessor, as he signed an executive order to withdraw from the negotiating process of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to withdraw from the negotiating process... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Researchers have discovered geologic evidence that unusually large earthquakes and tsunamis from the Tokyo region | Researchers have discovered geologic evidence that unusually large earthquakes and tsunamis from the Tokyo region -- located near tectonic plate boundaries that are recognized as a seismic hazard source -- may be traceable to a previously unconsidered plate boundary. The team, headed by Simon Fraser University Earth sc... | Tsunamis | null | null |
South Korea signs Artemis Accords, aims for moon by 2030 | Republic of Korea Minister of Science and ICT Lim Hyesook signs the Artemis Accords during a ceremony in Seoul on May 24, 2021. South Korea has joined NASA's moon-exploration coalition. South Korea became the 10th country to sign the Artemis Accords , a set of principles laying out the responsible exploration of the ... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
1969 Aswan Ilyushin Il-18 crash | On 20 March 1969, a United Arab Airlines Ilyushin Il-18 crashed while attempting to land at Aswan Airport. 100 of the 105 passengers and crew on board were killed in the crash. The flight was a non-scheduled international passenger service from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Aswan, Egypt. The aircraft was carrying home Muslim... | Air crash | null | null |
Lady A's Charles Kelley hospitalized for appendicitis, group cancels first concert of tour | Country trio Lady A was planning to play their first concert in 16 months over the weekend, but as the group's Charles Kelley puts it, "the ol’ appendix had other plans." Kelley was hospitalized for appendicitis last week, forcing Lady A to cancel its Saturday appearance at Lakefront Music Fest in Minnesota. "The minu... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 109 crash | Aeroflot Flight 109 (Russian: Рейс 109 Аэрофлота Reys 109 Aeroflota) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Moscow to Chita with stopovers in Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, and Irkutsk. On the final leg of the route on 18 May 1973 a terrorist hijacked the aircraft, demanding to be flown to China; the terrorist's bom... | Air crash | null | null |
Yemen: An Additional One Million Children at Risk of Famine as Food and Fuel Prices Soar | 10-month-old Amara* is receiving treatment for severe acute malnutrition at a Save the Children-supported health facility in Yemen. Photo credit: Claire Nicoll/Save the Children FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Sept. 18, 2018) – An additional one million severely food insecure children in Yemen risk falling into famine as families s... | Famine | null | null |
Police release security footage of bank robbery | Police have released security vision of two men who held up and robbed a bank inside Karrinyup Shopping Centre. Two men entered the bank at 4:30 pm last Wednesday armed with a handgun and a knife, threatened two female workers and demanded cash. Detective Senior Constable Troy Kendall says it was well-planned, but they... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
East Stroudsburg man found dead of suspected CO poisoning | An East Stroudsburg man died in his home from what authorities suspect to be carbon monoxide poisoning on Wednesday.
Pennsylvania State Police, along with Bushkill EMS, Surburban EMS and the Marshalls Creek Volunteer Fire Company were called to a home in Middle Smithfield Township at 10:54 p.m. on July 7 for a report o... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
4 dead, 141 treated in hospitals for carbon monoxide poisoning since Ida, Health Department says | A generator in Pine Grove, La. that was used to help power a home after Hurricane Ida knocked out power. (Photo by Morgan Werther, The Advocate)
The Louisiana Department of Health reports four people have died of carbon monoxide poisoning and 141 people have been treated for inhalation of the deadly, odorless gas since... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Cloquet fire | The Cloquet fire was an immense forest fire in northern Minnesota, United States in October 1918, caused by sparks on the local railroads and dry conditions. The fire left much of western Carlton County devastated, mostly affecting Moose Lake, Cloquet, and Kettle River. Cloquet was hit the hardest by the fires. It was ... | Fire | null | null |
NASA and Northrop Grumman will build an orbiting space station that will circle the moon and facilitate lunar missions. | NASA and Northrop Grumman have finalized a $935 million contract for the company to build an orbiting space station that will circle the moon and facilitate lunar missions. The Habitation and Logistics Outpost for Gateway, or HALO orbiter, is part of NASA’s Artemis program to further human exploration of space. HALO w... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
Gold Coast airport chemical find raises fears for fish |
A residents' group is worried toxic fire-fighting chemicals found at the Gold Coast airport will affect fish in nearby waterways.
A report by Airport Airservices Australia yesterday revealed per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were found in high levels at the Coolangatta airport's fire-training grounds.
The te... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Geomagnetic storm WARNING: Solar flare may directly hit Earth today, can disrupt power grids | US agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a geomagnetic storm alert with a solar flare due to directly hit Earth today on October 11, 2021. As per NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Centre (SWPC), the resultant geomagnetic storm will disrupt power grids in higher latitude regions where t... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
Up to 900,000 in Ethiopia’s Tigray face famine, US says | NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States estimates that up to 900,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region now face famine conditions amid a deadly conflict, even as the prime minister says there is “no hunger” there. The hunger crisis in Tigray is the world’s worst in a decade, and the new famine findings are “terrifying... | Famine | null | null |
2015 Ballabhgarh riot |
2015 Ballabhgarh riot refers to the attacks on 400 Muslim villagers of Atali village, Ballabhgarh, Haryana, India by a Hindu mob. [1][2][3]
The incident took place May 25, 2015 in the village of Atali in Ballabgarh, Faridabad. According to the locals, the cause of the confrontation was a dispute over a 30-year-old ... | Riot | null | null |
CAAC Flight 301 crash | China Southern Airlines Flight 301, a Hawker Siddeley Trident operated by China Southern Airlines from Guangzhou Baiyun to Hong Kong Kai Tak, ran off the runway in Hong Kong on 31 August 1988 after clipping approach lights. This was the first accident of China Southern Airlines since the split of CAAC Airlines from 1 J... | Air crash | null | null |
Proposal to hand over NDMC-run hospitals to Centre referred back: Official | A proposal to hand over six hospitals run by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation to the Centre was on Wednesday "referred back" to the executive wing of the civic body by its standing committee, officials said. During the proceedings of the NDMC panel, a proposal to bring a policy of licence for pet shops was also ... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
1927 World Figure Skating Championships | The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion. Men's competitions took place from February 5th to 6th in Davos, Switzerland. Ladies' competitions took place from February 19th t... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Church in Australia selling bleach as a coronavirus treatment fined $151,200 | A Victorian man who flew from Brisbane to Hobart on flight VA702 today has tested positive to COVID-19 and has not been allowed to board a flight to Melbourne
A Watch & Act warning is in place for a fire in the northern parts of Mokine, in WA's Northam Shire. Keep up to date with ABC Emergency
The Australian chapter of... | Organization Fine | null | null |
State Police investigate officer-involved shooting | New Mexico State Police have launched an investigation after a Roswell police officer allegedly fired a gun during Monday night’s standoff with an escaped prisoner.
According to a press release issued by State Police Monday, the State Police Investigations Bureau is conducting the investigation.
The officer under inves... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
2000 India–Bangladesh floods | 2000 India–Bangladesh floods (Bengali: ২০০০ সালের ভারত-বাংলাদেশ বন্যা), also known as the flood of 2000 occurred in the districts of West Bengal, India and the India-Bangladesh border districts of Khulna Division in 2000. [1] In the sudden flood, people left their houses and took shelter in refuge camps. [2]
Heavy rai... | Floods | null | null |
Dr Lai Kah Weng recovered from Covid-19 | Dr Lai Kah Weng had been placed on home recovery from Sept 28 to Oct 8, 2021. SINGAPORE - A doctor whose account of his home recovery journey from Covid-19 went viral had failed to comply with the rostered routine testing that is mandatory for healthcare workers. Dr Lai Kah Weng, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Is... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
British Airtours Flight 28M crash | British Airtours Flight 28M[a] was an international passenger flight which caught fire before takeoff at Manchester Airport, England on 22 August 1985 with the loss of 55 lives. It was en route to Corfu International Airport in Greece. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-236 registered G-BGJL, previously named "Goldfinch", but ... | Air crash | null | null |
5 miners die, 4 missing in coal mine collapse in Afghanistan | KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A makeshift coal mine collapsed Tuesday in northern Afghanistan, burying five miners and leaving four more missing, a provincial security official said. Jawed Basharat, a spokesman for the provincial police chief in northern Baghlan province said a rescue team is at the site in Nahrin distric... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Kiss Concert Canceled After Paul Stanley Tests Positive for COVID | Tommy Thayer and Paul Stanley of Kiss perform onstage at Staples Center on March 4, 2020 in Los Angeles. Kevin Winter/Getty Images for ABA Kiss announced late Thursday night (Aug. 26) that their concert scheduled just outside Pittsburgh had been canceled after lead vocalist Paul Stanley tested positive for COVID. While... | Organization Closed | null | null |
1974 Brisbane flood |
In January 1974 a flood occurred in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia after three weeks of continual rain. The Brisbane River, which runs through the heart of the city, broke its banks and flooded the surrounding areas. [2] The cyclone that produced the flood also flooded surrounding cities: Ipswich, Beenleigh, and the... | Floods | null | null |
2007 Africa One Antonov An-26 crash | The 2007 Africa One Antonov An-26 crash occurred when a twin engine Antonov An-26, belonging to the Congolese air carrier Africa One, crashed and burned shortly after takeoff from N'djili Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo on October 4, 2007. The flight left N'djili at 10:43 local time bound for Tshi... | Air crash | null | null |
Australia faces worst plague of locusts in 75 years - The ... |
Australia faces worst plague of locusts in 75 years
Ideal breeding conditions for grasshoppersare expected to cost farmers billions
Australia's Darling river is running with water again after a drought in the middle of the decade reduced it to a trickle. But the rains feeding the continent's fourth-longest river are ... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
2006 United States immigration reform protests |
In 2006-2007, millions of people participated in protests over a proposed change to U.S. immigration policy. [1] These large scale mobilizations are widely seen as a historic turn point in Latino politics, especially Latino immigrant civic participation and political influence, as noted in a range of scholarly public... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
2018 Vietnam protests |
The 2018 Vietnam protests, or Protests against the Special Zone Act and the Cybersecurity Law (Vietnamese: Biểu tình phản đối Luật đặc khu kinh tế và Luật An ninh mạng), are a series of both violent and nonviolent protests that erupted across Vietnam in June 2018, chiefly in response to two drafted pieces of legislat... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
FAO launched today a three-year Global Action for Fall Armyworm Control to scale up efforts to curb the growing spread of the invasive pest | 4 December 2019, Rome - FAO launched today a three-year Global Action for Fall Armyworm Control to scale up efforts to curb the growing spread of the invasive pest which is causing serious damage to food production and affecting millions of farmers across the world. Fall Armyworm (FAW), a crop pest native to the Americ... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Death of Yuri Gagarin crash | On March 27, 1968, Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space, died together with pilot Vladimir Seryogin during a routine training flight, after the MiG-15 jet fighter they were flying crashed near Novosyolovo in the Soviet Union. After his death, the Soviet government declared a period of national mourning in the m... | Air crash | null | null |
Two men killed in Montana mine accident are identified. One is from Idaho. | NYE, Mont. (AP) — The Stillwater County Coroner’s Office has identified two men who were killed last week in an underground accident at a Montana mine. Sixty-five-year-old Dale Ketola of Columbus, Montana and 55-year-old Jerry Ashlock of Caldwell, Idaho died Wednesday in a crash at the Stillwater Mine near the communit... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Air Vietnam Flight 706 crash | Air Vietnam Flight 706 was a Boeing 727 that crashed on September 15, 1974, near Phan Rang Air Base in South Vietnam. Le Duc Tan, a ranger in the South Vietnamese army who had recently been demoted from captain to lieutenant for the theft of two cars in Da Nang, smooth-talked his way past security checkpoints. After ta... | Air crash | null | null |
What the data say about border closures and COVID spread | Travel restrictions left many travellers stranded in foreign countries.Credit: Alonso Cupul/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock As countries in Europe rush to close their borders to the United Kingdom to prevent transmission of a new — and potentially more transmissible — variant of SARS-CoV-2, research has estimated the effect of i... | Organization Closed | null | null |
More than half a million people on the brink of starvation | More than half a million people are living in famine-like conditions and are on the brink of starvation, according to a new Oxfam report published today. Conflict combined with the economic the impact of the pandemic and a worsening climate crisis has led to a six-fold increase in catastrophic levels of hunger since th... | Famine | null | null |
Authorities ID victim in Brunswick Road crash | The victim from the fatal vehicle accident on Brunswick Rd Friday afternoon is identified as Kimberly Lumpkins, 34, Grass Valley. UPDATE at 5:48 p.m. From Grass Valley police: 5:25pm Brunswick Road is closed in both directions at East Bennett Road and Loma Rica Drive. Unknown timeframe for reopening. 5:15pm An injury ... | Road Crash | null | null |
Penhallow Hotel fire |
The Penhallow Hotel was in Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It was a well-known hotel for holiday makers ranging from families to older residents. The hotel was built in Island Crescent between 1912 and 1917[1] and had been altered more than once. The building had a wooden fire escape at the rear, and a central lig... | Fire | null | null |
In Madagascar, pockets of famine as risks grow for children, warns WFP | “Pockets of famine” have now been reported in Southern Madagascar, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. “We have some pockets of IPC 5 or famine-like conditions, this is basically the only - maybe the first - climate change famine on earth,” said Arduino Mangoni, WFP Deputy Country Director in Madagascar,... | Famine | null | null |
Marburg in Guinea: the value of lessons from managing other haemorrhagic outbreaks | As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on in Africa amid insufficient vaccination rollout, viral haemorrhagic fever has again raised its head. This adds to public health turmoil on the continent where resources to respond to emerging and re-emerging epidemic prone zoonotic diseases remain limited. In the first week of Aug... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Google fined record $3.57 billion by European Union over shopping service | The European Union's competition watchdog has slapped a record 2.42-billion-euro ($3.57-billion) fine on internet giant Google for breaching antitrust rules with its online shopping service.
The body that polices EU competition rules, the European Commission, alleged Google systematically elevates its shopping service ... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Navalny Reportedly Dupes Agent Into Revealing Details Of Poisoning | Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny reportedy duped Russian agent Konstantin Kudryavtsev to reveal details about his own poisoning in August.
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Newly-discovered stone tools and animal remains have shed new light on the history of human presence in Paveh county of Kermanshah province | TEHRAN – Newly-discovered stone tools and animal remains have shed new light on the history of human presence in Paveh county of Kermanshah province, which is situated in western Iran. Based on new archaeological discoveries, the history of human habitation in the Paveh county, which is situated in the south of the Haw... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Council concerned soil will pollute waterways |
Wodonga council is encouraging builders to take erosion and sediment control measures before the drought breaks.
The manager of assets, Gary Mawby, says he is particularly concerned about soil washing from building sites into the underground drainage system and into streams.
He says the drought has exacerbated the pot... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Albania
joins the WTO | Renato Ruggiero's speeches, 1995-99
Albania has agreed to assume its WTO obligations upon accession. In addition, it will sign on to the two plurilateral agreements on government procurement and on trade in civil aircraft. Albania's accession package includes market-access c... | Join in an Organization | null | null |
We’ve been following victims of the Boxing Day tsunami for 16 years – this is what we’ve learned about recovering from disaster | Elizabeth Frankenberg receives funding from the National Institute on Aging, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development,the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the Hewlett Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. Cecep Sumantri receives funding from th... | Tsunamis | null | null |
NASA is preparing to push a spacecraft into a near-Earth asteroid | There's nothing like being prepared. That's why NASA is going to send a spacecraft into the path of a near-Earth asteroid. Don't worry, the targeted asteroid called Didymos is currently more than 11 million miles away from the planet we call home and is not posing an imminent threat. But the nation's top space agency... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
Eastern Air Lines Flight 512 crash | Eastern Air Lines Flight 512 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Charlotte, North Carolina, to New York City that crashed on November 30, 1962, killing 25 of the 51 people on board. The aircraft, a Douglas DC-7B operated by Eastern Air Lines, crashed at Idlewild Airport in heavy fog while attempting to perfo... | Air crash | null | null |
Tokyo 2020 - Venezuela's Yulimar Rojas smashes triple jump world record with stunning leap for Olympic gold | Her opening jump was just nine centimetres shy of Kravets' 15.50m record, set at the World Championships in Gothenburg in 1995.
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That would have been comfortably long enough to secure a gold she had long craved, but the Venezuelan saved her best for last to write her name into the rec... | Break historical records | null | null |
Japanese ship company behind oil spill that led to environmental disaster in Mauritius caused by 'human error' | Japanese ship company behind oil spill that led to environmental disaster in Mauritius caused by 'human error'
The Japanese operator of a bulk carrier that struck a coral reef and caused an extensive oil spill off the coast of Mauritius has said the accident occurred after the ship shifted its course closer to shore t... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
1999 Seattle WTO protests |
The 1999 Seattle WTO protests, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Seattle,[1] were a series of protests surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, when members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington on November 30, 1999. ... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Warrenton Nursing Home fire | The Warrenton Nursing Home fire took place at the Katie Jane Memorial Home for the Aged in Warrenton, Missouri, on February 17, 1957, and killed 72 people. The 2+1⁄2-story facility, located sixty miles west of St. Louis, housed 155 elderly people and had been converted just two years earlier, after having previously se... | Fire | null | null |
1996 Sulawesi earthquake | On January 1, 1996, at 4:05 p.m. Central Indonesia Time, a powerful earthquake with an epicenter in the Makassar Strait struck north of Minahasa on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The earthquake registered a magnitude 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale and was centered off Tolitoli Regency in Central Sulawesi, or 25 ... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Over and out: Britain finally readies to leave the European Union | Britain calls time on almost half a century of European Union (EU) membership this week, striking out alone in a historic move that has bitterly divided the country. At 11pm on 31 January, the UK will become the first country to leave the 28-nation EU, the world’s largest single market area that it joined in 1973. No... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
36-year-old man identified as victim in industrial explosion | CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — UPDATE (1 p.m. Monday) The medical examiner's office has identified the 36-year-old victim in the fatality in Friday's industrial explosion at Calpine Company Generation Plant. The man has been identified as Joe Robert Reyes, who is said to be from the area.
There is no autopsy performed as of y... | Gas explosion | null | null |
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