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Man Convicted in ’81 Brink’s Robbery Wins Release From New York Prison | David Gilbert, whose 75-year prison sentence was commuted in one of Andrew Cuomo’s last acts as governor, was granted parole. By Michael Wilson and Ed Shanahan David Gilbert, a participant in the politically motivated ambush of a Brink’s armored car in 1981 that left two police officers and a guard dead, has been grant... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Release | null | null |
The stagflation of the 1970s will soon meet the debt crises of the post-2008 period | At some point, this boom will culminate in a Minsky moment (a sudden loss of confidence), and tighter monetary policies will trigger a bust and crash. But meanwhile, the same loose policies that are feeding asset bubbles will continue to drive consumer price inflation, creating the conditions for stagflation whenever t... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
1854 Tōkai earthquake | The 1854 Tōkai earthquake was the first of the Ansei great earthquakes (1854–1855). It occurred at about 09:00 local time on 23 December 1854. It had a magnitude of 8.4 and caused a damaging tsunami. More than 10,000 buildings were destroyed and there were at least 2,000 casualties. [1]
It was the first of the three An... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Woman dead following wrong-way crash on Highway 281 northbound, SA police say | The crash prompted a closure on 281 and led to a traffic pileup for several hours July 18, 2021, 2:46 PM Updated: SAN ANTONIO – A 69-year-old woman is dead after driving the wrong way on Highway 281 northbound and colliding with a pickup truck, according to San Antonio police. The crash happened Sunday afternoon and p... | Road Crash | null | null |
Trump’s Withdrawal From TPP Points to New Trade Policy | President Donald Trump wasted no time in taking action and following up on his campaign promises. On Monday, our 45th president signed 3 executive actions, the first of which unravels former President Barack Obama’s signature trade agreement before it ever went into action. With the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, what... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
All Conditions Met for Aker Solutions, Kvaerner Merger | Two Norwegian offshore energy services firms Aker Solutions and Kvaerner said Monday that all conditions had been met for their proposed merger to proceed. The two companies announced the proposed merger in June. Under the terms, Aker Solutions will absorb all the assets, rights, and obligations of Kvaerner, and Kvaern... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Xi Jinping calls for more 'loveable' image for China in bid to make friends | China's president has said he wants the country to "expand its circle of friends" by revamping its image. Xi Jinping told senior Communist Party officials it was important to present an image of a "credible, loveable and respectable China", according to a report by state-run news agency Xinhua.
It marks a possible shif... | Famous Person - Give a speech | null | null |
Detroit Newspaper Strike |
The Detroit Newspaper Strike was a major labor dispute which began in Detroit, Michigan on July 13, 1995 and involved several actions including a local boycott, corporate campaign, and legal charges of unfair labor practices. The primary action involved around 2,500 members of six labor unions going on strike from Ju... | Strike | null | null |
1937 Airlines of Australia Stinson crash | The 1937 Airlines of Australia Stinson crash was an accident which occurred on 19 February 1937. The Airlines of Australia Stinson Model A airliner disappeared during a flight from Brisbane to Sydney, carrying five passengers and two pilots. Both pilots and two passengers were killed in the crash. One of the surviving ... | Air crash | null | null |
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706 crash | Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706 was a Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft, registration N137US,[1] which crashed on take-off from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport September 17, 1961. All 37 on board were killed in the accident. Flight 706 began its day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was scheduled to stop at Chicag... | Air crash | null | null |
Helikopter Service Flight 451 crash | On 8 September 1997 Flight 451, a Eurocopter AS 332L1 Super Puma, from the Norwegian helicopter operator Helikopter Service, crashed into the Norwegian Sea, 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) northwest of Brønnøysund, Norway. The aircraft was en route from Brønnøysund Airport, Brønnøy to Norne, an offshore Floating pr... | Air crash | null | null |
Outbreaks of African Migratory Locust (AML) are threatening the food security and livelihoods of millions of people in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe | 4 September 2020, Accra – Outbreaks of African Migratory Locust (AML) are threatening the food security and livelihoods of millions of people in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned today at the launch of an emergency response effort to control... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Kentex slipper factory fire |
On May 13, 2015, a fire broke out at the Kentex Manufacturing factory in Valenzuela, Metro Manila, Philippines. Seventy-four people were killed in the fire, making the incident the third worst fire incident in Philippine history after the Ozone Disco Club fire in 1996 and the Manor Hotel fire in Quezon City in 2001 k... | Fire | null | null |
Boy, 5, diagnosed with rare childhood dementia after losing ability to walk | Isaac Tilley was diagnosed with CLN2 Batten Disease in August. The condition is also known as childhood dementia and causes kids to have a shortened life expectancy
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A five-year-old boy has been diagnosed with rare childhood dementia, with his devastated family now raising awareness o... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
2011 Yunnan earthquake | The 2011 Yunnan earthquake was a 5.4 magnitude earthquake that occurred on 10 March 2011 at 12:58 CST, with its epicenter in Yingjiang County, Yunnan, People's Republic of China, near the Burmese border. [1] A total of 26 people died and 313 were injured with 133 in serious condition. [2] China's Xinhua reports that up... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Two children have been rescued after they were found clinging to their dead mother | NZ Herald Two children have been rescued after they were found clinging to their dead mother - who saved their lives by drinking her own urine so she could breastfeed them after they drifted out to sea. Mariely Chacón was on board the boat Thor on September 3 with her 6-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter, her husband... | Shipwreck | null | null |
ESPN | TOKYO -- Karsten Warholm of Norway obliterated his own world record in the Olympic 400-meter hurdles Tuesday, finishing in 45.94 seconds to break the old mark by .76.
One of the most anticipated races on the program more than lived up to the hype.
Second-place finisher Rai Benjamin of the United States finished in 46.1... | Break historical records | null | null |
Burning of Parliament |
The Palace of Westminster, the medieval royal palace used as the home of the British parliament, was largely destroyed by fire on 16 October 1834. The blaze was caused by the burning of small wooden tally sticks which had been used as part of the accounting procedures of the Exchequer until 1826. The sticks were disp... | Fire | null | null |
Hundreds of Tigrayans detained in Ethiopian capital in recent weeks, with certain businesses has been closed | A general view shows activity past a closed Harmony Hotel and Kaleb hotel owned by a Tigrayan businessmen in Bole neighbourhood in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI, July 15 (Reuters) - Ethiopian police have detained hundreds of ethnic Tigrayans in Addis Ababa since federal g... | Organization Closed | null | null |
A mine near Minas Gerais collapsed | The Brazilian State of Minas Gerais has always been considered the heartland of Brazil, evoking images of rural hospitality, hearty food, and rococo colonial architecture nestled between beautiful mountains and rolling hills. Underneath its lush geography is what really keeps Minas Gerais going forward. Literally named... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
1953 Milwaukee brewery strike |
The 1953 Milwaukee brewery strike was a labor strike that involved approximately 7,100 workers at six breweries in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The strike began on May 14 of that year after the Brewery Workers Local 9 and an employers' organization representing six Milwaukee-based brewing companies failed to ... | Strike | null | null |
2013 Berlin helicopter crash | On 21 March 2013, two helicopters of the German Federal Police collided while landing in front of Berlin Olympic Stadium, Germany, in whiteout conditions. One crew member was killed and nine other people, both on board the helicopters and on the ground, were injured. During a large police exercise against football hool... | Air crash | null | null |
Widerøe Flight 933 crash | Widerøe Flight 933, also known as the Mehamn Accident (Norwegian: Mehamn-ulykken), was the crash of a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter operated by Norwegian airline Widerøe. The Twin Otter crashed into the Barents Sea off Gamvik, Norway on 11 March 1982 at 13:27, killing all fifteen people on board. The results of ... | Air crash | null | null |
Great Barrier Reef still at risk despite huge spend to improve water quality runoff |
Reef scientists say water quality programs have not achieved sufficient improvements for the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), as UNESCO indicates an intention to list the Queensland World Heritage site as 'in danger' at a meeting in China next month.
Billions of dollars have been earmarked in Reef spending programs in the co... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Ross Kemp to host Shipwreck Treasure Hunter for Sky History | “Every shipwreck I’ve dived on has had a story to tell, tales that echo from our past into the present. They speak to us of bravery, sacrifice, and progress but also of cruelty and heartbreak. I have discovered the impact the sea has had not only on my own family but also on world history. It’s been challenging; it’s b... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Anti-austerity movement in Ireland |
The anti-austerity movement refers to the mobilisation of street protests and grassroots campaigns that has happened across various countries, especially in Europe, since the onset of the worldwide Great Recession. Anti-austerity actions are varied and ongoing, and can be either sporadic and loosely organised or long... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Panic of 1847 | The Panic of 1847 was a minor British banking crisis associated with the end of the 1840s railway industry boom and the failure of many non-banks. [1]
As a means of stabilizing the British economy, the ministry of Robert Peel passed the Bank Charter Act of 1844. [2] This Act fixed a maximum quantity of bank notes tha... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
14 member Presidential Task Force for Green Agriculture established | It has been emphatically stated in the Policy Statement: “Vistas of Prosperity and splendor” that action would be initiated to build a developed agricultural economy and to create an opportunity for the local and international consumer to obtain toxin-free agricultural products within the next decade as well as to intr... | Organization Established | null | null |
2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes |
The 2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes is an industrial dispute in the United Kingdom involving Royal Mail and members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which began in the summer of 2009. It was the country's first industrial action involving postal workers since 2007 and came about after the Communication W... | Strike | null | null |
Twello train accident | The Twello train accident was a railway accident on 22 December 1900 at 21:00 in front of the Twello railway station, Twello. [1] The express train from Amsterdam (Sneltrein 238; pulled by an NS 1600) collided head-to-head with a regional train (Stoptrein 927; pulled by an NS 1600) from Almelo to Apeldoorn. Normally th... | Train collisions | null | null |
People wearing disguises rob several banks in Belmont and Gastonia | BELMONT, N.C. (WBTV) - Police in Belmont and Gastonia are investigating whether two bank robberies and one attempted bank robbery are connected. The incidents took place on Tuesday between 10am and 3pm in Belmont and Gastonia. Belmont police say a black male went into the New Horizon Bank on Wilkinson Boulevard, wearin... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Empire Exhibition Trophy | The Empire Exhibition Trophy was a football competition held in 1938 in conjunction with the Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938 in Glasgow. It was held to commemorate the Exhibition, then underway in Bellahouston Park,[1] and the prize was a solid silver model of the Tait Tower. [2]
Four teams from Scotland and four fro... | Sports Competition | null | null |
60 Of The Longest Celebrity Marriages And Relationships | Essentially, it's that their relationships don't last very long. Celebrity marriages have been known to end after a mere 72 days after all and, all too often, relationships that people look to as examples of love (like Channing and Jenna Dewan Tatum and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) dissolve, leaving fans questioning i... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
2018–2020 UK higher education strikes |
The University and College Union (UCU), a trade union representing 110,000 staff at UK universities,[1] ran a major series of connected strikes in 2018, 2019, and 2020. The action has been characterised as "something of a milestone" for "impending service sector strikes of the 21st century". In 2018, the dispute conc... | Strike | null | null |
the US and Israel left UNESCO | At midnight on New Year’s Day, the US and Israel officially withdrew from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) following UNESCO’s approval of Palestine’s membership. For more than a year, the two countries had expressed concern on numerous occasions regarding what they consider... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
1975 Kinnaur earthquake |
The 1975 Kinnaur earthquake occurred in the early afternoon (local time) (08:02 UTC) of 19 January. It had a magnitude of 6.8 on the surface wave magnitude scale and a maximum perceived intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale, causing extensive damage in Himachal Pradesh, in northern India. Its epi... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Anadolu Agency | Moscow is 'deeply disappointed' by U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, said a Russian Foreign Ministry statement on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. Tuesday from its participation in the landmark nuclear agreement world powers struck with Iran in 2015. 'We a... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
1965 Skyways Coach-Air Avro 748 crash | The 1965 Skyways Coach-Air Avro 748 crash occurred on 11 July 1965 when Avro 748-101 Series 1 G-ARMV, flown during a scheduled international passenger flight from Beauvais Airport, Oise, France, crashed on landing at its intended destination of Lympne Airport, Kent, United Kingdom. The accident was due to the grass run... | Air crash | null | null |
Court decision allowing Springvale mine to release wastewater into Sydney's catchment appealed | A conservation group has launched an appeal against a NSW court decision that has allowed a coal mine near Lithgow to release wastewater into Sydney's drinking catchment.
The NSW Land and Environment Court in September upheld a decision to grant Centennial Coal's Springvale mine a 13-year extension.
This also allowed t... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Japan Air System Flight 451 crash | Japan Air System Flight 451 was a Japan Air System flight from Nagoya Airport in the Nagoya area of Aichi Prefecture, Japan to New Chitose Airport in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, with a stopover at Hanamaki Airport in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture. On April 18, 1993, the Douglas DC-9-41 operating the flight crashed while... | Air crash | null | null |
Dirgantara Air Service Flight 3130 crash | Dirgantara Air Service Flight 3130 (DIR3130/AW3130) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Dirgantara Air Service from Datah Dawai Airport, Malinau Regency, East Kalimantan to its provincial capital's airport, Samarinda Temindung Airport, Samarinda, East Kalimantan. On 18 November 2000, the aircraft cond... | Air crash | null | null |
Deutsche Bank fined for allowing Jeffrey Epstein to make 'suspicious' payments | 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 first fine against a ... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Tamworth Regional Council admits negligence after elevated levels of uranium found in drinking water |
A council in the north of New South Wales has admitted negligence after residents of several towns were notified of elevated uranium levels two years after the levels were confirmed.
Hunter New England Health has reviewed Tamworth Regional Council's latest test results of natural uranium in drinking water supplies of ... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Residents reminded to stay prepared as Hawaii marks April as Tsunami Awareness Month | / Updated: Apr 2, 2021 / 12:04 PM HST HONOLULU (KHON2) — April is Tsunami Awareness Month in Hawaii, and residents are reminded to stay prepared for the dangers a tsunami can present. While some tsunamis are caused by earthquakes hundreds of miles away and give ample warning, a temblor near the islands could provide on... | Tsunamis | null | null |
1961 London Trophy |
The 9th London Trophy was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 22 May 1961 at Crystal Palace Circuit. The race was run over 37 laps of the circuit, and was won by British driver Roy Salvadori in a Cooper T53. This race was run on the same day as the World Championship 1961 Dutch Grand Prix, but since entr... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Jharkhand allows shops, malls, offices to open till 4pm; weekend lockdown to continue | Strap: Govt also reimposes complete weekend lockdown from June 19 afternoon The state government on Tuesday announced to reopen all kinds of shops, malls, departmental stores, government and private offices till 4pm from Thursday across all 24 districts, officials said. With extending the health protection week , or S... | Organization Closed | null | null |
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Mark Ogden recaps Cristiano Ronaldo's record-breaking goal as well as the winner in Portugal's 2-1 win vs. Ireland. (0:50)
It's official: Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo has surpassed Iran legend Ali Daei to b... | Break historical records | null | null |
Data Society Enhances Its Innovation Training and Service Offerings With the Acquisition of Restless Creation | Data Society has acquired Restless Creation, adding offerings for skills-based assessments and human-centered design strategy that enable organizational change. WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Data Society, the leading provider of custom Data Science Training and cutting edge AI Solutions to Government Agencies and Fortun... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Green Ramp disaster crash | The Green Ramp disaster was a 1994 mid-air collision and subsequent ground collision at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. It killed twenty-four members of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division preparing for an airborne operation. [1][2][3]
As of 2021, this incident remains the largest loss of non-passenger life ... | Air crash | null | null |
The Netherlands: Preparing for lift-off | The Covid pandemic has elicited a number of deficiencies in the current global governance framework, most notably its weaknesses in mustering a coordinated response to the global economic downturn. A global economy is not fully “global” if it is devoid of the capability to conduct coordinated and effective responses to... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Madagascar facing famine after climate change brings damaging drought | A worse than usual drought in Madagascar has left much of the country’s population facing famine as the “hunger season” looms large. Madagascar is facing crop failure after a damaging drought Madagascar could be facing famine, after crop failures brought about as a result of climate change left large proportions of the... | Famine | null | null |
Kapp Putsch |
The Kapp Putsch (German pronunciation: [ˈkapˌpʊt͡ʃ] (listen)), also known as the Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch (German pronunciation: [kapˈlʏtvɪt͡sˌpʊt͡ʃ] (listen)), named after its leaders Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz, was an attempted coup against the German national government in Berlin on 13 March 1920. Its goal... | Strike | null | null |
In Japan, man diagnosed with ‘restless anal syndrome’ after recovery from Covid-19 | In what is possibly the first such case of a post-Covid complication, a 77-year-old man in Japan reported “deep anal discomfort” just days after recovering from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). Doctors at the Tokyo University Hospital diagnosed him with “restless anal syndrome.”
According to Business Insider, which ... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
Faraday Future Announces New Global Online-to-Offline (O2O) Direct Sales Organization and the First FF U.S. Sales Partner Following the Recent Signing of its Merger Agreement with Property Solutions Acquisition Corp. (PSAC) | Faraday Future Announces New Global Online-to-Offline (O2O) Direct Sales Organization and the First FF U.S. Sales Partner Following the Recent Signing of its Merger Agreement with Property Solutions Acquisition Corp. (PSAC) Christian Gobber, Former Regional CEO at Maserati, leads Faraday Future’s Global Sales Strategy ... | Organization Merge | null | null |
The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in North Kivu province | Hundreds of thousands of people have been left displaced, and over half a million in the city of Goma have been left without access to clean drinking water, following the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). While teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are respond... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Watsonville riots | The Watsonville riots was a period of racial violence that took place in Watsonville, California, from January 19 to January 23, 1930. Involving violent assaults on Filipino American farm workers by local residents opposed to immigration, the riots highlighted the racial and socioeconomic tensions in California's agric... | Riot | null | null |
Historic Judean archeological discoveries a 'wake-up call' | Updated: APRIL 8, 2021 14:13 Israel Hasson, director of the IAA, in the desert The recent discovery of rare archaeological finds hidden untouched by human beings for thousands of years, in barely accessible caves in the Judean desert is the stuff Indiana Jones movies are made of: a race against time using modern tec... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Pan Am Flight 6 crash | Pan Am Flight 6 (registration N90943, and sometimes erroneously called Flight 943) was a round-the-world airline flight that ditched in the Pacific Ocean on October 16, 1956, after two of its four engines failed. Flight 6 left Philadelphia on October 12 as a DC-6B and flew eastward to Europe and Asia on a multi-stop tr... | Air crash | null | null |
2005 Guatemalan protests | The 2005 Guatemalan protests was mass street protests and violent anti-United States of America protests after the president Óscar Berger signed the Central America Free Trade Agreement with the United States of America in March-April 2005. [1][2]
Protests occurred against it, and the opposition vowed to step up prote... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Nine workers found dead in China gold mine explosion, pushing toll to 10 | Chinese rescuers have found the bodies of nine more workers killed in explosions at a gold mine, raising the death toll to 10, officials said Monday. Eleven others were rescued a day earlier after being trapped underground for two weeks at the mine in Shandong province, in eastern China. One person is still missing. Th... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Donors pledging billions in aid to Afghanistan face a challenge: Navigating the Taliban | One month after the fall of its U.S.-supported government to the Taliban, Afghanistan faces crises of astronomical levels: millions facing starvation, a nationwide liquidity crunch, suspension of aid and freezing of assets by international donors and fears of brutal human rights abuses. Policymakers in the West are g... | Financial Aid | null | null |
Penistone rail accidents |
Over the latter years of the 19th and early years of the 20th centuries, Penistone in Yorkshire gained a name as an accident black-spot on Britain's railway network; indeed, it could be said to hold the title of the worst accident black-spot in the country. The main line through the town was the Woodhead route of the... | Train collisions | null | null |
1969 Tulbagh earthquake | The 1969 Tulbagh earthquake occurred at 20:03:33 UTC on 29 September. It had a magnitude of 6.3 Mw and a maximum felt intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. It caused widespread damage in the towns of Ceres, Tulbagh and Wolseley and led to 12 deaths. [1] The earthquake was a result of stri... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Hundreds of billions of locusts swarm in East Africa - BBC News | Hundreds of billions of locusts swarm in East Africa
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Hundreds of billions of locusts are swarming through parts of East Africa and South Asia in the worst infestation for a quarter of a century, threatening crops and livelihoods.
A man attempts to fend off a swarm of desert locusts at a ranch near the town ... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Rumsey Fire | The Rumsey Fire was the largest fire of the 2004 California wildfire season. [1] Destroying 39,138 acres (158.39 km2) of land, the fire burned from October 10 through October 16, 2004. [2] Four days after the fire broke out, officials confirmed that it has been the work of an arsonist. [3] Of the structures destroyed b... | Fire | null | null |
Scott Morrison rejects French president’s claim he lied over US nuclear submarine deal | French President Emmanuel Macron’s accusation Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison lied to him about a torn-up $90 billion submarine deal has torpedoed the countries’ already strained relationship to new depths. Morrison rejected the French president’s claim he was lied to before Australia announced it was ditchin... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Cinnamon Spice in Eureka Place, Ashford named 'Best Regional Restaurant of the Year' by Bangladesh Caterers Association | A curry house in Ashford has been named the 'Best Regional Restaurant of the Year' by the Bangladesh Caterers Association (BCA) beating hundreds of others across the South East. Cinnamon Spice in Eureka Place found out it was shortlisted just two weeks ago having been nominated by its loyal customers. Staff at Cinnam... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
Locust attack: China to help Pakistan with effective pest ... - Mint |
“Pakistan is suffering from a severe locust plague. In order to help Pakistan, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs have put together a task force which travelled to Pakistan from February 23 to March 5," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told media here.
He said the Chinese experts had a... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
2019 Lebanon forest fires | Lebanon Wildfires 2019 is a series of about 100 forest fires according to Lebanese Civil Defense, which broke out on Sunday 13 October at night, and spread over large areas of Lebanon's forests. It came on large areas of forests and residential areas in both the Chouf, Khroub and other areas to the south of Beirut, whi... | Fire | null | null |
2017 French riots | France
The 2017 French riots refer to two separate unrelated incidents of unrest in France following claimed abuse of power by police. The first of these riots began on 4 February 2017, in suburbs of Paris, following the alleged rape of a black man named Théo L. by police with a baton. These protests continued until ... | Riot | null | null |
Šakvice train collision |
The Šakvice train disaster occurred on 24 December 1953 in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). A local train was standing at the Šakvice station near Brno, when the Prague-Bratislava express ran into it, resulting in 103 deaths and a further 83 injured. The Ministry of the Interior said there was gross negligenc... | Train collisions | null | null |
President Trump announced today the United States’ withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action | President Trump announced today the United States’ withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and initiated plans to re-impose nuclear-related sanctions that had been suspended under the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement.
President Trump ordered the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury to ... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Three children recovering after being submerged in vehicle in Black River | Three children who were in a submerged vehicle in the Black River are recovering from the incident that also killed their mother. Lilah, 7, and Rosie, 3, are recovering in the University of Michigan's Hospital in Ann Arbor, while Gunnar, 5, is recovering in Detroit Children's Hospital, said Gunnar and Rosie's father, ... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
2011 Trans Air Congo Antonov An-12 crash | Updated on 4th June 2011
The Antonov AN-12 cargo, operated by Trans Air Congo, took off from Brazzaville, Congo, bound to Pointe Noire, Congo. Four crewmember were onboard. The plane crashed while approaching Pointe Noire airport, killing all the 4 people onboard, and 19 people on ground. The cargo plane had been larg... | Air crash | null | null |
Karsten Warholm sets new world record of 46.70s in 400m hurdles at home race in Oslo | The Norwegian broke a men's record that was set by USA's Kevin Young at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics, and had stood for 29 years.
Karsten Warholm broke the world record in the men's 400m hurdles in front of a home crowd at the Diamond League track and field athletics meeting in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday (1 July).
The 29... | Break historical records | null | null |
Pedestrian, passenger killed and driver with critical injuries in separate SA road crashes | A pedestrian and a passenger have died, and a driver has suffered critical injuries, as South Australia records four separate road crashes within 24 hours — two of which involved trucks. A 24-year-old driver suffered critical injuries in a head-on collision with a road train near Port Arthur, at the northern tip of Gul... | Road Crash | null | null |
People — Not Just The Megadrought — Are Driving The West’s Water Crisis | The shrinking Colorado River is becoming an urgent water crisis for millions of people in the West. “The question is, how intense does that crisis get?” one river scientist said. By Caitlin Ochs Posted on August 3, 2021, at 5:50 p.m. ET A woman sunbathes next to a swimming pool overlooking a golf ... | Droughts | null | null |
Sutton Wick air crash | The Sutton Wick air crash occurred on 5 March 1957 when a Blackburn Beverley C Mk 1 heavy transport aircraft, serial number XH117, of 53 Squadron Royal Air Force crashed at Sutton Wick, Drayton, Berkshire,[notes 1] England, following a shut-down of one engine and partial loss of power on another. [1] Shortly after take... | Air crash | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 20 crash | Aeroflot Flight 20/101[a] (Russian: Рейс 20/101 Аэрофлота Reys 20/101 Aeroflota) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Moscow to Alma-Ata with a stopover in Omsk that crashed in low visibility conditions on 4 January 1965, killing 64 of the 103 people on board. [1]
The aircraft involved in the accident was an... | Air crash | null | null |
'Paddle' portion of Louisville mayor's 'Hike, Bike and Paddle' event canceled | Updated: November 16, 2021 @ 3:25 pm Participants in Mayor Greg Fischer's annual Hike, Bike and Paddle event paddle down the Ohio River. The Mayor's Hike, Bike and Paddle event. (WDRB File) Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said his upcoming budget proposal… LMPD is treating the case as a death investigation. Participants i... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 2230 crash | Aeroflot Flight 2230 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) to Tashkent. On 16 November 1967, the Ilyushin Il-18 aircraft serving the flight crashed after takeoff, killing all 107 people aboard (including twelve children). [1] At the time it was the deadliest aviation accident in th... | Air crash | null | null |
British European Airways Flight 548 crash |
On the 18th of June 1972, British European Airways flight 548 took off from London’s Heathrow Airport, bound for Brussels. But just minutes into the flight, something went terribly wrong. The Hawker-Siddeley Trident stalled and fell from the sky, crashing to earth in a field in the quiet town of Staines; none of the 1... | Air crash | null | null |
United Airlines Flight 863 crash | As the United Airlines jumbo jet lifted off from San Francisco
International Airport one night last summer, one of its four engines lost
power. Because of poor flying techniques, the co-pilot who was at the
controls slowed and nearly stalled and crashed the plane. "Push [the nose] down" to pick up speed, shouted two ex... | Air crash | null | null |
La Palma volcano eruption update: new eruptive fissure opens, followed by strong magnitude 3.8 quake | The Volcanological Institute of Canary Islands (INVOLCAN) revealed the first measurements of SO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and a lava flow discharge rate of the current eruption at the La Cumbre Vieja volcano that began yesterday. ... Read all Mon, 20 Sep 2021, 10:23 La Palma volcano update: Surface continues to... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Egyptian archaeologists make the 'biggest discovery of 2020' | The discovery was announced at a press conference last week © Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt Egyptian archaeologists have announced the discovery of more than 100 painted coffins at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, just south of Cairo. The coffins are sealed and intact, and were found along with funerary ... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Uranium discovered in water supply for Moonbi and Kootingal in northern NSW |
Elevated levels of uranium have been discovered in groundwater supplies for two small towns in northern New South Wales.
The amount of uranium discovered in the water that goes to Moonbi and Kootingal, both located about 20 kilometres north-east of Tamworth, in July during routine bore water testing, were higher than ... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
2018 Baku fire | On 2 March 2018, a fire broke out at the Republican Narcological Dispensary in Baku, Azerbaijan, a drug rehabilitation facility for patients with opiate addiction. Around 200 people including patients and members of the clinic staff had to be evacuated from the area, while 34 had to be rescued from the blazing building... | Fire | null | null |
1968 uprising in Senegal | The 1968 Senegal uprising was a nationwide revolutionary uprising that broke out after Strikes led by young students in Dakar against a proposed scholarship law in universities and high schools turned into an anti-ruling class protest movement that led to a full-scale protest movement nationwide and large-scale violenc... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
A six-nation joint military exercise called “Sword of Arabs” kicked off at the largest military base in Egypt | MARSA MATRUH, EGYPT - FEBRUARY 18: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi visits pilots working at military base in Marsa Matruh district of Egypt near the border with Libya on February 18, 2015. MARSA MATRUH, EGYPT – FEBRUARY 18: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi visits pilots working at military base in Marsa... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Shirley Towers fire | The Shirley Towers Fire occurred in a tower block on 6 April 2010 in Southampton, Hampshire, England. Two firefighters were killed when a fire developed and spread from the 9th floor. [1] The investigations and inquiries following the fire led to changes in fire safety rules nationally, particularly the regulations ar... | Fire | null | null |
Protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War in Canada |
The protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War in Canada, often referred to as the Tamil protests by the media, consisted of a series of demonstrations which took place in major Canadian cities with a significant Tamil diaspora population during the year 2009 protesting the alleged genocide of Sri Lankan Tamil people ... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
The Biden administration is currently dealing with the backlash over the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan. | I have been covering President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s trip to New York, where he attended the opening of the United Nations General Assembly’s 76th session, for the past three days. The General Assembly will follow the theme “Building resilience through hope – to recover from COVID-19, rebuild sustainability, respond t... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
TAESA Flight 725 crash | TAESA Flight 725 was a scheduled flight originating in Tijuana International Airport and ending at Mexico International Airport with intermediate stopovers in Uruapan and Guadalajara, that crashed shortly after departure on November 9, 1999, killing all 18 passengers and crew on board. [1] The crash led TAESA to ground... | Air crash | null | null |
Woman diagnosed with breast cancer at 26 urges others to 'listen to your body' | Kelsey Summers was getting dressed on a fall morning last year when she felt a lump in her breast.
She was 26, an age when most women wouldn’t think about the possibility of breast cancer, but her mother was diagnosed with the disease at 28, so Summers had already been eager to get a mammogram before that day.
Still, s... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
Argentina battles locust plague after farmlands hit by dozens ... |
Argentina battles locust plague after farmlands hit by dozens of outbreaks
Farmers say they first noticed infestations in middle of 2015 and government is only now taking action
Argentina’s government has been slow to act on a locust infestation, say farmers.
Argentina’s government has been slow to act on a locust i... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Sutton Tunnel railway accident |
The Sutton Tunnel railway accident occurred in the Sutton tunnel between Frodsham and Moore in Cheshire, England on 30 April 1851. As a result of it nine people died and between 30 and 40 were injured. On 18 December 1850 a new railway was opened between Chester and Warrington[1] by the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Che... | Train collisions | null | null |
Google fined $22m for Safari privacy breach | Google has been fined $US22.5 million for violating the privacy of millions of people who use Apple's Safari web browser.
The fine, announced by the US Federal Trade Commission, is the biggest imposed against a company for violating a previous agreement with the Commission.
Last October Google signed an agreement that ... | Organization Fine | null | null |
2007 Balad aircraft crash | The 2007 Balad aircraft crash was an airplane incident involving an Antonov An-26 airliner, which crashed on 9 January 2007 while attempting to land at the Joint Base Balad in Balad, Iraq, which was at that time operated by the United States Air Force. [3] The crash killed 34 people aboard and left one passenger critic... | Air crash | null | null |
1 December 2013 Euromaidan riots |
A series of riots occurred in several locations of downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, on 1 December 2013 in response to a police crackdown on Euromaidan's protesters and journalist on the night of 30 November. The day saw the highest numbers of journalists injured by police in a single event since Ukraine's independence regain i... | Riot | null | null |
2009 Tonga undersea volcanic eruption | The 2009 Tonga undersea volcanic eruption began on March 16, 2009,[1] near the island of Hunga Tonga, approximately 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from the Tongan capital of Tongatapu. [2] The volcano is in a highly active volcanic region that represents a portion of the Pacific Ring of Fire. It is estimated that there are up ... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
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