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Four coal miners die after inhaling poisonous gas in Pakistan | 21 September 2021 Last Updated at 10:49 pm | Source: PTI Balochistan’s Mines and Minerals Chief Inspector Abdul Ghani said that bodies of the deceased, who belonged to Zhob district of the province, have been retrieved after a rescue operation. “The miners had gone into a mine in Chamalang and suffocated to death af... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Locust plague worsens and spreads to Chad - The New ... | Locust plague worsens and spreads to Chad
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The plague of locusts sweeping south across the Sahara desert is now causing serious crop damage in Mauritania, Mali and Niger and has spread for the first time to Chad, agricultural experts and gove... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
President Biden Proposes Free College Tuition And A Big Increase In The Pell Grant | President Biden proposed a big increase in financial aid funding for college on April 28, 2021. The American Families Plan will provide free tuition at community colleges and increase the maximum Federal Pell Grant by about $1,400, but the President’s proposal does not address student loan forgiveness. The American Fam... | Financial Aid | null | null |
Locusts swarm in the Pilbara and Kimberley, costing farmers | Locusts swarm in the Pilbara and Kimberley, costing farmers thousands
Locusts swarming through Western Australia's Pilbara and Kimberley regions are costing pastoralists thousands of dollars in lost pasture and control efforts.
The warm and wet summer in the north provided a perfect breeding ground for the yellow-wing... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Timeline of the 2016 Venezuelan protests |
The 2016 Venezuelan protests began in early January following controversy surrounding the 2015 Venezuelan parliamentary elections and the increasing hardships felt by Venezuelans. [1] The series of protests originally began in February 2014 when hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans protested due to high levels of cri... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
A history of fatal Tsunamis in Hawaii | / Updated: Apr 21, 2021 / 07:48 PM HST HONOLULU (KHON2) — Experts say it’s only a matter of time before the next deadly tsunami hits Hawaii. One way people can prepare is by taking lessons from the past. “A tsunami can happen at any time… and as one survivor tells me, it may take some time before you see any major impa... | Tsunamis | null | null |
Rewind 2021: Covid, coups, Taliban...the tumultuous year that was | From the Covid pandemic to the Taliban taking over Afghanistan and extreme weather events, 2021 is a year many of us would like to forget. The world, humanity suffered many terrible losses and went through quite a lot of...turbulence. Coronavirus: The seemingly endless loop we're stuck in In spite of the nearly eight ... | Regime Change | null | null |
2008 Greek riots |
The 2008 Greek riots started on 6 December 2008, when Alexandros Grigoropoulos (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Γρηγορόπουλος), a 15-year-old Greek student, was killed by a special officer[1] in Exarcheia district of central Athens. [2] The killing of the young student by police resulted in large protests and demonstrations, which... | Riot | null | null |
Parole board recommends release for Manson follower Leslie Van Houten for fifth time | A California parole board again recommended Tuesday that Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten be released from prison. It’s the fifth time officials advocated for the release of Van Houten, 72, who is serving a life sentence for helping cult members murder Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, with forks and knive... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Release | null | null |
1943 Workers' Summer Olympiad | The 1943 Workers' Summer Olympiad, which were to be the seventh edition of the International Workers' Olympiads, were cancelled due to World War II. They were to have been arranged by the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation and held in Helsinki, Finland. [1][2]
Finnish Workers' Sports Federation decided to apply the 19... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Skyway Enterprises Flight 7101 crash | Crash: Skyway Enterprises SH36 at Sint Maarten on Oct 29th 2014, impacted waters shortly after takeoff
A Skyway Enterprises Shorts SD-360 on behalf of Fedex, registration N380MQ performing flight SKZ-7101 from Sint Maarten (Dutch Antilles) to San Juan (Puerto Rico) with 2 crew, was climbing out of Sint Maarten's runway... | Air crash | null | null |
Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire | The Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, one of the deadliest peacetime disasters in Vietnam, was a fire that occurred on 29 October 2002, at the International Trade Centre in Ho Chi Minh City, the commercial center of the country. The building was a six-story business building that housed a luxurious department store, a disc... | Fire | null | null |
Port of Southampton wins top prize at UK cruise industry awards | Southampton is a regular port of call for cruise ship companies, like P&O and Cunard cruises.
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The Port of Southampton was awarded the title of the 'Best Port' in the 2021 Wave Awards. The awards celebrate the very best of the UK’s crui... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
EU could rip up Brexit trade deal if UK suspends NI Protocol, Simon Coveney warns | Brussels could rip up the post-Brexit UK-EU trade deal if Boris Johnson suspends the Northern Ireland Protocol, Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney has warned.
This would result in an effective no-deal Brexit as trade barriers would be immediately erected between the UK and the EU.
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Brexit: UK to deny EU £15b... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
EXCLUSIVE Amid divisions, ASEAN leaders plan Myanmar visit this week | A bird flies near the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) secretariat building, ahead of the ASEAN leaders' meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
JAKARTA/BANGKOK, June 1 (Reuters) - The chair and secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plan to ... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
Blue-green algae red alert issued across NSW waterways |
Large blooms of toxic blue-green algae in the Murray-Darling Basin and Northern Rivers has prompted Water NSW to issue a red alert health warning for river users and livestock.
The green stain stretches from the Lower Murray around Wentworth all the way north of Inverell to Copeton Dam and the Pindari Dam, and also To... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Brexit is official: UK farewells Europe's economy at stroke of midnight | London: Britain’s long and sometimes acrimonious divorce from the European Union ended on Thursday, local time, with an economic split that leaves the EU smaller and the UK freer but more isolated in a turbulent world. Britain left the European bloc’s vast single market for people, goods and services at 11pm London tim... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Federal Government to consider tearing up extradition ties with Hong Kong amid Chinese crackdown | The Federal Government may tear up Australia's extradition agreement with Hong Kong as Beijing's crackdown on the city intensifies.
The Chinese Government has faced a chorus of condemnation from democratic nations since passing a sweeping new security law banning "subversion", "succession" and "collusion with foreign f... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Xiamen Airlines Flight 8667 crash |
At four minutes to midnight of Aug. 16, Xiamen Airway’s Boeing 737 landed at NAIA and overshot the runway. Minutes later, the aircraft laid debilitated on a grassy patch adjacent to runway 24. It was unfortunate that the aircraft was positioned some 80 meters from the center point of the runway, 70 meters short of the... | Air crash | null | null |
Iceland is on high alert for a possible volcano eruption on the south-western peninsula near the capital Reykjavik | Iceland is on high alert for a possible volcano eruption on the south-western peninsula near the capital Reykjavik. More than 20,000 earthquakes have occurred in recent weeks in an area that hasn't seen volcanic activity for the past 800 years. Pall Einarsson, Professor Emeritus of Geophysics at the University of Icel... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Cloudera Foundation merger to bring AI and data to nonprofits | The Cloudera Foundation, the philanthropic arm of big data vendor Cloudera, agreed to merge with the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation to bring AI and data-driven technologies and expertise to nonprofit organizations. Per the agreement, signed March 30, the Cloudera Foundation will merge its staff, $9 million endowment an... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crash | Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 was a scheduled international Afriqiyah Airways passenger flight that crashed on 12 May 2010 at about 06:01 local time (04:01 UTC) on approach to Tripoli International Airport. [1][2] Of the 104 passengers and crew on board, 103 were killed. The sole survivor was a 9-year-old Dutch boy. [3]... | Air crash | null | null |
Australian pleads guilty to US bank robbery | A 19-year-old Australian has pleaded guilty of robbing a bank in a Colorado ski resort with a friend, part of a saga of blunders that earned them the nicknames "dumb and dumber" in some sections of the Australian media. Jeff Anthony Prince, formerly of the NSW north coast, has admitted that he and fellow Australian Luk... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
1948 Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada | The 1948 Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada, the latter also known as Djerada or Jṛada, occurred on June 7–8, 1948, in the towns of Oujda and Jerada, in the northeast of the French protectorate in Morocco. In those events 43 Jews and one Frenchman were killed and approximately 150 injured at the hands of local Musli... | Riot | null | null |
Celebrity Couples Who Choose Co-Parenting: From Aamir Khan-Kiran Rao To Hrithik Roshan-Sussanne Khan | Rishabh Naudiyal Last Updated: Aug 12, 2021 | 09:12:31 IST
Over the years, we have seen many divorces in the entertainment industry. While some of them were ugly, some were quite inspiring to witness. Of course, the most critical aspect of a divorce is the custody battle between the partners over their children. Howeve... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
Nine workers found dead in China gold mine collapse, one miner still missing | Chinese rescuers have found the bodies of nine workers killed in explosions at a gold mine, raising the death toll to 10, officials have said. Eleven others were rescued a day earlier after being trapped underground for two weeks at the mine in Shandong province. One person is still missing. The cause of the accident a... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
POLITICOPolitico Logo | Vice President Kamala Harris meets with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021 in Washington, D.C. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo
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India’s prime minister is in Washington this week for a coveted White House meeting. But Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalism and his ... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
Lorna Jane fined $5m by Federal Court for false COVID-19 prevention claims about its clothing | 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
Australian clothing firm ... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Northern Irish loyalists end support for peace deal over Brexit | Paramilitary groups temporarily pull support for 1998 Good Friday Agreement citing concern over Brexit trade disruption.
Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary groups have told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson they are temporarily withdrawing support for the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement due to concerns over the U... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Brazil dam collapse: 40 dead, 300 people feared missing | 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 labouring 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 |
GB's Keely Hodgkinson wins silver in Tokyo 2020 Olympics 800m race and breaks Kelly Holmes' record | Keely Hodgkinson has broken Kelly Holmes' long-standing national record to win the Olympic silver medal in the women’s 800 metres race.
The 19-year-old finished behind the USA's Athing Mu, finishing in one minute 55.88 seconds to beat Holmes' record set in 1995.
Hodgkinson's blistering pace makes her the eighth fastest... | Break historical records | null | null |
Bank robbers go underground to steal $85m | Thieves have dug a 200-metre long tunnel to break into a Brazilian bank's safe, stealing at least $85 million in the biggest bank heist in the country's history. The thieves penetrated the Banco Central bank in the north-eastern city of Fortaleza on the weekend via the tunnel. "The crime was discovered Monday morning,"... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
2009 Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 crash | On 6 April 2009, a Fokker F27-400M Troopship of the Indonesian Air Force crashed into a hangar at Husein Sastranegara International Airport, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. [1] Witnesses stated that lightning struck the aircraft before the crash. The aircraft was carrying 18 passengers and 6 crew when it crashed. There ... | Air crash | null | null |
Two Highly Contagious Coronavirus Variants Appear in South Africa | South African officials say two highly contagious variants of coronavirus are now present in the country, as Africa’s worst-hit nation prepares for a possible new onslaught of cases. Officials from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases announced late Sunday that they have detected the B.1.617.2 and B.1.1.7 v... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Higher education policies in Biden’s first 100 days: What’s been done and proposed | We are an independent, advertising-supported comparison service. Our goal is to help you make smarter financial decisions by providing you with interactive tools and financial calculators, publishing original and objective content, by enabling you to conduct research and compare information for free - so that you can m... | Financial Aid | null | null |
Just before four drug companies were set to stand trial over their role in the opioid epidemic, a settlement has been reached | Just before four drug companies were set to stand trial over their role in the opioid epidemic, a settlement has been reached.
Distributors McKesson Corp., AmerisourceBergen, and Cardinal Health will settle for $215 million with two Ohio counties, with manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals also paying $20 million and provi... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
ServiceNow is acquiring Element AI, the Canadian startup building AI services for enterprises | ServiceNow, the cloud-based IT services company, is making a significant acquisition today to fill out its longer-term strategy to be a big player in the worlds of automation and artificial intelligence for enterprises. It is acquiring Element AI, a startup out of Canada. Founded by AI pioneers and backed by some of th... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Man officers killed minutes after Texas bank holdup was serial robber | A man whom police officers shot and killed minutes after a holdup at a Texas bank was a serial bank robber, authorities say. Terry Cagle, 73, of Whitesboro, whom Sherman police officers shot and killed minutes after a bank holdup Monday was a serial bank robber, authorities told KXII in Sherman. Cagle, was armed with ... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Solar storm to hit the Earth soon, may affect mobiles, GPS and air travel | According to the National Weather Service's (NWS), Space Weather Prediction Center, a G-1-class geomagnetic storm was to hit the Earth's atmosphere in July. The same sort of storm occurred around four years ago causing a blackout over the Atlantic region. These storms are not unusual, if you go back in history you wi... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
UN report: Pandemic year marked by spike in world hunger | ROME/NEW YORK, 12 July 2021 – There was a dramatic worsening of world hunger in 2020, the United Nations said today – much of it likely related to the fallout of COVID-19. While the pandemic’s impact has yet to be fully mapped, a multi-agency report estimates that around a tenth of the global population – up to 811 mil... | Famine | null | null |
Explained: What UNESCO heritage site Dholavira tells us about Indus Valley Civilisation | Dholavira, the archaeological site of a Harappan-era city, received the UNESCO world heritage site tag on Tuesday. While Dholavira became the fourth site from Gujarat and 40th from India to make the list, it is the first site of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) in India to get the tag. The IVC acropolis is l... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
1964 Monson Motor Lodge protests |
The 1964 Monson Motor Lodge protest was part of a series of events during the civil rights movement in the United States which occurred on June 18, 1964, at the Monson Motor Lodge in St. Augustine, Florida. The campaign in June – July 1964 was led by Robert Hayling, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Y... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
2011 Macedonian protests |
The 2011 Macedonian protests against police brutality or simply 2011 Macedonian protests were demonstrations that started on 6 June 2011 as а result of the murder of the 21-year-old Martin Neškoski, who was beaten to death by Igor Spasov, a member of the special police forces Tigri. [1]
In the early morning hours of ... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
1911 Liverpool general transport strike |
The 1911 Liverpool general transport strike, also known as the great transport workers' strike, involved dockers, railway workers and sailors, as well people from other trades. It paralysed Liverpool commerce for most of the summer of 1911. It also transformed trade unionism on Merseyside. For the first time, general ... | Strike | null | null |
2021 Warrior Met Coal strike |
The 2021 Warrior Met Coal strike is an ongoing labor strike in Alabama, United States. The strike began on April 1, 2021 and involves members of the United Mine Workers of America striking against Warrior Met Coal Inc. Warrior Met was formed after the bankruptcy of Walter Energy and operates coal mining facilities in... | Strike | null | null |
Garuda Indonesia Flight 035 crash | Garuda Indonesia Flight 035 was a domestic Garuda Indonesia flight that struck a pylon and crashed on approach to Medan-Polonia Airport on 4 April 1987. [1] 23 of the 45 passengers and crew on board were killed in the accident. The aircraft was on an Instrument Landing System approach to Medan Airport in a thunderstorm... | Air crash | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 3630 crash | Aeroflot Flight 3630 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight operated by Aeroflot from Mineralnye Vody Airport to Vilnius Airport with a stop over at Rostov-on-Don Airport. On 2 September 1970, the Tu-124 operating this flight crashed after a loss of control at cruise altitude, 42 minutes after take off from Rostov-... | Air crash | null | null |
TWA Flight 513 crash | TWA Flight 513, registration NC86513, Star of Lisbon, was a Lockheed L-049 Constellation operated by Transcontinental and Western Air on a training flight on July 11, 1946 Reading, Pennsylvania. Electrical wiring in the baggage compartment arced, starting a fire. The smoke and intense fire created made it impossible fo... | Air crash | null | null |
Many Still Missing in Atami Mudslide as Search and Rescue Operations Continue | Teams from police and fire departments alongside troops from Japan’s Self-Defence Force continue to search through mud and debris looking for the many people still feared missing in the mudslide that struck the coastal city of Atami in Japan on 03 July 201. Search and rescue operation after the mudslide in Atami, Japan... | Mudslides | null | null |
White rhino rescued in Zimbabwe after tyre gets stuck around horn |
Vets from Aware Trust Zimbabwe have rescued a white rhino after it trapped its snout in a washed-up car tyre.
The rhino, a dominant bull named Mark, was unable to eat or drink with the tyre trapped around its snout.
Park rangers called vets after the rhino was unable to free itself.
The vets from Aware Trust, Keith an... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
1989 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships | The 1989 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was the seventh edition of the annual international road running competition organised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF). The competition was hosted by Brazil on 24 September 1989 in Rio de Janeiro and featured one race only: a 15K run for women... | Sports Competition | null | null |
2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship |
The 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship was held in Birmingham, Great Britain from 7 to 17 July 2010. Both the men's and women's tournaments were held. The Championships was a qualifying event for the London 2012 Paralympic Games. [1]
Dylan Alcott
Jeremy Doyle
Justin Eveson
Michael Hartnett
Tristan Kno... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Fueled by climate change, costly Southwest drought isn’t going away | With absent rainy seasons, depleted snowpack, widespread heat waves, unprecedented wildfires and low reservoirs, the American West has experienced an extraordinary drought since early 2020. To inform and prepare Americans for droughts like this one, three questions are critical to answer: How bad is this drought? What ... | Droughts | null | null |
Don’t expect regional organizations to rein in coups | With mounting pressures from the United Nations and the risk of retreat from others in the international community, many countries expect these regional organizations to do more to prevent unconstitutional changes in government. However, our research shows how established organizational cultures and principles temper t... | Regime Change | null | null |
A locust plague hit East Africa. The pesticide solution may ... | News
A locust plague hit East Africa. The pesticide solution may have dire consequences.
Heavy use of a broad-spectrum pesticide seems to have slowed the desert locust invasion. What the repercussions of that approach are isn’t yet clear.
Seen from the air at dawn, a swarm of desert locusts begins to move across farmla... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Millions of people in Angola faces hunger | Angola: Millions facing hunger, as thousands flee their homes as drought ravages the south of Angola Millions of people in southern Angola are facing an existential threat as drought aggravated by climate change continues to ravage the region, Amnesty International said today. The organization highlighted how the cr... | Famine | null | null |
Karsten Warholm Has Great Reaction to Setting 400m Hurdles World Record | Norway's Karsten Warholm crushed his own world record to win the men's 400m hurdles final in 45.94 seconds on Monday night.
And his reaction was priceless.
On July 1, Warholm broke American Kevin Young's 29-year-old world record of 46.78 seconds at a Diamond League meet with a time of 46.70, and he blew by that mark ju... | Break historical records | null | null |
The fight over the debt ceiling has the potential to tank the U.S. economy—here’s what it means | Two days ago, this broadsheet reported on Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Chua’s estimate of the total economic cost of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns. The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) cited a total cost of P41.4 trillion representing foregone growth drivers such as consumption, priv... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Still a chance to see the Northern Lights across parts of Canada tonight | Thursday, December 10th 2020, 12:10 pm - Aurora-chasers in Alberta and Saskatchewan should keep their eyes to the skies tonight! Update: After the arrival of the solar storm on Wednesday night, forecasters with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center determined that the initial estimate of its strength was too high. The... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crash | Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 (QZ8501/AWQ8501) was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Indonesia AirAsia (an AirAsia Group affiliate) from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore. On 28 December 2014, the Airbus A320 flying the route crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 162 people on board. [1][2] When se... | Air crash | null | null |
Salernitana promoted to Serie A, Berlusconi's Monza in play-offs | Salernitana earned promotion to Serie A on Monday as they secured second place behind Serie B champions Empoli, while Silvio Berlusconi's ambitious Monza will go into the playoffs after finishing third.
A 3-0 victory over relegated Pescara ensured Salernitana will return to Italy's top flight for the first time since t... | Join in an Organization | null | null |
Year in Review: More Than 11,000 Fashion-Related Doors Shutter in 2020 | Rivet’s 2021 winter issue has dropped! This in-depth issue examines the steps the global denim industry is taking to minimize its impact on the environment, from implementing zero waste production and design processes to establishing greenhouse gas emissions goals aligned with the Paris Agreement. View Now Covid-19 ... | Organization Closed | null | null |
United Way branches locally to merge into one organization | Six local United Way organizations are merging into one agency to serve Monroe, Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, Wayne and Wyoming Counties. Officials in the non-profit sector are calling it a momentous occasion. Jaime Saunders, who currently leads the Rochester-based United Way, will be the head of the new organization ... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Coffee sector revival: Growers seek special package over weak prices, freak weather patterns | Reeling under the impact of weak prices and crop losses triggered by freak weather patterns in recent years, coffee growers have urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to consider a special package for the revival of the coffee sector A delegation of representatives of Karnataka Planters Association (KPA), United Pl... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
NATO exercises sweep Europe amid Russian escalation, rising tensions between Moscow and US | See exclusive look at US troops training European forces 02:44 Constanta, Romania (CNN) Lit only by an orange floodlight, a single file of camouflaged men crept along the wall of a small, dark Romanian port on the Black Sea. Suddenly, they opened fire on the two men guarding a darkened warehouse with broken windows. ... | Military Exercise | null | null |
1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash | On 7 February 1981, a Tupolev Tu-104 passenger jet crashed during take off from Pushkin Airport near Leningrad (today's Saint Petersburg), Russia, resulting in the death of all 50 people on board, including 28 high-ranking Soviet military personnel. The official investigation concluded that the aircraft was improperly ... | Air crash | null | null |
Indigenous villagers concerned about town water source after approval of granite quarry |
The Indigenous village of Roelands in Western Australia's south-west is a special place for the handful of people who live there.
From the early 1940s it was used as a mission for stolen generations children.
Roelands CEO Les Wallam was just four years old when he first came to the village.
He helped in the fight to r... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Sewage leak closing Tasmanian oyster farms, deterring swimmers |
A sewage leak, which has closed some Tasmanian oyster farms, will cost jobs and hurt the economy in the St Helen's region, the mayor has warned.
Heavy rainfall on Friday caused a TasWater pump station to overflow and leak raw sewage into Georges Bay on the state's east coast.
The overflow has forced oyster farm's on t... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
School closure: The mountain of myths standing between our kids and education | Saili and Mayank [names changed] live in a Mumbai slum, with their parents in a meagre dwelling, hardly 10ft x 10ft, divided into a bedroom and kitchen. They study in class 3 and class 7 respectively, in nearby schools. Scratch that. They are enrolled in schools would be more accurate, as any meaningful study or educat... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Covid News: Delta Variant Is Overwhelming Alaska, Site of Worst U.S. Outbreak | Police patrol Bondi Beach in Sydney last month. The Eastern Suburbs and affluent part of the city has been criticized for its relaxed approach to lockdown measures compared to the lower socio-economic areas in Western Sydney as coronavirus cases continue to rise.Credit...Matthew Abbott for The New York Times SYDNEY, Au... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Not-for-profit Generic Drug Company Officially Established, Attracts Interest of More Than 120 Health Organizations | Newsroom / Not-for-profit Generic Drug Company Officially Established, Attracts Interest of More Than 120 Health Organizations Not-for-profit Generic Drug Company Officially Established, Attracts Interest of More Than 120 Health Organizations 14 generic drugs used in hospitals are initial focus of efforts, CEO named S... | Organization Established | null | null |
57 arrested in Basra bank robbery | British soldiers arrested 57 Iraqis after an audacious bid to rob a branch of the national bank in central Basra, an officer said. Lieutenant William Horley of the Irish Guards says the group managed to blast open one of six vaults in the bank with grenades, which they had attached to one-metre thick concrete walls aft... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Locusts swarm through drought-stricken Ethiopia’s crops | If the difficult litany of this year’s climate change news has you wondering when there will be a plague of locusts next, well, there is – and there’s no joke when it comes to how millions of the voracious, crop-eating pests may affect Ethiopia. “Urgent control operations are required to manage the situation and protec... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Children’s Hospital: 2 more Waukesha parade victims head home, 1 child remains | When the tragedy first happened on Nov. 21, 18 children were taken to be treated at Children’s hospital. Unfortunately, 8-year-old Jackson Sparks passed away at Children’s Hospital on Nov. 23. Many of the other young victims have been recovering and returning home following the devastation of the parade. TMJ4 spent som... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
Armed robbery at Victor Harbor as police search for man with gun who fled on foot | Armed robbery at Victor Harbor as police search for man with gun who fled on foot Keep up to date with the latest COVID-19 exposure sites in Queensland Police are searching for a man believed to be carrying a gun who robbed a bank at Victor Harbor south of Adelaide. Detectives said the man told staff he had a gun when ... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Famines in Ethiopia | Famines in Ethiopia occurred periodically due to a number of reasons throughout the history of the country, which was formerly known as Abyssinia. The economy of Ethiopia was based on subsistence agriculture, with an aristocracy that consumed the surplus. Due to a number of causes, the peasants have lacked incentives t... | Famine | null | null |
1975 Devastation Glacier landslide | The 1975 Devastation Glacier landslide was a massive rock avalanche that originated from Devastation Glacier on the southern flank of the Mount Meager massif on July 22, 1975. [1] It had a volume of 13,000,000 m3 (460,000,000 cu ft) and buried and killed a group of four geologists at the confluence of Devastation Creek... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
1975 Banqiao Dam failure | The 1975 Banqiao Dam failure (simplified Chinese: 河南“75·8”水库溃坝; traditional Chinese: 河南「75·8」水庫潰壩) was the collapse of the Banqiao Dam and 61 other dams in Henan, China under the influence of Typhoon Nina in August 1975. [1][2][3][4] The dam collapse created the third-deadliest flood in history which affected a total p... | Floods | null | null |
2006 European floods | From February to April 2006 many rivers across Europe, especially the Elbe and Danube, swelled due to heavy rain and melting snow and rose to record levels. These are the longest rivers in Central Europe. High Danube levels caused significant flooding in parts of Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania, with damage to property an... | Floods | null | null |
Accrediting group plans campus visit to examine allegations at UF | After an onsite visit, a team from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools will present its findings to the association’s board of trustees in June. [ University of Florida ]
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Officials at the University of Florida have worked to quiet the reaction to recent allegations tha... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
ANTHONY HALL robbed a bank | Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANTHONY HALL, 60, of Montville, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of bank robbery. According to court documents and statements made in court, in April 2011, Anth... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
2018 Bangladesh quota reform movement |
The 2018 Bangladesh Quota Reform Movement is an ongoing students' movement demanding reforms in policies regarding recruitment in the Bangladesh government services. Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Adhikar Sangrakshan Parishad (Bangladesh General Students' Right Conservation Council) initiated movement initially began in... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
12 May Karachi riots | The 12 May Karachi riots, also known as Black Saturday riots, were a series of violent clashes between rival political activists in Karachi. [2] The unrest began as the recently suspended chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry arrived at the Jinnah International Airport on 12 May 2007. Gunfights and clashes erupted a... | Riot | null | null |
1973 Point Mugu earthquake | The 1973 Point Mugu earthquake occurred at 06:45:57 local time on February 21 in the Point Mugu area of southeastern Ventura County of southern California. It had a moment magnitude of 5.8 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of VII (Very strong). This oblique-slip shock resulted in several injuries and $1 million in damag... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Ida flooding leaves at least 8 dead in Central Jersey, 23 in NJ, Murphy says: Live updates | More than 1,000 city residents have been evacuated as a result of the storm, officials said Thursday evening. The city's emergency shelter facilities served 164 people and 24 pets. There are 12 individuals currently using the shelter. An estimated 50 stranded motorists were rescued Wednesday night from the tops of disa... | Gas explosion | null | null |
50+ Celebrity Couples You Totally Forgot Were Married | Wait, Bradley Cooper was married to WHO?! You know that thing where you hear about a celeb getting married for the *second* time, and you’re like, “Wait, what? Who was the first one?” Well, save yourself a future Wikipedia deep dive and get comfy because we’ve put together a very extensive list of all the celebr... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Yami Gautam-Aditya Dhar married: Dia Mirza, Varun Dhawan and other celeb friends congratulate newlywed couple | 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' MAJOR leak confirms Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Charlie Cox joining Tom Holland in the Multiverse 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' new poster unleashes the Multiverse; Tom Holland starrer to release in India on Dec 17 Ryan Reynolds: I'm taking a sabbatical from films, to get creative and excit... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Continental Airlines Flight 1404 crash | Continental Airlines Flight 1404 was a Continental Airlines flight from Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado, to George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas. [1] On the evening of December 20, 2008, the flight crashed while taking off from Denver, resulting in two critical injuries, 36 noncritic... | Air crash | null | null |
2019 FIBA Intercontinental Cup | The 2019 FIBA Intercontinental Cup was the 28th edition of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup. The tournament took place from 15 to 17 February 2019. The tournament was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the Carioca Arena 1. [1][2]
The tournament was held under a Final Four format, played by four teams, and included a thir... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Kenya and Ethiopia sign cross-border agreement | Kenya and Ethiopia have signed a UN-backed trade deal worth $200m (£130m) in a bid to ease cross-border conflict.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn agreed the deal in the border town of Moyale.
The deal aims to tackle youth unemployment by creating jobs in the energy, mining and livestock... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
2016 Silk Way Airlines Antonov An-12 crash | On 18 May 2016, a Silk Way Airlines Antonov An-12 cargo plane crashed after an engine failure[1] shortly after taking off from Dwyer Airport in southern Afghanistan, en route to Mary International Airport in Turkmenistan. [2] Seven of the nine crew members on board were killed in the crash, which was the second inciden... | Air crash | null | null |
Consequences of the U.S. Withdrawal from the JCPOA | The overarching question imparting urgency to this exploration is: Can U.S.-Russian contention in cyberspace cause the two nuclear superpowers to stumble into war? In considering this question we were constantly reminded of recent comments by a prominent U.S. arms control expert: At least as dangerous as the risk of a... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
November 1964 Vietnam floods |
In November 1964, the quick succession of three typhoons—Iris, Joan, and Kate—caused widespread flooding in Vietnam. Constituting part of a very active typhoon season, the three typhoons made landfalls in South Vietnam within a 12-day period. The floods occurred against the backdrop of the escalating Vietnam War. Har... | Floods | null | null |
1619 Jamestown Polish craftsmen strike | The Jamestown craftsmen's strike of 1619 took place in the settlement of Jamestown in the Virginia colony. [1] It was the first documented strike in North America. [2] Skilled craftsmen were sent by the Virginia Company to Jamestown to produce pitch, tar, and turpentine used for shipbuilding. [3] When the colony held i... | Strike | null | null |
A 6-Year-Old Girl Died On A Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park Ride | The Haunted Mine Drop is shown in this July 2017 file photo at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Glenwood Springs, Colo. The Haunted Mine Drop is billed as the first drop ride to go underground, plunging riders 110 feet inside of Iron Mountain. ... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Body of seventh and last miner recovered from Coahuila mine | The body of the last of seven miners trapped in the Micarán mine in Múzquiz, Coahuila, was recovered on Thursday after a nearly week-long search effort.
Part of the mine collapsed last Friday after heavy rains, trapping seven miners. The mine is an open coal pit 800 meters long and 100 meters deep. Initially, authoriti... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Uptown Shelby Association cancels Shelby Alive concert | The event has been canceled due to the delta variant of COVID-19 that continues to spread rapidly throughout Cleveland County and the state. In determining whether to move forward with the concert, the Uptown Shelby Association consulted with Atrium Health and the Cleveland County Public Health Center about the local m... | Organization Closed | null | null |
University selects Michael Bloomberg as commencement speaker | While some students understand the University’s decision, others believe Bloomberg was not the appropriate choice to deliver this year’s commencement speech.
The University announced on May 14 that billionaire, philanthropist and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will give the commencement speech for the Cl... | Famous Person - Give a speech | null | null |
11-year-old girl released from hospital after being shot 5 times: 'I had to be strong for my mom' | Vadyn King was released from Texas Children's Hospital and still recovering after being struck early Sunday morning. "I just want to thank God," Vadyn said. "I never thought this was going to happen." It was just after 5 a.m. when investigators said at least two people targeted the family's home on Blanchard Hill Lane ... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
Joint Bulgarian-American Military Training Starts at Novo Selo Range | At the "Novo Selo" training field begins the joint Bulgarian-American military excercise, which will last until October 19, 2019, informed the Ministry of Defense press center. It will involve forces and resources from the Ministry of Defense, the structures of direct subordination to the Minister of Defense and the Bu... | Military Exercise | null | null |
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