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Farmers Are Feeling The Pain As Drought Spreads In The Northwest | Curled heads of wheat show the drought damage on Nicole Berg's ranch in southeast Washington state. Anna King/Northwest News Network Curled heads of wheat show the drought damage on Nicole Berg's... | Droughts | null | null |
Northern Indiana United Ways to Merge | NORTHWEST INDIANA - Lake Area United Way and United Way of Porter County have agreed to merge into a single organization, United Way of Northwest Indiana. The process began in March after Lake Area United Way Chief Executive Officer Lisa Daugherty left her position to lead the Center for Workforce Innovations. United W... | Organization Merge | null | null |
US Says It Will Resume Talks with Taliban Next Week | FILE - In this May 28, 2019 file photo, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group's top political leader, third from left, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for talks in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File) Asharq Al-Awsat The United States will resume talks with the Taliban ... | Regime Change | null | null |
16 years of Indian Ocean tsunami: What India has learnt | December 26 marks the 16th anniversary of the massive Indian Ocean tsunami. On this day, a 100-foot high tsunami triggered by an earthquake of magnitude 9.1, one of the largest ever recorded, from under the Indian Ocean killed more than 230,000 people in South Asia. With the epicentre near Sumatra, Indonesia, the earth... | Tsunamis | null | null |
The U.S. withdraw from WHO | President Donald Trump on Friday said he would make good on his threat to withdraw from the World Health Organization — an unprecedented move that could undermine the global coronavirus response and make it more difficult to stamp out other disease threats. Trump has criticized the United Nations health agency for fail... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Worldwide Protests for Free Expression in Bangladesh |
The Worldwide Protests for Free Expression in Bangladesh were a series of rallies outside Bangladeshi embassies and consulates to demand the release of four Bangladeshi bloggers who had been arrested on charges of blasphemy. The protests took place on 25 April – 2 May 2013 and were organised by the Center for Inquiry... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Police probe alleged fraud at Scottish Qualifications Authority | A police investigation has been launched into an alleged internal financial fraud at the Scottish Qualifications Authority.
The probe relates to the quango's Glasgow office and the allegation is understood to involve a six-figure sum of money.
The SQA said a "suspected case of financial irregularity" had been referred ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
Oklahoma Natural Gas provides tips on conserving energy use, prevent carbon monoxide poisoning | by: Hicham Raache/KFOR Symbol photo: A flame burns on a gas stove on February 21, 2020. (Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images)
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma Natural Gas is providing tips on how residential customers can conserve energy and prevent carbon monoxide poisoning as the winter storm’s his... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Deadly Myanmar mine disaster caused by poor planning, say data sleuths | Hundreds of people were buried by a landslide when the wall of the Wai Khar open mine collapsed on 2 July 2020.Credit: Zaw Moe Htet/AFP via Getty A detailed analysis of satellite and remote-sensing data has uncovered poor conditions at the Wai Khar jade mine in northern Myanmar, where a landslide last July killed more... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Trump administration abandons 1987 U.S.-Russia missile treaty | Franz Klintsevich, deputy chairman of Russia's Committee for Defense and Security, said Russia "will not comply with the treaty unilaterally ... We'll have to revive a number of medium- and short-range missile creation projects." The INF treaty was signed by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
COVID-19 in Florida classrooms results in school closures, concern | VERO BEACH, Fla. — Just a month into the second year of "pandemic school" and Florida school districts are struggling to keep up. In Indian River County, positive cases and quarantine forced the district to close two of its schools this week. SPECIAL COVERAGE: Coronavirus "It's just not sustainable when you don't have ... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Claudia Webbe: MP convicted of harassment gets suspended sentence | Claudia Webbe was found guilty of harassing Michelle Merritt, a long-term friend of her partner Lester Thomas An MP who made threatening phone calls to a woman because she was jealous of her relationship with her partner has been given a suspended sentence. Claudia Webbe, a former Labour MP for Leicester East who is no... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
Russia opens criminal cases after nine die of alcohol poisoning | MOSCOW, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Investigators in Russia's Orenburg region opened criminal cases on Thursday into the deaths of nine people from alcohol-poisoning this week after they consumed locally-produced spirits.
The local branch of the investigative committee said it was probing whether alcohol products sold in the reg... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
2018 Athletics World Cup | The Athletics World Cup was a team-based international athletics competition held in 2018. [1]
It featured eight national teams based on world rankings, with each team entering one athlete per event, and points gained on the basis of finishing position. Although the majority of world championship events were contested... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Battle of George Square |
Protesters
20-25,000 protesters
The Battle of George Square was a violent confrontation in Glasgow, Scotland between Glasgow City Police and striking Glasgow workers, centred around George Square. The 'battle', also known as "Bloody Friday" or "Black Friday", took place on Friday 31 January 1919, 82 days after the... | Strike | null | null |
2003 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship qualification | The 2003 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship was the ninth edition of the Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship, the quadrennial international men's field hockey championship of Europe organized by the European Hockey Federation. It was held from 1 until 13 September 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. This was the last EuroHo... | Sports Competition | null | null |
2014–2020 Nicaraguan protests |
Opposition
Civil society
Government of Nicaragua
Sandinista National Liberation Front
Students
Private sector
The 2014–2020 Nicaraguan protests are a series of protests against President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega and actions performed by his government, the dismantling of the opposition, and violence against p... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Strong quake, small tsunami | image: For a total of two years, 15 ocean bottom seismometers off northern Chile recorded aftershocks from the 2014 Iquique earthquake. Northern Chile is an ideal natural laboratory to study the origin of earthquakes. Here, the Pacific Nazca plate slides underneath the South American continental plate with a speed of ... | Tsunamis | null | null |
1933 Long Beach earthquake | The 1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at 5:54 P.M. PST south of downtown Los Angeles. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach, California, on the Newport–Inglewood Fault. The earthquake had a magnitude estimated at 6.4 Mw, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Damage to buildin... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Melbourne real estate company Hocking Stuart Doncaster fined for underquoting properties | 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
A Melbourne real estate c... | Organization Fine | null | null |
December 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake |
The December 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake occurred with a moment magnitude of 6.3 in South Asia on 25 December 2015. [4] One woman was killed in Pakistan. At least 100 people were injured in Pakistan and Afghanistan. [5] The quake was also strongly felt in Tajikistan and India. The epicenter of the earthquake was in th... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 crash | Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 (PK705) was a Boeing 720 airliner that crashed while descending to land at Cairo International Airport on 20 May 1965. Of the 121 passengers and crew on board, all but 6 were killed. [2] The accident, the fourth and worst involving a Boeing 720, was the deadliest to occur in E... | Air crash | null | null |
Clayton Tunnel rail crash |
The Clayton Tunnel rail crash occurred on Sunday 25 August 1861, five miles from Brighton on the south coast of England. At the time it was the worst accident on the British railway system. A train ran into the back of another inside the tunnel, killing 23 and injuring 176 passengers. Three north-bound trains left Br... | Train collisions | null | null |
2019 Istanbul earthquake |
2019 Istanbul earthquake was a 5.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked the south-west of Istanbul on 26 September 2019 at 13:59 local time. [8]
One person died due to a heart attack and 43 people were injured. [6] The earthquake was felt in Istanbul, Tekirdağ, Kırklareli, Kocaeli and Sakarya. [5]
North Anatolian Fault sy... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Syria's defense chief visits Jordan to discuss border security | A high-level delegation from Syria led by the country’s defense minister met with Jordan’s army chief on Sunday, in a rare meeting between the two neighboring countries.
Jordanian news outlets reported that Syrian Gen. Ali Ayoub and Jordanian Gen. Yousef Huneiti met in Amman to discuss border control. According to Syr... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
Sydney McLaughlin edges Dalilah Muhammad, sets world record to win 400-meter hurdles at Summer Olympics | Only one of the world's best hurdlers could win the Olympic gold medal -- and McLaughlin came out ahead in the latest installment of the best rivalry in track.
The 21-year-old from New Jersey won the 400-meter hurdles title Wednesday, finishing in 51.46 seconds in yet another history-making day on the speedy Olympic ov... | Break historical records | null | null |
South32 Dendrobium coal mine fined $15,000 for pumping sludge into Mount Kembla creek | 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 environmental watchdo... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Olympics-Athletics-Venezuela's Rojas smashes women's triple jump world record to take gold | TOKYO — Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela jumped 15.67 meters on Sunday to smash the world record in the women’s triple jump with her last attempt, having already secured the gold medal.
The previous record of 15.50m was set by Ukraine’s Inessa Kravets in 1995 in Sweden.
The win made Rojas Venezuela’s first woman Olympic cham... | Break historical records | null | null |
Brazilian robbers strap hostages to getaway cars in Araçatuba bank heist that leaves three dead | A daring and bloody heist has shut down streets in the Brazilian city of Araçatuba, with a gang of armed robbers targeting banks, exchanging gunfire with police and escaping in cars covered with human shields. After ransacking two bank branches, the criminals drove away with hostages clinging to their cars to deter pol... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
1992 NHL strike | The 1992 NHL strike was the first strike action initiated by the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) against the National Hockey League's (NHL) owners. It was called on April 1, 1992, and lasted ten days. The settlement saw the players earn a large increase in their playoff bonuses, increased control ov... | Strike | null | null |
Google fined a record $6.8 billion by EU over Android mobile system | European Union regulators have hit Google with a record $6.85 billion antitrust fine for using its Android mobile operating system to squeeze out rivals.
The penalty is nearly double the previous record of $3.7 billion which the United States tech company was ordered to pay last year over its online shopping search ser... | Organization Fine | null | null |
U.S. quits U.N. human rights body, citing bias vs. Israel, alarming critics | WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States withdrew from a “hypocritical and self-serving” United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday over what it called chronic bias against Israel and a lack of reform, a move activists warned would make advancing human rights globally even more difficult. Standing wi... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 crash | Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 was an air accident that occurred on 3 December 1995. The Boeing 737-200, registration TJ-CBE, crashed after it lost control near Douala, Cameroon. On its second approach to Douala International Airport power was lost to one engine. The accident killed 71 passengers and crew and five peopl... | Air crash | null | null |
Rossiya Hotel fire | The Rossiya Hotel (Russian: Гостиница «Россия») was a five-star international hotel built in Moscow from 1964 until 1967 at the order of the Soviet government. Construction used the existing foundations of a cancelled skyscraper project, the Zaryadye Administrative Building, which would have been the eighth of what are... | Fire | null | null |
Kerala reports less than 20,000 new Covid cases, positivity rate at 16.71% | Kerala detected 19,688 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the total cumulative tally to 42,27,526, the state health department said on Monday. The state has seen the count of fresh infections going below 20,000 for the first time in nearly 10 days. Further, 135 more people succumbed to the disease in Ke... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
US announces withdrawal from UNESCO, cites ‘anti-Israel bias’ | The United States announced Thursday that it is withdrawing from the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing financial considerations, the need for reform and the organization’s “continuing anti-Israel bias.” In a statement, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said that the decision... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Emergency officials urge safe use of generators | TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CAPITOL NEWS SERVICE) - As of Wednesday afternoon, roughly 23,000 Floridians were without power due to now-Tropical Storm Elsa and for the second day in a row, state officials warned of the dangers of improper power generator use.
“There have been more deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning over the l... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
2005 Labor Day brush fire | The Labor Day brush fire was a small brush fire that burned parts of Rancho Peñasquitos and Black Mountain Open Space Park in September 2005, during the 2005 California wildfire season. [1] Despite its small size, the brush fire was the worst wildfire to affect San Diego City in two years, since the Cedar Fire of 2003.... | Fire | null | null |
The Lund Report | Oregon health care companies may face more scrutiny from the state when they seek to merge with or buy hospitals, other providers and insurers. House Bill 2362 would give the Oregon Health Authority the power to approve or deny mergers, affiliations and acquisitions that involve a gain of more than $1 million in net pa... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Thieves rob bank in central Milan despite warnings from residents | Residents told bank they could hear tunnelling as early as last Monday, but thieves finished digging and emptied safe and deposit boxes Last modified on Sun 4 Mar 2018 12.46 GMT Police in Italy have been left embarrassed after thieves robbed a bank despite warnings from local residents that they could hear a tunnel bei... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Locust invasion threatens MENA crops | LONDON - Swarms of locusts swept into the Middle East and North Africa, posing serious danger to crops and risking a crippling food shortage. High winds pushed the locusts into the region from the Horn of Africa after the insects destroyed crops in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and South Sudan. The swarm w... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Lagos Government Resorts To Bribing Baruwa Gas Explosion Victims With N150,000 Over Fear Of N1.5billion Litigation | He told SaharaReporters that the government has decided to bribe the victims who are at least 30 in number, with the sum of N150, 000 each without consulting the appropriate legal quarters.
The solicitor for the victims of October 8th, 2020 Baruwa gas explosion in Lagos, Akeem Fadun, has said the the state government i... | Gas explosion | null | null |
1996 Jordanian protests | The 1996 Jordanian protests (Arabic: انتفاضة 1996 في الأردن) was mass protests and riots in Jordan for 2-4 weeks in August-September against new International Monetary Fund-led reforms, leading to bread-price hikes and despite economic troubles, the government of Abdul Karim Kabariti increased food prices and basic goo... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
VP Harris says U.S. will 'speak up' on South China Sea | HANOI, Aug 26 (Reuters) - The United States welcomes competition and does not seek conflict with Beijing, but will speak up on issues like maritime disputes in the South China Sea, Vice President Kamala Harris said on Thursday as she concluded a trip to Southeast Asia.
In visits to Singapore and Vietnam, Harris charged... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 19 crash | Aeroflot Flight 19 was a scheduled passenger flight from Bykovo Airport, Moscow, to Bryansk Airport, Bryansk. On 2 November 1973, a Yak-40 aircraft operating the flight was hijacked by 4 people 10 minutes before landing. The aircraft was then diverted to Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, where the hijackers demanded a buyout a... | Air crash | null | null |
Paralympic Games (Day 6 Men): Six World Records Broken, Led by China Podium Sweep | The men’s races at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo got off to an extremely fast start with a world record in the first race. It was the first of six world records during the session.
In the men’s 100 backstroke S7 class, Ukraine’s Andreii Trusov broke the world record to win the gold medal in 1:08.14. It was more than en... | Break historical records | null | null |
Guinea declares end of Marburg virus outbreak | Updated 1307 GMT (2107 HKT) September 17, 2021 A microscopic image of the Marburg virus. (CNN) An outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Guinea is officially over, health authorities said on Thursday, less than six weeks since West Africa's first ever case of the disease was detected. No further cases were confirmed b... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
The Descent into Madness of Brazil’s Bank Robberies | The pictures shocked Brazil and the world. Bank robbers fleeing the scene at high speed in their getaway vehicle, with hostages strapped to the roof and hood. The videos are grainy, shot hurriedly by nearby residents as the scene unfolded beneath them. But the violence in Araçatuba, a city of 200,000 people in the very... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
The Great Famine, the real terror of Halloween | OP-ED | This is a story of terror. The main characters were poor peasants who, although they worked in different crops, were poorly fed only with potatoes. This tuber, brought two centuries ago from America, was winter resistant and gave up to four harvests a year. The miracle of the potato had saved their lives, Irish lives, ... | Famine | null | null |
Morocco’s Navy Hosts US Coast Guard for Operation ‘Phoenix Express’ | Members of the US Coast Guard worked alongside the Moroccan Royal Navy to train on region-specific issues such as counterterrorism, drug trafficking, and irregular migration. Rabat - Morocco’s Navy hosted members of the US Coast Guard for the regional maritime training exercise Operation Phoenix Express from May 22-26... | Military Exercise | null | null |
2014 Kaohsiung gas explosions | On 31 July 2014, a series of gas explosions occurred in the Cianjhen and Lingya districts of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, following reports of gas leaks earlier that night. [4] Thirty-two people were killed and 321 people were injured. [3][5]
Eyewitnesses reported a smell of gas and white smoke coming out of manholes near Kaisy... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Surrey RCMP seek public's help to identify bank robbery suspects | VANCOUVER -- Mounties in Surrey are asking for the public's help to identify a pair of suspects involved in a bank robbery that took place in the Whalley neighbourhood last month. Surrey RCMP received reports of the robbery at a bank on 96 Avenue near 128 Street shortly before 7 p.m. on March 12. Two men entered the ... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
the Italian navy plucked four survivors - a Ghanaian, two Nigerians, and a man from Niger - from the sea. |
Also on Thursday, the Italian navy plucked four survivors - a Ghanaian, two Nigerians, and a man from Niger - from the sea. They said their inflatable boat had sunk after leaving Libya with 45 people on board. The International Organization for Migrants (IOM) says the missing 41 people have drowned.
The four sur... | Shipwreck | null | null |
PM Modi expected to travel to US this month; here’s a look at his foreign trips in last two years | Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to travel to the United States towards the end of September, which will mark his first foreign visit in around six months. This will also be the first time PM Modi will be visiting the country after President Joe Biden assumed office.
As per a tentative schedule, PM Modi’s visit... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
FBI Media Alert: FBI, Socorro Police Department Look for Bank Robber Also Suspected in Moriarty, Tijeras Robberies | An unidentified man suspected of recent bank robberies in Moriarty and Tijeras is now suspected of robbing a bank in Socorro on Thursday, July 22, 2021. The robbery happened at Wells Fargo, 501 North California Street, in Socorro at approximately 4:45 p.m. The suspect is described as a Hispanic male in his mid-40s, ap... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Weekly poultry digest: bird flu outbreaks in West Africa and labor crunch in the United States | The US moves one step closer to permitting cell-based meat and an Oregon ballot initiative could have major implications for poultry and livestock growers. The West African country of Benin has reported an outbreak of highly contagious H5N1 avian flu in two districts near its capital of Porto Novo. This comes soon afte... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Britain to front-run global rules on cryptoassets if necessary, says Bank Of England | Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke has published the national and provincial government audits for 2019/2020, providing an overview of government spending and points of concern over the annual period. In her first PFMA since taking office, Maluleke said that there were some ‘signs of improvement’ seen in a number of area... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Top 10 Archaeological Discoveries of 2020 | Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a giant Ice Age structure built from the remains of at least 60 mammoths at the Kostenki-Borshevo archaeological complex. The giant circular structure has a diameter of 12.5 metres and was built around 25,000 years ago during the peak of the last Ice Age (called the last g... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
2021 Colombian protests |
A series of ongoing protests began in Colombia on 28 April 2021 against increased taxes, corruption, and health care reform proposed by the government of President Iván Duque Márquez. The tax initiative was introduced to expand funding to Ingreso Solidario, a universal basic income social program established in Apr... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
2019 Karnataka floods |
On 1 August 2019, first week, due to heavy rainfall in the Monsoon season, severe flood affected the southern Indian State of Karnataka. As a security measure in the prevailing situation of heavy rains, India Meteorological Department issued Red alert to several regions of coastal and malnad regions of Karnataka sta... | Floods | null | null |
This hero WWII destroyer was reached in the world’s deepest shipwreck dive | On October 25, 1944, the Japanese navy launched an all-out counterattack against the U.S. invasion of the Philippines. The Japanese were able to lure Admiral Halsey and the Third Fleet away from the Philippines by exposing the last of their aircraft carriers. With the departure of the Third Fleet, the small task force ... | Shipwreck | null | null |
1988 Polish strikes | The 1988 Polish strikes were a massive wave of workers' strikes which broke out from 21 April, 1988 in the Polish People's Republic. The strikes, as well as street demonstrations, continued throughout spring and summer, ending in early September 1988. These actions shook the Communist regime of the country to such an e... | Strike | null | null |
Flooding and mudslides add to St. Vincent’s volcano woes | KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent (AP) — Heavy rains poured down on the island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday, causing flooding and mudslides that damaged some homes and further battered areas already burdened by heavy ashfall from eruptions of La Soufriere volcano. Authorities said there were no reports of deaths ... | Mudslides | null | null |
NASA is going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid. Things might get chaotic. | A new simulation shows that when the DART mission hits the target asteroid, it could send it spinning and wobbling in a dramatic way. By September 9, 2021 NASA/Johns Hopkins APL The dinosaurs didn’t have a space program, so when an asteroid headed toward Earth with their name on it 65 million years ago, they had no war... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
2003 European Figure Skating Championships | The 2003 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2002–03 season. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event was held at the Malmö Ice in Malmö, Sweden from January 20 to 26, 2003. The compu... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Indian navy warship conducts military exercise with South Korean vessel in East China Sea | An Indian Navy warship carried out a military exercise with a South Korean vessel in the East China Sea on Monday amid China's growing assertiveness in the region, officials said. "Indian Navy's indigenous ASW Corvette INS Kiltan deployed in the Far East undertook Navy Partnership Exercise in East China Sea with Republ... | Military Exercise | null | null |
2017 PDC World Darts Championship | The 2017 William Hill World Darts Championship was the 24th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation. The event took place at Alexandra Palace in London from 15 December 2016 to 2 January 2017. Phil Taylor made a 28th successive appearance... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Low levels of PFAS chemicals found outside Tamworth airport |
Chemicals associated with a toxic firefighting foam have been found at 10 private properties around Tamworth airport, in northern New South Wales, but the council's general manager says the levels are not concerning.
Testing began after it was revealed elevated levels of what is commonly known as PFAS chemicals had be... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Mentor on Tap & Uncorked event canceled due to staffing challenges | MENTOR, Ohio — The popular Mentor on Tap & Uncorked event planned for next month has been called off this year due to staffing and logistical challenges, according to the City of Mentor. Each year, Mentor on Tap & Uncorked draws in an average of 600 guests who come to taste creations from local brewers and vintners whi... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Northwest Middle School in Taneytown closed for in-person learning | Updated: 11:15 AM EDT Sep 22, 2021 (UPDATE 9/22): Northwest Middle School students will return to in-person learning Thursday.ORIGINAL STORY: Northwest Middle School in Taneytown closed for in-person learning Tuesday and will remain closed through Wednesday due to COVID-19 cases and close contacts, Carroll County Publi... | Organization Closed | null | null |
2016 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy | The 2016 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 22nd edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy for women. It was held between 18 and 26 June 2016 in London, United Kingdom. [1]
Argentina won the tournament for a record seventh time after defeating the Netherlands 2–1 in the final. [2]
After three editions with two diff... | Sports Competition | null | null |
See what popular Halloween attractions in the Hudson Valley will not take place in 2021 | The organizers of Forest O'Fears: The Haunting of Cedar Lane, a haunted attraction in Ossining, announced on Sept. 19 via a note on its Facebook page that it will not return for the 2021 season due to concerns over COVID-19, noting "we promise to be back with a vengeance next year as long as we kick the crap out of thi... | Organization Closed | null | null |
1943–44 Australian bushfire season |
A series of major bushfires following severe drought conditions in the state of Victoria in Australia, occurred during the summer of 1943–44. It was the driest summer ever recorded in Melbourne until 2002 with just 46 millimetres or 1.81 inches falling, a third of the long-term average. [1] Between 22 December 1943 ... | Fire | null | null |
Brian Manning back home...spends first anniversary in quarantine | San Fernando East Member of Parliament Brian Manning spent his first wedding anniversary at home under quarantine with his wife. Manning, who was hospitalised after contracting Covid-19, was discharged last Friday. In a telephone interview on Tuesday, he told the Express he was doing well and working from home while qu... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
1988 Remscheid A-10 crash | The 1988 Remscheid A-10 crash occurred on December 8, 1988, when an A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jet of the United States Air Force crashed onto a residential area in the city of Remscheid, West Germany. The aircraft crashed into the upper floor of an apartment complex. In addition to the pilot, five people were killed.... | Air crash | null | null |
1973 Luhuo earthquake | The 1973 Luhuo earthquake struck near the town of Zhaggo in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, China on February 6 with a magnitude of 7.6 Ms. The earthquake had a maximum intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale, resulting in 2,199 deaths and a further 2,743 injuries in Sichua... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Siskin's StarNight 2021 event canceled amid COVID concerns | Another event has been canceled as the number of COVID cases continues to rise in the Tennessee Valley. Siskin Children’s Institute canceled their StarNight 2021, previously scheduled for Saturday, September 25, citing the rising number of COVID-19 cases.? “We are saddened that we are having to cancel our 60th annual S... | Organization Closed | null | null |
2007 Australian equine influenza outbreak |
An outbreak of equine influenza (EI) in Australia was confirmed by the Department of Primary Industries (New South Wales) on 24 August 2007 in Sydney. Also known as "horse flu" and "A1 influenza", the rapid outbreak was of the Influenza A virus strain of subtype H3N8. While the virus is highly contagious, it rarely k... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
2007 Tabasco flood |
Coordinates: 17°58′19″N 92°35′17″W / 17.972°N 92.588°W / 17.972; -92.588
The 2007 Tabasco flood occurred in late October and early November 2007 in the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas, in which as much as 80% of the former was left under water. [1] At least 20,000 people were forced to seek emergency shelter... | Floods | null | null |
Man faces charges after bank robbery, crash on US-23 in Ann Arbor during police chase | Updated: March 29, 2021 12:32 pm Meredith Bruckner, Community News Producer, All About Ann Arbor ANN ARBOR – Ken Kenyatta Wilson was charged on Friday with a slew of felonies by the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office. Wilson fled police officers on Tuesday afternoon after robbing the Chase Bank at 4101 E. Ellsworth R... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Amateur Treasure Hunter Finds Trove of 1,000-Year-Old Viking Jewelry | Buried on the Isle of Man around 950 A.D., the artifacts include a gold arm ring and a silver brooch Last December, retired police officer and metal detecting enthusiast Kath Giles made a stunning discovery while exploring a tract of private land on the Isle of Man: a trove of 1,000-year-old Viking jewelry. As Tobi Th... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
EuroBasket 1967 | The 1967 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1967, was the fifteenth FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. 1. Soviet Union: Sergei Belov, Modestas Paulauskas, Gennadi Volnov, Jaak Lipso, Anatoly Polivoda, Priit Tomson, Tõnno Lepmets, Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, Vladim... | Sports Competition | null | null |
2016 Oklahoma earthquake |
The 2016 Oklahoma earthquake occurred on September 3, 2016 near Pawnee, Oklahoma. Measuring 5.8 on the moment magnitude scale, it is the strongest in state history. At 5.8 magnitude, this ties it with the 2011 Virginia earthquake, which was determined after it struck to be the most powerful quake in the eastern Unite... | Earthquakes | null | null |
7 takeaways from the first day of COP26: Biden's apology, a forests deal and India's net zero pledge | Royalty -- both real and of the TV variety -- was also in attendance, with Prince Charles urging leaders to work together, and the celebrated naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough telling them future generations would judge them by their actions during this conference. Later in the day, Queen Elizabeth II welco... | Famous Person - Give a speech | null | null |
Wigan athlete Keely Hodgkinson breaks Kelly Holmes' national record to take silver at Tokyo Olympics | With your permission we and our partners may use precise geolocation data and identification through device scanning. You may click to consent to our and our partners’ processing as described above. Alternatively you may access more detailed information and change your preferences before consenting or to refuse consent... | Break historical records | null | null |
2017 Botswana earthquake |
The 2017 Botswana earthquake is a magnitude 6.5 earthquake which occurred in the Central District of Botswana. It is the second largest earthquake recorded in Botswana next to the 6.7 magnitude earthquake in Maun which occurred in 1952. [1]
The earthquake which happened at 19:40, local time according to the US Geolo... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Gas cylinder explosion kills 9 in Pakistan's Punjab | Photo taken with mobile phone shows a burnt-out passenger van in Gujranwala district of Pakistan's east Punjab province, Aug. 8, 2021. Nine people were killed and three others injured when the gas cylinder of a passenger van exploded in Gujranwala district of Pakistan's east Punjab province on Sunday night, local media... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Court jails Wangaratta bank robber | A man who robbed a bank in Wangaratta last year has been sentenced to a year and nine months in jail. Damon Howard Alexander, 41, went into a bank in Murphy Street in November and demanded money. The teller handed over cash. Alexander pleaded guilty in the magistrates court in Wangaratta yesterday to robbery and theft.... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
In a Remarkable Find, Archaeologists Exploring the ‘Cave of Horror’ in Israel Have Discovered a New Dead Sea Scroll | For the first time in 60 years, archaeologists have discovered a new fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a cache of ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts uncovered in the Qumran Caves on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. The Israel Antiquities Authority, which carried out the excavations, believes the new scr... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Standard Chartered Bank branch robbed | SINGAPORE - A Canadian man who escaped with more than $30,000 after robbing a Standard Chartered Bank branch in Holland Avenue on July 7, 2016, was sentenced to five years' jail and six strokes of the cane on Wednesday (July 7). However, he may not be caned as the Singapore Government had assured Britain that any corpo... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
'Significant movement' made in preparing to find source of Wheatley explosion | Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Copy Url
Municipal and provincial officials have formed a technical advisory group to build a framework for the investigation into the cause of a Wheatley explosion... | Gas explosion | null | null |
The Good Friday Agreement and the Protocol’s Trade Arrangements | Since the furore erupted over the release of the Internal Market Bill, and the admission that it breaches the UK’s commitments under the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, an increasingly intense debate has raged over whether or not this move also threatens the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement 1998 (the GFA).
This agre... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
1997 M42 motorway crash |
On 10 March 1997 a multiple-vehicle collision occurred on the M42 motorway near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in central England. Three people were killed and more than 60 others were injured in the crash, which happened in dense fog during the early morning rush hour. At around 6:20 a.m. a lorry, driven by David Fairc... | Road Crash | null | null |
WFP warns 3 million more now ‘teetering on the edge of famine’ — Global Issues | This quantity has risen from 42 million earlier within the yr, and 27 million in 2019, the company stated, in a information launch. The rise relies on those that desparately residing inside the official starvation classification of IPC4 and above, in Afghanistan, alongside different will increase in Ethiopia, Haiti, So... | Famine | null | null |
1967 Ranchi-Hatia riots |
The Ranchi-Hatia riots of 1967 were communal riots which occurred in 1967 in and around Ranchi in present-day Jharkhand, India. The riots happened between 22 and 29 August 1967. 184 people were reported killed and 195 shops were looted and set on fire. [1]
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Kingston, Ont., partygoers could now face $2K fine, public shaming | Police and the medical officer of health in Kingston, Ont., already singled out people who attend illegal, unsafe gatherings. Now the city says those attendees will face higher fines, as well as the threat of being publicly named.
As of Friday at 4 p.m., a new emergency order from the City of Kingston targets large str... | Organization Fine | null | null |
2008 World Interuniversity Games | The 2008 World Interuniversity Games were the tenth edition of the Games (organised by IFIUS, and were held in Budapest, Hungary, from October 6 to October 10, 2008. With Budapest as host city, 2008 marked the first time the Games took place outside Western Europe. The host of 2008 was the Budapest University of Techno... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Top Headlines: Guinea | 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 August 2... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Great Survival Stories: 25 Days Adrift in an Icebox | In 2009, two men drifted helplessly inside an icebox for 25 days. Miraculously, they survived a disaster that killed their 18 crewmates. The two Burmese men had been working on a commercial fishing boat. The day had started innocuously enough but turned into a nightmare when the weather changed. Rough seas splintered t... | Shipwreck | null | null |
The longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century that occurs on this day | CCI penalizes paper companies for indulging in cartelization NASA, the US space agency, recently announced that the Earth is about to witness the longest partial lunar eclipse of 21 years.NS A century in a few weeks. According to NASA, we will witness this lunar eclipse on November 19, 2021. According to the US Space ... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
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