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Two injured in boat explosion at Port Macquarie marina | Two people have been injured, one seriously, after an explosion on a 20-foot houseboat at Port Macquarie on the New South Wales Mid North Coast.
Emergency services were called to a marina on the Hastings River in Port Macquarie at about 8:00pm after reports of a loud explosion.
Police said a 54-year-old man suffered se... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Black Action Movement | The Black Action Movement was a series of protests by African American students against the policies and actions of the University of Michigan. The protests themselves took place on three occasions in 1970, 1975, and 1987 (BAM I, BAM II, BAM III). Many student organizations participated in the movement, which has been ... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
EXCLUSIVE Deal allowing Russian mercenaries into Mali is close - sources | Malians hold a photograph with an image of Colonel Assimi Goita, leader of Mali's military junta, and Russia's flag during a pro-Malian Armed Forces (FAMA) demonstration in Bamako, Mali, May 28, 2021. REUTERS/ Amadou Keita/File Photo
PARIS, Sept 13 (Reuters) - A deal is close that would allow Russian mercenaries into... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
Borneo oil spill: Police question bulk coal carrier crew after four people killed, water polluted |
Indonesian police are questioning the crew of a bulk coal carrier over an oil spill off the island of Borneo that killed four fishermen and continues to pollute local waters.
Police have taken fuel samples from the Panama-flagged MV Ever Judger, which remains in Balikpapan Bay.
The ship, which is crewed by Chinese nat... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Coronavirus updates | September 7, 2021 | A file photo of a health worker collecting swab samples for COVID-19 test in Pandu area of Guwahati. | Photo Credit: Getty Images India logged 31,222 fresh cases of coronavirus infection taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,30,58,843, while the active cases were recorded below four lakh, according to the Un... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
2008 student protests in Chile |
The 2011–2013 Chilean protests – known as the Chilean Winter (in particular reference to the massive protests of August 2011) or the Chilean Education Conflict (as labelled in Chilean media) – were a series of student-led protests across Chile, demanding a new framework for education in the country, including more di... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Cracked gas main blamed for house explosion that killed woman | This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
house explosion which killed a woman as she was on a video call to her partner is likely to have been caused by a cracked gas main, an inquest has heard.
Hazel Wilcock, 61, died when her terraced home was destroyed by the bla... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Hyderabad: Teenmar Mallanna released from Chanchalguda jail | Hyderabad: Noted YouTube channel anchor Chintapandu Naveen aka Teenmar Mallanna, who has been in jail for a long time, has finally got bail from Telangana High Court. Soon after getting bail he was released from Chanchalguda central prison. Huge crowd gathered at the jail and he was welcomed by his fans. The police hav... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Release | null | null |
1958 Channel Airways de Havilland DH.104 Dove crash | The 1958 Channel Airways de Havilland DH.104 Dove crash occurred on 15 January 1958,[1] when a de Havilland DH.104 Dove of Channel Airways crashed on approach to Ferryfield Airport, Lydd, Kent due to mismanagement of the aircraft's fuel system by the pilot. All seven people on board survived, but the aircraft was writt... | Air crash | null | null |
Corporate Air Services HPF821 crash | Corporate Air Services HPF821 was a transport aircraft delivering weapons via clandestine airdrop to the Nicaraguan Contras which was shot down over Nicaragua on 5 October 1986 by a surface-to-air missile. Two U.S. pilots, Wallace "Buzz" Sawyer and William Cooper, and the Nicaraguan nationalist radio operator Freddy Vi... | Air crash | null | null |
2011 World Shotgun Championships | The ISSF World Shooting Championships are governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation. World Shooting Championships began in 1897, after the successful 1896 Summer Olympics, and although the ISSF was not founded until 1907, these early competitions are still seen by the organization as the beginning of a co... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Unified Command may use another Seacor liftboat at accident site | Seacor Eagle moored in Houma, La., April 23, 2021. The crew and vessel were inspected by Coast Guard marine inspectors for readiness and approval to be used as an asset for the Seacor Power response. U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Nicole Groll photo The Coast Guard suspended its search one week ago Mond... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Former stock trader Ross McCarty jailed for robbing banks after 'getting boozed' during lunchbreak | A former stock trader who drunkenly robbed Sydney banks more than four decades ago has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail. Ross McCarty, now 71, admitted to police he had a double life in which he would "get boozed at lunch time" for the hold ups in 1977 and 1978. Using a water pistol and disguises includ... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Family Dies Of Suspected Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In Haryana: Police | A couple and their five-year-old son died in Haryana's Faridabad due to suspected carbon monoxide poisoning after they went to sleep in a room kept warm by burning coal.
The victims were residents of Bihar and living in a rented accommodation in Faridabad, police said.
"The man and the woman, aged around 24 years, and ... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
WFP warns 3 million more now ‘teetering on edge of famine’ | The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Monday that the number of people teetering on the edge of famine in 43 countries, has risen to 45 million – up by three million this year – as acute hunger spikes around the world. This number has risen from 42 million earlier in the year, and 27 million in 2019, the agency s... | Famine | null | null |
Archaeologists Make Dramatic Discovery: A Prehistoric Human Type Previously Unknown to Science | Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have identified a new type of early human at the Nesher Ramla site, dated to 140,000 to 120,000 years ago. According to the researchers, the morphology of the Nesher Ramla humans shares features with both Neanderthals (especially the teeth and ... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Here are the top public and private colleges with the most generous financial aid packages | This year, because of the pandemic, the price of higher education is an even bigger consideration among students and parents. However, at the same time, the cost a four-year college or university has never been higher. Tuition and fees, alone, reached $10,560 for in-state students at four-year public colleges in the 20... | Financial Aid | null | null |
NASA to Hold Lucy Launch Preview Briefing | NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 28, to preview the launch of the agency’s first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. The Trojan asteroids are remnants of the early solar system clustered in two “swarms” leading and following Jupiter in its path around the Sun. Over its 1... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
India Covid-19 updates: Total cases reach 3.30 crore, death toll at 4.41 lakh | India logged 37,875 fresh cases of coronavirus infection taking the total tally of coronavirus cases to 3,30,96,718 on Wednesday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The active cases were recorded 3,91,256--below four lakh for two consecutive days. While the death toll has climbed to 4,41,411 with 369 fresh ... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Russia is going back to the moon this year | Russia is revisiting its Soviet space heritage for a new series of missions that will take the nation back to the m o on . The first of those missions, dubbed Luna 25, is scheduled to launch this October, ending a 45-year drought of Russian moon landings with the nation's first arrival at the south pole, where, like ev... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
These are the space missions to watch in 2021 | An artist's depiction of NASA's Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, storing samples of Martian rocks in tubes for a later rover to fetch and carry to Earth. While 2020 was a challenging year for the space industry (and everyone else) amid the coronavirus pandemic, a bunch of exciting missions that will launch or arrive at ... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
Hayman Fire | The Hayman Fire was a forest fire started on June 8, 2002, 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Colorado Springs, Colorado and 22 miles (35 km) southwest of Denver, Colorado and was, for 18 years, the largest wildfire in the state's recorded history at over 138,114 acres. During the 2020 wildfire season, the Pine Gulch Fire b... | Fire | null | null |
Animated Map: U.S. Droughts Over the Last 20 Years | The Western U.S. is experiencing one of the worst recorded droughts in the last 20 years. Temperatures from California to the Dakotas are currently hovering around 9-12°F above average—but how bad is the situation compared to past years? This animated map by reddit user /NothingAbnormalHere provides a historical look a... | Droughts | null | null |
USF softball player diagnosed with brain cancer | / Updated:
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TAMPA (WFLA) – USF softball player Alexis Buchman has been diagnosed with brain cancer following surgery for a brain tumor in September.
According to USF , Buchman, 20, started noticing numbness and tingling sensations in her left arm in July and sought treatment soon after fo... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
Stardust fire |
The Stardust fire was a fatal fire which took place at the Stardust nightclub in Artane, Dublin, Ireland in the early hours of 14 February (Valentine's Day) 1981. Some 800 people had attended a disco there, of whom 48 died and 214 were injured as a result of the fire. The club was located where Butterly Business Park... | Fire | null | null |
organization closed by different reasons in 2020 | Strategic agility is the ability to improve performance — not just survive but thrive — amid disruption. Companies that successfully navigated the Covid-19 crisis identified when to deviate from their strategic plan and adapt to the changing environment. The authors identified three distinct ways they did this: First, ... | Organization Closed | null | null |
2019 Sindh HIV outbreak | 2019 Sindh HIV outbreak refers to a Grade II Emergency as declared by the World Health Organization in the Ratodero area of Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan. [1] It was the first of many outbreaks of HIV in Pakistan in which the majority of those infected were children. [2]
By 13 June 2019, at least 798 people includ... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Radical War |
The Radical War, also known as the Scottish Insurrection of 1820, was a week of strikes and unrest in Scotland, a culmination of Radical demands for reform in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which had become prominent in the early years of the French Revolution, but had then been repressed during th... | Strike | null | null |
ISRO Chandrayaan-2 Detects Presence Of Water Ice On Moon’s Polar Regions | ISRO scientists revealed that its Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft that recently completed its second anniversary has picked up traces of water ice in the Permanently Shadowed Regions of the Moon. ISRO Also Read: ISRO Confirms Chandrayaan-3 Will Launch In 2020, Govt Says It Will Cost Less Than Chandrayaan-2 This was revealed ... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
Gloucester Rugby star Ben Morgan set for knee operation | The former England number eight has been a star of the resurgent Cherry and Whites side in 2021/22 Sport Ben Morgan of Gloucester Ruggby goes away from Kieran Wilkinson of Sale Sharks Former England number eight Ben Morgan will have minor surgery on a knee injury, Gloucester Rugby head coach George Skivington has conf... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
Pope Benedict XVI is welcomed by Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his wife Margarita Zavala upon his arrival at Silao's international airport in Guanajuato, Mexico on March 23, 2012. | Pope Benedict XVI is welcomed by Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his wife Margarita Zavala upon his arrival at Silao's international airport in Guanajuato, Mexico on March 23, 2012.
If you were Mexico’s ruling party, and your presidential candidate was down by double digits in the polls three months before the e... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
1996–1997 Macedonian protests | 4
Unrest in Gostivar and Tetovo[1] took place on July 9, 1997 in Macedonia. [2]
A new law on local elections was issued in 1996. The Democratic Party of Albanians won candidates in several municipalities in the western of the country. The mayor of Gostivar, Rufi Osmani, and mayor of Tetovo, Alajdin Demiri, displayed ... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
One of England's most important shipwrecks to be brought back to life in Essex | Watch a report by ITV News Anglia's Charlie Frost. One of England's most important 17th-century shipwrecks, The London, is being brought back to life by experts. 'The London', is a 17th-century wooden warship, which was once one of the most important vessels in the Commonwealth Navy, sank just off Southend Pier in 166... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: 'Bullying' couple 'poisoned' boy, 6, with salt | A "bullying" father and stepmother "poisoned" a six-year-old boy with salt and exposed him to months of "cruel" abuse, a court has heard.
Thomas Hughes and his girlfriend Emma Tustin are jointly accused of murdering Arthur Labinjo-Hughes at her home in Shirley, Solihull, on 17 June 2020.
Prosecutors said his head was "... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
2017 BWF World Championships |
The 2017 BWF World Championships of badminton were held from 21 to 27 August at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland. [1][2][3]
The event was held in Glasgow's Emirates Arena, which can hold 6,000 spectators. [3] When Glasgow hosted the event in 1997 it was held at the Scotstoun Centre. Glasgow originally submitt... | Sports Competition | null | null |
2016 West Virginia flood |
On June 23, 2016, a flood hit areas of the U.S. state of West Virginia and nearby parts of Virginia, resulting in 23 deaths. The flooding was the result of 8 to 10 inches (200 to 250 mm) of rain falling over a period of 12 hours, resulting in a flood that was among the deadliest in West Virginia history. [2] It is al... | Floods | null | null |
West Springfield police charge woman in connection with 2 bank robberies | WEST SPRINGFIELD — A woman who had been staying at a hotel on Riverdale Street was arrested Monday and charged with robbing two banks in a span of four days, police said. Wendi R. Young is charged with two counts of armed robbery while masked. She was arrested Monday at the Bel-Air Motel, 387 Riverdale St. Police said ... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
UNESCO, UNICEF say closed Afghan girls' schools violates fundamental right to education | Published: 20th September 2021 Both UNESCO and UNICEF said that Afghanistan has made significant gains in education, especially in girls' education, and they should be preserved Representative Image The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the United Nations Children Fun... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Highway 125 closes again due to mudslides | Aerial drone photos shows a mudslide along Colorado Highway 125 between Cabin Creek and Buffalo Creek in Grand County on Wednesday. Multiple mudslides on the burn scar shut the road down overnight. Courtesy Grand County Sheriff’s Office 4:15 p.m. update: After temporarily reopening Thursday, Colorado Highway 125 has sh... | Mudslides | null | null |
Three die in mine collapse in Zvimba | THREE artisanal miners from Newlands in Zvimba district died on Friday when a mine shaft they were working gave in and collapsed. The three were operating from an unregistered shaft under one Mr Mapiki’s plot, some 10km from Chinhoyi towards Banket. Two of the bodies were retrieved on Friday while the last one was retr... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
2010–2013 Southern United States and Mexico drought | The 2010–2013 Southern United States and Mexico drought was a severe to extreme drought that plagued the Southern United States, including parts of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, and Oklahoma; the Southwestern States, including Kansas, Colorado, New M... | Droughts | null | null |
Man faces multiple charges in relation to afternoon bank robberies | CALGARY -- A man faces multiple charges in relation to a pair of bank robberies that took place in Calgary on Monday. The first one took place at the TD Bank at 3630 Brentwood Road N.W. Monday at 12:30 p.m., when a man entered the bank wearing sunglasses and a bandana. Once inside, he approached a teller and asked f... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
SpaceX's Inspiration4 all-civilian spaceflight: Here's what to know | Inspiration4 is the third spaceflight by a billionaire in 2021. The other two — both suborbital missions — were the flight of Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson and company employees aboard the Unity 22 mission on July 11, and the flight of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and three other passengers (including noted... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
Flamengo training ground fire | The Flamengo training ground fire was a fatal fire incident that occurred at the training grounds of the Brazilian football team Flamengo in the early morning hours of February 8, 2019, killing ten youth players and leaving three injured. [1] The event is also known as Ninho do Urubu fire, as it occurred at the George ... | Fire | null | null |
Officials Issue Red Alert for U.S. Volcano Due to Impending Explosions | The sight of the new, disastrous La Palma volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands is capturing the attention of viewers from all over the world, while this is going on, a volcano closer to the residential area in the U.S. is erupting with new activity, forcing officials to raise a RED alert level. As per the Alaska Vol... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
1972 Chicago–O'Hare runway collision crash | On December 20, 1972, North Central Airlines Flight 575 and Delta Air Lines Flight 954 collided on a runway at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. [4][5] Ten people died – all on the North Central aircraft – and 17 were injured in the accident. [1]:1[6] This was the second major air... | Air crash | null | null |
Christina Ricci Marries Mark Hampton After Announcing Pregnancy: See Wedding Photos | They went to the chapel! Christina Ricci revealed she married Mark Hampton less than two months after announcing they were expecting a child together. Ricci, 41, announced their marriage on Saturday, October 9, when she shared wedding photos of herself and the hairstylist, 37, via Instagram. “Mr. and Mrs. ?❤️??,” she... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Natural gas lines purged at site of Dunwoody apartment explosion | Atlanta Gas Light crews returned to the Arrive Perimeter apartment complex Tuesday, more than two weeks after an explosion damaged a building and displaced dozens of Dunwoody residents.
Utility crews and DeKalb County firefighters purged any remaining natural gas from the lines leading to the complex, an Atlanta Gas Li... | Gas explosion | null | null |
UPDATE: 1 dead after carbon monoxide poisoning in Lubbock home, FMO investigating | by: Staff | newsweb@everythinglubbock.com LUBBOCK, Texas– One person is dead and another was transported to the hospital after reports of carbon monoxide poisoning in a Lubbock home on Thursday.
At approximately 9:00 a.m., Lubbock Fire Rescue responded to the incident in the 3100 block of 3rd Street. Police and EMS ... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Northeast Airlines Flight 946 crash | Northeast Airlines Flight 946 was a domestic U.S. flight from Boston, Massachusetts, to Montpelier, Vermont, with a scheduled stop in Lebanon, New Hampshire, operated by Northeast Airlines. On October 25, 1968, some time during the evening, the Fairchild Hiller FH-227 aircraft crashed on Moose Mountain while descending... | Air crash | null | null |
'Many will starve': locusts devour crops and livelihoods in Pakistan | Farmers faced with worst plague in recent history say they have been left to fend for themselves Mir Gul Muhammad, a farmer in Balochistan province, was blunt. “The worst that we have ever seen, ever, in our whole life,” he said of the swarms of locusts that descended on his village of Gharok. “I cultivated around 50 a... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant causes twice the hospitalisations of Alpha | In the most extensive investigation of its kind, researchers at Public Health England and the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, examined over 40,000 COVID-19 cases, identifying that the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant causes twice the estimated risk of hospitalisations of the Alpha variant. The study included b... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
COVID-19: Patients with mild symptoms may hesitate to see a doctor; experts urge public to be vigilant | SINGAPORE: Many who fall sick with milder respiratory symptoms may hesitate to see a doctor immediately because they are not sure if they are really ill, said doctors and experts.
“It's quite common for someone in the early phase of symptom onset to be unsure whether it’s the start of a cold or whether it’s just, say,... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
Ash Wednesday bushfires |
3700 homes and buildings lost
The Ash Wednesday bushfires, known in South Australia as Ash Wednesday II,[3] were a series of bushfires that occurred in south-eastern Australia on 16 February 1983, which was Ash Wednesday. Within twelve hours, more than 180 fires fanned by winds of up to 110 km/h (68 mph) caused wide... | Fire | null | null |
2008 Chatsworth train collision |
The Chatsworth train collision occurred at 4:22:23 p.m. PDT (23:22:23 UTC) on Friday, September 12, 2008, when a Union Pacific freight train and a Metrolink commuter train collided head-on in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The scene of the accident was a curved section of single track on the ... | Train collisions | null | null |
2001 Harehills riot |
The Harehills riot took place in the multi-ethnic Leeds district of Harehills (West Yorkshire, England) in 2001. The riot occurred after the alleged wrongful arrest of an Asian man by the West Yorkshire Police which was alleged to have been heavy-handed. More than 100 Asian, White, and Black youths were together invo... | Riot | null | null |
37 people in hospital over suspected food poisoning in Cape Town | The patients were treated at the scene and later transported to nearby clinics for urgent care.
37 people in hospital over suspected food poisoning in Cape Town. Picture - iStock.
A suspected food poisoning incident in Seawinds, Western Cape, has led to the hospitalisation of 37 people on Wednesday night.
When emergenc... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
M40 minibus crash |
On Thursday 18 November 1993, just after midnight, a minibus was involved in a fatal collision with a maintenance vehicle on the M40 motorway near Warwick, England. The minibus was transporting 14 children home to Worcestershire from a school trip to The Royal Albert Hall in London when it veered into the rear of the... | Road Crash | null | null |
1997 Asian financial crisis |
The Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East Asia and Southeast Asia beginning in July 1997 and raised fears of a worldwide economic meltdown due to financial contagion. However the recovery in 1998-1999 was rapid. The crisis started in Thailand (known in Thailand as the Tom Y... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
‘Beyond Reckless’: Atlanta Attorneys Plan To Sue Arrive Perimeter Apts. After Explosion | DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. (CW69 News at 10) — Attorneys representing victims of an apartment explosion at the Arrive Perimeter Apartments in Dunwoody announced plans to file a lawsuit.
Thirty-year-old Jasmine Johnson had lived in Building 2 at the complex since February. She never could have imagined what happened Sunday afte... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Former England captain Allan Lamb reveals prostate cancer diagnosis | Former England cricket captain Allan Lamb has revealed on Twitter he has been undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.
The South-African born batter urged people to get tested after being recently diagnosed himself.
Lamb made his Test debut for England in 1982 and went on to represent the country at three World Cups. ... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
Prized trout streams shrink as heat, drought grip US West | SARATOGA, Wyo. (AP) — The North Platte River in southern Wyoming has been so low in places lately that a toddler could easily wade across and thick mats of olive-green algae grow in the lazy current. Just over two years ago, workers stacked sandbags to protect homes and fishing cabins from raging brown floodwaters, the... | Droughts | null | null |
Police confirm cash found from Belfast bank robbery | It has been confirmed that 50,000 pounds ($A120,000) discovered at a police sports centre in Belfast came from a spectacular bank heist in the city last December. The Irish Government has accused the Irish Republican Army of being linked to the Northern Bank robbery and subsequent attempts to launder the cash. Police s... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Rallies ahead of Capitol riot were planned by established Washington insiders | The two days of rallies were staged not by white nationalists and other extremists, but by well-funded nonprofit groups and individuals that figure prominently in the machinery of conservative activism in Washington. The Post obtained hours of video footage, some exclusively, and placed it within a digital 3-D model of... | Organization Established | null | null |
2013 Euroleague Final Four | The 2013 Euroleague Final Four was the concluding Final Four tournament of the 2012–13 Euroleague season. It was held from 10 May till 12 May 2013, at The O2 Arena in London. The Greek League club Olympiacos, successfully defended their EuroLeague title from the previous season, after defeating CSKA Moscow in the Final... | Sports Competition | null | null |
The Looming Bank Collapse | The U.S. financial system could be on the cusp of calamity. This time, we might not be able to save it. After months of living with the coronavirus pandemic, American citizens are well aware of the toll it has taken on the economy: broken supply chains, record unemployment, failing small businesses. All of these factor... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 3843 crash | Aeroflot Flight 3843 was a Soviet Union commercial flight that crashed on January 13, 1977, after a left engine fire near Almaty Airport. All 90 people on board perished in the crash. [2]
The aircraft involved in the accident was a Tupolev Tu-104B, registered CCCP-42369 to Aeroflot. The aircraft was delivered to Aero... | Air crash | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 8381 crash | Aeroflot Flight 8381 was a scheduled flight of a twin-engine Tupolev Tu-134 that departed Tallinn Airport in Estonian SSR, Soviet Union, at 10:38 am on 3 May 1985, for Chişinău in Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union making a stopover at Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. While descending to Lviv in overcast weather, it collide... | Air crash | null | null |
China fines Canada Goose over parka claims; Salad kits recalled: CBC's Marketplace Cheat Sheet |
Canada Goose is in trouble with China for allegedly overstating the quality of down used in it's winter-apparel. The country's regulator, the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System, has fined the company 450,000 yuan, or about $88,202 Cdn. China's complaint centres on the company's claim it uses "H... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Menindee locals living with 'disgusting', 'filthy' tap water that smells like 'a sewer' |
If your tap water was the colour of mud, would you drink it?
Some of the locals in Menindee locals in far-west New South Wales say that is what they are being forced to endure.
"This is the disgusting water coming out of our tap today," Taya Biggs wrote in the Menindee Region Community Group on the Darling River Faceb... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Lost Decade (Peru) | The Lost Decade or the Crisis of the 80s (La crisis de los 80) was a period of economic stagnation in Peru throughout the 1980s which was exacerbated to a severe macroeconomic crisis by the end of the decade. [1] Foreign debt accumulation throughout Latin America, a series of natural disasters, mass public expenditures... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Pest control company pleads guilty after chemical poisoning leaves man in coma | A pest control company’s worker ended up in an induced coma after he was poisoned in a factory housing chemicals that can be used to make the pesticide 1080.
The man was hospitalised for more than two weeks in May 2019 after being exposed to a poisonous substance at a unit in Bromley, Christchurch, leased by Pest Cont... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Paninternational Flight 112 crash | Paninternational Flight 112 was a BAC One-Eleven operated by German airline Paninternational that crashed in Hamburg on 6 September 1971 while attempting to land on an autobahn following the failure of both engines. The accident killed 22 passengers and crew out of 121 on board. The aircraft, registered as D-ALAR, had ... | Air crash | null | null |
Covid-19 deaths during the fifth wave of the pandemic in Spain slowly begin to fall | The worst of the fifth wave of Covid-19 in Spain is now over. According to the latest report released by the Health Ministry on Friday, the 14-day cumulative number of coronavirus cases per 100,000 inhabitants has now fallen below 200, something that has not been seen since July 4. The fall in the curve of infections, ... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Weightlifting-China’s Shi breaks world record to win gold in 73kg category | TOKYO, July 28 (Reuters) – China’s Shi Zhiyong broke his personal world report to win the lads’s 73kg weightlifting occasion on the Olympics on Wednesday and declare a gold medal for the second Video games in a row.
The 27-year-old lifted a mixed 364 kg to raised his personal world report of 363 kg, set on the 2019 wor... | Break historical records | null | null |
2019 Copa América Final |
The 2019 Copa América Final was a final match of the 46th edition of Copa América tournament that took place on 7 July 2019 at the Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to determine the winner of the 2019 Copa América. [2]
The match featured Brazil, the tournament hosts and Peru, in which Brazil won the matc... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo Volcano Erupts, Sending Thousands Fleeing | The Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo erupted Saturday night (May 22), sending thousands of people fleeing across the border into Rwanda and filling the skies with orange-red smoke. By Sunday morning, the lava flow had slowed, stopping just short of the area’s major transit hub Goma, and so far no directly related injuries or d... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Crypto Kid Fraudster Gets 7 1/2-Years for Ponzi Scheme | Stefan Qin’s investors thought they’d found a sure thing -- a hedge fund that was generating 500% returns by exploiting the price gaps between cryptocurrencies on 40 exchanges throughout the world. Instead, the 24-year-old self-proclaimed math whiz used their money on a lavish lifestyle, including a $23,000-a-month Ma... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
Demonstrators flying banners of immigration reform marched in cities across the nation yesterday to demand citizenship and a share of the American dream for millions of illegal immigrants who have run a gantlet of closed borders, broken families, snake-eyed smugglers and economic exploitation. | Demonstrators flying banners of immigration reform marched in cities across the nation yesterday to demand citizenship and a share of the American dream for millions of illegal immigrants who have run a gantlet of closed borders, broken families, snake-eyed smugglers and economic exploitation.
Singing, chanting and wav... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Airlink Flight 8911 crash | Airlink Flight 8911 was a positioning flight from Durban International Airport to Pietermaritzburg Airport, South Africa, that crashed into the grounds of Merebank Secondary School, Durban shortly after take-off on 24 September 2009, injuring the three occupants of the aircraft and one on the ground. The captain of the... | Air crash | null | null |
1957 Abant earthquake | The 1957 Abant earthquake occurred at 8:33am on 26 May, in Turkey. The earthquake had an estimated surface wave magnitude of 7.1 and a maximum felt intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale, causing 52 fatalities and 101 injuries. 5,000 houses were damaged as a result of the earthquake. | Earthquakes | null | null |
Queensland and NSW drinking water hit by floods and fire but authorities say most areas are safe | Queensland and NSW drinking water hit by floods and fire but authorities say most areas are safe
There is plenty to celebrate about the historic rainfall bringing a dramatic end to Australia's unprecedented bushfire crisis.
It has brought welcome relief for firefighters and hope for farmers, but the record rainfall br... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
1979 Mississauga train derailment | The Mississauga train derailment of 1979, also known as the Mississauga Miracle occurred on Saturday, November 10, 1979, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, when a 106-car CP Rail freight train carrying chemicals and explosives including styrene, toluene, propane, caustic soda, and chlorine from Windsor, Ontario derailed ... | Gas explosion | null | null |
2005 IIHF World Championship Division II | The 2005 IIHF World Championship Division II was an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament was contested from April 4 to April 16, 2005. Participants in this tournament were separated into two separate tournament groups. The Group A tournament was contested i... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Coast Guard to halt search for missing from capsized commercial boat off Louisiana | April 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday was set to call off a week-long search for the remaining eight people missing after a commercial lift boat used to service oil rigs capsized in hurricane force winds south of Louisiana's Port Fourchon. The search will end at sunset on Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard anno... | Shipwreck | null | null |
No end in sight to lead contamination at Perth Children's Hospital |
Contractors building Perth's new $1.2 billion children's hospital appear no closer to solving the problem of high lead levels in the facility's water supply.
The contamination emerged in September and has so far defied all attempts to clear it from the system, further delaying the completion of the hospital, which is ... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Canary Islands: Lava from erupting volcano destroys homes | A volcano eruption on La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands has destroyed houses and forced about 5,500 residents to evacuate. Lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano has been pouring downhill since Sunday's eruption, devastating everything in its path. Local officials said about 100 houses have been destroyed so far. The ... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
2017 Scottish Open Grand Prix | The 2017 Scottish Open Grand Prix was a badminton tournament which took place at Emirates Arena in Glasgow in the Scotland from 22 to 26 November 2017 and had a total purse of $65,000. The 2017 Scottish Open Grand Prix was the seventeenth Grand Prix's badminton tournament of the 2017 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix ... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Dam at Vale SA’s Corrego do Feijao mine caused serious casualties and losses | BRUMADINHO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian rescuers searched into the night on Sunday for hundreds of people missing after a burst mining dam triggered a deadly mudslide, as the death toll rose to 58 and was expected to keep climbing more than two days after the disaster. Rescuers worked past sunset to search a bus thoug... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Australia scraps state's Belt and Road deal with China, Beijing rails at 'provocative' move | © 2021 Copyright France 24 - All rights reserved. France 24 is not responsible for the content of external websites. Audience ratings certified by ACPM/OJD.
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Sydney (AFP) – Australia said Wednesday it would revoke a state government's deal to join China's Belt a... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Vancouver general strike |
The 1918 Vancouver General Strike was the first general strike in Canadian history[1] and took place on 2 August 1918. There had been talks of organizing a general strike for quite some time due to federal conscription, censorship of socialist publications, and workers' demands for higher wages. [2] War-time inflation... | Strike | null | null |
A dam in southeastern Brazil collapsed | BRUMADINHO, Brazil (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of a dam holding back mine waste in southeastern Brazil rose to 40 on Saturday as searchers flying in helicopters and rescuers laboring in deep mud uncovered more bodies. An estimated 300 people were still missing and authorities expecte... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Alas Chiricanas Flight 901 crash | Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901, registered HP-1202AC, was an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante aircraft flying en route from Colón city to Panama City which exploded shortly after departing Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport, on the night of July 19, 1994. All 21 on board, including 12 Jews, were killed in the bombing. [1] Both Pa... | Air crash | null | null |
Obama Comments on Iranian Nuclear Deal By Michael R. Gordon and David E. Sanger |
Obama Comments on Iranian Nuclear Deal By Michael R. Gordon and David E. Sanger
VIENNA — Iran and a group of six nations led by the United States reached a historic accord on Tuesday to significantly limit Tehran’s nuclear ability for more than a decade in return for lifting international oil and financial sanction... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
What's behind the push for a fourth stimulus check | The IRS has issued more than 169 million payments in the third round of direct stimulus aid, with more than 2 million people in July receiving the $1,400 checks. But some lawmakers are pushing for a fourth round of stimulus aid that would effectively send recurring payments until the pandemic ends. So far, the ... | Financial Aid | null | null |
SA surgeon performs new robotic surgery on testicular cancer patients, allowing faster recovery | SAN ANTONIO - – Testicular cancer is most common in younger men, ages 15-30 years old. In more complicated cases where the disease has spread, the only option used to be a serious open surgery, but a robot is now changing that, getting these young patients back on their feet faster. Antonio Flores is only 21 and in his... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
COVID-19 | Shopping complexes, malls to open in Chennai, while cinema halls and gaming centres remains close | Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday announced several relaxations even while extending the COVID-19 lockdown till 6 a.m. of July 5. Shopping complexes and malls will reopen in Chennai and surrounding districts (category 3) and intra- and inter-district bus transport will resume in 23 districts (category 2) from Mond... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Brexit: UK wants to redraw Northern Ireland Protocol | The UK has unveiled a new set of demands to redraw the post-Brexit trading arrangements it agreed with the EU for Northern Ireland.
The government said border checks on goods from Great Britain it signed up to in the 2019 Brexit divorce deal had proved unsustainable. Brexit Minister Lord Frost said they risked harming ... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Jorge Chávez crash | Jorge Antonio Chávez Dartnell (January 13, 1887 – September 27, 1910), also known as Géo Chávez, was a Peruvian aviator. At a young age, he achieved fame for his aeronautical feats. He died in 1910 after a heavy wind broke the wings of his fragile airplane Bleriot XI, falling from a twenty meter height upon landing, af... | Air crash | null | null |
2006 Falk Corporation explosion | The Falk Corporation explosion refers to a large and fatal propane gas explosion at a Falk Corporation building in the industrial Menomonee River Valley neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, on December 6, 2006. Three people were killed and forty-seven others injured. Cars were reportedly flipped through the air a... | Gas explosion | null | null |
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