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Pakistan was in the grip of a terror wave with suspected Taliban militants storming three security facilities in Lahore and carrying out a suicide attack in a police station in Kohat | Pakistan was in the grip of a terror wave with suspected Taliban militants storming three security facilities in Lahore and carrying out a suicide attack in a police station in Kohat and an explosion in Peshawar in NWFP,leaving at least 40 people dead.
Police said 18 people 13 security personnel and five civilians we... | Armed Conflict | null | null |
2020 Egyptian protests |
The 2020 Egyptian Revolution, also known as the Gallabiya uprising, were decentralised[1] street protests in Egypt that started on 20 September 2020, the anniversary of the 2019 Egyptian protests, calling for Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to resign. [2] Protest locations included Cairo, Giza,[3] Suez, Kafr... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Satellites forewarn of locust plagues - Phys.org | by European Space Agency
Ethiopia, July 1968 during a desert locust outbreak. Credit: FAO/ G. Tortoli
Satellites are helping to predict favourable conditions for desert locusts to swarm, which poses a threat to agricultural production and, subsequently, livelihoods and food security.
Desert locusts are a type of grassh... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Mall owner Washington Prime Group files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing COVID challenges | “The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant challenges for many companies, including Washington Prime Group, making a Chapter 11 filing necessary to reduce the Company’s outstanding indebtedness,” Washington Prime Group said in a news release . The mall operator's bankruptcy doesn't come as a surprise. In public fil... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Strengthening Multilateral Efforts: Resolutions Adopted at IAEA General Conference | Strengthening the IAEA’s technical cooperation activities, the effectiveness and efficiency of safeguards, and its work related to nuclear and radiation safety, nuclear science, technology and applications, were some of the resolutions adopted this week by Member States as the 65th annual IAEA General Conference conclu... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Northern Bank robbery: New BBC documentary shines light on crime that shook peace process | Close Premium In 2004, £26.5m was stolen from the Northern Bank in one of the UK’s biggest robberies. In a new documentary, two reporters take a look back at the theft and speak to some of the key political figures from the time Allison Morris Twitter Email May 02 2021 07:48 PM It was the biggest bank robbery in UK... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Malabar Military Exercise Takes Off With Quad From Tomorrow | The MALABAR naval exercise is scheduled in two phases in November 2020. Phase 1 of the Exercise MALABAR 20 involving participation by Indian Navy (IN), United States Navy (USN), Japan Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF), and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is set to commence off Visakhapatnam in Bay of Bengal from 03 to 06... | Military Exercise | null | null |
2011 Trampoline World Championships | The 28th Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships were held in Birmingham, England, from November 17–20, 2011 at the National Indoor Arena. This event was the first qualifying round for the 2012 Olympics which was held in London. The top 8 men and women automatically earned their nation quota places for the Olympics... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Black Monday (1894) | The Newfoundland Bank Crash of 1894, known as Black Monday, was one of the turning points in Newfoundland's pre-Confederation history. The financial woes of the former British colony were worsened when two of the colony's commercial banks, the Union Bank of Newfoundland (established in 1854) and the Commercial Bank of ... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Pan Am Flight 115 crash | Pan Am Flight 115 was a commercial flight from Paris via London to New York City. At 22:05 GMT (16:05 EDT) on 3 February 1959 it was involved in one of the most notable jet upset incidents of the jet airliner age, over the North Atlantic near Newfoundland. The aircraft was a Boeing 707-121 with registration N712PA, nic... | Air crash | null | null |
China-Australia relations: ripping up Chinese firm's Darwin Port lease could cost Canberra | The Australian government may have to pay taxpayer-funded compensation to a Chinese company if its lease contract of Darwin Port is overturned on national security grounds, but experts say the government has no "immediate imperative" to terminate the deal. An Australian parliamentary inquiry's call last month for the g... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Nightmare on Aphid Street – wooly white insects invade ... | Nightmare on Aphid Street – wooly white insects invade neighborhoods, parks
By Linda Weiford, WSU News
PULLMAN, Wash. – Hovering masses of puffy gnat-like bugs have invaded the Inland Northwest, sticking to windshields, dive-bombing people’s eyes and getting into their mouths.
They’re called smoky-winged ash aphids a... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
PFAS: Expert submits warning via federal inquiry that contamination more widespread than reported |
A contamination expert is warning a federal parliamentary inquiry that the spread of potentially harmful chemicals once used in firefighting foam is likely to have affected many more parts of Australia than previously reported.
The expert said the sites included all Australian airports, all landfill sites, and any loc... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Rehab centre in Thane sees more patients in 25-45 yrs age group recovered from Covid visiting it | Rehab centre in Thane sees more patients in 25-45 yrs age group recovered from Covid visiting it Following the second wave, those between 25 and 45 years have been mostly seen visiting the post-Covid rehabilitation centre; the main aim of this centre in Majiwada, Thane, is the physical and mental well-being of patients... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
1993 Auckland mid-air collision crash | The 1993 Auckland mid-air collision was an aircraft accident in New Zealand. [1] It occurred on 26 November 1993, when two aircraft operated by Airwork, under contract to the New Zealand Police, collided and crashed in central Auckland. The mid-air collision of the Aérospatiale TwinStar helicopter and Piper Archer aero... | Air crash | null | null |
2020 Lassen County wildfires |
The 2020 Lassen County wildfire season included seven large wildfires that burned entirely or in part in Lassen County. A total of 203,296 acres (82,271 ha) (or 203,296 acres (318 sq mi)) of land was burned in Lassen County, making it one of the larger clusters of fires in the 2020 California wildfire season. [1]
Th... | Fire | null | null |
2017 Iran–Iraq earthquake |
On 12 November 2017 at 18:18 UTC (21:48 Iran Standard Time, 21:18 Arabia Standard Time), an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.3 occurred on the Iran–Iraq border, with the Iraqi Kurdish city of Halabja, and the Kurdish dominated places of Ezgeleh, Salas-e Babajani County, Kermanshah Province in Iran, [4][14] clos... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Lame Horse fire | The Lame Horse fire occurred on 5 December 2009, around 1 a.m. local time in the nightclub Khromaya Loshad (Russian: «Хромая лошадь», "Lame Horse") at 9 Kuybyshev Street, Perm, Russia. The fire started when sparks from pyrotechnics ignited the low ceiling and its willow twig covering. The fire quickly spread to the wal... | Fire | null | null |
'Shocking' metallic sludge contaminating Sydney dams that supply drinking water |
Metallic sludge is contaminating two dams that supply drinking water to one of Sydney's biggest growth areas, official data from New South Wales' peak water body has revealed.
The data, obtained by the ABC under freedom of information laws, revealed dozens of samples taken by WaterNSW from deep in Cataract Dam and Cor... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Pan Am Flight 806 crash | Pan Am Flight 806 was an international scheduled flight from Auckland, New Zealand, to Los Angeles, California, with intermediate stops at Pago Pago, American Samoa and Honolulu, Hawaii. On January 30, 1974, the Boeing 707 Clipper Radiant crashed on approach to Pago Pago International Airport, killing 87 passengers and... | Air crash | null | null |
Ponil Complex Fire | Ponil Complex Fire was a lightning-caused fire in New Mexico, United States, that started on Monday, June 3, and was fully contained by Monday, June 17, 2002. [1][2][3] The fire burned a total area of 92,470 acres, mainly on Philmont. [4] It was the largest wildfire of its time. [3][5]
The fire wiped out the forest on... | Fire | null | null |
The agriculture department has launched initiatives to curb the fall armyworm menace ahead of the maize cultivation season here | Coimbatore: The agriculture department has launched initiatives to curb the fall armyworm menace ahead of the maize cultivation season here. The invasive pest, which originated from the Americas, had struck Tamil Nadu in 2017-18, when it damaged almost half of the total 3.86 lakh hectares of maize crops across the sta... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Festival of Empire |
The 1911 Festival of Empire was the biggest single event held at The Crystal Palace in London since its opening. It opened on 12 May and was one of the events to celebrate the coronation of King George V. The original intention had been that Edward VII would open it in 1910, however, this was postponed after his deat... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Northern Cape farmers battle ‘horrific’ brown locust outbreak | Jan Marais* knew the brown locusts would be coming but the Northern Cape sheep farmer wasn’t prepared for the scale of the outbreak. “This year with the widespread rain we were expecting trouble,” says the farmer, who lives in the Hanover district. “It’s been horrific and has hit us quite badly.” Marais says he hasn’t... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
A guide to cross-border financing in Switzerland | Daniel Hayek and Mark Meili of Prager Dreifuss look at the rules, practicalities and latest developments in a friendly, but recently more challenging environment for cross-border financing September 23 2021 Switzerland is home to approximately 250 banks with an aggregate bala... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Despite U.S. Sanctions, Iran Expands Its Nuclear Stockpile | The U.S. strategy is “legally and politically obscene,” a U.N.-based diplomat privately told the International Crisis Group. Russia has said publicly what some of its European partners are saying privately. The U.S. strategy is “legally and politically obscene,” a U.N.-based diplomat privately told the International Cr... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
China faces 'DISASTER' with the insects already invading southern city, officials warn | Chinese officials have warned that parts of the country could be ravaged by a locust plague between now and September after armies of the insects already 'invaded' the country. Swarms of yellow-spined bamboo locusts have destroyed about 26 square miles of fields in Pu'er after raiding the city from China's border with... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Citing COVID surge, Clarksville cancels Riverfest | Posted at 11:52 AM, Sep 08, 2021 and last updated 2021-09-08 12:52:03-04 CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The City of Clarksville has canceled this year’s Riverfest "out of an abundance of caution" as COVID-19 cases continue to rise. The city made the announcement Wednesday, citing the COVID surge in Clarksville-Montgomery... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Idaho cities prepare for drought conditions to worsen | Boise is feeling the effects of the dryness. Most of Ada County is considered abnormally dry while the rest of the state is in a moderate drought. Author: Katija Stjepovic (KTVB) Published: 10:09 PM MDT June 20, 2021 Updated: 9:02 AM MDT June 22, 2021 BOISE, Idaho — Drought conditions in Idaho continue to worsen as the... | Droughts | null | null |
U.S. Embassy in Georgia | The United States has long been the world’s most generous provider of health and humanitarian assistance to people around the world. This assistance is provided with the support of the American taxpayer with the reasonable expectation that it serve an effective purpose and reach those in need. Unfortunately, the World... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Norway's beach handball team fined for not wearing bikini bottoms during European Championships match | Norway's beach handball team has been fined 1,500 euros ($2,407) for being improperly dressed after the women wore bike shorts instead of bikini bottoms at a European championship match in Bulgaria.
The European Handball Federation (EHF) said in a statement that its disciplinary commission had dealt with "a case of imp... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Kamchatka earthquakes | Three earthquakes, which occurred off the coast of Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia in 1737, 1923 and 1952, were megathrust earthquakes and caused tsunamis. They occurred where the Pacific Plate subducts under the Okhotsk Plate at the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench. The depth of the trench at the point of the earthqua... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Rescue workers searched Friday for four miners believed trapped in a collapsed mine in southern Ecuador | (CNN) -- Rescue workers searched Friday for four miners believed trapped in a collapsed mine in southern Ecuador, a government official said.
The miners have been trapped since about 3 a.m., said Jorge Espinosa, the under-secretary of mining development at Ecuador's Ministry of Nonrenewable Natural Resources. They are ... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Optus facing $10m fine for misleading customers charged for content they didn't want | 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
Optus mobile customers ar... | Organization Fine | null | null |
A year after crash, Israel unveils new plan for moon landing | Beresheet 2 is expected to be launched into space in four years. Israel is again aiming for the moon. SpaceIL, the nonprofit Israeli initiative whose spacecraft crashed as it tried to land on the moon last year, announced on Wednesday that it is launching another lunar mission with its Israeli government partners. ... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
Who Were the Warriors of Sanauli, India’s Largest Burial Site That’s 4000 Years Old | An accidental discovery of ancient artefacts in Uttar Pradesh’s Sanauli village led to an excavation by the Archaeological Survey of India, and findings hint the tribe was of a warrior clan. It also spurred a 55-minute documentary titled ‘Secrets of Sanauli’ by Discovery Plus. One day in 2005, Shriram Sharma, a farmer... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Southwest Airlines Flight 2294 crash | Southwest Airlines Flight 2294 (SWA 2294, WN 2294) was a scheduled US passenger aircraft flight which suffered a rapid depressurization of the passenger cabin on July 13, 2009. The aircraft made an emergency landing at Yeager Airport (CRW) in Charleston, West Virginia, with no fatalities or major injuries to passengers... | Air crash | null | null |
Hotel Corona de Aragón fire | The Corona de Aragón Fire was a fire that killed at least 80 people in the five star Corona de Aragón Hotel in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain on 12 July 1979. At the time of the event the Hotel lodged high-profile General Franco family members Carmen Polo, Carmen Franco y Polo and Cristóbal Martínez Bordiú, as well as many hi... | Fire | null | null |
Mesa Redonda fire | The Mesa Redonda fire occurred on Saturday, 29 December 2001 in Lima, Peru. The disaster killed at least 291[1] people and injured at least another 134. [2] It is currently the worst firework-related fire in history in terms of deaths. In 2001, the Mesa Redonda shopping center, located in Central Lima, consisted largel... | Fire | null | null |
Tamahere coolstore fire | The Tamahere coolstore fire was a major fire at the Icepak Coolstores in Tamahere, near Hamilton, New Zealand, on 5 April 2008. Around 4:00pm on Saturday 5 April 2008, the New Zealand Fire Service dispatched two fire engines and eight firefighters from Hamilton Fire Station to an alarm activation at the Icepak Coolstor... | Fire | null | null |
Landslide At Myanmar Jade Mine Kills At Least 162 | A massive landslide at a jade mine in Myanmar has killed at least 162 people – a moment captured in dramatic video showing a wall of earth sliding down a mountainside into a water-filled open pit. A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar killed at least 113 people, after a pile of mine waste collapsed into a lake... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Russia: Alcohol poisoning case leaves 29 dead in a single week after drinking toxic spirits | Liquids containing alcohol were seized from warehouses and many were found to contain methanol, which is toxic, the interior ministry says.
Sunday 10 October 2021 06:34, UK
Twenty-nine people have died from alcohol poisoning in Russia after drinking locally produced spirits that contained methanol, authorities have sai... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Trapped driver found front loader, began clearing I-70 after mudslides | GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — A man who became stranded on Interstate 70 when heavy rain brought mud and debris onto the highway in the Grizzly Creek burn area took matters into his own hands on Thursday night, multiple people told 9NEWS. “Yeah, he went down to a rest area down below, which he shouldn’t probably have gone ... | Mudslides | null | null |
A Japanese volcano erupted on Thursday | TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese volcano erupted on Thursday (Jan 17), spewing ash and smoke 6km into the air over a small southern island. There were no reports of injuries or damage from the eruption on Kuchinoerabu, in the far south of Japan. A local official said there had been no evacuations on the island, which is home t... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Four guests taken to hospital after carbon monoxide leak at Freeport hotel | Tuesday's response was delayed because the Comfort Suites didn't call 911, and instead left a message about elevated CO levels on a nonemergency business line at the fire department on Monday.
A malfunctioning water heater at a Freeport hotel is believed to have caused a carbon monoxide leak that sent four people to t... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Korean Air Flight 803 crash | On 27 July 1989, Korean Air flight 803, a DC-10 crashed while attempting to land in Tripoli, Libya. 75 of the 199 passengers and crew on board plus 4 people on the ground were killed in the crash. The crash was the deadliest aviation disaster to occur in Libya at the time. [1]
The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Dou... | Air crash | null | null |
Carbon monoxide poisoning on motor cruiser Diversion with loss of 2 lives | At about 2000 on 4 December 2019, the bodies of two men were discovered in the cabin of the privately owned motor cruiser Diversion, which was moored to a quay in the centre of York, England. The bodies were those of the boat owner and his friend, who had spent the previous evening in the city centre socialising with f... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Arianespace Soyuz rocket launches 34 OneWeb internet satellites into space | An Arianespace Soyuz rocket carrying the 34 satellites of OneWeb's Launch 9 mission lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Saturday (Aug. 21) at 6:13 p.m. EDT (2213 GMT; 3:13 a.m. Aug. 22 local time at Baikonur) following a two-day delay. The launch was originally targeted for Thursday (Aug. 19), but that at... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
September 2010 Victoria floods |
The 2010 Victorian floods were a widespread series of flood events across the state of Victoria, Australia. The floods, which followed heavy rain across southeastern Australia in early September 2010, caused the inundation of about 250 homes, hundreds of evacuations and millions of dollars of damage. [1][2] Weather w... | Floods | null | null |
Crisis of 1982 | The Crisis of 1982 was a major economic crisis suffered in Chile during the military government of Chile (1973–1990). [1] Chile's GDP fell 14.3%, and unemployment rose to 23.7%. [1]
After the socialist reorientation of the economy during the presidency of Salvador Allende, economic sabotage by the Nixon presidency,[2]... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
1843 Tooley Street fire |
The 1861 Tooley Street fire, also called the Great Fire of Tooley Street, started in Cotton's Wharf on Tooley Street, London, England, on 22 June 1861. The fire lasted for two weeks, and caused £2 million worth of damage. During the fire, James Braidwood, superintendent of the London Fire Engine Establishment, was ... | Fire | null | null |
MNR to take lead on finding Wheatley gas leak source | An agreement has been signed between Chatham-Kent and the province to move forward in finding the source of the recent gas explosion that rocked downtown Wheatley.
The Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry is taking the lead in finding the source of hydrogen sulphide that has stubbornl... | Gas explosion | null | null |
3 people charged in string of child sex abuse allegations dating back to 2001 | Court documents: Abuse reported to authorities as far back as 2004 and several other times over the years -- but was not fully investigated until now.
Author: Kevin Vaughan, Darius Johnson
Published: 11:55 AM MST December 16, 2021
Updated: 5:09 PM MST December 16, 2021
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. — Content warning: This sto... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
Vaughan sacked by Dragons for COVID breach | The St George Illawarra Dragons have reportedly torn up the final 15 months of Paul Vaughan’s contract over the biosecurity breach scandal. The Daily Telegraph is reporting former NSW and Kangaroos star will be released from the final 15 months of his deal after he lied to the club about hosting the party at the centre... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
United States confirms withdrawal from World Health Organization | By BBN Staff: Amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Government, has confirmed that it will withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), CNN reports. CNN said that the news first came from Senator. Robert Menendez, the head Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who took to the social... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
2004 Arkhangelsk explosion | Coordinates: 64°32′13″N 40°33′58″E / 64.537°N 40.566°E / 64.537; 40.566
On March 16, 2004, an explosion destroyed a corner section of a nine-story Soviet-era apartment building in Arkhangelsk, Russia. It happened at 3:03 a.m. local time (UTC +3). The explosion occurred in 120 Avenue of the Soviet Cosmonauts in the ... | Gas explosion | null | null |
NorthShore University HealthSystem, Edward-Elmhurst Health unveil merger plans | NorthShore University HealthSystem and Edward-Elmhurst Health announced plans Wednesday to merge under a new nine-hospital parent entity. The resulting system would employ roughly 25,000 people and more than 6,000 physicians, according to the announcement. Its hospitals and over 300 ambulatory facilities would serve a ... | Organization Merge | null | null |
PSA Flight 182 crash | Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Flight 182 was a Boeing 727-214[a] commercial airliner, registration N533PS, that collided with a private Cessna 172 light aircraft, registration N7711G, over San Diego, California, at 9:01 am on Monday, September 25, 1978. It was Pacific Southwest Airlines' first fatal accident, and th... | Air crash | null | null |
The significant loss of life and economic losses associated with tsunamis over the last 20 years | GENEVA, 2 November 2018 – The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) today called attention to the significant loss of life and economic losses associated with tsunamis, notably for countries bordering the Indian and Pacific Oceans, over the last twenty years. A review of available data from tsunam... | Tsunamis | null | null |
Witch Fire | The Witch Creek Fire, also known as the Witch Fire and the Witch-Guejito–Poomacha Complex Fire,[6] was the second-largest wildfire of the 2007 California wildfire season, and the largest one of the October 2007 California wildfires. Although the Witch Creek Fire was individually smaller than the Zaca Fire of 2007 (whic... | Fire | null | null |
2020 threw everyone’s personal lives for a loop, and celebrities were no exception | 2020 threw everyone’s personal lives for a loop, and celebrities were no exception. Even as red carpets dried up and all but a few celebrities ventured out of their homes into the sight of paparazzo’s prying lenses, celebrity datings rumors kept the gossip columns and tabloid magazines filled with content. The mayhem h... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
U.S. aims at China, Russia in military exercises | Aug. 6—A new Navy exercise focused on countering China and Russia in the European and Indo-Pacific theaters—perhaps at the same time—is underway, testing the ability to synchronize five fleets and three Marine expeditionary forces across 17 time zones while also employing fast-moving war-fighting concepts to combat adv... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Manchester Fuel Depot, Pentagon's largest gas station, endures critical test next week | MANCHESTER — The military's largest gas station, located on the shores of south Kitsap County, is about to endure a test of its muster. Next week, convoys of Army trucks based at Joint Base Lewis-McCord will converge at the Manchester Fuel Depot to practice its wartime mission, if ever called upon, of distributing fue... | Military Exercise | null | null |
France withdraws ambassadors to Australia and US over submarines deal | Australia's Foreign Ministry says it "regrets" France's decision to immediately recall its ambassadors to Australia and the US in response to a new submarine deal.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the ambassadors were recalled on request from President Emmanuel Macron, adding the decision was "justified ... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Lewiston-Auburn Shoe Strike | The Lewiston–Auburn shoe strike of 1937 occurred in the cities of Lewiston, Maine and Auburn, Maine among textile workers, most of whom were of French-Canadian descent. The workers walked off the job on March 25, 1937 demanding higher pay, a shorter workweek, better working conditions and union representation. Shortly ... | Strike | null | null |
2018 Georgian protests |
The 2019-2020 Georgian protests, also known as Gavrilov's Night or Protests in Georgia (Georgian: გავრილოვის ღამე), refers to a series of anti-government and fresh election-demanding protests in the country of Georgia. The protests began on June 20, 2019, in front of the Parliament of Georgia. The protests launched a... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Lady Gaga postpones Fenway Park concert until 2022 | By Kevin Slane Lady Gaga and her little monsters will have to wait another year to hang out under the Green Monster together. The Grammy-winning singer’s Aug. 7 concert at Fenway Park has been pushed back to 2022, along with the rest of her six-city Chromatica Ball Tour. “While some parts of the world are movin... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Pollutants From Sri Lanka Shipwreck Likely to Stick Around for Years | Plastics and chemicals that have washed up on local beaches could make their way into ocean currents, scientists warn. The MV X-Press Pearl being towed away from the coast of Colombo on June 2. Photographer: Ishara S. Kodiakara/AFP via Getty Images Contaminants released from the wreckage of a container ship off the co... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Buildup to super blood moon eclipses the finale | by: NICK PERRY An airplane flies past as the full-moon sets over Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, May 26, 2021. The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years is coinciding with a supermoon for quite a cosmic show. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In the end, the ... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
A man died and three emergency responders were injured in a reported explosion at a house in Maynard, Massachusetts, Thursday evening. | A man died and three emergency responders were injured in a reported explosion at a house in Maynard, Massachusetts, Thursday evening. Maynard firefighters arrived around 4:10 p.m. after the town's Communications Center received a call about a gas-like smell coming from the Park Street home. The caller was uncertain if... | Gas explosion | null | null |
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WASHINGTON — Josefine over in Boyds has met the Beatles. Well, the Japanese beetles, that is. She writes: “They are turning my Japanese maple into a lacy-leafed mess! Using something like Spectracide to kill them is not an option, as lots o... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
wfp: The United Nations is now warning another 3 million people “wobble at the edge of famine” | Defense: India and Russia are considering holding a “2 + 2” dialogue in parallel with the Modi Putin summit This number has increased from 42 million earlier this year to 27 million in 2019, the agency said in a news release. This increase, along with other increases in Ethiopia, Haiti, Somalia, Angola, Kenya and Buru... | Famine | null | null |
Nyasaland Famine 1949 | The Nyasaland Famine 1949 was a famine that occurred in the Shire Highlands in the Southern Province of Nyasaland (now Malawi) and also in a part of the Central Province in 1949: its effects extended into the early part of 1950. The immediate cause was severe droughts in December 1948 to January 1949 and in March 1949 ... | Famine | null | null |
Guelph police release images relating to armed bank robbery investigation | Guelph police are asking the public to help identify the person in this image. (Source: Guelph Police Service) (Jan. 10, 2020) Police respond to an armed bank robbery in Guelph (Terry Kelly / CTV News Kitchener) KITCHENER -- Guelph police have released images relating to an armed bank robbery and are asking the public... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
2019 Johannesburg riots |
The 2019 Johannesburg riots occurred in the South African city of Johannesburg from 1–5 September 2019, leading to the deaths of at least seven people. The riots were xenophobic in nature, targeting foreign nationals from the rest of Africa. Retaliatory actions by rioters in other African nations was taken against ... | Riot | null | null |
Glasgow Nitshill Road crash: Driver in 'serious' condition as police appeal for witnesses | A man is in a serious condition after a road crash in the south side of Glasgow. Police are appealing for witnesses after the incident, which took place around 11.35pm on Nitshill Road, near its junction with Levern Bridge Road. A red Vauxhall Corsa left the road before crashing, resulting in the driver sustaining ser... | Road Crash | null | null |
Uni Air Flight 873 crash | Uni Air Flight 873 was a Taiwanese domestic passenger flight between Taipei and Hualien that suffered a fire following an explosion after landing at Hualien Airport, Taiwan, on 24 August 1999, resulting in 27 injuries and one death. [1][2]
Uni Air Flight 873 departed from Taipei Songshan Airport (TSA) bound for Hualie... | Air crash | null | null |
Donald Trump to withdraw US from Trans-Pacific Partnership | The President-elect plans to leave the trade deal on his first day in the job, describing it as a "potential disaster" for the US. Tuesday 22 November 2016 13:27, UK Donald Trump says he will issue an executive action on his first day in office to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). In a video updating ... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
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Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crash |
Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 was an Ansett New Zealand scheduled passenger transport flight from Auckland Airport to Palmerston North. On 9 June 1995, the Dash 8-100 aircraft flying this route crashed into hilly terrain in the Tararua Ranges, 16 km east of Palmerston North airport, during an instrument approach in b... | Air crash | null | null |
Macron says Australian PM lied to him over submarine deal; Morrison refutes | French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said Australia's prime minister outright lied to him over a cancelled submarine deal, deepening an already fraught diplomatic crisis.
"I don't think. I know," Macron said when asked by Australian media if Scott Morrison was untruthful in their private dealings.
Both leaders ar... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Alaska earthquake reminder that tsunamis triggered by quakes can reach Washington | If an Alaskan earthquake triggers a tsunami that could hit Washington, residents would have a few hours to seek higher ground. Author: Glenn Farley Published: 12:03 AM PDT October 20, 2020 Updated: 8:53 PM PDT October 20, 2020 WASHINGTON — The upper end of Discovery Bay in Jefferson County acts as a geological history ... | Tsunamis | null | null |
French Riviera placed on tsunami alert for three hours | The French Riviera was placed on tsunami alert last night after seismic activity in Algeria, with tremors felt in Var and across Alpes-Maritimes. The alert was lifted in the early hours of this morning. The alert began after an earthquake at 1h04 on Thursday morning (March 18), measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale, near ... | Tsunamis | null | null |
41yo man to front court accused of Denmark bank robbery in WA's Great Southern | Albany detectives have charged a 41-year-old man with armed robbery as a result of investigations into a bank robbery in Denmark in southern Western Australia. A 36-year-old woman has been charged with receiving. Both are from the Great Southern region. Police allege the man threatened staff with a tomahawk at an NAB b... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Locust attack threatens food security in Pakistan - Dawn | In Balochistan, desert locusts are busy eating crops. According to residents of Garang, a poor, sparsely populated village in Washuk district which lies a few hundred kilometres from Iran, hopper bands of the Schistocerca gregaria — commonly known as the desert locust — are growing by the day.
"Slowly and gradually, t... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Pilot, crew members recall Golden Ray shipwreck off Georgia coast | When the giant cargo ship began to tip over off the Georgia coast, harbor pilot Jonathan Tennant found himself on his side, screaming orders in the darkness while flying debris that felt like gravel pelted him. After much of the Golden Ray slipped into the sea, crew members feared they would perish if they stayed on th... | Shipwreck | null | null |
1969 theft of C-130 crash | The 1969 theft of a C-130 from RAF Mildenhall happened on 23 May 1969. [1][2][3]
Sergeant Paul Meyer was an aircraft mechanic in the United States Air Force. [2][1][3] At the age of 23 he was already a Vietnam veteran. [2][1][3] He had married earlier that year and was close to his wife and stepchildren. [2][1][3] He ... | Air crash | null | null |
1954 Yangtze floods | From June to September 1954, the Yangtze River Floods were a series of catastrophic floodings that occurred mostly in Hubei Province. Due to unusually high volume of precipitation as well as an extraordinarily long rainy season in the middle stretch of the Yangtze River late in the spring of 1954, the river started to ... | Floods | null | null |
Wales' Brooks diagnosed with cancer | Soccer Football - Wales Training - The Vale Resort, Hensol, Wales, Britain - September 5, 2020 Wales' David Brooks during training Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Boyers
Oct 13 (Reuters) - Wales and Bournemouth midfielder David Brooks has been diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma, a type of cancer, and is set to begin ... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
Coffs Harbour waterways study finds worrying levels of nutrients in almost two-thirds of creeks |
Researchers have called for better management of on-farm fertiliser use after finding almost two-thirds of creeks on the New South Wales Coffs Coast have nutrient levels above recommended guidelines.
Nitrates are commonly found in fertilisers used in agriculture
The report, by Southern Cross University's National Mari... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Metro Health to be renamed University of Michigan Health-West | Metro Health Hospital in Wyoming, Michigan on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Metro Health, an affiliate of University of Michigan Health based near Grand Rapids. WYOMING, MI — Metro Health-University of Michigan Health is getting a new name. The 208-bed hospital, 5900 Byron Center Ave., will now be known as University of Mich... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Bahraini uprising of 2011 | The following is a timeline of the Bahraini uprising from February to March 2011, beginning with the start of protests in February 2011 and including the Saudi and Emirati-backed crackdown from 15 March. Several hundred Bahrainis gathered in front of the Egyptian embassy in Manama to express solidarity with anti-govern... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
2009 cow head protests |
The Cow head protests were held in front of the Selangor state government headquarters at the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Building, Shah Alam, Malaysia on 28 August 2009. The protest was called so because the act of a few participants who brought along a cow head, which they later desecrated. [1] The cow is con... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Two adults injured after explosion, huge house fire in Goodyear under investigation | GOODYEAR, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - Investigators believe a hobby might have been the cause of a house explosion in Goodyear that sent two people to the hospital. It happened at about 9 p.m. near Van Buren Street and Citrus Avenue , sending two people to the hospital.
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Famine in Yemen get worse | On 21 September, I warned you we were losing the fight against famine in Yemen. Since then, the situation has got worse. That is why, as required in Security Council resolution 2417, which you adopted in May this year, we issued the White Note circulated late last week. In line with our obligations under your resoluti... | Famine | null | null |
2005 Chennai floods |
The 2005 December Chennai stampede incident happened on 18 December 2005 in a school at MGR Nagar in Chennai, the capital of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where the relief supplies were distributed by the state government for the people affected by severe flooding. There were 42 deaths in the accident, which ... | Floods | null | null |
Georgian weightlifter breaks world records to win gold at Olympics | Lasha Talakhadze of Team Georgia competes during the Weightlifting - Men's 109kg+ Group A on day twelve of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Tokyo International Forum on August 04, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.
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1835 Paterson Textile Strike | The 1835 Paterson textile strike took place in Paterson, New Jersey, involved more than 2,000 workers from 20 textile mills across the city. The strikers, many of whom were children and of Irish descent, were seeking a reduction in daily working hours from thirteen and a half hours to eleven hours. Support from other w... | Strike | null | null |
US to withdraw from UNESCO cultural agency | The Trump administration on Thursday said it would withdraw the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing anti-Israeli bias from the organization. UNESCO was informed of the administration's decision on Thursday. The State Department said the U.S. would... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Bouhalouane train crash |
The Bouhalouane train crash was a fatal railway accident that happened at Bouhalouane in Algeria on January 27, 1982[1] at 01:30 and killed 131 people. A passenger train travelling from Oran to the capital Algiers and consisting of a locomotive and eight carriages stalled on a steep gradient leading to a mountain pas... | Train collisions | null | null |
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