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At least 17 people are killed in a fire at a hotel in Delhi, India. | At least 17 people have died in a Delhi hotel fire that broke out early on Tuesday morning, police said. Eyewitnesses said the dead included a woman and a child who attempted to jump from a window to safety. Officials said 35 people were rescued. Some were injured and have been taken to hospital.
Hotel Arpit Palace is ... | Fire | February 2019 | ['(BBC)'] |
The U.S. Pacific Command and South Korean defense officials report that a North Korean missile was fired in the early morning, but quickly failed and did not travel beyond North Korea, echoing a similar failed attempt by North Korea thirteen days ago. | TOKYO — North Korea fired another ballistic missile early Saturday morning, but it exploded within seconds of being launched, American and South Korean defense officials said.
Coinciding with renewed diplomatic and military pressure on North Korea from the Trump administration, this latest launch underscores both Kim ... | Military Exercise | April 2017 | ['(The Washington Post)'] |
Iraqi Air Force F-16 jets attack an Islamic State explosives factory and other positions inside Syria near the city of Hajin in coordination with the Syrian Armed Forces. | BAGHDAD, April 19 (Reuters) - Iraqi warplanes attacked an Islamic State explosives factory and other positions inside Syria on Thursday, Baghdad’s military said, in a rare air assault across the border.
Iraqi F-16 jets targeted the militants near the city of Hajin in coordination with the government of Syrian President... | Armed Conflict | April 2018 | ['(Reuters)'] |
Bomb blasts and gunfire are reported in the centre of the Indonesian capital Jakarta. At least seven deaths have been reported. , , , | Updated 23 Jun 2016, 8:33amThu 23 Jun 2016, 8:33am
Islamic State (IS) militants have claimed a gun and bomb assault on Indonesia's capital, police say, marking the first assault on the Muslim-majority country by the radical group.
Five of the seven people killed were the attackers themselves.
It took securit... | Riot | January 2016 | ['(ABC News Australia)', '(AP)', '(The Australian)', '(Reuters)'] |
A 40-year-old haulier from County Armagh, Northern Ireland, pleads guilty in the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales to the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese people, as well as conspiring to assist unlawful immigration. | A 40-year-old Irish haulier has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese men, women and boys found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck near London last year.
Ronan Hughes appeared at the Old Bailey court following the discovery of the bodies in October, in a case that shocked Britain and Vietnam and sho... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | August 2020 | ['(AAP via Wellington Times)'] |
In cricket, the Boxing Day Test commences at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with Australia playing against India. | Ryan Harris is a confirmed starter for Australia in the Boxing Day Test, along with debutant Joe Burns at number six, with captain Steve Smith declaring his team is pleased opponents India is spending so much of their time "whingeing and complaining".
Asked whether Australia would pursue a meticulous sledging strategy ... | Sports Competition | December 2014 | ['(The Sydney Morning Herald)'] |
Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala erupts, leaving at least 62 people dead, 300 others injured, and forces the closure of La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City. | Fuego spewed a five-mile stream of lava, burying dozens of communities and raining smoke and ash on other regions
First published on Mon 4 Jun 2018 00.05 BST
At least 62 people, including three children, have been killed and nearly 300 injured in the most violent eruption of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano in more than four ... | Volcano Eruption | June 2018 | ['(The Guardian)', '(CBS News)'] |
The Bank of Japan announces a 6 trillion yen stimulus package to help invigorate the Japanese economy. | TOKYO — The Bank of Japan announced an extra dose of monetary stimulus Friday, joining fresh efforts by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to reboot the economy.
The central bank said it would buy ¥6 trillion worth of exchange-traded funds annually, up from ¥3.3 trillion previously, in an attempt to stoke inflation and growth b... | Financial Crisis | July 2016 | ['(Marketwatch)'] |
The French parliament adopts a bill criminalizing Armenian genocide denial, despite significant lobbying efforts by the Government of Turkey. | The bill, proposed by the Socialists and opposed by the government, needs approval from the Senate and president.
Turkey called the decision a "serious blow" to relations with France. It has already threatened economic sanctions.
Armenia says Ottoman Turks killed 1.5 million people systematically in 1915 - a claim stro... | Government Policy Changes | October 2006 | ['(BBC)'] |
Russian President Vladimir Putin orders Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu to start the withdrawal of Russian Armed Forces from Syria, saying during a meeting with Shoygu, "I consider the objectives that have been set for the Defense Ministry to be generally accomplished. That is why I order to start withdrawal of the main... | In a surprise move, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to start withdrawing the "main part" of its forces in Syria from Tuesday.
He said the Russian intervention had largely achieved its objectives. The comments come amid fresh peace talks in Geneva aimed at resolving the five-year Syrian conflic... | Government Policy Changes | March 2016 | ['(RT)', '(BBC)'] |
The body of a teenager from Reston, Virginia is found in a pond in Sterling, Virginia. A suspect is arrested and charged with murder. | FAIRFAX, Va. - Police believe remains found in a Va. pond belong to a teen who was assaulted and killed after leaving a Virginia mosque early Sunday morning.
Nabra Hassanen, 17, was with a group of friends near the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center Mosque following Ramadan prayers early Sunday when they got... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Arrest | June 2017 | ['(USA Today)'] |
Simon Busuttil of Forza Nazzjonali concedes defeat to the incumbent Joseph Muscat and his Labour Party, who are projected to win 54.9% of the popular vote. | Updated Monday 10.20am with latest stats
The Labour Party has won the general election by a landslide majority, handing Joseph Muscat a strong mandate to head a government for a second term.
According to official figures released on Monday, the Labour Party won 55.04 per cent of the vote, while the PN obtained 43.6 pe... | Government Job change - Election | June 2017 | ['(Times of Malta)'] |
In composite rules shinty–hurling, Ireland defeat Scotland to claim the International Series. | A quartet of goals in a 10-minute spell in the opening half paved the way for Ireland to take a comfortable 28-point win in the second Test of the Senior Hurling-Shinty Internationals at Cusack Park, Mullingar this afternoon.
Scotland started brightly with a point from their scorer-in-chief Kevin Bartlett after just 12... | Sports Competition | October 2012 | ['(BBC Sport)', '(Irish Examiner)'] |
A huge fire engulfs the under–construction Abu Dhabi Plaza in Astana, Kazakhstan. | Some 120 people were evacuated from the scene, but no deaths or injuries have been reported, the Emergency Situations Ministry’s official representative Ruslan Imankulov told RIA Novosti.
The fire was localized some four hours after emergency crew were dispatched.
Diesel heat generators actually caused the spectacular ... | Fire | February 2016 | ['(RT)'] |
Mark Thompson, Chief Executive of Channel 4, is appointed as the new Director–General of the BBC. | Mr Thompson has resigned from his position as chief executive Channel 4 and replaces Greg Dyke, who left in the wake of the Hutton Report. He spoke of his "joy and delight" at returning to the corporation.
But he could not confirm when he would take up his new post as he has to give six months' notice to Channel 4.
He... | Government Job change - Appoint_Inauguration | May 2004 | ['(BBC)'] |
As many as one million Haitians become homeless due to hurricanes. | Haiti's Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis has said that a series of storms may have left as many as one million Haitians without a home.
Ms Pierre-Louis, who has called on the international community to more assistance, said part of the city of Gonaives might have to be moved.
She said the whole country has been deva... | Hurricanes_Tornado_Storm_Blizzard | September 2008 | ['(BBC)'] |
At least 10 people drown off the coast of Libya when their dinghy sinks. The Italian Navy managed to rescue over 100 more people. | At least 10 people drowned and more than 100 others were rescued when an inflatable boat carrying migrants capsized 32km (20 miles) off Libya.
Those who died were all women, Italian reports said.
The latest migrant tragedy came as the Italian navy raised to the surface a boat that sank with the loss of more than 700 li... | Shipwreck | June 2016 | ['(BBC)'] |
Rakhat Aliyev, soninlaw of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and First Vice Foreign Minister, is demoted to ambassador to Austria for the second time amid accusations he stole money from Nurbank bank and alleged involvement in the kidnapping and murdering of two Nurbank officials. | President Nursultan Nazarbayev on February 9 abruptly removed his son-in-law, Rakhat Aliyev, as deputy foreign minister and dispatched him to Vienna to serve as Kazakhstani ambassador to Austria. The move occurred days after Aliyev became embroiled in a controversy over the disappearance of two former bank executives.
... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | February 2007 | ['(EurasiaNet)'] |
South Korea announces that Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se will meet with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Seoul Monday to work toward a final settlement concerning sex slavery during World War II. The Nikkei reports that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe plans to create a new government-backed fund, contai... | TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Japan’s foreign minister will visit Seoul on Monday to meet his South Korean counterpart for talks aimed at an early resolution to a row over comfort women, as those forced to work in Japan’s wartime military brothels are euphemistically known.
South Korea’s foreign ministry announced the visit ... | Diplomatic Visit | December 2015 | ['(Reuters)', '(Bloomberg)', '(The Nikkei)', '(The Korea Times)'] |
On the first anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, millions join protests in cities across the world to demonstrate against the war and the continued occupation. In London two Greenpeace protesters evade newly tightened security and scale the Houses of Parliament's Clock Tower to unfurl a banner calling for the tru... | Two protesters breached security at the Houses of Parliament and scaled Big Ben sparking concerns about policing around the government.
Madrid and New York are among cities around the world where demonstrations are also being held against the war.
Police said some 25,000 people joined London's march to Trafalgar Square... | Protest_Online Condemnation | March 2004 | ['(Democracy Now!)', '(Reuters)', '(AFP)', '(BBC)', '(CNN)'] |
Journalist Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the non–government news agency Ingushetiya.ru, is shot dead in police custody in Ingushetia. | THE founder of a website that has criticised the Kremlin's policies in the Caucasus was found dead today in the Russian republic of Ingushetia, according to prosecutors quoted by Interfax.
Prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into the death of Magomed Yevloyev, who ran the website ingushetia.ru, said the... | Famous Person - Death | August 2008 | ['(BBC)', '(The Australian)', '(AP)'] |
The death toll from flash floods in the Philippines caused by Tropical Storm Washi reaches 1,500 per some sources, but the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council currently puts the number lower. | The death toll from flash floods that swept away entire villages in the southern Philippines has climbed to nearly 1500, as authorities widen their search for bodies.
The Office of Civil Defence's latest tally on Tuesday listed 891 dead in Cagayan de Oro and an additional 451 in nearby Iligan city. The rest came from s... | Hurricanes_Tornado_Storm_Blizzard | December 2011 | ['(AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)', '(NDRRMC)'] |
The BBC television series Sherlock wins two prizes at the 2011 British Academy Television Awards ceremony in London, including best drama series. | Sherlock has taken two prizes at the Bafta TV Awards ceremony in London, including best drama series.
Martin Freeman, who plays Watson in the latest screen version of the stories, was named best supporting actor.
But star Benedict Cumberbatch and Doctor Who's Matt Smith were beaten to best actor by Daniel Rigby for his... | Awards ceremony | May 2011 | ['(BBC)'] |
Reuters reports that Alberta Province, which projects a C$10 billion deficit this fiscal year as the prolonged slump in oil prices has reduced tax revenue, last month cut funding for wildfire prevention, including millions for programs created in response to the province's Slave Lake wildfire in 2011, which destroyed m... | Alberta's cash-strapped government cut funding for wildfire prevention, including millions for programs created in response to the province's last major fire disaster, just weeks before a raging fire swept across the city of Fort McMurray, forcing a mass evacuation as hundreds of homes burned to the gro... | Financial Crisis | May 2016 | ['(Reuters via Voice of America)'] |
Serbia extradites suspected war criminal Goran Hadžić to The Hague to face trial. | War crimes suspect Goran Hadzic has been flown from Serbia to face the UN court at The Hague.
A police motorcade, sirens blaring, was earlier seen leaving the Belgrade jail where Mr Hadzic was being held.
Before being taken to the airport, Mr Hadzic, 52, was allowed to see his sick mother in northern Serbia. Mr Hadzic... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | July 2011 | ['(BBC)'] |
In Morocco, Ali Salem Tamek, human rights activist and supporter of independence of Western Sahara, is arrested when he returns from Europe. Government accuses him of fomenting riots | A leading Western Sahara human rights activist has been arrested by police on suspicion of encouraging rioters in the disputed territory controlled by Morocco.
Ali Salem Tamek was arrested on Monday upon his arrival from Europe at Laayoune airport in Western Sahara, a Moroccan government source said.
"His name has been... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | July 2005 | ['(AlJAzeera)'] |
The Israel Defense Forces says that it has deployed two infantry units and an armoured unit to the border on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, and that a ground operation inside Gaza will be submitted to military chiefs later today, ahead of a potential approval by the Israeli government. | Israel on Thursday night appeared to declarea start to an anticipated offensive on the occupied Gaza Stripas Hamas continued to bombard the Jewish state with rocket fire.
“IDF air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip,” the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said in a brief message, signalling the most ... | Armed Conflict | May 2021 | ['(The Daily Telegraph)'] |
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who originally expected to be in Berlin today, makes an emergency trip to Iraq amid escalating tensions with Iran. Earlier this week, the U.S. deployed a bomber task force and the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group to the region. In today's meeting with Iraqi Prime M... | US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made an unscheduled, fleeting visit to Iraq, amid growing tensions with Iran.
Mr Pompeo cancelled a trip to Berlin to meet Iraqi leaders during a four-hour stop in the capital Baghdad.
He told the leaders that the US did not "want anybody interfering in their country", and asked them t... | Government Policy Changes | May 2019 | ['(BBC)', '(CNN)'] |
The United States Senate reaches a bipartisan deal to avoid default and end the 16-day US government shutdown. The House passes the legislation by 285–144. The bill now goes to the president, who is expected to sign it. , | Updated 12:31 a.m. President Barack Obama signed a last-minute Congressional deal early Thursday morning to avert a damaging debt default and to reopen the government after a more than two-week shutdown.
The Office of Management and Budget said previously furloughed federal workers should report to work Thursday morn... | Sign Agreement | October 2013 | ['(AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)', '(CNBC)'] |
Three people die in a shootout between Mexican security forces and gunmen in the resort of Acapulco. | Three people have been killed in a shoot-out between the security forces and gunmen in the Mexican resort town of Acapulco.
Officials say police and soldiers surprised a gang as they were setting fire to a shopping centre. In the two-hour gun battle which followed, a soldier and two of the alleged gunmen were killed. ... | Armed Conflict | April 2011 | ['(BBC)'] |
At least 20 people are killed in Democratic Republic of the Congo after a Filair plane crashes near Bandundu. , | Alex Harvill, a 28-year-old motorcycle stuntman, died Thursday during a warm-up run for a 351-foot jump at the Moses Lake Airshow in Washington state.
Had jumped 297 feet in 2013 | Armed Conflict | August 2010 | ['(BBC)', '(Yahoo)'] |
With more than 92% of the vote counted, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is ahead of Keiko Fujimori by just over 103,000 votes, 50.3 percent to 49.6 percent, in the electorate of 23 million citizens. Ballots of Peruvians living abroad will begin to arrive tonight. Mariano Cucho, the head of the electoral office, says the cou... | LIMA (Reuters) - Former investment banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski had a wafer-thin lead on Tuesday over rival Keiko Fujimori in the latest tally from Peru’s presidential race, with tens of thousands of votes from abroad and in remote jungle villages still to be counted.
Peru's presidential candidates battle it out to the... | Government Job change - Election | June 2016 | ['(CNN via WFXP)', '(Reuters)', '(Fox News Latino)'] |
Barack Obama becomes the first sitting US President to visit Burma, meeting both Burmese President Thein Sein and National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. | Burma is on a "remarkable journey" of reform that has much further to go, Barack Obama said as he made the first visit to the South East Asian nation by a serving US president. A desire for change had been met by an agenda of reform, he said, and he was there to extend a "hand of friendship". But, in a speech at Rango... | Diplomatic Talks _ Diplomatic_Negotiation_ Summit Meeting | November 2012 | ['(BBC)'] |
The US military announces that two US Marines are charged with urinating on Taliban corpses in Afghanistan and failing to stop other misconduct by subordinates. | Two US Marines have been referred for trial by courts martial for a video of troops urinating on Taliban corpses in Afghanistan, the US military says.
Staff sergeants Joseph Chamblin and Edward Deptola are also charged with failure to report or stop misconduct by junior Marines, including random firing of weapons.
Thre... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | September 2012 | ['(BBC)'] |
Protests break out across Sudan over rising prices of bread and fuel, resulting in at least eight deaths. | Officials say eight killed as anti-government protests continue in multiple cities over rising bread and fuel prices.
At least eight people have been killed in protests that have swept across Sudan for a second consecutive day amid rising public anger over soaring prices and other economic woes.
Authorities on Thursday... | Riot | December 2018 | ['(Al–Jazeera)'] |
Biden signs his first executive orders reversing several Trump administration decisions, including rejoining the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organization, repealing 2017 travel bans, ending funding for the United States–Mexico border wall, and revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. | Follow NBC News President Joe Biden will soon reverse the ban on transgender people serving openly in the military, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Wednesday.
While the reversal was not one of the 15 actions the new administration announced it would take Wednesday, Day One of the Biden presid... | Government Policy Changes | January 2021 | ['(BBC)', '(NBC News)', '(The Guardian)'] |
In Yemen, 8–13 people die during demonstrations against oil price increases | At least eight people have been killed in Yemen in clashes with police as demonstrators threw stones at government buildings to protest against subsidy cuts raising petrol prices.
Riot police on Wednesday fired live ammunition to disperse protests, and several demonstrators were either wounded or killed, reported Aljaz... | Protest_Online Condemnation | July 2005 | ['(Al–Jazeera)', '(MENAFN)', '(Reuters AlertNet)'] |
Opposition activists protest for a second day over President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term in office. At least two people were killed yesterday in protests. | Police in Burundi have clashed with thousands of protesters angered by President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term in office. The government has banned protests, deployed the army and shut down the main independent radio station, saying it was disrupting the peace.
Police have fired tear gas and wate... | Protest_Online Condemnation | April 2015 | ['(BBC)'] |
British police issue an apology after one of them shot a 14yearold female bystander with a Taser, sending an electric shock through her body. | Officers were called to Alexander Street, Stapleford, at about 2235 BST on Wednesday following reports of anti-social behaviour in the area.
Police attempted to discharge the Taser after trying to arrest a man who had become aggressive towards officers.
The Taser shot missed him but hit Jodie Gallagher, who was standin... | Armed Conflict | August 2010 | ['(BBC)'] |
English singer–songwriter Kevin Ayers dies at the age of 68. | Kevin Ayers, one of the most influential figures in the history of British psychedelia, has died. The singer-songwriter and founding member of the band Soft Machine was 68.
Soft Machine are considered a key psychedelic band: part of the "Canterbury scene", alongside acts including Caravan, Egg, Gong and Hatfield and th... | Famous Person - Death | February 2013 | ['(The Guardian)'] |
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health voices concerns that the novel coronavirus, similar to SARS and reported to have originated from the country, might affect the Hajj, the religious pilgrimage set to occur next month. The ministry suggests that travelers take the necessary precautions. | Sept. 27, 2012 -- Saudi Arabian health officials are bracing for the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca expected to draw more than 2 million Muslims from around the world.
This year's pilgrimage, set to begin Oct. 24, will come one month after the discovery of a SARS-like virus linked to the death of a Saudi man earl... | Disease Outbreaks | September 2012 | ['(ABC News)'] |
The death toll from the tsunami rises to at least 343. | North Pagai, Indonesia. The death toll from a tsunami which pummeled remote Indonesian islands soared to 343 on Thursday as questions mounted over whether an elaborate warning system had failed. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was heading to the disaster zone, where fears were growing for hundreds still missing aft... | Tsunamis | October 2010 | ['(CBC)', '(Jakarta Globe)'] |
China bans foreigners from entering Tibet, ahead of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the People's Republic. | Last Updated: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:23:00 +1000
Tibet's tourism bureau has stopped issuing entry permits to foreigners in the lead up to China's 60th anniversary under communist rule. The bureau stopped granting permits on September 20th and says no permits will be issued until after October 8th. China will celebrate its... | Government Policy Changes | September 2009 | ['(Straits Times)', '(Australia Network News)'] |
The Maryland and the District of Columbia attorneys general plan to sue President Trump on Monday claiming he violated the emolument clauses in the Constitution by accepting foreign payouts for his hotelier empire. | Attorneys general for the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland sued President Trump on Monday, alleging that he has violated anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution by accepting millions in payments and benefits from foreign governments since moving into the White House.
The lawsuit, the first of its kind... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | June 2017 | ['(The Washington Post)', '(New York Daily News)'] |
In a separate incident, another publisher and two writers are stabbed and shot in Dhaka. | Faisal Abedin Deepan killed on same day as attacks on publisher Ahmed Rahim Tutul and two writers
First published on Sat 31 Oct 2015 14.45 GMT
A publisher of secular books has been hacked to death in the Bangladeshi capital, police have said. In a separate attack in Dhaka, police said two other writers and a publisher ... | Riot | October 2015 | ['(The Guardian)'] |
A transport and a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team collide north of Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada, en route to a play-off game against the Nipawin Hawks, killing 15 people. | A crash involving a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team has killed at least 14 people and critically injured three others in Saskatchewan, Canada.
The Humboldt Broncos team, which has members aged between 16 and 21, were en route to a play-off game when their bus collided with a lorry on a rural road. The identities ... | Road Crash | April 2018 | ['(CTV News)', '(CBC)', '(BBC)'] |
A cargo plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan. 41 people have reportedly died. The five Armenian crew members were killed. | By Simon Tomlinson for MailOnline Published: 08:25 BST, 4 November 2015 | Updated: 17:42 BST, 4 November 2015 301
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This is the astonishing moment a baby was pulled alive from the wreckage of a cargo plane which crashed in South Sudan, killing up to 41 people.
The boy was plucked from the mangled ... | Air crash | November 2015 | ['(Reuters Africa)', '(RT)', '(Al Jazeera English)', '(AFP via Rappler)', '(Daily Mail)'] |
Fresh landslides and heavy rain in northwestern China leave at least 29 people dead and a further 10,500 trapped. | BEIJING - Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains have left 19 people dead, 20 missing and thousands trapped in parts of west China, apart from the Zhouqu mudslides that killed more than 1,000, local authorities said Friday.
Downpours pounded some areas of Gansu, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces from Wednesday... | Hurricanes_Tornado_Storm_Blizzard | August 2010 | ['(Reuters)', '(China Daily)', '(BBC)'] |
Former President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir is transferred from house arrest to a maximum security prison, reports say. His whereabouts had been unknown since the coup against him earlier this month. Al-Bashir has been wanted by the International Criminal Court since 2009 for war crimes in Darfur. | Sudan's former President Omar al-Bashir has been moved to Kobar maximum security prison, days after he was deposed in a military coup.
Reports say the ex-leader has until now been detained at the presidential residence under heavy guard. He is reportedly being held in solitary confinement and is surrounded by tight sec... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Arrest | April 2019 | ['(BBC)'] |
Turkish warplanes launch airstrikes aimed at Kurdish militants, accidentally killing 35 smugglers that were suspected as guerillas. | Protesters take to the streets of Istanbul in response to the military airstrike that killed 35 people. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
Updated at 9:45 a.m. ET
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Turkish warplanes launched airstrikes against suspected Kurdish militants in northern Iraq near the Turkish border overnight, the military ... | Armed Conflict | December 2011 | ['(MSNBC)'] |
The Chamber of Councillors of Tunisia passes legislation allowing the President to rule by decree. | Tunisia's senate has passed legislation that gives interim President Fouad Mebazaa the power to rule by decree.
The move comes three weeks after protesters ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali from power into exile in Saudi Arabia.
Mr Mebazaa will now be able to sidestep parliament which is dominated by associates ... | Government Policy Changes | February 2011 | ['(BBC)'] |
Heavy rains threaten rescue efforts after a deadly mudslide in Gansu, China, as the death toll reaches 1,117. | Heavy rain has hit the county in north-western China that was devastated by landslides, as the death toll from Saturday's disaster continues to rise. Officials said the number of people known to have died in Zhouqu, when mud and rocks engulfed buildings, now stood at 1,117, with 627 others missing. Forecasters have war... | Hurricanes_Tornado_Storm_Blizzard | August 2010 | ['(Xinhua)', '(BBC)', '(Aljazeera)'] |
Alexandre Bilodeau scores first place in the men's freestyle skiing moguls, winning Canada's first ever Olympic gold medal on home soil. | Canada's long wait for a first Olympic gold medal on home soil is over after Alexandre Bilodeau won the men's moguls event in Vancouver.
Bilodeau, 22, finished ahead of Australia's reigning champion Dale Begg-Smith and American Bryon Wilson. It ended a 34-year wait and sparked wild celebrations at Cypress Mountain. Can... | Sports Competition | February 2010 | ['(BBC)'] |
A fire at the Garib & Garib Sweater Factory clothes factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh kills at least 18 people and injures more than 50 others. | At least 21 people have been killed and some 50 injured in a fire at a clothes factory in Bangladesh, reports say.
Rescuers had recovered dozens of injured people from the blaze at the Garib & Garib Sweater Factory, fire officials told local TV stations. The factory is located in Gazipur, some 50km (30 miles) north o... | Fire | February 2010 | ['(BBC)'] |
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, convicted of adultery and sentenced to death in Iran, reportedly faces the whip after The Times publishes an unveiled image of political activist Susan Hejrat in the mistaken belief it is her. | Iran has reportedly sentenced Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani – the 43-year-old Iranian woman who faces execution after being convicted of adultery – to 99 lashes in prison for "spreading corruption and indecency" after allowing an unveiled picture of herself to be published in a British newspaper.
The claim, which could no... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | September 2010 | ['(The Guardian)'] |
The king of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, abdicates in favor of his son, two years before he had initially planned to do so. | The king made his announcement in a royal edict read out late on Thursday at a council of ministers meeting.
He had been in power for three decades and announced a year ago that he planned to step down in 2008. He did not say why he was going earlier.
Bhutan becomes a parliamentary democracy under a new constitution in... | Government Job change - Appoint_Inauguration | December 2006 | ['(BBC)'] |
United States President-elect Donald Trump indicates that he will nominate former Indiana senator Dan Coats as Director of National Intelligence. | Mr Trump said Mr Coats would "provide unwavering leadership... and spearhead my administration's ceaseless vigilance against those who seek to do us harm".
The appointment comes a day after an intelligence report accused Russia's president of ordering a campaign aimed at helping Mr Trump to victory.
Mr Trump said in a ... | Government Job change - Appoint_Inauguration | January 2017 | ['(BBC)'] |
After a summit in Brussels, European Union leaders agree to a 20% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020. | EU leaders have agreed to finish talks by the end of the year on an ambitious plan to fight climate change.
After a two-day summit in Brussels, leaders for the 27 nations said they hoped new legislation would be enacted in early 2009.
The bloc aims to implement a 20% cut in greenhouse gases by 2020, compared with 1990 ... | Diplomatic Talks _ Diplomatic_Negotiation_ Summit Meeting | March 2008 | ['(BBC News)'] |
United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as leader of the Conservative Party, effective June 7. She will remain Prime Minister until a successor is elected. | Theresa May has bowed to intense pressure from her own party and named 7 June as the day she will step aside as Conservative leader, drawing her turbulent three-year premiership to a close.
Speaking in Downing Street, May said it had been “the honour of my life” to serve as Britain’s second female prime minister. Her v... | Government Job change - Resignation_Dismissal | May 2019 | ['(The Guardian)'] |
Iranian State television reports that court spokesman Gholam–Hossein Mohseni–Eje'i clarified the Iranian–American reporter's verdict –– Washington Post's Jason Rezaian was convicted in a closed–door espionage trial that ended two months ago. Details remain unknown. Rezaian faced four charges; it's not clear whether he... | Iranian state television reported late Sunday thatWashington Post reporter Jason Rezaian has been convicted on charges that included espionage. The report quoted a judiciary spokesman, but did not include any details of the verdict except that it Rezaian and his lawyer are eligible to appeal the conviction within 20 da... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | October 2015 | ['(The Washington Post)', '(Payvand.com)'] |
Bulgarians head to the polls in a presidential runoff between BSP backed Rumen Radev, of the socialist opposition, and Tsetska Tsacheva, Chairwoman of the National Assembly, from incumbent prime-minister Boyko Borisov's conservative GERB. Exit polls by Alpha Research and Gallup International show Radev with about 58 pe... | BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Former Bulgarian air force commander Rumen Radev won the decisive round of Sunday’s presidential elections in Bulgaria, exit polls by Alpha Research and Gallup International showed.
Radev, 53, backed by the opposition Socialists, won 58.1-58.5 percent of the vote, compared with 35.3-35.7 percent f... | Government Job change - Election | November 2016 | ['(novinite.com)', '(Reuters)'] |
Mortar fire hits Damascus University cafeteria section killing 15 students and injuring 7 others. | The Syrian capital is in the grip of heavy fighting between government and rebel forces, who have recently intensified the use of mortars in the city, correspondents say.
State-run al-Ikhbariya TV said the mortars had hit a cafeteria. The station showed footage of doctors trying to save victims amid a scene of upturned... | Armed Conflict | March 2013 | ['(BBC)'] |
The death toll of the heavy floods in Nepal rise to 113. | Floods and landslides triggered by incessant monsoon rains across Nepal have claimed at least 113 lives while 38 people are still missing, officials said Sunday.
Parts of central and southern Nepal including some areas of Kathmandu valley have been inundated due to incessant rains since last two weeks.
At least 113 peo... | Floods | July 2019 | ['(India Today)'] |
Three children in one family are among those killed by the outbreak. | In six weeks, a measles outbreak has infected 3,000 people out of a population of 200,000, killing 42, mostly children
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Faaoso Tuivale sleeps on her childrens grave during the day, when she misses them most.
She and her husband, Tuivale Luamanuvae Puelua, are sitting on the new... | Disease Outbreaks | December 2019 | ['(The Guardian)'] |
Microsoft purchases Nokia's mobile device division for $7.2 billion. | LOS ANGELES – Microsoft Corp. said late Monday it has agreed to buy Nokia Corp.'s services and devices business. Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in a letter to employees that the planned acquisition is the "next big phase" of its restructuring effort announced in July. Microsoft will pay $7.17 billion for... | Organization Merge | September 2013 | ['(MarketWatchPulse)'] |
United Kingdom police arrest a 21–year–old man in Berkshire in the hacking of Hong Kong–based electronic toy maker VTech. Details of more than six million people from servers used to support VTech's learning products app store were compromised. | A 21-year-old man has been arrested in Berkshire by police investigating the hacking of electronic toy maker VTech.
The man has been held on suspicion of "unauthorised access" to a computer, said the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (Serocu) in a statement.
VTech was hit in mid-November when servers holding its... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Arrest | December 2015 | ['(BBC)', '(Digital Trends)'] |
Ford Motor's Volvo subsidiary tripled the number of jobs it planned to cut to 6,000 positions, or 25 percent of its work force, citing a "rapidly deteriorating" auto market. | (CNN) -- Swedish carmaker Volvo said Wednesday it was cutting 3,300 jobs, about 12 percent of its workforce.
Volvo, which is owned by struggling U.S. auto giant Ford, is cutting 2,700 white-collar and blue-collar jobs in Sweden and 600 outside the country, the company said. The company's workforce at the end of 2007 ... | Government Job change - Resignation_Dismissal | October 2008 | ['(CNN)'] |
One Briton killed and 12 people wounded by a car bomb in Doha, Qatar. | Acar bomb blast in Doha has killed two, including a Briton, the Qatari Interior Ministry said.
A car exploded about 9:15pm on Saturday nightnext to a theatre near a Britishschool in the Qatari capital, Aljazeera said, quoting the ministry.The car was registered in the name of an Egyptian national who has not been heard... | Armed Conflict | March 2005 | ['(AlJazeera)', '(BBC)'] |
A study, part of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey, examined huge blocks of space as distant as several billion light years away and concluded that the universe is "slowly dying" as more stars gradually go out faster than they are being replaced by light–emitting active ones. In cosmological terms, the demise of the... | Without applause or encore, the lights are going out across the universe, as old stars die faster than new ones are born to replace them.
Astronomers described the slow death of the cosmos in fresh detail on Monday after training some of the world’s most powerful telescopes on a vast region of space. They analysed star... | New achievements in aerospace | August 2015 | ['(GAMA)', '(the current age calculated at approximately 13.8 billion years)', '(The Guardian via MSN)', '(CNN)', '(The South African Times Live)'] |
A study finds that the 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak was a mix of two dangerous E. coli strains. | A mix of two dangerous E. coli strains caused the recent deadly food poisoning outbreak in Germany, according to a new study of the bacteria's DNA.
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A patient who got the EHEC bacteria is in intensive care at the Hanover Medical School in Hanover, Germany.
Julian Stratenschulte, EPA
A patient ... | Disease Outbreaks | June 2011 | ['(AP via USA Today)'] |
Japanese supercentenarian Masazo Nonaka is confirmed as the world's oldest living man. | Born in July 1905, months before Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity, Masazo Nonaka is aged 112 years 259 days.
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The world's oldest man has been named as 112-year-old Masazo Nonaka, whose secret to longevity is said to be eating sweets and taking hot baths.
Born on 25 July ... | Break historical records | April 2018 | ['(Sky News)'] |
John Walker Lindh, the first person to be convicted of a crime in the War on Terror, is released on probation from a U.S. federal prison after serving 17 years of a 20–year sentence. Lindh has refused to renounce Islamist extremism and will be on probation for three years. U.S. President Donald Trump condemns the earl... | John Walker Lindh, the Californian who took up arms for the Taliban and was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2001, got out of prison Thursday after more than 17 years, released under tight restrictions that reflected government fears he still harbors radical views.
President Donald Trump reacted by saying, “I ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Release | May 2019 | ['(CNN)', '(Associated Press)'] |
In Israel, the Tel Aviv Magistrates Court sentences Omri Sharon to a nine–month prison term, a nine–month suspended sentence, and a NIS 300,000 (USD 65,000) fine after he is convicted of violating political fundraising law and providing false testimony. | The Tel Aviv Magistrates Court sentenced Omri Sharon to a nine-month prison term, a nine-month suspended sentence, and a NIS 300,000 (USD 65,000) fine after he was convicted of violating political fundraising laws and providing false testimony.
Sharon’s attorneys have already announced they would appeal the sentence.... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | February 2006 | ['(Ynetnews)'] |
In the Republic of Ireland government figures indicate less than half of the country's households have paid the household charge by today's deadline as thousands of people march on the governing Fine Gael party's annual conference at the Convention Centre Dublin. | About 5,000 people have staged a protest in Dublin against the Irish government's controversial 100 euros Household Charge ahead of Saturday's midnight deadline for payment.
The measure announced last July is expected to raise 160m euros (£137m) in revenue.
The rally has been taking place near where Taoiseach Enda Kenn... | Protest_Online Condemnation | March 2012 | ['(CBS News)', '(The Journal)', '(The Irish Times)', '(BBC)'] |
Venezuelan politician Juan Requesens is arrested for alleged crimes related to the supposed Maduro assassination attempt, despite having political immunity. | A Venezuelan opposition lawmaker has been arrested and a warrant issued for another living in exile, amid a crackdown after an alleged drone attack against President Nicolás Maduro.
The government has blamed Juan Requesens and Julio Borges for what it calls a bid to kill the president.
The moves came as a powerful gove... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Arrest | August 2018 | ['(BBC News)'] |
At least five people are killed and 275 injured in a train crash near Yaounde, Cameroon. | People looking for survivors in the overturned carriages
At least five people have been killed and more than 275 others injured in a train crash near Cameroon's capital, Yaounde.
Officials said that a passenger train carrying about 1,000 people derailed north of the city. Rescuers are searching for survivors and say t... | Train collisions | August 2009 | ['(BBC)', '(Press TV)'] |
A group of 30 armed men raid Papua New Guinea's Lae Nadzab Airport holding passengers hostage and ransacking offices. | A group of 30 men with guns and machetes have held up Papua New Guinea's second biggest airport, keeping passengers captive for about two hours while they ransacked offices.
The attack happened at Nadzab airport, 40 kilometres outside Lae, PNG's second biggest city and the industrial hub of the nation.
Police said a gr... | Riot | December 2014 | ['(ABC News Australia)'] |
Thousands of people protest in Spain against a raid by Moroccan authorities in a camp in the disputed Western Sahara. | (CNN) -- Thousands gathered in Spain's capital Saturday to protest violence in Western Sahara, a long-disputed region of northwestern Africa, CNN's Spanish affiliate reported.
Deadly clashes erupted earlier this week between Moroccan forces and local rebels in the contested region.
The violence coincided with a round o... | Protest_Online Condemnation | November 2010 | ['(Angola Press)', '(CNN)'] |
The National Diet of Japan passes legislation allowing Emperor Akihito to abdicate. The abdication is to take place within three years. | Japan's parliament has passed a law allowing Emperor Akihito to become the first monarch to abdicate in 200 years.
The 83-year-old emperor expressed his apparent wish to abdicate last August, citing old age and health.
Under the law enacted on Friday, an abdication must take place within three years, but parliament put... | Government Policy Changes | June 2017 | ['(AP/Reuters via Aus. Broadcasting Corp.)'] |
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio resigns as leader of the ruling Five Star Movement, as polls show the party losing support ahead of a regional election in Emilia–Romagna next Sunday. | Luigi Di Maio took the anti-establishment Five Star Movement into government when it became Italy's biggest party in 2018 elections.
But now that its popularity has dwindled after two successive coalitions he has resigned as leader, saying "an era is coming to an end".
Although he will stay on as foreign minister, t... | Government Job change - Resignation_Dismissal | January 2020 | ['(BBC)'] |
Controversial French footballer Thierry Henry retires from international football. | French soccer star Thierry Henry gets a rooftop view of New York after an interview on Thursday. (AP)
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: Jul 15, 2010 21:27
Updated: Jul 15, 2010 22:14
NEW YORK: Thier... | Government Job change - Resignation_Dismissal | July 2010 | ['(Arab News)', '(CNN)', '(Hindustan Times)', '(Vancouver Sun)'] |
A military plane carrying cadets from Kharkiv Air Force University during a training flight crashes in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, killing 26 people and wounding another person. | Twenty-six people, most of them air cadets, have been killed in a military plane crash in Ukraine, officials say. The aircraft, an Antonov-26, came down near the eastern city of Kharkiv.
The plane was carrying 20 cadets and seven officers from Kharkiv Air Force University and was on a training flight. Only one person s... | Air crash | September 2020 | ['(BBC)'] |
The City of Westminster Magistrates' Court rules Egyptianborn Muslim cleric Abu Hamza alMasri can be extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States, where he is accused of terrorism. | The Egyptian-born preacher is currently serving a seven-year jail term in the UK for inciting murder and race hate.
The 49-year-old from west London is wanted by the American authorities on 11 charges.
City of Westminster Magistrates Court approved the extradition, but the decision has to be ratified by the Home Secret... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | November 2007 | ['(BBC)'] |
Harvey is now a tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 mph . It made landfall on Texas's eastern coast, the eye striking the town of Rockport, as a Category 4 hurricane. It's the strongest storm to hit the state since 1961. Harvey is expected to maintain tropical storm strength, with heavy rains and flooding, for at... | • Hurricane Harvey, powered by the Gulf of Mexico’s warm waters, made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane at about 9:45 p.m. Friday, earlier than expected. It came ashore just northeast of Corpus Christi, Tex., packing 130 m.p.h. winds.
• By midnight, the authorities had reported two deaths that appeared to be related t... | Hurricanes_Tornado_Storm_Blizzard | August 2017 | ['(110 kmh)', '(National Hurricane Center)', '(The New York Times)', '(BBC)', '(Houston Chronicle)'] |
Steven Chu steps down as United States Secretary of Energy. | Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Friday he will leave the administration when a successor is confirmed.
"I would like to return to an academic life of teaching and research, but will still work to advance the missions that we have been working on together for the last four years," Chu said in a letter to Energy Departm... | Government Job change - Resignation_Dismissal | February 2013 | ['(AP via The Washington Post)', '(Los Angeles Times)', '(USA Today)'] |
The European Court of Human Rights rules that Khalid El–Masri, a German citizen, was an innocent victim of extraordinary rendition by the Central Intelligence Agency and orders Macedonia to pay him €60,000 after it arrested him and sent him to the CIA. CIA agents then transferred him to a detention facility in Afghanis... | CIA agents tortured a German citizen, sodomising, shackling, and beating him, as Macedonian state police looked on, the European court of human rights said in a historic judgment released on Thursday.
In a unanimous ruling, it also found Macedonia guilty of torturing, abusing, and secretly imprisoning Khaled el-Masri, ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Arrest | December 2012 | ['(Al Jazeera)', '(The Guardian)', '(ECHR)'] |
A Nigerian warplane involved in operations within Mali crashes in Niger, killing two pilots. | A Nigerian warplane involved in operations against militant Islamists in Mali has crashed in Niger, killing two pilots, the army has said. These are the first casualties Nigeria has suffered after deploying troops in January to fight the militants. Mechanical failure was likely to have caused the fighter jet to crash n... | Air crash | May 2013 | ['(BBC)'] |
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R–Mich., announces his resignation from the United States House of Representatives. | Michigan Republican Rep. Thaddeus McCotter resigned from Congress on Friday, a surprise decision that caps among the most madcap two-month periods in modern politics.
The Michigan Republican and 2012 presidential candidate announced his decision in a lengthy and characteristically verbose statement citing his desire to... | Government Job change - Resignation_Dismissal | July 2012 | ['(Washington Post)'] |
A passenger train derails in central Cameroon, killing at least 53 people and injuring 575 others. , | 75 are reported dead and about 600 people injured in Friday’s train derailment accident in Cameroon.
This is a rise in the toll confirmed yesterday which was previously 53 dead, 575 injured and 14 trapped in the carriages.
Original story
A train derailed in Cameroon on Friday reporte... | Train collisions | October 2016 | ['(Africa News)', '(Reuters)'] |
Russia's Federal Security Service says it has thwarted two armed Ukrainian incursions into Crimea with at least two killed, including one FSB officer, following a "massive fire fight" with "sabotage-terrorist" groups. Ukraine denies the Russian claims. | Russian president says Moscow will not ignore incidents in which two soldiers were killed, but which Kiev denies took place First published on Wed 10 Aug 2016 14.14 BST
Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of plotting terrorist attacks in Crimea and claimed two Russian servicemen were killed in clashes this week, as tens... | Armed Conflict | August 2016 | ['(FSB)', '(Reuters)', '(The Guardian)'] |
Australian cricket player Shane Watson breaks the world record for number of sixes in a One Day International in the second match in the series against Bangladesh. |
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The explosive opener gave a superb display of power-hitting as he also cracked 15 fours in his 96-ball knock to help Australia achieve a 230-run target with 24 overs to spare for an unbeatable 2-0 lead.
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West Indies' Xavier Marshall was the previous record-hold... | Break historical records | April 2011 | ['(Super Sport)'] |
A French court sentences former Rwandan army captain Pascal Simbikangwa to 25 years for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. | A French court has jailed former Rwandan spy chief Pascal Simbikangwa for 25 years over the 1994 genocide.
In a landmark trial, Simbikangwa was found guilty of complicity in genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity. It was not immediately clear whether his lawyers would appeal.
Simbikangwa, 54, who is paraple... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | March 2014 | ['(BBC)'] |
Conflict in Afghanistan: Afghan troops kill 31 suspects following clashes in Paktika, in eastern Afghanistan. | Defence Ministry spokesman Gen Mohammed Zaher Azimi said fighting erupted after insurgents attacked an Afghan army post near Angore Adda in Paktika province.
At least four government troops were injured in the battle near the Pakistan border, which lasted over four hours.
It was the heaviest reported fighting since ele... | Armed Conflict | October 2005 | ['(BBC)'] |
Envoys from the United States, European Union and Russia visit Serbia and Kosovo seeking a solution to the Kosovo issue. | The US envoy, Frank Wisner, said "every possible option" for a compromise solution would be explored.
They will travel next to Kosovo for talks with ethnic Albanian leaders.
The UN Security Council failed last month to find consensus on the Serbian province's future. Its majority ethnic Albanian population wants indepe... | Diplomatic Visit | August 2007 | ['(BBC)'] |
Two raging fires in Los Angeles destroy a massive residential complex under construction, heavily damage a building undergoing renovations, and snarl rush hour traffic. | Two raging fires in Los Angeles destroyed a massive residential complex under construction, heavily damaged a building undergoing renovations, and snarled rush hour traffic while raining ash over a large area early Monday.
More than 250 firefighters fought a downtown blaze that was sparked at a block-long construction ... | Fire | December 2014 | ['(The Hollywood Reporter)'] |
In Brazil, minister José Dirceu resigns due to allegations that he knew about bribery but insists that he is innocent | A senior minister in Brazil's left-wing government has resigned following a series of corruption allegations. In a TV statement on Thursday evening, Jose Dirceu said he was stepping down as chief-of-staff to President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, known as Lula.
But, he insisted, he had done nothing to be ashamed of.
Las... | Government Job change - Resignation_Dismissal | June 2005 | ['(BBC)', '(Forbes)'] |
Australian Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure Alan Tudge announces that the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security will probe the alleged interference by foreign governments at the country's universities. |
Australia's parliament is set to probe alleged foreign interference at public universities, a government minister said Monday, as concerns grow about Chinese influence.
A proposed inquiry by the security and intelligence committee follows a series of controversies over China's clout on Australian campuses, r... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | August 2020 | ['(AFP via The Jakarta Post)'] |
An eruption on Bogoslof Island of the Aleutian Islands disrupts air transportation routes, distributing tephra over populated areas, including Kodiak Island, 660 miles (1,060 km) away from the volcano. | A satellite image shows an ash cloud from Bogoslof volcano in the Aleutians shortly after its 1:20 p.m. eruption Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. (Alaska Volcano Observatory)
Another eruption of Bogoslof volcano in the Aleutian Islands sent an ash cloud east over the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island on Wednesday, disruptin... | Volcano Eruption | January 2017 | ['(Alaska Dispatch News)'] |
Indonesia evacuates thousands more people from their villages as Mount Merapi in central Java explodes again. |
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Mount Merapi. In its biggest eruption since Tuesday evening, Mount Merapi ejected volcanic ash and other material over a 2 kilometers radius early on Thursday morning.Surono, head of the Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Agency (PVMBG), said the ash was being blown in a westerly direction toward... | Volcano Eruption | November 2010 | ['(Jakarta Globe)', '(ABC)'] |
Pro-Gaddafi forces claim that they have taken control of Ra's Lanuf with dozens of people killed. , , | 9.17am: Good morning. Welcome to live coverage of events in Libya and the response of the international community to the crisis. Here's a summary of the latest developments:
A fresh bombardment has been launched on the eastern oil port of Ras Lanuf, rebel fighters and witnesses said. Bombs or missiles were landing a f... | Armed Conflict | March 2011 | ['(Al-Jazeera)', '(BBC)', '(The Guardian)'] |
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