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300 million yen robbery | The 300 million yen robbery (三億円事件, San Oku En Jiken), also known as the 300 million yen affair or incident, was a robbery that occurred on December 10, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. A man posing as a police officer on a motorcycle stopped bank employees transferring money and stole 294 million yen. [1] It was the single large... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
1998 IAAF World Road Relay Championships | The 1998 IAAF World Road Relay Championships was the fourth and final edition of the global, international marathon relay competition, organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). [1] The event took place on 18–19 April in Manaus, Brazil with the participation of 222 athletes from 28 nati... | Sports Competition | null | null |
1991 M4 motorway crash |
On 13 March 1991, a multiple-vehicle collision occurred during foggy conditions on the eastbound carriageway of the M4 motorway near Hungerford, Berkshire, between the Membury service station and junction 14. Ten people were killed in the pile-up, which involved 51 vehicles, making it one of the deadliest crashes in ... | Road Crash | null | null |
‘Great Freedom’ wins top prize at Sarajevo Film Festival | Sebastian Miese’s Austrian-German drama Great Freedom has won the Sarajevo Film Festival’s top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo for best feature film.
The 2021 winners were announced at an awards ceremony last night (August 20). The film received its world premiere at Cannes last month, where it played in Un Certain Regard... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
Korean Air Lines Flight 902 crash | Korean Air Lines Flight 902 (KAL 902) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from Paris to Seoul via Anchorage. On 20 April 1978, the Soviet air defense shot down the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 707, near Murmansk, Soviet Union, after the aircraft violated Soviet airspace. [2][3]
Flight 902 had veered off c... | Air crash | null | null |
Harlan County War |
The Harlan County War, or Bloody Harlan, was a series of coal mining-related skirmishes, executions, bombings, and strikes (both attempted and realized) that took place in Harlan County, Kentucky, during the 1930s. The incidents involved coal miners and union organizers on one side, and coal firms and law enforceme... | Strike | null | null |
6 die in collapse of abandoned mine in northeast India | Officials say six miners have died after being trapped in an abandoned coal mine that collapsed in India’s remote northeast On Location: November 16, 2021 GAUHATI, India -- Six miners died after being trapped in an abandoned coal mine that collapsed in India’s remote northeast, a state official said Friday. Their bodie... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Persian famine of 1870–1872 | The Great Persian famine of 1870–1872 was a period of mass starvation and disease in Iran (Persia) between 1870 and 1872 under the rule of Qajar dynasty. The best documented famine in the Iranian history, it affected almost the whole country, however some cities managed to avoid the catastrophe, including Shahrud, Kerm... | Famine | null | null |
2 Kent County banks robbed within 20 minutes | WYOMING, Mich. — Two banks in Kent County were robbed within 20 minutes of each other Thursday afternoon, according to Fox 17 reporters at the scene. One happened at the Fifth/Third Bank on Chicago Drive in Grandville at 11:13 a.m. and the other at Macatawa Bank on Clyde Park in Wyoming at 11:33 a.m. Recent Stories fro... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 901 crash | Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 901 was a scheduled passenger flight that crashed in a river near Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 7, 1981, after flying into a thunderstorm. All 31 people on the BAC 1-11 were killed in the accident. Flight 901 had departed from Teniente Benjamín Matienzo International Airport in Tucumán at ... | Air crash | null | null |
'Extraordinary Discovery': Archaeologists Find Neanderthal Remains In Cave Near Rome | The Italian Culture Ministry said the Guattari Cave in San Felice Circeo was "one of the most significant places in the world for the history of Neanderthals." The Italian Culture Ministry said the Guattari Cave in San Felice C... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Supreme Court conservatives appear ready to endorse death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev | Eight years after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing , which led to the deaths of three spectators and a police officer, the Supreme Court seemed ready Wednesday to reinstate the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers involved in the attack. The justices appeared to be divided along familiar ideolog... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
Dr Jeffery Chew helps fit a lighter, more robust knee brace called the X-Brace onto 72-year-old Teo Lee Lee | Dr Jeffery Chew helps fit a lighter, more robust knee brace called the X-Brace onto 72-year-old Teo Lee Lee. SINGAPORE - Resembling a sleek knee brace used by Batman in movie The Dark Knight Rises, a new aid called X-Brace offers a leg up to those who suffer from knee problems. The lighter and more robust knee brace, ... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
2017 Berkeley protests |
The 2017 Berkeley protests were a series of protests and clashes between organized groups that occurred in the city of Berkeley, California, in the vicinity of the University of California campus. Violence occurred predominantly between protesters opposed to then-President Donald Trump, including activists such as an... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Mohawk Airlines Flight 121 crash | Mohawk Airlines Flight 121 was a scheduled passenger flight from Rochester-Monroe Airport in Rochester, New York to Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey. On July 2, 1963, the aircraft operating the flight, a Martin 4-0-4 with a total of 15,970 operational hours, crashed during takeoff. The accident killed... | Air crash | null | null |
Bank robber who shot himself during metro Atlanta standoff linked to 2 more heists | A Newnan man who robbed an Alabama bank Wednesday morning before shooting and killing himself hours later during a police standoff in metro Atlanta is now linked to two 2018 robberies, police said. Oxford, Ala., police responded to a Regions Bank along Quintard Drive about 9 a.m. after receiving a call about a robbery,... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Images released of Scone bank robber | Police have released security images of a man responsible for holding up a Scone bank with a shotgun. The man entered the Kelly Street bank on Friday November 27 at about 11.15 (AEDT), threatening staff with the gun. He stole cash before fleeing and was last seen getting into a blue vehicle seen heading west on Kingdon... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Hollywood Black Friday | Hollywood Black Friday or "Bloody Friday"[1] is the name given, in the history of organized labor in the United States, to October 5, 1945. On that date, a six-month strike by the set decorators represented by the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) boiled over into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios ... | Strike | null | null |
1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash | The Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash occurred on 18 September 1961 in Northern Rhodesia. The crash resulted in the deaths of all people onboard including Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, and 15 others. Hammarskjöld had been en route to cease-fire negotiations with Moise Tshombe durin... | Air crash | null | null |
Poison Hemlock overspreading in Ohio | TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Poison Hemlock is invasive, brought to the US from Europe centuries ago. But experts say its coverage is exploding, and so is the danger.
Amy Stone is an Extension Educator of Agriculture and Natural Resources with the Ohio State University. “It’s very toxic to mammals, to humans and animals,” she... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
RusAir Flight 9605 crash | RusAir Flight 9605 (operating as RusLine Flight 243) was a passenger flight which crashed near Petrozavodsk in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, on 20 June 2011 while attempting to land in thick fog. The aircraft involved, a Tupolev Tu-134, was operating a RusAir scheduled domestic flight from Moscow. Of the 52 people o... | Air crash | null | null |
India's Marine Power & Blue Economy | The Blue Economy, with its untapped seabed minerals and renewable ocean energy, could prove that light at the end of the tunnel for Covid-19 afflicted India. The nation’s strategic location in the IOR and its potentials as a maritime power is a blessing for both the security of the region and the Indian economy. INDIA... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Motorists urged not to panic buy fuel; ‘10 days’ to save Christmas – as it happened | The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated what happens when the government fails to deliver on what Americans expect and need. Americans believe that it is the responsibility of the U.S. government to keep its people safe and sound, invest for the future, and be good stewards of taxpayer dollars and well-regulated markets... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Seven miners killed as a gold mine collapsed in Northern State | Seven miners were killed when a gold mine collapsed in Northern State on Wednesday. People from the area told Radio Dabanga that the accident occurred in the mines east of Semna, 60 km south of Wadi Halfa. Twelve men, originally from West Bara in North Kordofan, were working in the mine when it collapsed. Seven of them... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
WA Afternoons |
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Local Perth waterways are filled with a wide variety of animals; fish, frogs, long neck turtles are just a few of them. But when those waterways become polluted via stormwater drains, it can cause not only harm to the animals, but also to humans as the toxins transfer up t... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Scott Morrison on the defensive over French submarine deal, after brief run in with Emmanuel Macron | Scott Morrison on the defensive over French submarine deal, after brief run in with Emmanuel Macron
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has crossed paths with French President Emmanuel Macron for the first time since Australia tore up its $90 billion submarine contract with French shipbuilder Naval Group.
It came a day after... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
The Western United States Is a Hotspot for Snow Droughts | A new study compares snowpack across the world and offers a tool to help scientists pinpoint where this critical resource is waning — and what that means for ecosystems and economies. Climate Change February 1, 2021 - by Tara Lohan Wild, Incisive, Fearless. A new study compares snowpack across the world and off... | Droughts | null | null |
Millions in Yemen ‘a step away from starvation’ | The crisis in Yemen, now in its seventh year of war, continues unabated, with thousands of people displaced and millions “a step away from starvation”, the UN Humanitarian Relief Coordinator said on Wednesday during a high-level side event on the margins of the 76th General Assembly. “The country’s economy has reached ... | Famine | null | null |
Masked man robbed bank in Baker Wednesday morning | BAKER - Police say a man claiming to have a gun robbed a bank in East Baton Rouge Parish Wednesday. The Baker Police Department confirmed to WBRZ it was investigating a robbery at a Chase Bank on Main Street. Police said the robber walked into the bank around 9 a.m. wearing a head covering and mask. The man reportedly ... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Chad’s ‘covert coup’ and the implications for democratic governance in Africa | The recent spate of military coups in Africa, which were intended to be transitional, might instead be a risk for democracy in the long term. There might be a short term need to maintain security. But the military may not necessarily be a credible partner to build democratic governance. Military intervention could mean... | Regime Change | null | null |
Graham Hill plane crash | On 29 November 1975, former Formula One champion and team owner Graham Hill died when the Piper Aztec light aircraft he was piloting crashed near Arkley in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, while on approach to Elstree Airfield. The other five passengers on board, forming the core of his Embassy Hill Formula One team, wer... | Air crash | null | null |
Lakanal House fire |
The Lakanal House fire occurred in a tower block on 3 July 2009 in Camberwell, London. Six people were killed, and at least twenty injured, when a high-rise fire developed and spread through a number of flats in the twelve-storey building. Lakanal House is a 14-storey tower block that forms part of the Sceaux Gardens... | Fire | null | null |
King assassination riots |
The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising,[2] was a wave of civil disturbance which swept the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Many believe it to be the greatest wave of social unrest the United States had experienced since the Civil War. [... | Riot | null | null |
Members of Libya's two rival parliaments agreed to set a target date of Dec. 16 to sign a U.N.-sponsored agreement on forming a national unity government, the new U.N | Members of Libya's two rival parliaments agreed to set a target date of Dec. 16 to sign a U.N.-sponsored agreement on forming a national unity government, the new U.N. envoy to the crisis-wracked country said Friday.
Martin Kobler told the U.N. Security Council in a video briefing from the Tunisian capital that some 40... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire |
On March 28, 2018, a fire broke out during a prison riot in the cells at the Carabobo state police headquarters in Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela. The fire killed at least 68 people[1] and injured scores of others. [2] The fire is one of the deadliest incidents ever in a Venezuelan prison since the 1994 Sabaneta priso... | Fire | null | null |
The marriage that defined a generation: A love letter to Kimye | Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have long drawn as much ridicule as sincere interest, but if reports the pair are "over" prove true it marks the end of a generation's ultimate celebrity couple. The pair’s ever-pending “divorce” has provided tabloid fodder for years, but months of prolonged rumours lent the New York Post’... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
For Farmers Facing India's Biggest Locust Attack, Govt Provides Insufficient Relief | The relief amount is merely one-fifth of the total cost a farmer in Rajasthan incurs to cultivate a crop on one hectare of land. A locust swarm. Photo: Flickr/frank longwill CC BY NC ND 2.0 Rights 09/Feb/2020 Jaipur: Gujarat and Rajasthan, two states that share a border with Pakistan, are witnessing a massive locust at... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Man arrested after bank robbery in Virginia Beach | On September 4, at 12:14 p.m., Virginia Beach Emergency Communications (VBECCS) received a report that the Navy Federal Credit Union, located at 5193 Shore Drive had just been robbed. According to officials, the man had entered the bank, indicated he had a weapon, and demanded cash. He then fled with an undisclosed amo... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
2021 All England Open | The 2021 All England Open (officially known as the Yonex All England Open Badminton Championships 2021 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at Arena Birmingham in England from 17 to 21 March 2021. It had a total purse of $850,000. The 2021 All England Open became the second tournament of... | Sports Competition | null | null |
‘30 killed in Afghanistan gold mine collapse’ | At least 30 people were killed when a gold mine collapsed in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said, in the latest tragedy to strike the war-torn country. Another seven were injured in the incident in Kohistan district of Badakhshan province, district governor Mohammad Rustam Raghi told AFP. Villagers had d... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Charing Cross (District line) tube crash |
The Charing Cross (District line) tube crash occurred on 17 May 1938 at about 09:55 hours, between Charing Cross (now Embankment) and Temple stations. Six people were killed when a Circle line service ran into the rear of a District line service held at an automatic signal. A wiring error had caused the preceding sig... | Train collisions | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 3932 crash | Aeroflot Flight 3932 was a flight operated by Aeroflot from Koltsovo Airport to Omsk Tsentralny Airport. On 30 September 1973 the Tupolev Tu-104 operating the route crashed shortly after takeoff from Sverdlovsk, killing all 108 passengers and crew on board. [1][2]
The aircraft involved in the accident was a Tupolev Tu... | Air crash | null | null |
Amerindian Affairs PS to face corruption charges over alleged kickback scheme | Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum confirmed this afternoon that the Police Force has been advised to go ahead with filing corruption charges against the senior government official.
Two months after she was arrested following a sting operation by the Police, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, Sharo... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
Inside job bank robber jailed | Justin Robert Lundberg, 35, was found guilty by a jury of aggravated robbery and false imprisonment. The Adelaide District Court heard the former Bank SA financial planner stole $120,000 from the Mannum branch, east of Adelaide, in December 2009. Half the money is still unaccounted for. The trial heard Lundberg had jus... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
2006–2008 Lebanese protests | March 14 Alliance
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The 2008 Lebanon conflict (Or the 7 May 2008 clashes, Arabic: أحداث 7 أيار) was a brief intrastate conflict in May 2008 in Lebanon between pro-government and opposition militias after its 18-month-long political crisis spiraled out of control, pitting both sides against each other... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
2013 Madagascar locust infestation - Wikipedia | )
2013 Madagascar locust infestation
Malagasy migratory locust (Locusta migratoria capito)
In 2012, Madagascar had an upsurge in the size of its Malagasy migratory locust (Locusta migratoria capito) populations. In November of that year, the government issued a locust alert, saying that conditions were right for swarmi... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Township could cancel Luke Bryan concert | CONWAY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WILX) - This summer’s Luke Bryan concert outside Fowlerville could be canceled. Conway Township trustees are asking their lawyer to send a letter to shut it down. The Kubiak Family Farm is the sixth and final stop of Bryan’s farm tour. At least one trustee is worried about liability issues. But ... | Organization Closed | null | null |
2016 Alfa Indonesia DHC-4 crash | On 31 October 2016, a modified DHC-4 Caribou transport aircraft operated by Alfa Indonesia crashed in the Papuan jungle while en route to Ilaga Airport in Ilaga, Indonesia. The flight was operated by Alfa Indonesia as a chartered cargo flight with four people on board. There were no survivors among the four crew member... | Air crash | null | null |
Rs 123cr bank scam: Court directs cops to continue probe in Mumbai | Mumbai: The police has been directed to continue their probe in a Rs 123 crore financial irregularity case involving Mumbai District Central Cooperative Bank Ltd. BJP leader and former MLA Praveen Darekar, who was bank’s chairman, is among those named in the FIR filed in 2015.
The Esplanade Court recently rejected a ‘C... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 1668 crash | Aeroflot Flight 1668 was a scheduled flight from Yakutsk to Novosibirsk with stopovers at Olekminsk, Lensk, Ust-Kut and Krasnoyarsk that crashed shortly after take-off from Olekminsk on 6 January 1968. All 45 people onboard died. The subsequent investigation was unable to determine the root cause of the accident. At 18... | Air crash | null | null |
Ghatnandur train crash |
The Ghatnandur train crash occurred on 3 January 2003, when a passenger train travelling from Secunderabad to Manmad crashed into the rear end of a heavy goods train near Ambajogai tehsil Ghatnandur in Maharashtra, India. The accident happened in the early morning of the 3rd, when the passenger train, which was suppos... | Train collisions | null | null |
La Palma volcano eruption's infernal beauty visible from space in astronaut and satellite photos | A close-up satellite view of lava gushing out of the crater of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma. (Image credit: Maxar Technologies) New astronaut and satellite images of an active volcano on the island of La Palma reveal the frightening beauty of the eruption, as well as its dangerous proximit... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Death Toll From Gas Explosion Near Moscow Rises To Seven | MOSCOW -- The death toll from a gas explosion in a high-rise apartment block in the Moscow region has risen to seven.
Emergency officials in the city of Noginsk near Moscow said on September 9 that two more bodies had been recovered by rescue teams.
On September 8, when the explosion destroyed three floors in the nine-... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Washougal man killed in head-on crash at Highway 14 roundabout | A Washougal man was killed and a Vancouver man was injured Wednesday in a head-on collision at the roundabout on state Highway 14 at Washougal River Road. The fatal crash was reported around 9:45 a.m. A 2016 Honda Accord was traveling west on Highway 14 at Milepost 16 and entered the traffic circle the wrong way at Was... | Road Crash | null | null |
1939 Chillán earthquake | The 1939 Chillán earthquake occurred in south-central Chile on 24 January with a surface wave magnitude of 8.3[1] and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). With a death toll of around 28,000,[4] compared to the 2,231–6,000 (official estimates vary greatly)[5][6] of the Great Chilean earthquake of 1960, it is th... | Earthquakes | null | null |
China General Aviation Flight 7552 crash | China General Aviation Flight 7552 was a China General Aviation flight from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport to Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport. On July 31, 1992, the Yakovlev Yak-42D overran runway 06 during takeoff and impacted an embankment at 210 kilometres per hour (110 kn; 130 mph), 420 metres (1,380 ft) from the t... | Air crash | null | null |
When you're a celebrity, you're likely rich | When you're a celebrity, you're likely rich. So it's no wonder that when the divorce settlement comes around, there's a lot of money involved!
Over the years, there have been some big celebrity divorces. Some of them have shocked us, while others didn't surprise us one bit. However, what did surprise us were some of th... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
Killer Colin Pitchfork to be released from prison after challenge fails | The child killer and rapist Colin Pitchfork is to be freed from prison after the Parole Board rejected calls from the government to reconsider the controversial decision. Now 61, the double murderer was jailed in 1988 after raping and strangling 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire in 1983 and 19... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Release | null | null |
Formula 1: All teams sign up to sport's new Concorde Agreement | Last updated on 19 August 202019 August 2020.From the section Formula 1
All 10 teams have signed up to the new Concorde Agreement which will govern Formula 1 from 2021 to 2025.
The contract, which sets out the commercial terms of the sport, was first introduced in 1981.
Ferrari, McLaren and Williams announced their sup... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Israel releases the MV Mavi Marmara, the aid ship which it impounded after killing nine activists during May's Gaza flotilla raid | Israel will on Thursday return to Turkey three ships which were commandeered by the navy during a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, the defence ministry said.
"The defence ministry will today (Thursday), hand over, to Turkish representatives, the Turkish vessels that tried to violate the naval blockade on the H... | Armed Conflict | null | null |
1946 C-53 Skytrooper crash on the Gauli Glacier crash | The C-53 Crash on the Gauli Glacier in the Bernese Alps, (Switzerland) on 19 November 1946 was a turning point in alpine rescue and an international media event. The aircraft, coming from Tulln, Austria (near Vienna), bound for Pisa, Italy, collided with the Gauli Glacier in poor visibility. On board were eight passeng... | Air crash | null | null |
Driller killed, 2 other miners hurt in accident at southern Interior B.C. mine | KAMLOOPS, B.C. -- The BC Coroners Service confirmed Tuesday a worker has died in a mining accident near Kamloops, B.C., and the mine owner reports two other workers were also hurt.
A statement from Toronto-based New Gold said the three workers at the New Afton gold and copper mine were hit by a flow of mud debris ear... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Contractor Killed in Accident at Gulf of Mexico Offshore Facility -Operator | STOCKHOLM, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Rock on the seabed may have gouged previously unknown holes in the hull of the ferry Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994. Philly Shipyard has won its first commercial newbuilding order since 2013 with an order for one Jones Act-compliant Subsea Rock Installation Vessel for U.S w... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Worker dies at underground mine in Western Australia's Goldfields | A worker has died at the Mt Monger gold operations in WA's Goldfields —the third death at an underground mine in Western Australia in the past year. The mine owners, ASX-listed Silver Lake Resources, issued a statement that a contractor died in an incident at the Daisy underground mining complex this morning. Mining ha... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Today, NASA announced that eight countries have signed an international agreement known as the Artemis Accords | Today, NASA announced that eight countries — including the United States — have signed an international agreement known as the Artemis Accords, forming what NASA calls a broad and diverse coalition of nations committed to standardized lunar exploration.
NASA announced its intention to create the Artemis Accords back in... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Thick C.O. smoke cancels Death Cab For Cutie concert, has impacts on restaurants, others | 'Tough as it was and heartbreaking as it is, the best thing was to cancel the show tonight.' BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- For the second night in a row, a concert at the Les Schwab Amphitheater was scrubbed on Monday due to thick smoke from the region's wildfires and resulting poor, even hazardous air quality. Beau Eastes, mar... | Organization Closed | null | null |
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The Battle of Zadar (Croatian: Bitka za Zadar) was a military engagement between the Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija, or JNA), supported by the Croatian Serb Serbian Autonomous ... | Riot | null | null |
Former Sydney floor trader admits to robbing banks during his lunchbreak after 'getting boozed' | A former Sydney floor trader has admitted to leading a "double life" in which he would "get boozed at lunch time" and rob banks in the 1970s, court documents show. He stopped robbing banks and gambling after getting a "really good job" in 1979 Ross Oliver McCarty, 70, last week pleaded guilty in the Downing Centre to f... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2 crash | Northwest Airlines Flight 2 was a Lockheed Super Electra aircraft, registration NC17388, which crashed into the Bridger Mountains in Gallatin County, Montana, about twelve miles (20 km) northeast of Bozeman, on January 10, 1938. All ten on board were killed in the accident, which was the first fatal crash of a Lockheed... | Air crash | null | null |
2011 Azerbaijani protests |
The 2011 Azerbaijani protests were a series of demonstrations held to protest the government of President Ilham Aliyev. Common themes espoused by demonstrators, many of whom were affiliated with Müsavat and the Popular Front Party, the main opposition parties in Azerbaijan, included doubts as to the legitimacy of the... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Cocos Fire | Cocos Fire, originally known as the Twin Oaks Fire,[3] was a wildfire that ignited on May 14, 2014 in San Marcos, California, in the hills south of California State University, San Marcos. [4] The Cocos Fire quickly spread into western Escondido. The fire destroyed more than 40 buildings, including a dozen single-famil... | Fire | null | null |
July 2015 Gujarat flood |
Following heavy rain, Gujarat state of India was affected by the flood in July 2015. The flood resulted in at least 72 deaths. [1]
The monsoon in Gujarat typically start in mid-June every year. Following deep depression in Arabian Sea, there was heavy rain in the June 2015 which resulted in flood in the state. The d... | Floods | null | null |
Rare 'ring of fire' solar eclipse on the longest day of the year | CHIAYI, Taiwan (Reuters) - A shimmering ring of light flashed into view on Sunday in parts of the eastern hemisphere as the moon drifted across the face of the sun in a rare eclipse on the longest day of the year. The path of the eclipse spanned East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Most locations saw only... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
Outbreak of infectious diseases linked to change in forest cover, finds study | Change in natural forest cover due to deforestation or afforestation and increase in commodity plantations like oil palm was correlated with outbreaks of infectious diseases globally, found a new study. Outbreaks of both vector-borne and zoonotic diseases linked to deforestation increased between 1990 and 2016, the stu... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crash | Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight that crashed into an open field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin shortly after taking off from General Mitchell International Airport on September 6, 1985. The airplane, a Douglas DC-9, was carrying 31 passengers and crew. None of them survived the cr... | Air crash | null | null |
Greater than winning!China's 100-meter female trapeze breaks the world record and takes the initiative to take a photo with the American runner-up | On September 2nd, Beijing time, in the latest Tokyo Paralympic Games, in the women's 100-meter decisive battle, Wen Xiaoyan from China finally succeeded in killing the American star Roberts and winning the gold medal for the Chinese team. What was moved is that after the game, the Chinese and American team members rais... | Break historical records | null | null |
2016 Macedonian floods | In August 2016, several rainstorms hit the western and northwestern parts of the Republic of Macedonia. On 6 August 2016, a storm with strong winds and flooding hit Skopje and the western parts of the country, leaving at least 21 people dead and dozens injured or missing. [2][1]
In the afternoon of 6 August 2016 at 5:... | Floods | null | null |
East Midlands police sign collaboration agreement | Five East Midlands police forces have signed a formal agreement to share resources, aimed at saving £26m over four years.
The move will see the East Midlands Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit (CTIU) combined with force special branches.
A new major crime unit is being created and the East Midlands Special Operations ... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Great Flood of 1913 | The Great Flood of 1913 occurred between March 23 and March 26, after major rivers in the central and eastern United States flooded from runoff and several days of heavy rain. Related deaths and damage in the United States were widespread and extensive. While the exact number is not certain, flood-related deaths in Ohi... | Floods | null | null |
1936 KLM Croydon accident crash | The 1936 KLM Croydon accident was the crash of a KLM airliner on 9 December 1936, shortly after taking off from the Croydon Air Port (as it was known at the time) on a scheduled flight to Amsterdam, Netherlands. The aircraft was destroyed and 15 of the 17 passengers and crew on board died as a result of the accident. [... | Air crash | null | null |
Former social affairs minister Juliari Peter Batubara to 12 years in prison for taking bribes | As a graft defendant, former social affairs minister Juliari Peter Batubara did not show any remorse during his trial and insisted that he was just an innocent victim of his subordinates. Shamelessly, he even asked the court to acquit him for the sake of his two children and his wife. Some may ask why he lo... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
‘I’m afraid we’re going to have a food crisis’: The energy crunch has made fertilizer too expensive to produce, says Yara CEO | The world is facing the prospect of a dramatic shortfall in food production as rising energy prices cascade through global agriculture, the CEO of Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara International says. "I want to say this loud and clear right now, that we risk a very low crop in the next harvest," said Svein Tore Holsethe... | Famine | null | null |
2019 Chilean Air Force C-130 crash | On 9 December 2019, a Chilean Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft crashed in the Drake Passage while en route to Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva, a Chilean military base on King George Island in Antarctica. [1]
The crash site was located on 12 December 2019 after a three-day search, and... | Air crash | null | null |
George Floyd protests |
The George Floyd protests are an ongoing series of protests against police brutality and racism that began in Minneapolis in the United States on May 26, 2020. [6] The civil unrest and protests began as part of international reactions to the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man who was killed du... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
2016 Pakistan flood | After heavy rains and flash floods in Pakistan,[1][2][3] at least 71 people were killed[4][5] and another 34 hospitalized. Rain started at night of Saturday, April 3,[6] rainfall began to spur floods in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region in the northwest. [7] Heavy rainfall is common in Southern Asia during the pre-monsoon ... | Floods | null | null |
Flying Tiger Line Flight 66 crash | Flying Tiger Line Flight 66 was a scheduled international cargo flight from Singapore Changi Airport, to Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport via a stopover at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia. On February 19, 1989, the FedEx-owned Boeing 747-249F-SCD crashed while on its final approach. The aircraft impacted a hill... | Air crash | null | null |
Panic as locusts reach Uganda, Tanzania | Authorities in Uganda are implementing plans that had been put in place to combat a locust invasion, following sightings of the dreaded pests in the North-east of the country. Uganda is one of the East African countries affected by what the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) des... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
‘They took my brother’s life’: Two receive life sentences — one without parole — in Antioch road rage shooting | March 20, 2021 at 9:35 a.m. RICHMOND — After noting the “unbelievable” nature of a 2019 drive-by murder motivated by a traffic dispute, a Contra Costa judge sentenced both defendants — including a woman who was pregnant at the time of her arrest and had been released from jail to take care of her newborn — to life in ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
1960 New York mid-air collision crash | On Friday, December 16, 1960, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8, bound for Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York City, collided in midair with a TWA Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation descending into the city's LaGuardia Airport. [1] The Constellation crashed on Miller Field in Staten I... | Air crash | null | null |
North Korea Tells Citizens to Prepare For a Famine Worse Than The 1990s | Authorities in North Korea are warning residents to prepare for economic difficulties as bad as the 1994-1998 famine which killed millions, RFA has learned, but experts say the situation is dire, but not that extreme. The 1990's famine was the result of economic mismanagement and the sudden collapse of North Korea's pa... | Famine | null | null |
Williamtown Air Force Base contamination class action heard in Sydney, Defence given until February to respond | Williamtown Air Force Base contamination class action heard in Sydney, Defence given until February to respond
The Department of Defence has been given until February to reply to a class action put against them by the Williamtown community.
Law firm Gadens is representing more than 400 residents from Salt Ash, William... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
1948 Queensland Railway strike |
The 1948 Queensland railway strike was a strike which lasted nine weeks, from 3 February to 5 April 1948, over wages of workers at railway workshops and locomotive depots in Queensland, Australia. As head of the Commonwealth Security Service in Queensland, Bob Wake played an active role in watching the activities of ... | Strike | null | null |
1953 Sabena Convair Crash crash | The 1953 Sabena Convair Crash was the crash of a Convair CV-240 of the Belgian airline Sabena, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of Frankfurt, West Germany, on 14 October 1953. None of the 44 people on board survived the incident. [1]
The Convair CV-240-12 involved was built in 1949 with serial number 154 and registration O... | Air crash | null | null |
Man, daughters suffer carbon monoxide poisoning on boat | SEATTLE (AP) — A man and his two daughters were hospitalized in Seattle after suffering symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning aboard a boat. The family was off shore when the father called for help because his daughters were experiencing symptoms common to carbon monoxide poisoning, the U.S. Coast Guard told KOMO-TV. ... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Decoded | Scrub typhus, the mystery fever gripping parts of Uttar Pradesh | A mystery fever has been reported from parts of Uttar Pradesh, which has claimed over 40 lives, mostly children in the past one week. The viral fever has been identified as Scrub typhus. Scrub typhus has been reported mainly from Firozabad, Agra, Mainpuri, Etah and Kasganj of Uttar Pradesh. Chief Minister Yogi Adityana... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Xiamen bus fire |
Coordinates: 24°29′N 118°10′E / 24.49°N 118.16°E / 24.49; 118.16
On 7 June 2013, a mass murder-suicide attack occurred on a bus in Xiamen, Fujian province, China. A bus operating for the Xiamen BRT caught fire and exploded on an elevated lane near the Jinshan stop; 47 people died and 34 were injured. [1][2][3]
Pr... | Fire | null | null |
Cubana de Aviación Flight 9046 crash | Cubana de Aviación Flight 9046 was a chartered Ilyushin Il-62M airliner (registered CU-T1281) operated by Cubana, which crashed on 3 September 1989, shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Airport. [2]
Flight 9046 was due to operate a non-scheduled international Havana–Milan–Cologne passenger service. The ... | Air crash | null | null |
Karachi rail crash |
The Karachi rail crash (also referred to as the Landhi rail disaster) was a train accident between the Fareed Express and the Bahauddin Zakaria Express that occurred on 3 November 2016 at 7:18 PST at Landhi station, in Karachi, Pakistan. The Fareed Express (from Lahore to Karachi) was parked at the Landhi station whe... | Train collisions | null | null |
Cristiano Ronaldo adds to EURO all-time scoring record | The Portugal forward has moved five goals clear of Michel Platini as EURO top scorer, the latest record in his already sizeable collection. And he has more in his sights.
Cristiano Ronaldo is now five goals clear as all-time EURO top scorer after taking his finals goals tally to 14 with two against France on Matchday ... | Break historical records | null | null |
PTT pays millions in compensation after Samut Prakan gas pipeline explosion | on By The Thai petrol company PTT paid millions of baht in compensation to those affected by the Samut Prakan natural gas pipeline explosion last month which killed 3 people and injured more 60 people.
The explosion at an industrial estate in the Bang Bo district killed 3 people, including 2 elderly women, and severe... | Gas explosion | null | null |
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