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UK finally leaves European Union three-and-a-half years after Brexit vote | The UK has finally left the European Union , drawing a line under one of the most divisive political issues in British history. 52% of people voted to leave the bloc in June 2016, but it took three-and-a-half years, three prime ministers and two general elections to deliver on that result. After three deadline delays, ... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
2013 Little India riot |
The 2013 Little India riot took place on 8 December 2013 after a fatal accident occurred at SST 21:23 at the junction of Race Course Road and Hampshire Road in Little India, Singapore, causing angry mobs of passersby to attack the bus involved and emergency vehicles that had by then arrived at the location. About 300... | Riot | null | null |
1945 Broadway Consolidated Liberator crash | The 1945 Broadway Consolidated Liberator crash occurred on 22 November 1945 when a Royal Air Force Consolidated Liberator C Mk VIII transport crashed shortly after take-off from RAF Merryfield with the loss of all 27 on board. [1]
The Liberator (serial number KH126) was being operated by 53 Squadron on a trooping flig... | Air crash | null | null |
1967 USS Forrestal fire |
On 29 July 1967, a fire broke out on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal after an electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on a F-4B Phantom to fire, striking an external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk. The flammable jet fuel spilled across the flight deck, ignited, and triggered a chain-reaction of explosions that ... | Fire | null | null |
Wichita State University football team plane crash | In clear and calm weather in Colorado at 1:14 p.m. MDT on Friday, October 2, 1970, a chartered Martin 4-0-4 airliner crashed into a mountain eight miles (13 km) west of Silver Plume. [1][2][3][4] Operated by Golden Eagle Aviation, the twin-engined propliner carried 37 passengers and a crew of three; 29 were killed at t... | Air crash | null | null |
2009 Iranian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 accident crash | The 2009 Iranian Air Force Il-76MD Adnan 2 accident of 22 September 2009 resulted in the destruction of Iran's only functional airborne early warning and control (AWACS) aircraft, an Ilyushin Il-76MD Adnan 2. Sources conflict on the cause of the loss, with some stating that there was a mid-air collision with an Irania... | Air crash | null | null |
Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 crash | Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 was a Fokker F-28 flight of Iran Aseman Airlines operating on the Isfahan–Tehran route in Iran. The flight crashed near the town of Natanz on October 12, 1994, killing all the passengers and crew members. On October 12, 1994, the flight took off from the Isfahan International Airport des... | Air crash | null | null |
Pan Am Flight 759 crash | Pan Am Flight 759 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from Miami to San Diego, with en route stops in New Orleans and Las Vegas. On July 9, 1982, the Boeing 727 flying this route crashed in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner after being forced down by a microburst shortly after takeoff. All 145 on board a... | Air crash | null | null |
Opinion:After a Taliban takeover, the world must prevent starvation in Afghanistan | Afghanistan is no longer in the headlines — after dominating them during a harrowing August in which the Taliban seized power, triggering a fearful mass exodus from Kabul. In the chaos, a terrorist attack killed 13 U.S. military personnel; then, a mistaken U.S. drone strike killed 10 innocent Afghans. Yet the country’s... | Regime Change | null | null |
Kiss forced to cancel US concerts as Gene Simmons tests positive for Covid-19 | Members of the rock band Kiss perform on New Year’s Eve at Atlantis, The Palm on Palm Jumeirah in Dubai. Pawan Singh / The National Sep 2, 2021 Kiss have postponed four North American concerts after bassist Gene Simmons tested positive for Covid-19. The news comes a week after the band’s singer, Paul Stanley , was also... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Lime green creek in Canberra's inner-north prompts confusion |
From thick smoke blanketing the city to stifling weather that is breaking records, Canberrans have seen their share of unusual environmental phenomena this week.
Then a stormwater system turned green.
Jonah Lafferty stumbled across the creek in Canberra's inner-north this morning and was struck by its vivid colour.
"I... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Kosovo accepted as member of Uefa after Congress vote |
Kosovo accepted as member of Uefa after Congress vote
Uefa members vote 28-24 in favour of admission
Kosovo now likely to apply for Fifa membership
A delegation member of Kosovo celebrates Uefa’s decision in Budapest. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images
A delegation member of Kosovo celebrates Uefa’s decis... | Join in an Organization | null | null |
Slovak film Lines wins top prize at Ji.hlava documentary film festival | Published on 31.10.2021 09:27 (updated on 31.10.2021)
Reading time: 2 minutes The Slovak film Lines, which charts life in contemporary Bratislava, won the Opus Bonum for best world documentary at the 25th ... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
EPA finds tyres were buried at six north-west New South Wales coalmines without a licence | EPA finds tyres were buried at six north-west New South Wales coalmines without a licence
Large mining tyres have been buried on-site at six open-cut coalmines in north-west New South Wales, without the appropriate licence conditions, according to environmental authorities.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
12 of the most expensive celebrity divorces ever | How big the settlement could be: The details are still unknown but it could reach $73 billion.
Bill Gates is the fourth richest man in the world and has a net worth of $146 billion, according to Bloomberg. The pair met while they were both working at Microsoft in 1987, and they have since collaborated on a number of ph... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
Looking at the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning while boating | RELATED: Medical Examiner: 2 adults, 1 child died from carbon monoxide poisoning in Lake Erie boating incident
“It’s an odorless, tasteless gas so you don’t know it’s actually there until it’s too late,” says BM2, Nicholas Durfey, with the U.S. Coast Guard.
While when most people think of carbon monoxide and boating, t... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Tree loppers cop $30k in COVID fines days after they were busted doorknocking in Newcastle | A group of Sydney tree loppers who were doorknocking for business in the NSW Hunter region have been fined more than $30,000 for breaching public health orders.
The group of men is separate to another group of Western Sydney tree loppers who are under police investigation for also doorknocking in the region and later t... | Organization Fine | null | null |
1843 Guadeloupe earthquake | The 1843 Guadeloupe earthquake occurred at 10:37 local time on 8 February in the island of Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles. [3] It had an estimated magnitude (scale unspecified) of 8.5, making it the strongest recorded earthquake in the Caribbean and a maximum perceived intensity of shaking of IX on the Mercalli inte... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Trump Administration Announces US Withdrawal From UN Human Rights Council | A day after the commissioner criticized the White House’s heartbreaking and cruel immigration policy the Trump administration announced that the U.S. would be leaving the United Nations Human Rights Council. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said “anti-Israel bias” led to the U.S. le... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
1919 Actors' Equity Association strike |
The 1919 Actors' Equity Association strike officially spanned from August 7, 1919, to September 6, 1919. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the theatre industry was revolutionized by powerful management groups that monopolized and centralized the industry. These groups created harsh working conditions for the... | Strike | null | null |
2016 Chiloé earthquake | The 2016 Chiloé earthquake with a magnitude of Mww 7.6 struck that 225 kilometres (140 mi) south-west of Puerto Montt in southern Chile at 11:22 local time, 25 December. The earthquake triggered a tsunami warning on coasts located up to 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) from the quake's epicentre, generating massive evacuatio... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Baby miraculously survived gas explosion that wiped out homes | Look back at great photos and memories from years ago with our Days Gone By newsletter
A 12-day old baby miraculously survived a gas explosion that wiped out almost an entire row of homes.
Grinshills Close residents were woken at around 4am to a rumbling sound on Thursday, August 29, 1985. Soon, most of the street wa... | Gas explosion | null | null |
UN: Over 400,000 people in Ethiopia's Tigray face famine now | The United Nations says more than 400,000 people in Ethiopia’s crisis-wracked Tigray region are now facing the worst global famine in decades and 1.8 million are on the brink UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations said Friday that more than 400,000 people in Ethiopia’s crisis-wracked Tigray region are now facing the wors... | Famine | null | null |
The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a resolution endorsing a peace process | UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a resolution endorsing a peace process that is designed to end Syria’s civil war and to allow the international community to focus its attention more fully on defeating the Islamic State.
“This council is sending a clear message to all concerne... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
China Airlines Flight 676 crash | China Airlines Flight 676 (CAL676, CI676) was a scheduled international passenger flight. On Monday, 16 February 1998, the Airbus A300 jet airliner operating the flight crashed into a road and residential area in Tayuan, Taoyuan County (now Taoyuan City), near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (present-day Taoyuan ... | Air crash | null | null |
KLM Flight 608 crash | KLM Flight 608[1][a] was an international scheduled passenger flight from New York City to Amsterdam. On 23 August 1954, the aircraft crashed in the North Sea off IJmuiden during the Shannon-Amsterdam leg of the flight. The crash killed all 21 passengers and crew on board. The Douglas DC-6B, construction number 43556 a... | Air crash | null | null |
Pounce at opportunity to use federal funds to improve indoor air quality | This search is limited to articles published in the last three years. For a more comprehensive search of every issue, please visit our digital magazine page . Type your search term above Pounce at opportunity to use federal funds to improve indoor air quality Hopefully, many higher education institutions will use these... | Financial Aid | null | null |
Inspiration4: The first all-civilian spaceflight on SpaceX Dragon | Billionaire Jared Isaacman's privately chartered spaceflight launched on Sept. 15, 2021 , becoming the first crewed orbital mission with no professional astronauts on board. The flight, dubbed "Inspiration4," was named to commemorate the four-person crew and their associated "pillars" of support for St. Jude Children's... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
2011 Zumpango earthquake | The 2011 Zumpango earthquake occurred at 19:47 local time on 10 December with a moment magnitude of 6.5 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). Its epicenter was located in the city Zumpango, Guerrero,[2] roughly equidistant between the metropolitan areas of Mexico City and Acapulco. The quake was felt i... | Earthquakes | null | null |
2003 Alabama earthquake | The 2003 Alabama earthquake took place on April 29 at 3:59 A.M. Central Daylight Time (local time when the event occurred) eight miles (13 km) east-northeast of Fort Payne, Alabama. The number of people who felt this quake was exceptionally high as the earthquake could be felt in 11 states across the East Coast and as ... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Golden West Airlines Flight 261 crash | Golden West Airlines Flight 261, a De Havilland Twin Otter DHC-6,[1][2] collided with a Cessna 150 (N11421), owned by CessnAir Aviation, Inc., near Whittier, California. The accident occurred on January 9, 1975, at approximately 4:07 p.m. PST, while the Sun was just 9 degrees above the western horizon, directly into th... | Air crash | null | null |
Madagascar battling worst locust plague since 1950s - The ... |
Madagascar battling worst locust plague since 1950s
Locusts threatening livelihood of 60% of population, and have already destroyed a quarter of Madagascar's food crops
A locust swarm in Madagascar's Isalo national park. Photograph: Tiphaine Desjardin/FAO
A locust swarm in Madagascar's Isalo national park. Photograph... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
2014 enterovirus D68 outbreak | In August 2014, enterovirus D68 caused clusters of respiratory disease in the United States. Cases of EV-D68 have occurred in the U.S. for decades, having first been detected in California in 1962. According to the Division of Viral Diseases at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases EV-D68 "is on... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
2020 Hyderabad floods |
The 2020 Hyderabad floods were a series of floods associated with Deep Depression BOB 02 that caused extensive damage and loss of life as a result of flash flooding in Hyderabad, India in October 2020. The fourth tropical cyclone and third deep depression of the 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, BOB 02 formed o... | Floods | null | null |
Two killed after cars collide on South Western Highway in Argyle | Two people have died after a devastating car crash in the State’s South West yesterday afternoon. The crash happened about 2:30pm on South Western Highway, near Knights Road in Argyle, when a Kia Rio Hatchback driving south and a Subaru Forrester travelling north collided. A 47-year-old woman behind the wheel of the Ki... | Road Crash | null | null |
Regina woman accused of poisoning toddler | Police say a 21-month-old was allegedly poisoned by alcohol and an antihistamine. A 29-year-old woman, not the girl's mother, is charged. A 29-year-old Regina woman has been charged with aggravated assault after a toddler was allegedly poisoned.
“This investigation, which examined how a 21-month-old girl came to be po... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
2012 Aéro-Service Ilyushin Il-76 crash | On 30 November 2012, an Ilyushin Il-76 freighter aircraft, operated by the Armenian cargo airline Air Highnesses on behalf of Congolese cargo airline Aéro-Service, crashed on landing at Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo,[1] killing all six occupants and 26 people on the ground. [2]
The aircraft was on a domestic fl... | Air crash | null | null |
2010 World Netball Series | The 2010 World Netball Series was the second edition of the World Netball Series, an annual international netball competition held under fastnet rules. The 2010 event was held in Liverpool, England, and was contested between the top six national netball teams according to the IFNA World Rankings. After two days of roun... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Sydney drinking water reconnected to Warragamba Dam after contamination fears from fire and floods |
Authorities have reconnected drinking water in Greater Sydney to Warragamba Dam after it was cut off due to bushfire contamination caused by last week's flooding.
Water NSW made a decision earlier this week to stop using Warragamba Dam as a water source due to a torrent of fire and flood debris which ran into the catc... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
1921 UCI Road World Championships | The 1921 UCI Road World Championships (the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale) took place in Copenhagen, Denmark on 4 August 1921. It was the first official World Championships organized by the UCI. The championships were only for amateur men. Four men per ... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Contract reveals federal investigation into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexual harassment allegations | Updated 0210 GMT (1010 HKT) December 3, 2021
Then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks before getting vaccinated at the mass vaccination site at Mount Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem on March 17, 2021 in New York City.
(CNN)
A contract for outside legal help for New York State's Executive Chamber shows the existence of a f... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
Vargas tragedy |
The Vargas tragedy was a natural disaster that occurred in Vargas State, Venezuela on 14–16 December 1999, when torrential rains caused flash floods and debris flows that killed tens of thousands of people, destroyed thousands of homes, and led to the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure. According to reli... | Floods | null | null |
Omicron treatment: Man from Karnataka shares details after recovering from COVID variant | The man says he suffered more when he was infected with Delta variant of COVID than Omicron A man from Karnataka who tested positive for the Omicron variant of Karnataka has shared details about his treatment and journey to recovery. the man who tested positive for Omicron had returned from South Africa after which he ... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
Goodbye, UNESCO: Israel and US quit UN heritage agency | The countries announced in 2017 that they would withdraw from the UN Educational, Science and Cultural Organization, accusing it of bias against Israel. That went into effect at the stroke of midnight. The tumultuous relationship between Israel and UNESCO came to an end with the close of 2018. And the US has followed s... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Indian Airlines Flight 257 crash | NEW DELHI, India (AP) _ An Indian Airlines flight caught fire and plunged into the hilly jungle of remote eastern India on Friday, news reports said. All 69 people aboard were killed, officials said. The crash came a day after the airline received a hijack threat, officials said. The 13-year-old Boeing 737-200 flying f... | Air crash | null | null |
Small-Business Failures Loom as Federal Aid Dries Up | Small businesses have grown more pessimistic as the pandemic has dragged on. In late April, about a third of small businesses surveyed by the Census Bureau said they expected it to take more than six months for business to return to normal. Four months later, nearly half say so, and a further 7.5 percent say they do no... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
1937 Sabena Junkers Ju 52 Ostend crash | On 16 November 1937 a Junkers Ju 52/3m owned by Belgian airline SABENA, operating as a scheduled international passenger flight from Munich, Germany,[clarification needed] to London, England, crashed near Ostend, Belgium. The aircraft hit a tall factory chimney while attempting to land at Stene aerodrome near Ostend, B... | Air crash | null | null |
Nagasaki observed the 65th anniversary Monday of the city's atomic bombing by the United States with representatives from a record 32 countries attending | NAGASAKI--Nagasaki observed the 65th anniversary Monday of the city's atomic bombing by the United States with representatives from a record 32 countries attending, including those from the nuclear-armed nations Britain and France, but without a U.S. representative.
Envoys from Britain and France, as well as a represe... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
Ex-cop files civil rights suit, says supervisors forced him out, then blacklisted him | A former police officer who worked for the North Plainfield Police Department has filed a lawsuit against his former supervisors, claiming they forced him out of his job and then blacklisted him.
Bryan Lewis, 31, worked as a borough police officer from April 2014 until October 2019, when he agreed to resign, according ... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
El Al Flight 426 hijacking crash | International incidents
El Al Flight 426 was an El Al passenger flight hijacked on July 23, 1968 by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), setting off a wave of hijackings by the PFLP. [1]
The aircraft, a Boeing 707, was scheduled to fly from Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport in ... | Air crash | null | null |
1962 Avensa Fairchild F-27 accident crash | The 1962 Avensa Fairchild F-27 accident occurred on 25 February 1962 when a Fairchild F-27 twin-engined turboprop airliner registered YV-C-EVH of Avensa crashed into San Juan mountain on Venezuela's Margarita Island in the Caribbean Sea. [1] All 20 passengers and three crew were killed. [1]
The F-27 was on a scheduled... | Air crash | null | null |
2017 Jiuzhaigou earthquake |
The 2017 Jiuzhaigou earthquake occurred on 8 August 2017, in Zhangzha Town, Jiuzhaigou County, Ngawa Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. The earthquake was registered at Ms 7.0 and killed at least 25 people in the mountainous region of northern Sichuan. [citation needed]
The earthquake struck at 21:19:46 China Stan... | Earthquakes | null | null |
2011 Omani protests |
The 2011 Omani protests (also called the Omani Spring) were a series of protests in the Persian Gulf country of Oman that occurred as part of the revolutionary wave popularly known as the "Arab Spring". [3]
The protesters demanded salary increases, lower living costs, the creation of more jobs and a reduction in cor... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Autumn 2000 Western Europe floods |
The Autumn of 2000 was the wettest recorded in the United Kingdom since records began in 1766. [3][4][5] Several regions of Atlantic Europe from France to Norway received double their average rainfall and there were severe floods and landslides in the southern Alps. [6] In October and November 2000 a successive serie... | Floods | null | null |
Comings & Goings: Staffing shortages still stymie service industry | New hours are 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, and noon to 7:30 p.m. on Saturdays. It just reopened July 22 after being closed for 16 months. Owner Samir Abughannam did not give a reason for the recent temporary closure. The restaurant is at 301 B St. ———— Comstock’s Magazine had a nice feature recently o... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Aviogenex Flight 130 crash | Aviogenex Flight 130 was an international charter passenger flight from Gatwick Airport, London, to Rijeka Airport, Yugoslavia (modern-day Croatia). On 23 May 1971, the Tupolev Tu-134A servicing the flight suffered structural failure during landing. The aircraft flipped over and caught fire, killing 78 people. The cras... | Air crash | null | null |
KLM Flight 823 crash | KLM Flight 823 was an air accident in 1961 involving a Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft that crashed on approach to Cairo International Airport in Egypt after a flight from Rome in Italy. The crash killed 20 out of 36 passengers and crew on flight 823. The accident aircraft was an American built Lockheed L-188 Electra t... | Air crash | null | null |
1976 Tangshan earthquake |
The 1976 Tangshan earthquake (Chinese: 唐山大地震; pinyin: Tángshān dà dìzhèn; lit. 'Great Tangshan earthquake'), also known as the Great Tangshan earthquake,[5] was a natural disaster resulting from a magnitude 7.6 earthquake that hit the region around Tangshan, Hebei, People's Republic of China on 28 July 1976, at 3:42 i... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Lord Frost: failure to rip up NI protocol would be ‘historic misjudgment’ | The UK wants to rip up the existing Northern Ireland protocol and replace it with new Brexit arrangements, warning it would be a “historic misjudgment” if the EU did not consider such a change.
“What does it cost the EU to put a new protocol in place? It seems to us, very little,” the Brexit minister Lord Frost said in... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
2011 Israeli social justice protests |
The 2011 Israeli social justice protests (Hebrew: מְחָאַת צֶדֶק חֶבְרָתִי), which are also referred to by various other names in the media, were a series of demonstrations in Israel beginning in July 2011 involving hundreds of thousands of protesters from a variety of socio-economic and religious backgrounds opposin... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Putin oversees robotic military exercises with Belarus, raising concerns | Russian President Vladimir Putin has observed military exercises being conducted in coordination with Belarus that have raised concerns in bordering countries. Putin on Monday attended exercises at a training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region, 450 kilometres east of Moscow. The exercises included what the Defense Mi... | Military Exercise | null | null |
2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown crash | Turkey & ISIL
Turkey & Russia
A Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M attack aircraft near the Syria–Turkey border on 24 November 2015. [1][2] According to Turkey, the aircraft was fired upon while in Turkish airspace because it violated the border up to a depth of 2.19 kilometres (1.36... | Air crash | null | null |
Kid Rock cancels Billy Bob’s concerts, saying band has COVID | arts entertainmentPop Music By Dan Singer 7:56 PM on Aug 26, 2021 CDT Kid Rock’s weekend shows at Billy Bob’s Texas have been canceled, with the singer saying several of his band members have COVID. “I am pissed. Over half the band has [expletive] covid,” he wrote in an largely unprintable series of tweets Thursday, h... | Organization Closed | null | null |
The echoes of China’s financial crisis are being heard as a giant struggles to survive | There are sufficient echoes of the late 1990s in the struggles of China’s Huarong Asset Management to stay afloat to concern the authorities in Beijing and provide some context for their continuing efforts to reduce the excessive leverage in China’s financial system. Huarong was created in the aftermath of the Asian Fi... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 3 crash | Aeroflot Flight 03 (Russian: Рейс 3 Аэрофлота Reys 3 Aeroflota) was a passenger flight from Khabarovsk Airport to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport. On 3 September 1962 the Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-104 lost control after the airframe started vibrating, resulting in the plane rolling and yawing several times at an altitude of... | Air crash | null | null |
1895 Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike | The 1895 Yaroslavl Great Manufacture strike began in 9 May [O.S. 27 April], in the Russian Empire. Yaroslavl Great Manufacture was one of the biggest companies in Russia, out of about 70 in the city of Yaroslavl;[1] it exported its linens to Europe. The company decided to establish new tariffs to reduce salaries, a dec... | Strike | null | null |
Iranian Director Panah Panahi’s ‘Hit the Road’ Wins London Film Festival Top Prize | In The Hollywood Reporter‘s Cannes review , Panahi — the son of acclaimed Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi — was described as a “stirring new voice,” with Hit the Road “channeling the slow-burn, self-reflective realism present in much of the best work of the Iranian New Wave.” The IWC Schaffhausen filmmaker bursary award — ... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
2014 Hong Kong protests |
Umbrella Movement
A series of sit-in street protests, often called the Umbrella Revolution and sometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement, or Occupy Movement, occurred in Hong Kong from 26 September to 15 December 2014. [12][13]
The protests began after the Standing Committee of the National People's Con... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Happy Olympic Day! | Norway’s Karsten Warholm won one of the great Olympic finals here today to claim men’s 400 metres hurdles gold, taking almost a second off his own world record as he finished ahead of his United States rival Rai Benjamin in 45.94sec.
All of the 25-year-old double world champion’s strength from a multi-events background... | Break historical records | null | null |
Death toll in Myanmar jade mine landslide rises to 162 | This April 23, 2019 photo shows people standing atop a ridge overlooking the scene of a mudslide at a jade gemstone mining site in Hpakant area of Kachin state, northern Myanmar. | Photo Credit: AP The battered bodies of more than 160 jade miners were pulled from a sea of mud after a landslide in northern Myanmar on... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Floods and Droughts: An EPIC Response to These Hazards in the Era of Climate Change | With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries. The World Bank Group works in every major ... | Droughts | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 68 crash | Aeroflot Flight 68 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight operated by Aeroflot from Khabarovsk Novy Airport in Khabarovsk Krai to Pulkovo Airport in Saint Petersburg with intermediate stops at Tolmachevo Airport in Ob, Russia, then Koltsovo Airport in Yekaterinburg. On 16 March 1961, the Tupolev Tu-104B operating ... | Air crash | null | null |
TWA Flight 128 crash | TWA Flight 128 was a regularly scheduled Trans World Airlines passenger flight from Los Angeles to Boston, with intermediate stops in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. On November 20, 1967, Flight 128 crashed on final approach to Greater Cincinnati Airport; 70 of the 82 people aboard the Convair 880 were killed. [1]:1
On Nov... | Air crash | null | null |
September 11 attacks crash | The September 11 attacks were a series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 terrorists associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda. It was the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil; nearly 3,000 people were killed. The attacks involved the hijacking of four planes, three of which... | Air crash | null | null |
A plane carrying 20 people has crashed shortly after take-off from Lagos airport in Nigeria | A plane carrying 20 people has crashed shortly after take-off from Lagos airport in Nigeria, officials say.
A rescue operation is ongoing. At least 13 people are known to have died and several more of those on board were injured. The Associated Airlines plane was bound for Akure, which lies about 140 miles (225km) nort... | Air crash | null | null |
2019 Albanian protests |
Starting from 16 February 2019, the opposition parties organized a series of protests and rallies against the government to demand new elections and the formation of a technocrat government that would ensure the fairness of the electoral process, citing electoral fraud and corruption in the government as the main rea... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
1981 Brink's robbery | The 1981 Brink's robbery was an armed robbery and three related murders committed on October 20, 1981, which were carried out by six Black Liberation Army members: Mutulu Shakur, Kuwasi Balagoon, Solomon Bouines (Samuel Brown), Mtayari Shabaka Sundiata, Edward Joseph, and Cecilio "Chui" Ferguson;[1] and four former mem... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Man in his 80s dies in fatal Buckden Road crash at Brampton | - Credit: Cambridgeshire Police A man has died following a collision in Brampton this morning (September 15). Police were called at 8.40am to Buckden Road, Brampton, with reports of a serious collision between a car and a pedestrian. Officers and paramedics attended the scene but the pedestrian, a man in his 80s from B... | Road Crash | null | null |
1968 Kansas City, Missouri riot | The 1968 Kansas City riot occurred in Kansas City, Missouri, in April 1968. Kansas City became one of 37 cities in the United States to be the subject of rioting after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The rioting in Kansas City did not erupt on April 4, like other cities of the United States affected directl... | Riot | null | null |
Egyptian archaeologists unearth collection of religious ritual tools at Temple of Pharaohs north of Cairo | The discovery is important because it includes the tools that were actually used in performing the daily religious rituals for goddess Hathor Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a collection of ancient tools that were used in religious rituals from the Temple of the Pharaohs (Boto) in Kafr El-Sheikh governorate nor... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Walloon jacquerie of 1886 | The Belgian strikes of 1886, occasionally known as the social revolt of 1886 (French: Révolte sociale de 1886), was a violent period of industrial strikes and riots in Belgium from 18 to 29 March 1886 and an important moment in Belgium's 19th-century history. The strike or labour revolt was provoked by social inequalit... | Strike | null | null |
1911 Sarez earthquake |
The 1911 Sarez earthquake occurred at 18:41 UTC on 18 February (23:31 local time)[2] in the central Pamir Mountains in the Rushon District of eastern Tajikistan (then part of the Russian Empire). It had an estimated magnitude of 7.4 on the surface wave magnitude scale and a maximum felt intensity of about IX (Violent... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Multiple contractors hospitalized after gas well explosion in St. Mary Parish | by: Dionne Johnson, Neale Zeringue UPDATE: According to Ochsner Health, three workers from the gas well explosion drove their personal cars to the Ochsner St. Mary emergency department and are receiving treatment. They released this statement:
“Our thoughts and prayers are with those impacted by today’s event. As m... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Trump admin withdraws US from UNESCO | JTA - The United States has decided to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) over its anti-Israel bias and need for reform, the Department of State announced. The decision, which would become effective only in 2019, “was not taken lightly, and reflects US concerns w... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Mudslides, Worsened By Last Year's Wildfires, Shut Down A Vital Colorado Highway | As wildfires continue to ravage parts of the Western U.S., damage from last year's fires is now taking its toll on a vital highway in Colorado. Colorado Public Radio's Nathaniel Minor reported that Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon could be closed for days or even weeks after last week's mudslides. The slides dislo... | Mudslides | null | null |
Great Fire of 1892 | The Great Fire of 8 July 1892 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador is remembered as the worst disaster ever to befall that city. [citation needed] Previous "Great Fires" had occurred in St. John's, during 1819 and 1846. [1]
At approximately 4:45 in the afternoon of July 8, 1892, a dropped pipe in Timothy O'Brien's... | Fire | null | null |
Indonesia's Mt. Merapi volcano spewing lava | Authorities ask residents to leave prone areas as volcanic activity remains high, can erupt at any time Nicky Aulia Widadio | 05.03.2021 YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA - MARCH 05 : Lava runs down from Mount Merapi as the volcanic activity increases, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on March 5, 2021. JAKARTA, Indonesia Mt. Merapi in C... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Syracuse police investigate shooting after man walks into hospital with gunshot wound | Updated: Dec. 07, 2021, 6:34 p.m. |
Published: Dec. 07, 2021, 12:11 a.m.
By Catie O'Toole | cotoole@syracuse.com
Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse police are investigating a shooting Monday night that appears to have happened on the city’s West side, authorities said.
St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center staff contacted the Ono... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
2010 Men's World Floorball Championships | The 2010 Men's World Floorball Championships were the eighth men's Floorball World Championships. The tournament was held from 4 December to 11 December 2010 in the cities of Helsinki, and Vantaa, Finland. This was the first world championships under the International Floorball Federation's (IFF) FIFA-like continental ... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Aircraft roaring over South Florida Wednesday were on a training mission | The speedy, low-flying aircraft that people around Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach may have seen — or more likely heard — Wednesday morning were part of a military training exercise. Information from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said the training included aircraft from the U.S. Air Force, ... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Nine-year-old boy killed in single car rollover in SA's Eyre Peninsula | An nine-year-old boy has died in a crash on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula on Thursday afternoon. Police were called to the scene at Port Kenny Road, Port Kenny, about 4:00pm on Thursday after reports of a single vehicle roll over. The boy, from Findon in Adelaide, was sitting in the rear of the Toyota RAV4, and died... | Road Crash | null | null |
2021 Xumabee Game Ranch helicopter crash | On 5 March 2021, a Robinson R44 helicopter crashed in the outskirts of Xumabee near Sojwe in Botswana. There were at least two people in the four-seater helicopter:[1] Sasa Klaas, a Motswana musician, who died at the scene; and Leonard Matenje, director for Air Technology Services, treasurer of Professional Hunters Ass... | Air crash | null | null |
2019 Busy Bee Congo crash | On 24 November 2019, a Dornier 228 twin turboprop aircraft operated by local carrier Busy Bee Congo crashed shortly after takeoff from Goma International Airport in a densely populated section of the city, killing 20 of the 21 on board and 6 on the ground. It is the deadliest accident involving the Dornier 228. [1][2][... | Air crash | null | null |
Blind Brook elementary school construction issues force another week of closure | State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa closed Ridge Street school Wednesday after students were in the building for three days. She slammed school officials in a letter Friday for allowing students and staff to occupy the building that had numerous fire safety concerns and lacked a certificate of occupancy. She even a... | Organization Closed | null | null |
15 Celebrity Couples Who Have Been Married for a Surprisingly Long Time | It's a running joke that Hollywood relationships barely make it past dessert, with quickie divorces, 55-hour marriages and high-profile break-ups par for the course among celebrities. However, some stars have bucked the trend and have made their marriages last. A-list actors and rock stars are among the celebs to have ... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Police fine 60 revellers over Sydney house party, as Woolworths reports another COVID-19 case | A Victorian man who flew from Brisbane to Hobart on flight VA702 today has tested positive to COVID-19 and has not been allowed to board a flight to Melbourne
A Watch & Act warning is in place for a fire in the northern parts of Mokine, in WA's Northam Shire. Keep up to date with ABC Emergency
NSW Transport Minister An... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Tripoli protests and clashes (February 2011) |
Decisive pro-Gaddafi victory[4]
The 2011 Tripoli clashes were a series of confrontations between Libyan anti-government demonstrators and forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in the capital city of Tripoli at the beginning of the Libyan Civil War. During the early days of the uprising, there was significant... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
1986 Chalfant Valley earthquake |
The 1986 Chalfant Valley earthquake struck southern Mono County near Bishop and Chalfant, California at 07:42:28 Pacific Daylight Time on July 21. With a moment magnitude of 6.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), the shock injured two people and caused property damage estimated at $2.7 million in the af... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Peshtigo fire |
The Peshtigo fire was a very large forest fire that took place on October 8, 1871, in northeastern Wisconsin, United States, including much of the southern half of the Door Peninsula and adjacent parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The largest community in the affected area was Peshtigo, Wisconsin. The fire bur... | Fire | null | null |
Stephen Curry joins Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan in NBA record book as torrid scoring streak continues | Stephen Curry is firing pure plutonium at the moment. On Saturday night, Curry hit 11 3-pointers, giving him 36 triples over his past four games, en route to 47 points, but it wasn't enough as the Warriors fell to the Celtics in a 119-114 slugfest between two teams that are finding their stride at the right time.
The ... | Break historical records | null | null |
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