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17 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
On January 15th, 2023, Mexico enacted a total ban on smoking in public areas alongside a ban on tobacco advertising, amounting to one of the strictest anti-smoking laws in the world. The latest law also places a total ban on displaying cigarettes and...
16 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno stated that Japan is planning on gradually releasing over 1,000,000 tonnes of water from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant in either the spring or summer this year. According to the I...
15 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Just after 11:00 local time, Yeti Airlines flight 691 with service from the Tribhuvan International Airport of Kathmandu to the Pokhara International Airport crashed on landing before catching on fire. The crash site is located about 1.5 kilometers (...
30 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
At about 18:40 local time, a historic footbridge in the town of Morbi of the Indian state of Gujarat collapsed, plunging dozens of people into the Machuu River below. Local media outlets say that medical officer Atul Prajapati from a nearby state hos...
30 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has appealed for international medical assistance following a twin car bomb attack in the capital city of Mogadishu that left at least 100 dead and roughly 300 injured. The first vehicle bomb detonated at about...
10 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
At least 25 people have been confirmed dead while over 50 others are still missing following torrential downpours that triggered landslides in the town of Las Tejerías, Venezuela. Among the dead are 2 toddlers. Venezuelan media reports say that torre...
10 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
With the authorization of the government, Haitian acting President and Prime Minister Ariel Henry has requested for foreign military support to combat escalating gang violence and civil unrest which has lead to "the risk of a major humanitarian crisi...
12 Sep 2022 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
Brazil's Ministry of Justice and Public Security fined Apple Inc. 12,275,000 reais, equivalent to just over 2,400,000 United States dollars at the time of this article's writing, for not including power adapters in their new iPhones. The Secretaria N...
11 Sep 2022 2 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
50 year-old Cary Yan and his wife, 34 year-old Gina Zhou, were arrested and and are being charged by the United States Department of Justice for money laundering, foreign corruption, and for bribing officials in the Marshall Islands to attempt settin...
27 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Peru's consumer protection agency, Indecopi, announced that it will be suing Repsol, a Spanish oil and energy firm, for the equivalent of 3 billion United States dollars in environmental damage and 1.5 billion United States dollars in damages to loca...
