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1 Oct 2020 1 minute read 2 comments AverageVancouverite
Over 100 people are confirmed dead as Armenia and Azerbaijan are currently engaged in the heaviest fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region since the two former Soviet republics fought a war between 1988-1994 over the region. With growing fears that...
25 Sep 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
Vietnamese police spokespeople say that officers raided a warehouse in the southern Binh Duong province and seized over 320,000 used condoms that were reportedly to be illegally resold to unsuspecting customers. Local media reported that several doze...
24 Sep 2020 1 minute read 7 comments AverageVancouverite
In the worst whale stranding in recorded Australian history, about 380 long-finned pilot whales are confirmed dead and about 30 others are still stranded on an area called the Macquarie Heads on Tasmania's west coast. This stranding breaks Australia'...
21 Sep 2020 1 minute read 3 comments AverageVancouverite
On Saturday, September 19th, 2020, Taiwan's air force scrambled jets for a second consecutive day as 19 Chinese aircraft crossed the midline of the Taiwan Strait and approached the island. Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense said that whole no Chin...
18 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
The United States Department of Commerce announced that in 48 hours, TikTok and WeChat will be banned from American app stores, meaning that people in the US will no longer be able to download the applications through any platform, unless President D...
15 Sep 2020 1 minute read 2 comments AverageVancouverite
At about 4:00 local time, the main cable of the Sea-to-Sky gondola in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada, was cut for the second time in just over a year, resulting in 30 cable cars falling to the ground. While no staff or guests were on the cable ca...
14 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Japanese conglomerate Softbank has agreed to sell United Kingdom-based semiconductor company ARM Holdings to American tech company and graphics chip specialist Nvidia for 40 billion United States dollars. Nvidia spokespeople have promised to retain A...
13 Sep 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
Rescue teams are frantically digging through rubble after a gold mine near the town of Kamituga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo collapsed, trapping dozens of miners. The cave-in happened amid torrential rain at about 15:00 local time, and loc...
8 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
The United States Forest Service announced that series of wildfires have already burned a record 8,000 square kilometres (Well over 3000 square miles) in California this year, breaking the previous record of 7,931 square kilometres burned in 2018 and...
7 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
A man in his 80s has blown up part of his house in the French village of Parcoul-Chenaud in Dordogne after attempting to swat a fly. According to local media, the man picked up an electric fly swatter when the insect attempted to land on his dinner....
