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6 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Australian and United States military aircraft located three Micronesian sailors stranded on the tiny remote Pikelot Island after spotting their SOS message on a beach. The men were attempting to complete a 42 kilometre (26 miles) trip from the Puluw...
5 Aug 2020 1 minute read 3 comments AverageVancouverite
Lebanon will observe a three-day period of mourning after the capital city of Beirut was shook by a massive explosion that claimed at least 78 lives and injured well over 4,000 others. Officials believe that the death toll will continue to rise as so...
4 Aug 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
A 52 year-old Tanzanian small-scale independent miner named Saniniu Laizer who became an overnight millionaire this June for selling two Tanzanite stones worth the equivalent of 3.4 million United States dollars to the nation's Ministry of Minerals h...
3 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Officials from the South Korean Ministry of Interior and Safety stated that torrential downpours triggered landslides and floodings across the nation, resulting in at least 6 dead, 7 missing, 6 injured, and about 360 others homeless. Local media repo...
3 Aug 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
One United States marine is confirmed dead, two are injured, and eight others are missing after an amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) training accident off the Californian coast. According to American military sources, eight marines were initially resc...
2 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
A midair collision at 08:27 local time between a Piper PA-12 and a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver over Anchorage, Alaska, the United States of America, resulted in 7 deaths. According to a statement by the Alaskan State Troopers, there were no survivors i...
31 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
A powerful blast rocked the Afghan city of Puli Alam hours before a three-day ceasefire between the Taliban militant group and the Afghan government was set to begin for the Eid al-Adha festival, killing at least 17 people and injuring 21 others. Acc...
30 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
At 07:50 local time, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) successfully launched a one-tonne, 6-wheeled rover named Perseverance from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida towards Mars in an effort to detect life or evide...
27 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
State media from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea reported the nation's "first suspected case" of the Covid-19 coronavirus, stating that a young man who defected to South Korea about 3 years ago returned across the demarcation line back into...
25 Jul 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
Accusing 54 year-old Maikel Moreno of participating in transnational organised crime and accepting bribes, the United States of America is offering a 5 million US dollar reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the Venezuelan Chi...
