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25 Jul 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
In response to the United States of America's order to close the Chinese Consulate in Houston, Texas, Chinese officials have officially ordered the closure of the America Consulate in the city of Chengdu, the Sichuan province, no later that 10:00 loc...
25 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
In a statement by the South African Department of Correctional Services, officials confirmed that 69 inmates escaped the Malmesbury Prison of the Western Cape province during a jailbreak, and while 61 have been re-captured, a manhunt has been initiat...
22 Jul 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
The United States of America has ordered China to close its consulate at 3417 Montrose Boulevard in Houston, Texas, to "protect American intellectual property" and defend the private information of Americans. Firefighters responded to reports of pape...
22 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
At 22:12 local time, a magnitude 7.8 quake struck about 100 kilometres (Over 60 miles) off the Alaska coast at a depth it 28 kilometres (17 miles), initially triggering a tsunami warning for South Alaska, the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands...
22 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
A teenaged girl in the village of Griwa, the Ghor province, Afghanistan, took the family's AK-47 assault rife and opened fire upon Taliban militants, and has been hailed on several social media sites for her "heroism". According to local officials in...
20 Jul 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
The United Arab Emirates successfully launched its first mission to Mars after a Mitsubishi H2-A rocket took off from Japan's Tanegashima spaceport, carrying the Al-Amal (Hope) space probe. The Hope probe is now on a 500,000,000 kilometre (About 310,...
19 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Three people are dead and several others are seriously injured after a glacier sight-seeing bus rolled over near the Athabasca glacier of the Columbia Icefield in the Jasper National Park of Alberta, Canada. Spokespeople of the Royal Canadian Mounted...
19 Jul 2020 1 minute read 2 comments AverageVancouverite
In legislation drafted by the Russian Natural Resources Ministry, Russians citizens will be able to apply to obtain up to 1 hectare (0.01 square kilometres) of land in the nation's resource-rich far north to build homes, construct farms, or use for o...
19 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Bello Matawalle, the Governor of the Zamfara state of Nigeria, announced that in an attempt to encourage bandits to give up a life of crime and adopt a "normal life", bandits will be offered 2 cows for each AK-47 assault rifle they surrender. Mr. Mat...
18 Jul 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
British Airways announced that due to the sharp drop in travel demand sparked by the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, the company will retire all of its Boeing 747 aircraft effective immediately. The four-engined jumbo jets are less efficient than mode...
