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4 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
A 36 year-old man was pronounced dead after being bitten on the leg by a shark while spearfishing near the Fraser Island of Queensland, Australia, marking the fourth fatal shark attack in Australian waters in 2020. According to officials, a doctor an...
2 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Several gunmen jumped out of a truck and rushed into an unofficial drug rehabilitation center in Irapuato in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, killing at least 24 people and injuring 7 others. According to police emergency response units, 3 of the 7 i...
2 Jul 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
At least 162 bodies have been recovered, 54 injured people have taken to local hospitals, and many others remain missing after a heap of mining waste collapsed into a lake, burying many miners at a jade mining site in the Hpakant area of Myanmar's Ka...
2 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Italian police officials state that about 84 million counterfeit Captagon pills worth an estimated 1.1 billion United States dollars were discovered hidden in containers at the port of Salerno. The 14 tonnes of amphetamine and theophylline are suspec...
2 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that as a new security law implemented by the mainland Chinese government violates Hong Kong's freedom, up to 3 million Hong Kong residents will be offered a chance to settle in the UK and eventua...
29 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Bangladeshi local media reported that at least 32 people are confirmed dead while about 20 others are missing after a ferry called the Morning Bird suffered a collision with another vessel and capsized on the Burigana River near the Sadarghat river p...
29 Jun 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
Four gunmen armed with automatic rifles and explosives attempted to attack the Pakistani stock exchange in Karachi, killing three people and wounding seven others before being shot dead by security forces. According to official police reports, the as...
28 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Winning 58.57% of the vote, Malawi's electoral commission announced that opposition leader Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera defeated incumbent President Arthur Peter Mutharika and won the nation's rerun presidential vote. Mr. Chakwera said that his victory...
27 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
As the effects of the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdowns devastated economic activity, official data from Mexico's national statistics agency INEGI shows that the nation's economy shrank by 17.3% between March and April, marking the largest ever fall sin...
27 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Microsoft announced that it will be closing all 83 physical stores worldwide and "re-imagining" its four high Experience Centers in New York City, London, Sydney, and Redmond in a "strategic change" as sales increasingly shift online. The company sai...
