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25 Jun 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Norway's Police Security Service has heightened its terror alert to the highest level following a mass shooting in Oslo that resulted in 2 dead and 21 injured. The attack started at about 01:00 local time, when a man opened fire upon people in and ar...
24 Jun 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
At 02:24 local time on June 22nd, a magnitude 6.2 quake struck near the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan at a depth of 10 kilometers (about 6 miles), leaving at least 1,150 people dead and over 1,500 others injured. Local state-run media sources re...
30 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
A Nepali De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter aircraft with service from the town of Pokhara to the town of Jomsom lost contact with ground control about 12 minutes after taking off at 09:55 local time. The aircraft, operating on behalf of subsid...
7 May 2022 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
Lawmakers of the Central African Republic (CAR) unanimously voted and passed a bill to adopt Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender, becoming the second nation in the world after El Salvador to approve the usage of the cryptocurrency. CAR President Faustin-Ar...
21 Mar 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 with service from Kunming to Guangzhou crashed into a forested hillside near the city of Wuzhou in the Guangxi province at about 14:20 local time, presumably killing all onboard. According to the Civil Aviation Ad...
17 Feb 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Officials of the Royal Canadian Navy told media outlets that the search for survivors from a Spanish fishing trawler that sank off the coast of Newfoundland has ended, as worsening weather conditions and the "low odds of survival" makes the North Atl...
27 Jan 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Several southern African nations have been hit by torrential downpours, powerful winds, and floods in the wake of Tropical Storm Ana, resulting in dozens of deaths, thousands of people displaced, and millions of dollars of damage. As of now, Madagasc...
17 Jan 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
The organisers of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games announced that as part of the Covid-19 restrictions in the nation’s capital, tickets will no longer be sold to the general public. Games organisers previously announced that while...
17 Jan 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Hours after new sanctions were imposed by the Biden administration of the United States of America, state-run media outlets of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) announced that the nation successfully test-launched a pair of ball...
8 Jan 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Danish Armed Forces spokespeople reported that 3 suspected pirates who were detained for about 6 weeks aboard the frigate HDMS Esbern Snare were released at sea in a small dinghy off the coast of West Africa. The suspects were released near Nigerian...
