At least 38 people have been killed in Sudan’s East African gold mine collapse on Sunday, the Sudanese Mineral Resource Society reported. The exact number of people buried under the rubble is unclear. The accident took place in the city of Al-Nuhud, in the West Kordofan region. The export […]
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Winter Storm Hits US Western States
The western states in the US – California, Oregon and Washington – are dealing with a major winter storm this week. A foot of snow has fallen in some places in the last 24 hours in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. More snow showers are expected in the higher […]
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NGO: Weather Disasters Cost $20 Billion More Than Last Year
This year’s ten most expensive weather disasters have caused more than 170 billion dollars in damage. That is twenty billion dollars more than in 2020, the British charity Christian Aid announced on Monday. The non-governmental organization (NGO) calculates what floods, fires and heatwaves cost each year based on insurance […]
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14-Year-Old Killed by Police Bullet in Los Angeles Clothing Store
On Thursday, a 14-year-old girl was killed at a Los Angeles clothing store after police opened fire on a suspicious man, who was also fatally injured. The girl was hidden in a dressing room, according to The Los Angeles Times, where she was hit through the wall by the […]
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Corona Pills Pfizer Can Also be Used in the US
The American Medicines Authority (FDA) has approved the use of the corona pills from pharmaceutical company Pfizer. This makes it the first drug against Covid that can be used in the United States, albeit only for patients with a high health risk who are older than 12 years. The […]
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Former Trump Adviser Starts Lawsuit Against Commission of Inquiry
Michael Flynn, the former security adviser to former President Donald Trump, has sued the congressional committee investigating the storming of the US Capitol on January 6 this year. He hopes this will prevent the committee from gaining access to his telephone data. Flynn argues that the subpoena previously issued […]
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Hostage in Paris Supermarket Ended: No Injuries
Since Monday, the man who had been holding a woman hostage in a shop in the 12th arrondissement of Paris has been arrested. French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin reported this. There were no injuries. The hostage-taker, a 56-year-old man with a psychiatric history, entered a shop on Rue d’Aligre, […]
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US Senators Warren and Booker have Covid-19
US Senator Elizabeth Warren said she has tested positive for Covid-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms on Sunday. Later that day, Senator Cory Booker also announced that he had contracted a corona infection. Warren, 72, a Democrat from Massachusetts, said on Twitter that she is fully vaccinated, boosted and […]
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Six People Killed by Typhoon Rai in the Philippines
Typhoon Rai has killed at least six people in the Philippines. Villages have been flooded in southern and central regions, electricity grids disrupted, and trees uprooted. Rai, known locally as Odette, made landfall on Thursday as a super typhoon with winds of up to 195 kilometres per hour, accompanied […]
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Suriname Government Regrets Incident With Journalist
The government of Surinamese President Chan Santokhi regrets that there has been a heavy-handed confrontation between security officers of Vice President Ronnie Brunswijk and journalist Jason Pinas. In a statement, the government wrote on Wednesday that it wants the Surinamese attorney general to investigate the journalist’s report with “care […]