This is the category for Al-Aqsa Mosque, a mosque in Jerusalem, Israel. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 27 February 2014: Arabs react to Israeli debate on Jerusalem’s Holy sites 13 March 2010: Fearing protests, Israel seals off West Bank 4 October 2009: Israeli police and Palestinians clash in Jerusalem 15 February 2007: […]
Read MoreWednesday, March 9, 2011 Alberto Granado Jiménez, the Argentinian biochemist who was Che Guevara’s companion on his transformative motorcycle trip through South America, died in Havana on Saturday, reported Cuban state television. He was 88 and died of natural causes. The politically active Jiménez met Ernesto “Che” Guevara, then a medical student, in Hernando, Argentina […]
Read MoreA compilation of brief news reports for Wednesday, March 28, 2007. Contents 1 US to seek less than 20 years for Hicks 2 Global stock markets are lower 3 Gunmen kill 50 overnight in Sunni district in Iraq 4 UK releases GPS data in dispute with Iran 5 First black airmen in US Airforce to be […]
Read MoreWednesday, September 7, 2005 On Monday, a helicopter accidentally dropped a concrete block weighing nearly 1,500 pounds when it was flying it up to an Austrian mountain for a “ski resort construction project”. The concrete block struck a cable holding a gondola, the one that suffered all of the casualties, although other gondolas reported people […]
Read MoreSunday, April 25, 2010 At least ten people are dead after a large, destructive tornado tore through Yazoo City, Mississippi yesterday. The tornado has been rated an EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, and is estimated to have had at most 170 mph winds. Five of the deaths were in Choctaw County, four in Yazoo […]
Read MoreThursday, May 6, 2010 The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, or “black boxes”, from an Air France plane that crashed on June 1 last year in the Atlantic Ocean, have been localized to within about 2 square miles (5 square kilometers), a French official said on Thursday. The French government and military officials […]
Read MoreThursday, August 9, 2018 Yesterday, English football club Chelsea FC announced reaching an agreement with Spanish-capital club Real Madrid to transfer Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois to Madrid. Real Madrid via their official website said Courtois “has signed for the club for the next six seasons.” 26-year-old Courtois has been Chelsea’s first-choice goalkeeper for the last […]
Read MoreMonday, July 11, 2011 China’s National Bureau of Statistics released data Saturday showing that the consumer price index (CPI) for June climbed 6.4% from a year ago. That compares with a 5.5% rise in May, which was the largest since a 6.3% increase in July 2008. The major factor contributing to this figure was the […]
Read MoreFriday, May 22, 2020 A study published in journal Astronomy & Astrophysics last month reported astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and elsewhere discovered a black hole in the Telescopium constellation. The study stated the black hole is about 1010 ± 195 light years (310 ± 60 parsec) away from the Solar System, meaning […]
Read MoreSaturday, March 25, 2006 Student protests against the French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin job reform plan to give employers the right to dismiss young employees within the initial two years of their employment turned increasingly violent over the last two weeks. The controversial program called the CPE, “First Job Contract”, is to encourage employers […]
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