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Imperial College London geology students fined in China for “illegal map-making”

5 January, 2021

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Monday, January 5, 2009 Three British geology students of Imperial College London have been fined in China for “illegal survey and map-making activities”, according to local media. In addition to making maps, the students were researching fault lines and earthquake activity in Xinjiang — a tense Muslim province to the west of the country where […]

SpaceX launches first Falcon 9 rocket

5 January, 2021

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Friday, June 4, 2010 Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX, successfully launched their Falcon 9 rocket for the first time at 1845 UTC ( 2:45 pm EDT) from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States. The Falcon 9, second in the Falcon series of rockets, has a first stage that is powered […]

46 illegal Afghan immigrants suffocate in truck in Pakistan

5 January, 2021

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Correction — Nov 1, 2013 The article below claims each passenger paid 4000 to 8000 USD. Each paid 30,000 Rupees, equivilent at the time to about US$375. The bodies of 46 Afghan illegal immigrants who suffocated to death in a container truck Saturday near Quetta, Pakistan, returned home Tuesday. The Edhi Foundation […]

Militants in Pakistan torch NATO, US military vehicles

5 January, 2021

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Sunday, December 7, 2008 Pakistani officials have reported that vehicles supplying NATO forces in Afghanistan have been set on fire by suspected militants. The attack occurred in the northwestern city of Peshawar which lies on Pakistan’s North-Western frontier at 0230 local time. Sources claim that more than 250 gunmen using rockets, grenades and AK-47s overpowered […]

Chinese cargo ship sinks after being shot by Russian navy

5 January, 2021

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Saturday, February 21, 2009 A Chinese cargo ship was fired on and sunk by a Russian cruiser last Sunday near Russia’s far-eastern port of Vladivostok. Eight out of 16 crew members on board were saved while the others remain missing. According to Natalia Gelashvili, a spokeswoman for the Far East Transport Prosecutors office in Nakhodka, […]

India: Maharashtra plastic ban comes into force

5 January, 2021

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Monday, June 25, 2018 On Saturday, the plastic ban in the Indian state of Maharashtra came into force. In an attempt to minimise pollution, the state government has introduced a ban on single-use plastics. The leader of the Yuya Sena political party, Aaditya Thackeray, said on Twitter, “The ban on single use disposable plastic cups, […]

Australian politician Karen Overington dies aged 59

5 January, 2021

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Friday, August 12, 2011 File:Kareen overington.jpg Former Australian Member of Parliament Karen Overington has died at the age of 59. Her death followed a long battle with ill health. Overington was the Member of Parliament for Ballarat West with the Labor Party from 1999 until she stood down in 2010. During her political career, Overington […]

Australian health workers to close intensive care units in Victoria next week

5 January, 2021

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Thursday, March 13, 2008 Members of Australia’s Health Services Union (HSU) will go on strike in Victoria next week in a dispute over stalled wage and career structure negotiations. Over 5000 physiotherapists, speech pathologists and radiation therapists will walk off the job next week, effectively closing the state’s 68 largest health services. The strike will […]

Toyota, Tesla to develop electric SUV

5 January, 2021

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Saturday, July 17, 2010 Toyota Motor Company announced they have formalized an agreement to develop an electric version of the RAV4 SUV with Tesla Motors. In May 2010, Akio Toyoda and Elon Musk, leaders of Toyota and Tesla, respectively, announced they would work together on electric vehicles. The agreement formalizes this announcement and would allow […]

Fernando Alonso wins 2006 Monaco Grand Prix

5 January, 2021

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Sunday, May 28, 2006 Fernando Alonso won the FIA Formula-1 Monaco Grand Prix for the first time in his career today. During Saturday’s qualifying session, Michael Schumacher made a strange mistake in the La Rascasse corner, when he driver locked his car’s wheels, bringing the vehicle to a halt and finished the race causing the […]