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Why Australia and the US care so much about China’s security pact with a tiny Pacific island nation
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When China announced it had inked a security pact with a tiny Pacific island nation this week, there was little fanfare -- at least from Beijing. As China put it, it was a mutually beneficial agreement aimed at crea...
Staten Island bar shut down after declaring itself an ‘autonomous zone’ and defying Covid-19 rules, la oficina del alguacil dice
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A Staten Island bar was shut down after calling itself an "autonomous zone" and defying Covid-19 restrictions, the New York City Sheriff's Office said. The bar, Mac's Public House, was also not following face cov...
Policía: 9 herido, 3 críticamente, en Providencia, Tiroteo en Rhode Island
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De los nueve, tres tenían heridas graves y estaban "tal vez critico," Coronel Jefe de Policía de Providence. Hugh T. Clements dijo a los periodistas en la escena.. Dijo que se usaron varias armas e involucró una "disputa en curso" involucrando ...
Long Island Aquarium offers overnight stay with shark dive, champagne dinner
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Mattress brand Beautyrest is giving someone the chance to spend the night at the Long Island Aquarium in August as a way to promote its new Harmony Lux Hybrid mattress. The person -- and one guest -- will get to test...
Rhode Island investigating death of man handcuffed by police
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Officers were called at around 12:30 soy. Friday on a report of a man who was screaming in the street and possibly under the influence of narcotics, according to an account by Providence police. They found him groani...
Ghost boat carrying 1,400 pounds of cocaine washes up on remote Pacific island
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A small, unassuming boat washed up on a remote island in the Pacific last week carrying no passengers -- but loaded with around 1,430 libras (649 kg) de cocaína. The 18-foot (5.4-metro) fiberglass vessel was discove...
los 2019 Golden Ray shipwreck off Georgia’s Jekyll Island is leaking oil
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Teams are working to clean up an oil spill that happened during work on the Golden Ray shipwreck near Georgia's Jekyll and St. Simons islands on Saturday. The spill occurred during "weight-shedding operations" of th...
Snake Island border guards who defied Russia warship ‘may be alive’: reporte
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"The SBGSU and the Armed Forces, like the whole of Ukraine, have received hope that all of Zmiiny's defenders are alive," the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine said in a Facebook post on Saturday, noting that Rus...
Reclusos en la cárcel de Rikers Island de Nueva York en medio de una 'crisis emergente’ relacionado con el aumento de Omicron
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New York City's notorious Rikers Island jail is in the midst of an "crisis emergente del Covid-19" ya que el número de casos confirmados de Covid entre los reclusos se ha disparado en el pasado 10 dias, and nearly doubled from Monday t...
This Pacific Island province is so frustrated with China’s presence that it’s pushing for independence
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It was pitched as a rare repatriation flight to bring people stranded in China back to their Pacific Island home which has yet to report a single coronavirus case. But of the 104 people on board the chartered Solom...
Fraser Island, a unique Australian ecosystem, is on fire as parts of the country swelter through record heat wave
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Firefighters in Australia are battling a massive bushfire that has been burning out of control for six weeks across the popular tourist spot of Fraser Island, as parts of the country's east swelter through a record-...
Station nightclub fire: 19 años después, Jimmy Gahan’s father recalls Rhode Island tragedy that killed 100
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But what should have been a joyous night ended in tragedy. On Feb. 20, 2003, The Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, burst into flames when pyrotechnics from the rock band landed on flammable foam instal...
Long Island college student doused with acid in horrific assault
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Nafiah Ikram was left severely burned and nearly blind in the appalling March 17 Elmont attack. Her father, Sheikh Ikram, 50, said Nafiah was targeted on her way home from work. "No it’s not a random attack, it’s a p...
An electrical substation fire in Puerto Rico has knocked out power throughout the island
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A fire at an electrical substation in Puerto Rico has knocked out power throughout the island, utility company LUMA Energy said Thursday. "The fire caused major blackouts across the entire island. The situation is u...
Sri Lanka president declares new state of emergency as protests roil island
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Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency on Friday, after prolonged protests and a general strike shuttered schools, businesses, and transport services. The state of emergency will all...
Joe Biden has his own island on ‘Animal Crossing’ where you can learn about his campaign
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As Election Day approaches, Joe Biden and his team are exhausting all efforts to reach voters -- even taking their campaign to a popular video game. The Biden Campaign on Friday launched new headquarters in "Animal ...