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Disasters and accidents 2020 Beirut explosion The state -run National News Agency says that Lebanon's state prosecution has asked Interpol to detain two Russian citizens, the captain and owner of the MV Rhosus, a ship that carried thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate to Beirut in 2013. (Reuters via U.S. News) Eight people are killed and ten others are injured as a series of wildfires sweeps ...
COVID-19 portal. v. t. e. This article contains the number of cases of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) reported by each country and territory to the World Health Organization in March 2020 and published in the latter's daily 'situation reports'. [1] For other months see COVID-19 pandemic cases.
Over 14,000 (as of June 27, 2020) [6] Property damage. $1–2 billion (May 26 – June 8, 2020) [7] A wave of civil unrest in the United States, initially triggered by the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, led to protests and riots against systemic racism in the United States, [8] [9] such ...
Bill and Melinda Gates take a stand on United States' response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Boeing 737, first launched in 1967, is the world’s most successful aircraft. More than 11,000 have been delivered. But the Max 8 version was involved in two shocking and needless tragedies.
Scenarios in which a global catastrophic risk creates harm have been widely discussed. Some sources of catastrophic risk are anthropogenic (caused by humans), such as global warming, [1] environmental degradation, and nuclear war. [2] Others are non-anthropogenic or natural, such as meteor impacts or supervolcanoes.
Ten deadliest natural disasters by highest estimated death toll excluding epidemics and famines. Deadliest natural disasters by year excluding epidemics and famines. 20th century. 21st century. Lists of deadliest natural disasters by cause. Avalanches/landslides. Disease outbreaks. Earthquakes. Famines.
Law and crime. List of mass shootings in the United States in 2020. A mass shooting on a Greyhound bus headed from Los Angeles to San Francisco leaves one dead and five wounded; the motive remains unknown. (CBS News) (NBC News) A shooting at a dormitory at Texas A&M University–Commerce, leaves two dead and one wounded.