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Suicide bomber kills 5 Chinese workers in Pakistan
New York Times, Published on 27/03/2024
» ISLAMABAD — Five Chinese workers were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into their convoy in northern Pakistan, the latest in a string of terrorist attacks highlighting the security challenges Pakistan faces in protecting Chinese personnel.
Apple unveils iPhone 15 and switches to USB-C charger
New York Times, Published on 14/09/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO — Every September for the past decade, Apple has convened media from around the world for a marketing event that celebrates the creative feats behind its newest iPhone. It has hyped the shine of the phone’s exterior, the sculpting around its cameras and the power of its processors.
First Ukraine city falls as Russia strikes more civilian targets
New York Times, Published on 03/03/2022
» ODESSA, Ukraine: Russian forces on Wednesday seized the first major Ukrainian city in their onslaught, the strategic port of Kherson, as they stepped up bombardment of civilian targets across the country, put other cities under siege and pushed to encircle and cut off the capital, Kyiv.
Wildlife trafficking ‘kingpin’ claims he was pawn
New York Times, Published on 25/09/2018
» Chumlong Lemthongthai, a Thai citizen, and his band of gun-toting prostitutes were surely one of the most remarkable of the ‘pseudo-hunting’ gangs behind the ongoing rhino poaching crisis.
Typhoon Mangkhut slams Hong Kong and southern China
New York Times, Published on 17/09/2018
» HONG KONG: - Typhoon Mangkhut battered Hong Kong and Macau on Sunday with 160kph wind gusts, drenching rains and 3-metre surges of seawater that inundated the first urban area of Asia to face the wrath of the year's mightiest storm.
Coming home to a shipping container
Business, New York Times, Published on 07/10/2017
» Tim Steele stood outside a pair of orange shipping containers on a hillside about two hours northwest of New York. The large metal cargo door swung wide to reveal a small mudroom inside the corrugated walls, and beyond that an expansive living room, kitchen and small bathroom. Several tall windows looked out on the Catskill Mountains, a vista that stretched for miles.
US city airports' future may not involve flying
Business, New York Times, Published on 22/07/2017
» Coleman Young International Airport was once one of the busiest airports in the United States and a thriving piece of Detroit's economy. But like so much else in the city, it festered for decades after the action moved to the suburbs.
US aircraft carrier not yet near North Korea
New York Times, Published on 19/04/2017
» WASHINGTON - A week after the White House declared a nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier was being re-routed from Singapore to the Sea of Japan, near North Korea, it still has not arrived there.
Nice attacker 'wasn't living in real world'
News, New York Times, Published on 26/07/2016
» His own parents were so frightened by his violence that they kicked him out when he was 16. Desperate, by the time he was 19, they dragged him to a psychiatrist, who prescribed an anti-psychotic drug, a tranquilliser and an antidepressant.
Gunman storms Florida gay club - 50 dead
New York Times, Published on 12/06/2016
» ORLANDO, Florida — A gunman killed 50 people and wounded 53 in a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando on Sunday, officials said, in the worst mass shooting in US history. Law enforcement officials said it could have been an act of Islamist terrorism.