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Current events/2022 November 8. Unidentified warplanes launch airstrikes against Iranian -backed militias on the Iraq–Syria border, including near the Al-Qa'im border crossing, reportedly killing at least 25 people. Fuel tankers carrying Iranian gasoline to Lebanon are also hit.
Hepi (name) Hepi is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Brad Hepi (born 1968), New Zealand rugby league player. Hepi Te Heuheu (1919–1997), Māori tribal leader. Tyla Hepi (born 1993), New Zealand rugby league footballer, son of Brad. Categories: Given names.
Disasters and accidents Cyclone Harold Cyclone Harold hits Fiji. (UPI) Caprigliola bridge collapse A bridge between the towns of Caprigliola and Albiano Magra in Tuscany, Italy, collapses. It results in only minor injuries of two truck drivers. (BBC News) (The Guardian) (The New York Times) Health and environment COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 pandemic in Asia COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China ...
International relations The United Nations Security Council discusses sending a peacekeeping force to the Republic of South Sudan when it becomes an independent nation tomorrow. (AP via Washington Post) Law and crime News of the World: Former editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, is arrested for questioning due to alleged involvement in a phone hacking affair. (The Guardian) (Sky News ...
Current events/2022 February 8. Israel says that the Syrian military fired an anti-aircraft missile towards its territory, which exploded in mid-air over the north of the country, triggering air raid sirens. However, Syrian state television reports that an Israeli Air Force airstrike occurred near Damascus. (Reuters)
Health and environment 2018 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak A South Korean man is diagnosed with the potentially deadly MERS virus and is being treated at a hospital in Seoul, the first such case in three years. (Reuters) The Public Health England reports the United Kingdom's first ever case of monkeypox in a Nigerian national staying at a naval base in Cornwall. The patient is being ...
Bill Watrous (June 8, 1939 –July 02, 2018), (born William Russell Watrous III) American trombonist, would have turned 85 this year. Kenny Clare (June 8, 1929 –January 11, 1985), Brit drummer, would have turned 95 this year. Erwin Lehn (June 8, 1919 –March 20, 2010), German arranger, bandleader, and vibraphonist, would have turned 105 this ...
Unidentified attackers armed with knives kill 12 people in Kushchyovskaya, Krasnodar krai, Russia. ( The Moscow Times) U.S. militant Lori Berenson is released from prison in Peru after serving more than a decade for collaborating with the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. (AP via The Chronicle)