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CrowdStrike malfunction hit computers everywhere. What it takes to get the systems back online
Read full article: CrowdStrike malfunction hit computers everywhere. What it takes to get the systems back onlineMillions in our country and across the globe, went to work and saw this blue screens and notices to repair their computers. It’s all due to an update by CrowdStrike which malfunctioned.
Flights canceled at Central Florida airports while worldwide technology outage forces ground stops
Read full article: Flights canceled at Central Florida airports while worldwide technology outage forces ground stopsMajor airlines including Delta, United and American report ground stops due to a global technology disruption.
Why giant sequoias, redwoods are thriving in the United Kingdom
Read full article: Why giant sequoias, redwoods are thriving in the United KingdomThe sequoias and redwoods — which aren’t invasive — have still managed to grow and survive after being introduced and planted in the 1800s throughout the northern part of the region.
Another flight from Haiti lands in Orlando
Read full article: Another flight from Haiti lands in OrlandoA plane from Haiti with 28 people on board landed at Orlando International Airport on Tuesday night. A few hours prior, state Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-District 10, held a roundtable with members of Central Florida’s Haitian community.
More chartered flights from Haiti expected as Americans escape rising gang violence
Read full article: More chartered flights from Haiti expected as Americans escape rising gang violenceAmid rising gang violence in Haiti, the U.S. Department of State is vowing to charter even more flights of Americans stuck in the Caribbean country with some expected to land as early as Wednesday.
Commercial rocket trying to put a satellite into orbit explodes moments after liftoff in Japan
Read full article: Commercial rocket trying to put a satellite into orbit explodes moments after liftoff in JapanA commercial rocket trying to put a satellite into orbit was intentionally exploded shortly after liftoff in central Japan.
Photos of earthquake in Japan depict heavy damage
Read full article: Photos of earthquake in Japan depict heavy damageA 7.5 magnitude earthquake rocked the Noto Peninsula region on Monday, which as of Tuesday left a confirmed 48 people dead and rescuers searching for more people amidst crumbled buildings and rubble.
Israel-Hamas conflict: Ways to preserve mental health, provide support and avoid social media
Read full article: Israel-Hamas conflict: Ways to preserve mental health, provide support and avoid social mediaInstead of continuing to feel down and risk your mental health over the images on social media, there are ways you can show support without feeling overwhelmed mentally.
Jewish Federation of Volusia and Flagler counties hold vigil after Hamas attacks in Israel
Read full article: Jewish Federation of Volusia and Flagler counties hold vigil after Hamas attacks in IsraelJewish Federation of Volusia and Flagler Counties held a vigil and memorial “In response to the unprecedented terrorist attack against the State of Israel,” according to a news release.
IN PHOTOS: World record set during volleyball match at football stadium
Read full article: IN PHOTOS: World record set during volleyball match at football stadiumThe crowd set a world record for largest to ever view a women’s sporting event, surpassing the 91,648 fans that saw Barcelona play Wolfsburg in a UEFA Women’s Champions League semifinal on April 22, 2022.
Tropical Storm Bret swirls near St. Vincent as it enters eastern Caribbean
Read full article: Tropical Storm Bret swirls near St. Vincent as it enters eastern CaribbeanTropical Storm Bret is swirling close to St. Vincent as it begins pushing into the eastern Caribbean, where islands have shut down to prepare for possible torrential downpours, landslides and flooding.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responds to Disney, says lawsuit is political
Read full article: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responds to Disney, says lawsuit is politicalFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis is brushing off Disney's lawsuit against him as politically motivated and saying it's time for the iconic company to stop getting favorable treatment in his state.
Size of a dollar bill? Orlando Chihuahua named world’s shortest dog
Read full article: Size of a dollar bill? Orlando Chihuahua named world’s shortest dogThe world’s shortest living dog, announced this week on Guinness World Records’ Italian TV show “La Show dei Record,” has a Central Florida connection.
‘Sushi terrorism:’ Japan police arrest 2 in food prank at beef bowl diner
Read full article: ‘Sushi terrorism:’ Japan police arrest 2 in food prank at beef bowl dinerJapanese police have arrested two men who posted a video on social media showing one eating pickled ginger with his chopsticks directly from a communal container at a famous beef bowl restaurant chain.
40 dead, 29 injured in fire at immigration detention center in Mexico
Read full article: 40 dead, 29 injured in fire at immigration detention center in MexicoMigrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico, starting a fire that killed at least 40 people.
Pentagon video shows Russian jet dumping fuel on US drone
Read full article: Pentagon video shows Russian jet dumping fuel on US droneThe Biden administration has released video of a Russian fighter jet dumping fuel on a U.S. Air Force surveillance drone, as the U.S. sought to hold Russia responsible for the collision that led to the drone’s crash into the Black Sea without escalating already fraught tensions with the Kremlin.
Mexican president says his country safer than United States
Read full article: Mexican president says his country safer than United StatesMexico's president has claimed that his country is safer than the United States, a week after two U.S. citizens were killed and two kidnapped in the border city of Matamoros.
Florida flight returns to Cuba after bird strike causes engine fire
Read full article: Florida flight returns to Cuba after bird strike causes engine fireA flight to Florida from Cuba was forced to turn back Sunday after it struck birds that caused an engine to catch fire and filled the cabin with smoke.
Funeral of Thai 'cave boy' who died in UK ends with prayers
Read full article: Funeral of Thai 'cave boy' who died in UK ends with prayersMourners have filled a temple chamber for a final prayer session in northern Thailand for one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded cave in 2018 who died at school in England last month.
Lufthansa flight from Texas diverted after turbulence; 7 hospitalized
Read full article: Lufthansa flight from Texas diverted after turbulence; 7 hospitalizedOfficials say a Lufthansa flight that experienced “significant turbulence” was diverted to Washington Dulles International Airport and seven people on board were taken to area hospitals.
Intel agencies: No sign adversaries behind ‘Havana syndrome’
Read full article: Intel agencies: No sign adversaries behind ‘Havana syndrome’U.S. intelligence agencies say they cannot link a foreign adversary to any of the incidents associated with so-called “Havana syndrome,” the hundreds of cases of brain injuries and other symptoms reported by American personnel around the world.
China blasts US over response to Chinese balloon incursion
Read full article: China blasts US over response to Chinese balloon incursionThe foreign affairs committee of China's ceremonial parliament is accusing American lawmakers of trampling on the sovereignty of other nations after the United States passed a measure condemning a suspected Chinese spy balloon's intrusion into U.S. airspace.
US defends decision to shoot down 3 unidentified objects
Read full article: US defends decision to shoot down 3 unidentified objectsThe White House is defending the shootdowns of three unidentified objects in as many days even as it acknowledges that officials had no indication the objects were intended for surveillance in the same manner as the high-altitude Chinese balloon that traversed American airspace earlier this month.
Big China ‘spy balloon’ moving east over US, Pentagon says
Read full article: Big China ‘spy balloon’ moving east over US, Pentagon saysA huge, high-altitude Chinese balloon is sailing across the U.S. The spectacle drew severe Pentagon accusations of spying on Friday, while sending some excited or alarmed Americans outside with binoculars.
Mexico finds migrants -- 57 boys and girls -- crammed into truck near US border
Read full article: Mexico finds migrants -- 57 boys and girls -- crammed into truck near US borderMexican immigration authorities say they have found 57 Guatemalan adolescents packed into a trailer on a highway near the U.S. border.
EXPLAINER: Why did Nepal plane crash in fair weather?
Read full article: EXPLAINER: Why did Nepal plane crash in fair weather?Yeti Airlines flight 691 crashed Sunday just before landing in Nepal’s tourist city of Pokhara, the gateway to a popular hiking area in the Himalayas, after a 27-minute trip from Kathmandu.
Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash site
Read full article: Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash siteOfficials say search teams have retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of a passenger plane that plummeted into a gorge on approach to a new airport in the foothills of the Himalayas.
Divisive influencer Andrew Tate loses appeal against asset seizures
Read full article: Divisive influencer Andrew Tate loses appeal against asset seizuresA court in Romania’s capital Bucharest has ruled against an appeal by the divisive social media personality Andrew Tate who challenged asset seizures by prosecutors who are investigating him on charges of being part of an organized crime group and human trafficking, an official said Wednesday.
Local leader joins call to remove former Brazilian president from Central Florida
Read full article: Local leader joins call to remove former Brazilian president from Central FloridaLocal lawmakers are calling for the expulsion of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro from the United States after he was released from a Central Florida hospital, Monday.
As Brazil reels from riots, Bolsonaro finds home in Central Florida
Read full article: As Brazil reels from riots, Bolsonaro finds home in Central FloridaAs Brazil reels from mobs of rioters swarming its seats of power, its former leader has decamped to a Florida resort, where droves of supporters flocked to cheer on their ousted president.
German court convicts 97-year-old ex-secretary at Nazi camp
Read full article: German court convicts 97-year-old ex-secretary at Nazi campA German court has convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.
3 children die after fall into icy lake; UK gripped by storm
Read full article: 3 children die after fall into icy lake; UK gripped by stormThree young boys who fell through ice covering a lake in central England have died and a fourth remains hospitalized as weather forecasters issued severe weather warnings for large parts of the United Kingdom.
Libyan accused in Lockerbie bombing now in American custody
Read full article: Libyan accused in Lockerbie bombing now in American custodyThe Justice Department says a Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken into U.S. custody and will face federal charges in Washington.
Court rules against anti-vax parents of ill baby
Read full article: Court rules against anti-vax parents of ill babyA New Zealand court has temporarily taken away medical custody of a baby from his parents after they refused blood transfusions for him unless the blood comes from donors who are unvaccinated against COVID-19.
US passenger killed when big wave hits Antarctic cruise ship
Read full article: US passenger killed when big wave hits Antarctic cruise shipA U.S. woman was killed and four other passengers injured when a massive wave struck the Viking Polaris cruise ship while it was sailing toward the port of Ushuaia in southern Argentina on an Antarctic cruise, authorities said.
Bodies-in-suitcases suspect appears in New Zealand court
Read full article: Bodies-in-suitcases suspect appears in New Zealand courtA woman who was extradited from South Korea this week after the bodies of her two children were found in abandoned suitcases has made her first court appearance in New Zealand.
Man accused of killing daughter in Italy because she refused arranged marriage
Read full article: Man accused of killing daughter in Italy because she refused arranged marriagePolice say a Pakistani man suspected of killing his 18-year-old daughter in Italy after she reportedly refused an arranged marriage has been arrested and is being questioned by investigators in the capital, Islamabad.
Drone hits Israeli-linked tanker; Iran frees 2 Greek tankers
Read full article: Drone hits Israeli-linked tanker; Iran frees 2 Greek tankersAn oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by an Iranian bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Tehran.
Arrested man is US fugitive wanted on rape claim, court rules
Read full article: Arrested man is US fugitive wanted on rape claim, court rulesA judge in Scotland says a man who has spent almost a year fighting extradition to the United States is Nicholas Rossi, a fugitive alleged to have faked his own death to escape rape allegations.
University of Kentucky student dies in Seoul Halloween crush
Read full article: University of Kentucky student dies in Seoul Halloween crushThe University of Kentucky says one its students was among more than 150 people killed when a huge Halloween party crowd surged into a narrow alley in a nightlife district in Seoul, South Korea.
Crush kills at least 151 at Halloween festivities in Seoul
Read full article: Crush kills at least 151 at Halloween festivities in SeoulA mass of mostly young people among tens of thousands who gathered to celebrate Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 82 others in South Korea’s worst disaster in years.
Former cop attacks Thai day care center, kills at least 36
Read full article: Former cop attacks Thai day care center, kills at least 36A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a day care center in Thailand, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers and then shooting more people as he fled.
Famed US extreme skier gets traditional Nepalese funeral
Read full article: Famed US extreme skier gets traditional Nepalese funeralA famed extreme skier from the United States who was killed after falling from one of the world’s tallest mountains was on Sunday given a traditional funeral at a Sherpa cremation ground as Buddhist monks officiated over a ceremony attended by family, friends and government officials.
Fire engulfs 42-story building in China; no deaths reported
Read full article: Fire engulfs 42-story building in China; no deaths reportedA massive fire has sent flames and black smoke pouring from a 42-story skyscraper in central China belonging to the country’s largest telecoms operator, but no casualties were immediately reported.
Man trapped aloft in hydrogen balloon for 2 days found safe
Read full article: Man trapped aloft in hydrogen balloon for 2 days found safeChinese state media say a man has been found safe after he spent two days aloft in a hydrogen balloon, traveling about 320 kilometers (200 miles), after it became untethered and flew away while he was using it to harvest pine nuts from a tree.