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Friday 27 November 2020
The Australia coach was reluctant to suggest that the duo could also start together against Wales in week two.
There was no place for Fiji, Samoa or Tonga in the proposed tournament, with emerging TV markets Japan and USA preferred.
The eye of the storm was on the edge of the Mexican coast overnight.
It said there were no serious injuries; the airline didn’t specify what caused the accident.
The ambitious project hopes to clean up half of an infamous garbage patch within five years.
Cyclone Gita caused power outages after tearing through the island nation just south of the capital.
North Korea is under several sets of United Nations sanctions over its atomic and ballistic missile programmes.
The boy was found along with three fishermen in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Seismologists said that no major tsunami threat was expected.
The men were stranded for about 8 days.
Six flight attendants wearing surgical masks can be seen
More than 70 years later, remains have been recovered.
Earhart disappeared in 1937 while attempting to circumnavigate the world.
Rescuers have plucked 94 people from the sea so far.
The craft flew further and faster than any capsule built for humans since the Apollo moon program — 42 years ago.
The military has taken over security in the city of Valparaiso.
Fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga said he thought about suicide during his 13 months adrift in the Pacific.
Jose Ivan said he had set sail from Mexico on Christmas Eve, 2012.
Victims were covered by scorching clouds during the eruption.
The man washed up on Thursday and said he has been floating in the Pacific since September 2012.
No tsunami warning has been issued after a 6.5 magnitude temblor hit the country’s South Island.
Community leaders in the village in Papua New Guinea have protected the 18-year-old, saying the man deserved to die.
High-res footage has revealed “a scattering of man-made objects” in location consistent with 1937 photo which sparked search.
At least eight killed and tens of thousands displaced by Pacific storm.
New search will focus on area of underwater reef along the Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro.
It’s the first time the telecoms group has reached profits of this level. It operates across the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific.
Football travelled over 5,000km after a tsunami struck the north-eastern coast of Japan in March 2011.
The fishing vessel has spent the last year drifting all the way across the Pacific with nobody on board.
Earhart and Fred Noonan went missing over the Pacific in 1937, but the remains of their aircraft have never been found.
Homes, boats, cars, household appliances and other objects were washed into the ocean following the tsunami last year. This animated model shows how it is still moving across the Pacific.
Kiribatis president says some villages have already been relocated because of rising the sea level.
Last year saw a number of major natural disasters strike, including earthquakes in Japan, New Zealand and Turkey, volcanic eruptions in Chile and Iceland, and severe tropical storms in Asia.
At least 20 people were killed over the weekend in Mexico, according to police reports.
Chilean television personality Felipe Camiroaga was flying to the island to do a program on the reconstruction of Juan Fernandez island following an earthquake and tsunami last year.
A lobby group has examined 83 factories across Indonesia, Sri Lanka and The Philippines and found “widespread violations and abuses of workers’ rights”.
Denis O’Brien’s Honduras and El Salvador telecommunications businesses are to be acquired by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim – recently named as the world’s richest man by Forbes.
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In video: how tourists and the residents of Japan experienced today’s earthquake.
Indonesia and Guam have both lifted their tsunami warnings, after waves of just 10 centimetres hit the eastern Indonesian coast.
Tsunami warning centre explains that a tsunami is not always just one wall of water but a constantly-encroaching sheet of water that will swamp coastal regions.
THE GREYHOUND RACING industry has been put in the spotlight again this week, the Social Democrats put forward a motion proposing to end State funding of the sector.
Writing for TheJournal.ie this week, TD Holly Cairns explained that greyhound racing in Ireland will receive €19.2m in public funding next year – an increase of €2.4m on 2020.
Last year, an RTÉ investigation claimed that almost 6,000 greyhounds were killed for not racing fast enough in 2017.
But advocates for the sector have claimed it supports thousands of jobs and that annual Government funding represents an economic investment.
So, today we’re asking: Should the Government stop funding greyhound racing?
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