Tag: Collapse

Shocking new video shows Baltimore bridge collapse as divers race to find SIX missing members of the same construction crew who were working when ship struck – sending them and five cars plunging 185ft into 47F river

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Harrowing footage captured the moment Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapsed after being struck by a cargo ship, leaving five vehicles submerged in water and six construction workers missing.

Maryland authorities are using sonar detection devices to search for the crew members who fell into the 47F water as they were working to repair potholes on the 185-foot bridge when it collapsed.

Governor Wes Moore declared a state of emergency Tuesday morning following the catastrophic collision, which occurred at about 1.30am. The

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One year on from Silicon Valley Bank collapse

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― Silicon Valley Bank collapsed a year ago: what’s changed?

― Ministers gather for U.K. Global Fraud Summit.

― Labour assembles crack team to advise on National Wealth Fund.

Happy Monday! Welcome to another week of financial services news and views.

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Boy, 4, becomes second youngster in weeks to collapse and almost die after consuming an iced slushy drink

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A mother has revealed how she feared her son would die when he collapsed and fell unconscious after downing an iced slushy drink.

Beth Green, 24, from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, faced every parent’s worst nightmare when her four-year-old son Albie became unresponsive after school last year. 

The reception pupil had been bowling with a friend when the pair gulped a small strawberry-flavoured slushy.

Within half an hour Beth said Albie appeared ‘tired and agitated’ in the back of the car.

It

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We’ve Been Thinking About America’s Trust Collapse All Wrong

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Americans don’t trust one another, and they don’t trust the government. This mistrust is so pervasive that it can feel natural, but it isn’t. Profound distrust has risen within my lifetime; it is intensifying, and it threatens to make democracy impossible.

Many readers will say, “Of course I don’t trust the candidate who tried to steal the last election, or the party

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Israeli tanks enter Gaza City which is ‘on the brink of social collapse’, aid workers warn as IDF troops are pelted with rocks as they also carry out raids on Palestinian armed groups in West Bank

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Israeli tanks entered the edge of Gaza city today, while IDF troops were pelted with rocks as they carried out raids against armed Palestinian groups in the West Bank.

The signs that the Jewish state was stepping up its military operations in the region came as a UN official warned the Gaza Strip was on the bring of social collapse, with mobs looting warehouses for food and families forced to drink dirty water.

Fears for the more than 2.2 million

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We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse

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August 22, 2023

Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland?

Flames from the Caldor Fire crown in trees at Echo Lake, Calif., in August 2021.

(Carlos Avila Gonzalez / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

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In his 2005 bestseller Collapse: How Societies

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Was the Collapse of US-Russia Relations Inevitable?

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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has sunk US-Russia relations to the lowest levels since the darkest days of the Cold War. No easing of tensions is looming on the horizon. Quite the contrary: The two countries appear to be locked in a downward spiral—centered on Ukraine but affecting all aspects of their relations—that could suddenly bring them to the verge of a direct military confrontation, with all the risk of a nuclear cataclysm that entails.

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Alaska homes collapse into river after glacier breaks | US | News

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Officials in Alaska have been forced to issue an emergency statement after huge flooding because of a major release from Suicide Basin above the capital of Juneau.

Video posted on social media showed towering trees behind a home falling into the rushing river as the water ate away at the bank. Eventually, the home, teetering at the edge, also collapsed into the river.

River levels were falling Sunday but the city said the banks of the river remained highly unstable.

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Is the Collapse of a Critical Atlantic Current Really Imminent? – Mother Jones

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The result echoes previous studies finding early warning signals in the circulation, says Stefan Rahmstorf, who studies the AMOC current system at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. “As always in science, a single study provides limited evidence, but when multiple approaches lead to similar conclusions, this must be taken very seriously, especially when we’re talking

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Liverpool signing Colwill and Caicedo collapse would be Pochettino’s worst case summer | Football | Sport

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Chelsea have a lot of work to do this summer following a deeply disappointing 2022/2023 Premier League campaign which saw the Blues slump to 12th place in the table. New manager Mauricio Pochettino has been tasked with trimming down Chelsea’s bloated first-team squad and has been very active this window.

However, the west Londoners still need to complete a few more deals before it can be deemed a successful summer. So, here, Express Sport takes a look at the most

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