The Queens neighborhood is located on Long Island, in the eastern part of New York. It occupies the first place in terms of area and the second-in terms of population. More than 2.3 million people live here, 47.6% of them are migrants. The date of foundation is considered to be 1683. Here is Queens: New York’s Largest Borough you can find out more information about this district. History of the…
At least 70% of the Maltese population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, making it the first EU country to achieve collective immunity. This was announced on Monday by the Minister of Health Chris Ferne. According to Ferne, quoted by Reuters, one person is vaccinated in the country every 5 seconds — and at the moment 42% of the adult population has already received two doses…
According to a new report, passengers may have to report their weight before boarding a plane. Citing FAA guidance, the travel website View from the Wing reports that as Americans get heavier, airlines will probably have to review the amount of cargo carried by each plane for safety reasons. According to this report, when it comes to planes that carry more than 70 passengers, approximate data based on the CDC’s…
The death toll in the collapse of a condominium in the Miami area has increased to 46 — after the standing part of the high-rise building was demolished, and rescuers had access to new areas of rubble. Rescuers who spent two weeks sorting through the wreckage of an apartment building in Surfside said they were switching from rescue mode to search mode — making it clear that the probability of…
Police are searching for a man who attacked two women on a Manhattan street (New York). Authorities said one of the victims was a Russian tourist who was visiting a friend when they were both attacked. Investigators call the attack unprovoked. The video from the surveillance camera shows that the man approached the victims at about 21: 30 on June 26 on West 15th Street (West 15th) in Chelsea. Police…
The surviving part of the collapsed condominium in Surfside, Florida, was demolished with explosives on Sunday evening. The explosion occurred after 22: 00-11 days after the shocking collapse of most of the Champlain Towers residential building on June 24, which killed at least 24 people. At the same time, 121 people are still missing, according to official data from Miami-Dade County. According to AP, the mayor of the district, Daniella…
The seven-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter was among two dead found overnight in the ruins of a collapsed apartment building in Florida. The number of victims has increased to 20, while 128 people are still missing. «This tragedy follows on the heels of so many of us, because many of us know someone who was in the building or was affected by this tragedy,» Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said…
Search and rescue efforts at the site of a partial collapse of a condominium in Surfside, Florida, were suspended on Thursday — due to what officials described as structural problems with the remaining part of the building. According to the chief of the Miami-Dade fire department, Alan Kominsky, the work was stopped around 2 a.m. Kominsky said that, according to civil engineers who assessed the scene, the support columns and…
Authorities have announced that a Southern California couple whose baby sex announcement party allegedly triggered a deadly fire in El Dorado in 2020 has been charged with 30 crimes-including the manslaughter of a firefighter extinguishing a blaze. A smoke bomb detonated by a couple in Yucape, California, on September 5 during a party caused a fire that burned more than 20 thousand acres of land in two counties, San Bernardino…
According to the bill, which was passed by the Texas State Senate, public school teachers will no longer have to tell students about the Ku Klux Klan or that the concept of white supremacy is «morally wrong.» In the Republican-controlled state, there are two dozen educational programs that were once mandatory in public schools — such as teaching Martin Luther King’s «I Have a Dream» speech, the achievements of Cesar…
