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Vietnam reelects conservative Nguyễn Phú Trọng as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, a member of the Politburo, is expected to replace Nguyễn Tấn Dũng as prime minister. Dũng is not eligible for another term. | Vietnam's Communist Party Wednesday re-elected its 71-year-old chief for a second term, an expected outcome that sees the conservative pro-China ideologue cementing his hold on power.
The party's congress elected Nguyen Phu Trong (pronounced Noo-yen Foo Chong) to a 19-member Politburo, the all-powerful body that handle... | Government Job change - Election | January 2016 | ['(AP via ABC News)', '(Channel NewsAsia)'] |
At least 42 people are killed in a bus crash in Nepal. | Another 43 people were injured when the bus came off the road at Luham in Salyan district, some 400km (250 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu.
Many of the injured are in a critical condition, police said. They said the number of dead could rise.
The bus was carrying more than 100 people when it skidded off the mounta... | Road Crash | October 2006 | ['(BBC)'] |
At least 27 migrants die in a shipwreck in the Aegean Sea when a boat capsizes in the Turkish bay of Edremit, near the Greek island of Lesbos. | At least 27 migrants have died off the Turkish coast trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos, Turkish media say.
The victims, including 11 children, drowned when their boat capsized after setting off from Balikesir province.
About 400 people have died crossing into Europe in 2016, the International Organization for ... | Shipwreck | February 2016 | ['(ANSAmed)', '(Leadership)', '(news.com.au)', '(BBC)'] |
Colten Treu faces charges of vehicular homicide and drug related charges after he drove his car into a group of Girl Scouts collecting trash by the road, killing 3 and a mother along a Wisconsin highway Treu claimed his passenger was huffing Dust–Off and caused the accident by grabbing the wheel as he saw the scouts | Colten Treu, 21, and his roommate both told authorities there had been a fight for the wheel, but they differ in their accounts of what led to the intervention.
In the moments before Colten Treu's black truck plowed into a group of Girl Scouts along the side of the highway, killing four, there had been a dramatic fight... | Road Crash | November 2018 | ['(KSTP)', '(Oxygen)'] |
Hours after the announcement, Morales resigns from the presidency amid pressure from the military and the police in what he deemed a 'coup'. | Bolivian President Evo Morales has resigned after nearly 14 years in power, amid turmoil following his disputed re-election last month.
The head of the army had called on him to go after protests over his election win. Auditors found irregularities with the poll but Mr Morales said he had been the victim of a coup.
He... | Government Job change - Resignation_Dismissal | November 2019 | ['(BBC News)', '(The Guardian)'] |
In rare protests, dozens are arrested in Kazakhstan during Independence Day. Protestors demand political reform and the sidelining of the family of former President Nursultan Nazarbayev. | Police detained dozens of people in Kazakhstan’s two main cities on Monday at rare protests demanding political reform and the sidelining of the family of former President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Groups of up to 100 anti-government protesters marked Independence Day with simultaneous demonstrations in the capital, Nur-Su... | Protest_Online Condemnation | December 2019 | ['(Reuters)'] |
A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others. | A crush at New Year's Eve celebrations in Shanghai has killed 36 people and injured some 47 others, Chinese officials say.
The crush happened in Chenyi Square in Shanghai's historic Bund district overlooking the Huangpu river.
Thousands of people had gathered to see in 2015. Social media reports suggest the stampede wa... | Riot | December 2014 | ['(BBC)', '(China Daily)'] |
MP Margaret Ferrier is arrested after breaching COVID-19 restrictions. | Margaret Ferrier, the MP who travelled between Glasgow and London after testing positive for coronavirus, has been charged with culpable and reckless conduct.
Officers in Glasgow arrested Ms Ferrier, 60, last night, months after her case was referred to prosecutors. A report had been made in November to the procurator ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | January 2021 | ['(The Times)'] |
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas says he will propose legislation to annul homosexuality convictions, and create a “right to compensation.” A 19th–century law outlawed sexual relations between men. Homosexuality was decriminalized in 1969, but the law itself was not rescinded until 1994. | German men convicted on the basis of a 19th century law criminalizing homosexuality now have a chance at getting late justice in the wake of an expert study commissioned by the Anti-Discrimination Agency.
Their supposed crime was the same during the Nazi era as it was in the federal republic founded in 1949: They love... | Government Policy Changes | May 2016 | ['(AP via The Washington Post)', '(Deutsche Welle)'] |
At least 26 people are killed and several others are injured when a bus carrying tourists from Thailand overturns in Malaysia. | BANGKOK, Dec 20 - Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday confirmed that at least 23 Thai nationals were killed when their bus crashed on a Malaysian highway in the morning.
Thani Thongpakdi, deputy permanent-secretary of the foreign ministry's Department of Information, reported the Thai embassy in Kuala Lump... | Road Crash | December 2010 | ['(Bernama)', '(Thai News Agency)'] |
Fire and Rescue NSW firefighters gain access to previously cut-off towns and settlements by bushfires in New South Wales, taking advantage of cooler weather. The small town of Balmoral is reported as being destroyed with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian saying there's "not much left" of the town. | Bushfires have almost wiped out an entire small town south west of Sydney as officials sent to investigate the damage confirm there’s “not much left”.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said Rural Fire Service crews sent to Balmoral to assess the situation after fire ripped through the area on Saturday had reported the town wa... | Fire | December 2019 | ['(Daily Telegraph)', '(Reuters)'] |
Four people, including celebrity photographer FranoisMarie Banier, are arrested in a taxevasion investigation into L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt. | Police have opened three probes involving L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt following allegations of tax evasion and of illegal donations to the president's 2007 election campaign.
Those arrested on Thursday include society photographer Francois-Marie Banier, a friend of the heiress, 87.
The case has rocked Nicolas S... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | July 2010 | ['(BBC)'] |
A car crash in Austria leads to the death of Christian Kandlbauer, thought to be the first man to drive using a mind–controlled robotic arm. | A man thought to be the first to drive using a mind-controlled robotic arm has died in an Austrian hospital after a serious car crash.
It is not known whether his bionic arm had any role in causing the accident.
Christian Kandlbauer, 22, was found in the wreckage of his specially-adapted Subaru on Tuesday.
Late on Thur... | Famous Person - Death | October 2010 | ['(BBC)', '(Ap via The Guardian)', '(USA Today)'] |
Oakland Athletics outfielder Yoenis Céspedes defeats Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals to win the 2013 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby. | OK, so you probably weren't asking yourself anything remotely like that. We're talking, after all, about a two-time Home Run Derby champ, about the only man to win a Derby as a representative of each league, about the guy who won last year's Derby. So come to think of it, it's pretty clear what the Prince is doing in M... | Sports Competition | July 2013 | ['(ESPN)'] |
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs detains Ziyavudin Magomedov, his brother Magomed Magomedov, and the chief executive of the Summa Group on charges of embezzlement of public funds and criminal association. A Moscow court orders Ziyavudin Magomedov, one of the richest Russians, to remain in pre-trial custody unti... | MOSCOW, March 31. /TASS/. The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case against owners of Summa group on fraud and criminal association charges, official representative of the Ministry Irina Volk told TASS.
According to her, the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia ca... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Arrest | March 2018 | ['(TASS)', '(Reuters)'] |
Incumbent President Pierre Nkurunziza dies at the age of 55. Pascal Nyabenda, president of the National Assembly, assumes the presidential office ad interim. | Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza, aged 55, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest, the government says.
He was admitted to hospital on Saturday after feeling unwell, his condition improved but on Monday he had a cardiac arrest and efforts to revive him were unsuccessful, officials say.
After 15 years in power, ... | Famous Person - Death | June 2020 | ['(BBC)'] |
An earthquake strikes Sumatra sparking fears of a tsunami. | An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 has struck offshore near the Indonesian island of Sumatra, near Aceh province.
The quake struck 214km (133 miles) south of Aceh's capital of Banda Aceh, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. A local tsunami alert was issued and later lifted by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. The site ... | Earthquakes | May 2010 | ['(BBC)', '(Bangkok Post)', '[permanent dead link]', '(France24)', '(IAfrica.com)'] |
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa announces that Tamils will be given greater say in matters of governance, proposing power sharing agreements. | Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, seeking a second term in the January 26 presidential poll, on Tuesday said Tamils would be given greater say in matters of governance through devolution of powers to provinces and promised to create an upper House in the Parliament by proposing an amendment in the Constitution on... | Famous Person - Give a speech | January 2010 | ['(The Hindu)', '(AFP)'] |
The opposition Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan makes large gains in local elections against the Kuomintang. | Taipei, Dec. 6 (CNA) The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) received a major boost when it retained three of its magistrate seats and retook the significant Yilan County in Saturday's local elections.
Even though the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) won 12 out of the 17 mayor an... | Government Job change - Election | December 2009 | ['(Taiwan News)', '(Al Jazeera)', '(Daily Telegraph)'] |
Witnesses and hospital officials say that 22 Iraqis, among them children, women, and youths, are killed in a U.S. air strike in a residential neighborhood in Fallujah. U.S. officials say that they targeted an Abu Musab alZarqawi safe house. Iraqi locals dispute the American account. | They say women and children were among the dead, and that a second missile strike was aimed at rescuers trying to find victims of the first attack. US forces say they were targeting members of a network headed by an al-Qaeda leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
They have not suggested, however, that Zarqawi was caught in the ... | Armed Conflict | June 2004 | ['(Reuters)', '(CBC)', '(BBC)'] |
A poll shows that U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry gained limited support after the Democratic Convention. | A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows Kerry's gain is smaller than usual for a convention bounce, testament to the unusually polarized race, with many voters committing early to each candidate. Still, it comes at a crucial time for the Democratic candidate, countering a loss of momentum leading up to his convention... | Government Job change - Election | August 2004 | ['(ABC News)'] |
President of Uruguay Tabaré Vázquez resigns as the leader of the Socialist Party following a row over the vetoing of an abortion decriminalisation bill. | Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez has resigned as a member of the country's Socialist Party amid a row over his vetoing of an abortion bill.
The controversial bill would have decriminalised abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Mr Vazquez was said to be angry by criticism of his opposition to bill, which many i... | Government Job change - Resignation_Dismissal | December 2008 | ['(BBC)'] |
Chadian rebels take the town Biltine as they move toward the capital N'Djamena. | Rebels in Chad say they have taken the eastern town of Biltine - the third town they have captured in recent days.
They say they will march to N'Djamena, 750km (470 miles) away, to oust President Idriss Deby. There was no immediate reaction from Chad's capital.
Mr Deby accused the EU force in Chad (Eufor) of "turning a... | Armed Conflict | June 2008 | ['(BBC News)'] |
22-year-old Metropolitan Police Constable Ben Hannam admits to possession of an indecent image of a child, and a judge accordingly lifts reporting restrictions designed to allow a fair trial, revealing that Hannam became the first serving UK officer to be convicted of a terror offence after being found guilty at the Ol... | PC Ben Hannam, 22, becomes the first serving British police officer to be convicted of a terrorism offence
First published on Thu 1 Apr 2021 13.20 BST
A man has become the first serving British police officer to be convicted of a terrorism offence after he was found guilty of membership of a banned neo-Nazi group.
Ben ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | April 2021 | ['(The Guardian)'] |
American comedian and Muscular Dystrophy Association chairman Jerry Lewis dies in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the age of 91. | Jerry Lewis, the brilliant, sometimes divisive giant of comedy, died at his Las Vegas home Sunday morning at age 91. The news was first reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal and then confirmed by Lewis’s agent. Tributes came in from all corners of the showbiz world, including those who worked alongside Lewis and who... | Famous Person - Death | August 2017 | ['(Yahoo!)'] |
At least three people have been killed in bomb blasts that hit two buses in the village of Bikfaya near Beirut, Lebanon. | The casualties were travelling on two buses near Bikfaya, a mainly Christian town in the hills north of Beirut.
Initial reports said 12 people had died. Investigators sealed off the area to collect evidence from the wrecks.
The bombings come at a time of acute political tension in Lebanon, and a day before the second a... | Riot | February 2007 | ['(BBC)', '(ITV)'] |
Archeologists digging under the Roman Forum, Rome, Italy, discover a tomb estimated at 3000 years old, predating the creation of the Forum by several centuries. | State TV Thursday night showed an excavation team removing vases from the tomb, which resembled a deep well.
Archaeologists were excavating under the level of the ancient forum, a popular tourist site, when they dug up the tomb, which they suspect is part of an entire necropolis, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
... | New archeological discoveries | January 2006 | ['(USA Today)'] |
Six Italian scientists and an ex–government official are convicted of multiple manslaughter and sentenced to six years in prison over the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake after prosecutors accuse them of being "falsely reassuring" before the event. | Six scientists and government official given six years in jail for underestimating risks of L’Aquila earthquake in 2009.
Six Italian scientists and a government official have been found guilty of multiple manslaughter for underestimating the risks of a deadly earthquake in the town of L’Aquila in 2009 that left 309 peo... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | October 2012 | ['(BBC)', '(The Guardian)', '(Al Jazeera)'] |
In Seattle, Washington, a Seattle Fire Department crew, responding to reports of a natural gas leak in the Greenwood neighborhood, are caught in an explosion that injures nine firefighters. The explosion blew out windows in businesses and storefronts in the surrounding blocks, destroying three businesses and heavily da... | Nine firefighters were injured early Wednesday when a massive explosion tore through a quiet Seattle neighborhood, destroying buildings and littering the area with debris, officials said.
A battalion chief and eight firefighters from the Seattle Fire Department were hurt in the incident, which occurred after fire crews... | Gas explosion | March 2016 | ['(The Washington Post)', '(KING–TV)', '(Seattle Fire Department)'] |
U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke is hospitalised in a critically ill state in Washington, D.C., after gasping at a meeting with Hillary Clinton. | Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been taken critically ill, the US state department says.
Mr Holbrooke, 69, was admitted to hospital on Friday and has undergone surgery to repair a tear in his aorta.
His family have joined him at his hospital bedside in Washington DC.
Mr Holbrooke is bes... | Famous Person - Sick | December 2010 | ['(BBC)', '(The Hindu)'] |
Iraqi security forces find the bodies of 53 men shot recently in Hamza south of Baghdad. | Iraqi security forces have found the bullet-riddled bodies of 53 men in a mainly Shia area south of Baghdad. The men, who were bound, blindfolded and had wounds to the head or chest, were found in a field outside Hamza al-Gharbi, a town in Babil province.
It was not immediately clear who the victims were or why they we... | Armed Conflict | July 2014 | ['(BBC)'] |
Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change files papers with the Constitutional Court in Harare arguing that the recent elections be annulled because of widespread allegations of illegalities and intimidation of voters by Robert Mugabe's ZANU–PF party. | Harare - Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) challenged President Robert Mugabe's landslide re-election in the country's top court on Friday, calling for a re-run of the 31 July vote the MDC says was rigged.
Lawyers for the MDC, which is led by Morgan Tsvangirai, filed papers with the Constitutional Cou... | Government Job change - Election | August 2013 | ['(Reuters via News24)'] |
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon schedules a meeting Wednesday with European Parliament President Martin Schulz about remaining in the EU, and intends to discuss the Scottish issue with the European Commission. | - Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she will meet European Parliament leaders in Brussels on Wednesday to seek a way for Scotland to remain in the European Union.
Scotland voted decisively to stay in the EU in last week’s referendum, putting it at odds with the United Kingdom as a whole, which voted in fav... | Diplomatic Talks _ Diplomatic_Negotiation_ Summit Meeting | June 2016 | ['(Time)', '(Reuters)'] |
Following a 2-2 draw between Chelsea F.C. and Tottenham Hotspur F.C. at Stamford Bridge, Leicester City F.C. are confirmed as champions of the Premier League for the first time in their history. Leicester City were 5000-1 outsiders at the beginning of the season. , | Last updated on 2 May 20162 May 2016.From the section Leicestercomments1136
Leicester City have won the Premier League title in one of the greatest sporting stories of all time.
Tottenham's 2-2 draw at Chelsea on Monday confirmed a stunning achievement for Claudio Ranieri's side.
Leicester started the campaign as 5,000... | Sports Competition | May 2016 | ['(Sky Sports)', '(BBC)'] |
Partially recognized Republic of Abkhazia holds the first round of the presidential election. Incumbent President Raul Khajimba and oppositor Alkhas Kvitsinia heads to second round on 8th September. | A hotly contested election campaign in Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region failed to produce a winner on August 25. Based on an early vote count, incumbent Raul Khajimba and opposition candidate Alkhas Kvitsinia will compete in a runoff on September 8. Both are avid supporters of national independence for the de facto ... | Government Job change - Election | August 2019 | ['(Eurasianet)'] |
Authorities in Lebanon arrest Islamist preacher Omar Bakri Muhammed, days after a court sentenced him and 21 others to life imprisonment for carrying out "terrorist acts". | BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A radical Muslim cleric who once cheered the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States has been arrested in Lebanon, security officials confirm.
Omar Bakri Mohammad was taken into custody at his home in northern Lebanon this weekend after being sentenced to life in prison Thursday ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | November 2010 | ['(UPI)', '(Lebanese National News Agency)', '(Reuters)'] |
A fire at a 13-story apartment complex in Bohumín, Czech Republic, kills eleven people and injures ten others. Rescue workers say all of those who died resided on the 11th and 12th floors of the building, with five of them jumping from the windows "in a panic". | Officials say at least 11 people have been killed and 10 others injured in an apartment building fire in the northeastern Czech Republic
PRAGUE -- At least 11 people have been killed and 10 others injured in an apartment building fire in the northeastern Czech Republic, officials said Saturday, with some suggesting tha... | Fire | August 2020 | ['(ABC News)'] |
A small plane and a tour helicopter collide over the Hudson River in the United States. | NEW YORK (CNN) -- Five Italian tourists visiting New York from Bologna are among the nine victims believed killed Saturday in a midair collision of a sightseeing helicopter and a single-engine plane over the Hudson River, a law enforcement source said.
First responders gather on a pier after a plane and helicopter c... | Air crash | August 2009 | ['(CNN)'] |
Dubai receives a US$10 billion bailout from Abu Dhabi to help fund troubled Dubai World. | Abu Dhabi has stepped up to bail out neighboring Dubai with a surprise $10 billion aid package for the debt-laden Dubai World. The move has pushed stock markets up, but Dubai says creditors still need to approve a standstill on outstanding debt.
Dubai says $4.1 billion of the money received from Abu Dhabi is allocated ... | Financial Aid | December 2009 | ['(Gulf News)', '(Al Jazeera)', '(CCTV)'] |
Security is increased in Bangkok, Thailand, ahead of anti–government protesters by the "red shirts" over the coming days. | Demonstrators have been marching ahead of Sunday's rally
Thailand has mobilised about 40,000 security personnel ahead of rallies by "red shirt" opposition protesters over the coming days.
The demonstrators plan to meet around the country before converging on the capital, Bangkok, by Sunday. They are mainly supporters ... | Protest_Online Condemnation | March 2010 | ['(Thai News Agency)', '(Al Jazeera)', '(BBC)'] |
French commuters face chaos after a public transport strike over proposed changes to pensions of transit workers continue. | PARIS (Reuters) - Striking workers shut down most of France's rail network on Thursday and further disruption was expected in a protest over pensions, posing the biggest test yet of President Nicolas Sarkozy's ability to push through reforms.
Unions called the 24-hour strike in an attempt to force concessions from th... | Strike | October 2007 | ['(Reuters)'] |
Writer and radical independentist Quim Torra faces his first investiture debate after being nominated yesterday for President of the Generalitat of Catalonia. In his speech, he reaffirms to continue with the republican project, to undertake a constituent process and to be under Carles Puigdemont's directions. (El País) | The deposed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has anointed a new candidate as his successor, raising hopes that the region could have a government as early as next week after five months of legal and political impasse.
Quim Torra, a close ally and former leader of the pro-independence grassroots group Òmnium Cultural... | Famous Person - Give a speech | May 2018 | ['(The Guardian)'] |
After acquitting five Muslim men of murder, Thai judge Kanakorn Pianchana gives a speech complaining of corrupt pressure upon the judiciary, including in this case, to convict without sufficient evidence. He then shoots himself in the chest in court in Yala, but survives. Criticism from judges of the Thai legal system ... | A Thai judge shot himself in a courtroom after delivering a rare speech railing against the country's justice system. Kanakorn Pianchana acquitted five Muslim men of murder on Friday before calling for a fairer judiciary. He then recited a legal oath, pulled out a pistol and shot himself in the chest.
But the judge su... | Famous Person - Give a speech | October 2019 | ['(BBC)'] |
Continental Airlines and five men go on trial for their alleged role in the crash of Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde flight, that killed 113 people in 2000. | PONTOISE, France, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Continental Airlines and five men went on trial on Tuesday for their alleged role in the crash of an Air France Concorde that killed 113 people in 2000 and brought an end to an era of luxury supersonic travel.
The Concorde, carrying mostly German tourists bound for a deluxe Caribbean... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | February 2010 | ['(Reuters)'] |
Taxpayer March on Washington takes place in Washington, D. C. According to various estimates ranging from 60,000 to more than 1 million people march from Freedom Plaza to the United States Capitol. The event coincided with other similar protests organized in various cities across the nation.The protesters rallied agai... |
Tens of thousands of people have marched from the White House to Capitol Hill in Washington to protest against Barack Obama's healthcare reforms.
The demonstrations came as the US president sought to boost support for his plans during a Minneapolis rally. Addressing a crowd of 15,000, Mr Obama said he refused to accep... | Protest_Online Condemnation | September 2010 | ['(also known as the 9/12 Tea Party)', '(BBC)', '(Los Angeles Times)'] |
After declaring himself President of the Central African Republic, Seleka chief Michel Djotodia says that he has suspended the constitution of the country and dissolved its parliament. | The leader of rebels who have seized the capital of the Central African Republic says he is suspending the constitution and dissolving parliament.
Michel Djotodia said there would be a transition period until "credible and transparent" elections, during which he would "legislate by decree".
He added he would uphold a p... | Famous Person - Give a speech | March 2013 | ['(BBC)'] |
A Paramount Airlines helicopter crashes in Sierra Leone, killing 22 people, with reports of at least one survivor. | The passengers were returning from watching Togo beat Sierra Leone 1-0 in an African Nations Cup qualifier. One of the two Ukrainian pilots survived when the helicopter burst into flames as it came into land.
Helicopters and ferries are the only way to reach the airport, which is located across a bay from Freetown.
The... | Air crash | June 2007 | ['(BBC)', '(Reuters AlertNet)'] |
American serial killer Bobby Joe Long who murdered 10 women in the Tampa Bay Area during an eight month period in 1984 is executed by lethal injection. | A serial killer who terrorized Florida with a murderous spree that claimed 10 women in 1984 was put to death Thursday, his execution witnessed by a woman who survived one of his attacks and aided in his capture. Bobby Joe Long, 65, was pronounced dead at 6:55 p.m. Thursday following a lethal injection at Florid... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | May 2019 | ['(CBS News)'] |
In tennis, German Angelique Kerber defeats Czech Karolína Plíšková in three sets to win the 2016 US Open women's singles title. | Last updated on 10 September 201610 September 2016.From the section Tennis
Germany's Angelique Kerber backed up her status as the new world number one with a thrilling win over Czech Karolina Pliskova in the US Open final.
Kerber, 28, won 6-3 4-6 6-4 in New York to add the US Open to her victory at the Australian Open ... | Sports Competition | September 2016 | ['(AP)', '(BBC)', '(US Open)'] |
Kiribati postpones its parliamentary elections for a week. | The president of Kiribati, Tantei Maamau, at the 2019 Pacific Islands Forum summit in Tuvalu.
This comes as emergency measures in response to the covid-19 pandemic have disrupted public services, despite no confirmed cases of the virus in the country.
Voters will go to the first of two rounds of polling on Tuesday, wi... | Government Job change - Election | April 2020 | ['(RNZ)'] |
World War II Royal Australian Navy warship HMAS Sydney is discovered off the coast of Western Australia after being missing for 65 years with the loss of all 600+ crew. | The group searching for HMAS Sydney has found the wreckage of the World War II Australian warship off the coast of Western Australia, the ABC has confirmed.
The breakthrough by the Finding Sydney Foundation comes less than 24 hours after it announced it had located the wreckage of the German raider Kormoran, which also... | New archeological discoveries | March 2008 | ['(ABC News Australia)'] |
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Dataset Summary
DocEE dataset is an English-language dataset containing more than 27k news and Wikipedia articles. Dataset is primarily annotated and collected for large-scale document-level event extraction.
Data Fields
title: TODOtext: TODOevent_type: TODOdate: TODOmetadata: TODO
Note: this repo contains only event detection portion of the dataset.
Data Splits
The dataset has 2 splits: train and test. Train split contains 21949 documents while test split contains 5536 documents. In total, dataset contains 27485 documents classified into 59 event types.
Differences from the original split(s)
Originally, the dataset is split into three splits: train, validation and test. For the purposes of this repository, original splits were joined back together and divided into train and test splits while making sure that splits were stratified across document sources (news and wiki) and event types.
Originally, the title column additionally contained information from date and metadata columns. They are now separated into three columns: date, metadata and title.
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