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Newsroom Cigarette Blamed For Melbourne Apartment Fire a day ago
Some 360 private buildings have been deemed high-risk, he said. Spencer Street remains closed in both directions between Bourke Street and Little Bourke Street , impacting Route 86 trams through the CBD. Taskforce co-chair, former premier Ted Baillieu, says he watched the fire with the same feeling of horror as London's deadly Grenfell tower inferno. [Full Article...]
Man Dead After E-Cigarette Explodes In His Face
Most of the fires and explosions occurred while the device was being used or stored in a pocket and none had resulted in death, according to the report. I don't know how many more people will have to die". It's a waste of the things he could have accomplished. Now he'll never see that birthday. Brown is the second person in the USA known to have died due to an exploding e-cigarette. [Full Article...]
Third of Himalayan glaciers can no longer be saved
The report also warns that the Himalaya mountain range's ice cover will continue to be threatened even if countries enact the 2015 Paris climate change agreement and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. About 250 million people live in the mountains. The area, which includes the world's tallest mountain peaks, has glaciers that feed into river systems including the Indus, Ganges, Yangt... [Full Article...]
Google can now tell you if your logins have been compromised
After Password Checkup is installed in Chrome , it will automatically warn the user and suggest a password change whenever it detects that the username and password combination used on the current site is one of over 4 billion credentials Google knows to have been previously compromised in data breach events. [Full Article...]
Trump to meet North Korean leader in Vietnam
Mr Trump said the summit would happen on February 27 and 28 in Vietnam. The meeting would be Trump's second summit with Kim over the past year and the first time a U.S. The two men held a first meeting in Singapore in June, during which they agreed on a framework for future negotiations, including that North Korea would begin to work toward "complete denuclearisation". [Full Article...]
The Debate - Venezuela's next battleground: Maduro rejects humanitarian aid convoys
At one point, protesters interrupted the press conference by spreading out a banner reading "Hands Off Venezuela". The US-made weapons were discovered at the storage yard of Arturo Michelena International Airport in the Venezuelan city of Valencia, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday. [Full Article...]
Donald Trump names Vietnam for summit with Kim Jong
The two met for the first time at a summit held in Singapore previous year and parted with a commitment from Kim to "work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula". Trump touted his relationship with Kim during his speech on Tuesday, saying "our hostages have come home , nuclear testing has stopped and there has not been a missile launch in more than 15 months". [Full Article...]
Watchdog: 4 Trump Mar-a-Lago Trips in 2017 Cost Taxpayers $14M
About $60,000 of the tab went directly to Mar-a-Lago. The report, from the Government Accountability Office , a nonpartisan watchdog that works as an investigative arm of Congress, also found that the U.S. The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The trips to Mar-a-Lago included a trip south to watch the Super Bowl at the resort and another that included an officia... [Full Article...]