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1915 – World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins. 1918 – World War I: The end of the Battle of Megiddo, the climax of the British Army's Sinai and Palestine campaign under General Edmund Allenby. [9] 1926 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
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During World War I the ship participated in several sweeps into the North Sea as the covering force for the battlecruisers of the I Scouting Group. She saw limited duty in the Baltic Sea against the Russian Navy , including serving as part of a support force during the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915.
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Disasters The United Nations estimates on a preliminary basis that at least 2,000 tents were damaged or destroyed in the storm that struck Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince. (Al Jazeera) At least two people are killed and seventeen injured in a domestic gas explosion in the Schaerbeek area of Brussels, Belgium. (RIA Novosti) International relations Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations ...
Smart 1 will test a novel type of propulsion system on its mission and map lunar surface features. [9] Occupation of Iraq: Nine rebels in north Iraq are killed. Coalition troops kill nine guerrillas, the biggest toll for more than a month, in scattered action over northern Iraq in the past 24 hours.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Israel–Hezbollah conflict. September 2024 Lebanon strikes. Hezbollah launches a ballistic missile targeting the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, which is intercepted, while Israel conducts an additional 260 airstrikes across Lebanon, killing at least 72 people.
Palau is to create the world's first "shark sanctuary", banning all commercial shark fishing in its waters. (BBC) ( The Times ) (UPI) Paul G. Kirk, Jr. is sworn in as the interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts , succeeding the late Ted Kennedy .