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Armed conflicts and attacks. Syrian civil war. Fall of the Assad regime. Syrian mass graves. A recently created mass grave containing the bodies of 17 executed Syrian Army soldiers is discovered in the Syrian Desert near Deir ez-Zor.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
According to his employer, on the morning of 24 December 2022, having spent the night at a nearby truck stop, the 32 year-old driver took a wrong turn [7] [8] and tried to return to his route; the route he used took him under a railway bridge spanning Hospital Street near its intersection with Railway Street, about 100 metres (330 ft) from the ...
Google Trikes are also being used for the first time to map popular tourist destinations, such as the scenic Chapman's Peak Drive and Table Mountain in Cape Town, Soccer City in Johannesburg, and the new Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban. Images of South Africa were made available on Google Street View on June 8, 2010. On December 8, 2010, more ...
On 8 August 2022, Google Search, Maps, Drive, and YouTube went down, returning HTTP 500 and HTTP 502 errors. [27] [28] Even Google’s main home page was taking longer than usual to load. After their services went back online, Google apologised and stated that a software update issue was to blame. [29] [30] The #GoogleDown hashtag became ...
The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born : The first day of Las Posadas (Mexico, Latin America) The first day of the Simbang Gabi novena of masses (Philippines)
Johannesburg is the economic and financial hub of South Africa, producing 16% of South Africa's gross domestic product, and accounts for 40% of Gauteng's economic activity. [ citation needed ] In a 2008 survey conducted by Mastercard , Johannesburg ranked 47 out of 50 top cities in the world as a worldwide centre of commerce (the only city in ...
The First Boer War (Afrikaans: Eerste Vryheidsoorlog, lit. ' First Freedom War '), was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881 between the British Empire and Boers of the Transvaal (as the South African Republic was known while under British administration). [2]