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Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Love to laugh? Check out the 2025 Flagship City Comedy Festival lineup
The Flagship City Comedy Festival begins Wednesday night, and the founder said it's back and bigger than ever. The festival includes 11 comedy shows over five days, where both local and national comedians will be taking the stage. Oliver's Beer Garden set to reopen Thursday Headliners include Dwight Simmons, Brandie Posey, Shane Torres and Ben Roy. The performances will be at different venues around town, starting with Werner Books & Coffee. Donations currently being collected for Sarah's Great Giveaway 'It's a collection of comics that are from all over the nation. So there's a great diversity of comics, but it also showcases some of our great small local businesses like Hazards Mini Golf, that's a late night show that we have this year, where it's 'Comic Against Humanity' style of showcase, and then my personal favorite is the Inked Comedy, where we get tattooed during our set,' said Anthony Morelli, founder of the Flagship City Comedy Festival. For more information on tickets, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Arab News
29-03-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Myanmar quake death toll nears 700 as international aid starts to arrive
BANGKOK: International aid began to arrive in Myanmar on Saturday as rescuers searched for survivors after a powerful earthquake devastated the Southeast Asian nation amid concerns the number killed would death toll in Myanmar jumped to 694 with 1,670 injured, the military government said, up sharply from the 144 dead that state media reported on Friday.'Infrastructure such as roads, bridges, and buildings were affected, leading to casualties and injuries among civilians. Search and rescue operations are currently being carried out in the affected areas,' the junta said in a statement issued on state junta leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, had warned on Friday of more deaths and injuries as he invited 'any country' to provide help and donations.A Chinese rescue team arrived on Saturday while Russia and the US offered aid in the disaster, which struck at lunchtime on Friday and damaged hundreds of buildings in neighboring United States Geological Service's predictive modelling estimated the death toll could exceed 10,000 people in Myanmar, and that losses could be greater than the value of the country's gross domestic Hough, a scientist in the USGS's Earthquake Hazards Program, told Reuters it was difficult to predict an earthquake's death toll, for various reasons including an earthquake strikes during the daytime, as it did in Myanmar, 'people are awake, they have their wits about them, they are better able to respond,' she for workers in tower rubbleMuch of the devastation was in Myanmar's second-largest city, Mandalay, close to the epicenter of the the Thai capital Bangkok, 1,000 km (620 miles) from the epicenter a rescue mission was stepped up on Saturday to find construction workers trapped under the rubble of a collapsed 33-story tower.A 37-strong team from China landed in Yangon, Myanmar's former capital, early on Saturday, carrying medicine and equipment to detect signs of life with them, the Chinese embassy said in a Facebook said it was sending 120 experienced rescuers as well as doctors and search dogs, state news agency TASS President Donald Trump said on Friday he had spoken with officials in Myanmar and that his administration would be providing some form of who worked in Myanmar on the local seismology network, said the country's mix of modern structures and traditional buildings would also play a role. Traditional buildings 'are going to be less potentially deadly than concrete,' she authorities said nine people had died and 101 were missing in Bangkok, mostly laborers trapped in the rubble of the collapsed tower.'We will do everything, we will not give up on saving lives, we will use all resources,' Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said at the site on Saturday, as excavators moved debris and drones scoured the rubble searching for Thai capital ground to a halt on Friday and Chadchart said hundreds of people had spent the night in city parks, but he said the situation was improving.
Yahoo
08-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Union members don hats in Leeds to celebrate International Women's Day
Women members of Unite the union donned "a variety of hats" in Leeds yesterday (Friday, March 7) to symbolise the many jobs that women do and in celebration of International Women's Day (Saturday, March 8). A spokesperson said: "In 2025 women still do more of the cooking, more of the cleaning, more of the childcare, more of the caring - on top of working in an incredible variety of jobs. "Despite the extra barriers, women have broken through into many jobs which used to be considered 'jobs for men' – Unite women are lorry drivers, joiners, factory workers, educators, administrators, designers, engineers, plumbers, hospitality workers, bus drivers – and so much more." The event took place at Unite's Leeds office, at 55 Call Lane in the city. Speakers at the event included Janet Newsham from Hazards, Rachel Ellis from Thompsons Solicitors, and guest speaker Randie Pearson, from United Steelworkers USA (International Women of Steel). Unite members were to bring a hat that either represents the job they do, or an extra task they do outside work. Hats could include a hard hat, a chef's hat, or a catering hairnet, for example.
