https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4 Look up a current event that is NOT a US centric. Post a title about it and a summary of what you read. When you finish, comment on someone else's post with a comment or question. en-us 2016-11-29 16:10:48 UTC 2026-03-08 00:31:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140577887 Outside a stadium in Brazil, fans were outside waiting for their favorite soccer team to come, but then then found out that there was a deadly plane crash 75 dead and only six survive and shortly after another person died. After hours this was a difficult time for many of their families and friends. The plane took off from Bolivia and was flying over the town of La Union at around 10 p.m. when the crew declared an emergency, according to a statement from the José María Córdova International Airport in Rionegro, Colombia. The plane crashed moments later in a mountain area in the Antioquia municipality, about 22 miles from the airport, which serves the city of Medellin. Now authorities are investigating what caused the crash, searching the remote site for victims, survivors and evidence.

]]> 2016-11-29 17:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140577887 gchase221_1 https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140578909 The Dead Sea, located in between Israel, Jordan, and West Bank, is shrinking at an alarming rate. It is one of the saltiest bodies of water with 34% salinty]]> 2016-11-29 17:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140578909 https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140579165 9 people from President Duterte's security team were injured when a bomb had unexpectedly hit their convoy in Marawi, in the southern island of Mindanao. The security were preparing for the president's visit to Marawi. The suspect is the Maute group. This group has previously bombed the area near Duterte's hometown, killing 14 people. a bomb made of the same design was also found near the US embassy in Manila.]]> 2016-11-29 17:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140579165 zkim22 https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140580366 Although her presidential term has not ended, the South Korean president Park Geun-Hye is willing to step down. This was announced today (November 29, 2016). South Koreans made an effort to impeach Ms. Park, who is now identified as a criminal suspect. This is the first time a president has been identified as a criminal. A long time friend and secret advisor to the president named Choi Soon-sil has been taking advantage of her friend's power and money. Soon-Sil has taken tens of millions of dollars from South Korean businesses. Ms. Park has also given confidential documents to Ms. Choi. Ms. Park's term expires in February of 2018. She will be the first to resign in South Korea since 1960.

]]> 2016-11-29 17:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140580366 https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140580608 Outlaws in the prison of Brazil may be in prisoned but are still helping out their community. These convicts are working to help charities gain food by planting crops and veggies in a field. Once the food has been grown they will send in to charities in the South West. Though this acts as a punishment for the inmates, some of them think of it as therapy, calming, and in some ways freedom. Prisoners work in the fields from 8am-5p tending to the greens. ]]> 2016-11-29 17:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140580608 skim224_1 https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140581459 A woman from Italy turned 117 today in her 2 room apartment. She was interviewed as the last person that was born in the 19th century. A little bit about her life is that her fiance was killed in World War I so she was forced to marry a man she didn't love when he threatened to kill her. In 1938 she decided to leave her husband when their only child passed away. Now she is unable to get out of bed, deaf and does not have great eye site, she cannot see the tv. All that she is able to do now is sleep and eat. She's so old that there is not enough candles for her to be able to blow them all out, so they used Roman Numerals. All she eats every day is 2 eggs and COOKIES

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/29/worlds-oldest-person-last-living-human-born-in-1800s-prepares-to-turn-117 ]]> 2016-11-29 17:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140581459 qgordon221_1 https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140581624 A large supercluster of galaxies was just found. This supercluster is called the Vela supercluster. The Vela supercluster is over 380 million light years. The Vela supercluster was hidden by the milky way, and has gone unnoticed for many years. Astronomers are now wondering if Vela may be responsible for helping earth move.]]> 2016-11-29 17:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140581624 https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140581930 The Italian navy found photographs that showed a boat turned on its side plunging all its passengers into the sea, seven died and hundreds were injured. Last month a motorless boat was being towed using a rope by a fishing boat. The captain of this boat decided to cut this rope leaving 550 people dead or missing. The number of people drowning in the mediterranean sea keeps increasing. This is because boat journeys have become easier so more people are doing it. 2,500 people have died in the Mediterranean sea this year.]]> 2016-11-29 17:21:04 UTC https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140581930 https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140582534 On October 21 Wonder Women became an honorary member of the UN. Even though some are happy about the movement others are not to happy to have "a fictitious comic book character wearing basically what looks like[..] a bunny outfit is really the right message we need to send to girls or even boys for that matter." ]]> 2016-11-29 17:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140582534 bfrierson221_1 https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140583212 A syrian doctor was rescued from a torture prison were he was being held. After being released as one of the few survivors he describes how the victims will subject to brutal rape, torture, food depravation, and suffocation. 3 of the victims died from seizures of dehydration, 7 were subject to hanging, boiling in hot water, being burnt with cigarets and being bent and contorted in to inhuman positions straining there muscles and bones to break. The air quality in the cells is so bad that when an air vent in a cell broke it killed 25 people. Many died to sickness or hunger. when they would ask for medical supplies, food, or water for a dying man the guard would be tell them "Knock again when he's dead." They were kept in these brutal living conditions for weeks, sometimes even months, to keep them from joining the revolution currently taking place against the syrian government and this was just one cell. Hundreds of others had previously been exposed to the same conditions before the prison was shut down by a neighboring government and destroyed by the troops rebelling against the syrian government. Very few survived in these conditions. To put that into perspective 35 died in one cell after brutal torture. The prison had at least 10 cells. To put that even more into perspective that is 350 people.]]> 2016-11-29 17:23:39 UTC https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140583212 https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140583297 Samir Lakhani,  a Pittsburg University college student recycled  hotel soaps and created new ones for Cambodians without soap. Many Cambodian families use ash or dish soap to clean themselves. Samir Lakhani idea is now keeping many families clean and healthy. ]]> 2016-11-29 17:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140583297 https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140583308 In March, scientists took a reading of the health of the Great Barrier Reef and found the greatest death rate of coral in recorded history. The northern corals were the most affected because of the heat, with as much as 56% of the corals bleached, but the southern corals were not affected as much, with only circa 1% bleached.]]> 2016-11-29 17:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140583308 https://padlet.com/motero1/currentevent7_4/wish/140584959 Potentially, there might be a planet like earth 150 light-years away. K2-3d is very similar to earth, comparing to it’s size (1.5 times the earth) and its temperature. K2-3d is a cooler planet than earth, so it might be able to host water. Because researchers made that hypothesis, they classified it as a habitable zone, a place that might be able to hold life similar to earth.

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