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Pakistan
Suicide Bombing in Islamabad
A suicide bombing outside of a district court in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, killed 12 people and injured at least 27, highlighting mounting tensions in the region. The Pakistani Taliban, known as TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan), said it carried out the blast and threatened more attacks. Hours earlier, a suicide car bomber and gunmen targeted an army-run cadet college in South Waziristan, a region bordering Afghanistan. Authorities say the TTP has grown bolder since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, and Islamabad accuses Afghan authorities of giving the group safe haven. Talks between the two governments have stalled. Leaders in Islamabad vowed to identify the bomber and bring all accomplices to justice.
This map depicts the location of the bombing in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Reuters
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India
Delhi Car Blast Near Red Fort
At least 13 people have been killed and 20 injured in a car blast that took place on Monday night in India’s capital, New Delhi. The blast occurred outside the 17th-century Red Fort, once the seat of Mughal emperors and now a major tourist destination. No cause for the explosion has been given, but police in the Indian capital territory have invoked an “anti-terror” law. A “slow-moving vehicle” had stopped at a red light at an intersection when it exploded, starting a large fire that spread to nearby cars and rickshaws. Security has been ramped up at key locations around Delhi, which has a population of nearly 33 million people, including the country’s busiest airport, several monuments, and train stations.
This map depicts the location of the car explosion near the Red Fort in India’s Delhi. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Reuters
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United States
Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Commemorations were held across the Great Lakes region yesterday as family members and colleagues from the Great Lakes shipping industry remembered the 29 men lost with the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years ago. The 729-foot (222 m) ship went down in a historic storm on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. The “Fitz” made last contact with another lake freighter, the Arthur M. Anderson, around 7:10pm that evening, but fell off radar shortly thereafter. In the years since, computer models have recreated the conditions, showing the true severity of the storm, with 86-mph (138 kmh) wind gusts and estimated 35-foot (10 m) waves that formed as it centered over western Lake Superior. About 40% of all the Great Lakes shipwrecks have occurred in November, with the “gales of November” featuring prominently in the song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by folk star Gordon Lightfoot.
This map depicts the wave heights that would have occured on Lake Superior during the final voyage fo the lake freighter S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald on November 9 &10, 1975. The ship was lost with all 29 crew members. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Which Canadian national park is home to ancient Canadian Rocky Mountains, dating 45 – 120 million years old, and the highest town in Canada?
A: Banff National Park
Established in 1885, Banff is the oldest National Park in Canada. Located west of Calgary in the province of Alberta, Banff stretches 2,564 square miles (6,641 sq km) and is 96 percent wilderness. In 1870, Canadian Pacific Railway workers stumbled upon a series of natural hot springs, and the government created a reserve to protect them, recognizing their tourist potential. The area was named Rocky Mountains Park of Canada but later renamed Banff National Park. Its exceptional beauty has earned it a UNESCO World Heritage Site designation. The park’s millions-of-years-old Rocky Mountains were carved out by glacial processes, with over 1,000 glaciers still growing and receding every year. The Town of Banff, with a population of about 8,000, covers only 2.5 sq miles (3.93 sq km) at an elevation of 4,537 ft (1,383 m), making it the highest town in Canada.
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Q: Sitting on the border of two countries and covering 1,040 square miles (2,700 sq km), which lake’s geologic features make it produce an excess of methane in its lower layers, making it incredibly dangerous?
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