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Australia announces that it will reopen its international borders to fully vaccinated tourists on February 21, after a closure of almost two years in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Western Australia is expected to continue to close its borders to tourists.
2022-02-7

Pedro Parente, the head of Brazil Petrobras, resigns among protests related to diesel fuel prices.
2018-06-1

The United States Environmental Protection Agency, on behalf of the Trump administration, announces that it will roll back clean energy regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, imposed under the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.
2017-10-10

A fragment of the world's oldest ground-edge axe dated at between 45,000 and 49,000 years old is found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
2016-05-11

Authorities confirm that bushfires have killed four people, including three German backpackers, in southern Western Australia near the town of Esperance.
2015-11-18

Low-lying parts of the Western Australian town of Port Hedland are evacuated with Severe Tropical Cyclone Rusty expected to reach the coast tomorrow.
2013-02-26

Tropical Cyclone Lua heads towards Western Australia's Pilbara region.
2012-03-14

A mini-tornado hits the suburb of Canning Vale in Perth, Western Australia.
2011-05-20

Tropical Cyclone Carlos wreaks damage in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, with reports of four tornadoes striking the mining town of Karratha.
2011-02-22

An oil spill stretching at least two miles long occurs in the Arabian Sea offshore Mumbai, India, after a vessel from Panama collides with another vessel from St. Kitts. The Panamanian ship was carrying 2,662 tons of oil, 283 tons of diesel and 88,040 liters of lube oil when it became grounded and started to leak.
2010-08-7