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Mexican authorities have issued dozens of arrest warrants for police and soldiers they believe were involved in the still-unsolved disappearance of 43 college students six years ago. On 26 September 2014, students training to be teachers at a college in the southern state of Guerrero were allegedly kidnapped and turned over to a local gang. Four months later, an investigation […]
Read moreU.S. President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he was issuing a presidential permit for the A2A Cross-Border Rail project. The project — which would see a 2,570-kilometre rail track running from near Anchorage, Alaska, through Yukon and the Northwest Territories into northern Alberta — will cost about C$22 billion. Trump’s approval is just the first step in the regulatory […]
Read moreTop scientists are said to be considering making everyone over the age of 45 shield under new coronavirus plans. Papers from SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) suggested those older than that age were at greater risk from the killer bug and could be "segmented" from the rest of the population. The idea was eventually advised against because it was […]
Read moreFILE PHOTO: A French police stands near the Opera Bastille where a suspect in a stabbing attack near the former offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo has been arrested in Paris, France September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo FuentesPARIS (Reuters) – A suspected accomplice of a man believed to have attacked and wounded two people with a meat cleaver on Friday in […]
Read moreA shopkeeper was violently attacked by a customer shortly after allegedly asking him to put on a face mask, as shown in shocking CCTV. Detectives are hunting the violent thug responsible and are asking for help from the public to identify him. At about 1.45pm on Sunday, September 13, a man with a scarf pulled over his face entered the […]
Read moreThe Queen and the rest of the Royal Family have lost an estimated £35 million in their personal fortunes since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the palace accounts have revealed. On Friday, the Royal Family's 2019-20 financial report was released by royal treasurer Sir Michael Stevens, also known as the Keeper of the Privy Purse. While a majority of […]
Read moreThe rising number of coronavirus cases in Manitoba and other parts of the country could be due to what one psychologist describes as “COVID fatigue.” Dr. Michael Wohl, a former Winnipegger currently working as a psychology professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, told 680 CJOB that people are social animals, and physical distancing, after a prolonged period, goes against our […]
Read moreA leading virologist claims a second Covid wave could infect 3 million people in England if it matches the estimates from the pandemic's peak. Paul Kellam PhD, Vice-President of infectious diseases and vaccines at Kymab Ltd, told Daily Star Online that unfounded social media rumours coronavirus is "less deadly" than flu are nonsense and we should be prepared for a […]
Read moreJust four days into the new school year, Trevor Boutilier’s five-year-old son was sent home from his Ottawa kindergarten with a runny nose and slight cough, and told to stay away until he’d had a COVID-19 test and was symptom-free. The local testing center was overrun, so Boutilier drove his son miles out of the city to a small town […]
Read moreThe murder of a transgender prostitute in Russia found dumped in a river may have been solved after the serial number on the victim’s breast implants was traced, police have claimed. Tamara, 23, named Dzamshud Khatamzhonov at birth, was found limbless by a 17-year-old holidaymaker as he swam in a river in June. Forensic police said the human remains appeared […]
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