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Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Four migrants working as fruit pickers in slave-like conditions in southern Italy were burned to death …
Read More »Health Canada expands recall on Oster toaster ovens that have burned some users
Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Health Canada is expanding a recall for a number of Oster toaster oven models due to a malfunction with the product’s glass French doors that can cause …
Read More »The night Jasper burned: Radio logs capture minute by minute of town catching fire
It’s the evening of July 24 last year. A wall of flames and smoke is encroaching on the mountain town of Jasper, Alta. At 6 p.m., scribbled handwritten notes begin documenting a series of events in Jasper National Park that would dramatically change the town. “Deploy engine from fire hall to …
Read More »‘Ahmad burned in front of the whole world,’ says wife of Gaza journalist killed after Israeli strike
WARNING: This story contains details of a man burning alive. Nidaa Mansour was on her phone when she read a news alert that an Israeli airstrike had hit a tent used by local media in southern Gaza, causing flames to erupt in the tent. She frantically called her husband, Ahmad Mansour, a journalist …
Read More »Parents of teen burned at Saskatoon school question how police, school officials handled multiple warnings
The parents of two 15-year-old girls at Evan Hardy Collegiate in Saskatoon say they went to police and the school multiple times between June and August 2024 with concerns about escalating online threats from the student now accused of setting one of the girls on fire in a school hallway. …
Read More »Nearly 2,000 L.A. structures burned by out-of-control wildfires
Firefighters battled early Thursday to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes. The latest flames broke out Wednesday evening in the Hollywood Hills, striking closer to the heart of the …
Read More »Ticketmaster to be burned in effigy over Oasis pricing
17 hours ago News Duration 1:19 Ticketmaster will be burned to the ground, in a sense, amid outrage over its ‘dynamic pricing’ hikes to tickets for the upcoming Oasis reunion tour. England’s Edenbridge Bonfire Society has set its sights on the world’s largest ticket seller as the effigy to be …
Read More »‘Burned human remains’: Body of missing Ontario real estate agent identified
York Regional Police say the burned human remains that were found in Parry Sound have been identified as those from a missing Ontario real estate agent. A Markham, Ont., woman named Yuk-Ying Anita Mui, 56, was reported missing by her family on Aug. 9 after they had not heard from …
Read More »Vacant, burned houses in Winnipeg ‘a menace’: community members, advocates – Winnipeg
Winnipeg community members in the city’s north end are raising concerns over four homes that have been attracting, what they identify as illegal activity. Advocates and residents want to see change, but there are some barriers. The houses are in the 200 block of Powers Street. Three are on the …
Read More »Mother demands change after child burned by ‘scalding hot’ tea at Ontario McDonald’s
A family in Ontario is calling for national regulations around temperatures for hot beverages after they say their daughter suffered burns from a spilled hot tea at a McDonald’s restaurant in Cobourg, Ont. Samantha Wynne says on June 8 after being served a meal and walking to her table, an …
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