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Listen to this article Estimated 5 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. British Columbians with ties to Venezuela are reacting with a mix of cautious optimism and anger …
Read More »Who is Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s recently captured president?
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. On Saturday, the U.S. announced it launched a “large-scale strike” in Venezuela and captured the oil-rich …
Read More »Astronomers think they’ve captured a planet forming around a host star — something never seen before
Astronomers believe they have caught a planet in the act of forming, something that has never before been witnessed. Planets form out of the leftover gas and dust once a star has ignited, and it’s believed that the forming planet or planets create a disk around the host star. While astronomers have seen this …
Read More »How a group of orcas were captured — and some freed — in B.C. waters over 50 years ago
March 1, 1970. It was a blustery, cold morning off the southern tip of Vancouver Island when four men on a boating trip spotted something unusual in the waves. A white dorsal fin. A white orca. Seeing the creatures is extremely rare; in 2020, Stephanie Hayes, a marine biology PhD candidate with the …
Read More »How an accidental email captured what some call Pope Francis’s mixed legacy on women
As the Catholic Church mourns the death of Pope Francis and its all-male College of Cardinals prepares to elect his successor, some say an accidental email sent last month captured the contradictions at the core of Francis’s legacy on women. In January, Francis made his highest-ranking female appointment, naming Sister …
Read More »Ukraine says it captured 2 Chinese soldiers fighting for Russia in Donetsk region
The Ukrainian military has captured two Chinese men fighting with the Russian army in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Tuesday. Zelenskyy said a clash with Chinese soldiers occurred near the villages of Tarasivka and Bilohorivka in the Donetsk region, where six Chinese military personnel engaged Ukrainian …
Read More »OPP officer’s body cam captured him being shot near Hagersville, Ont., Crown tells murder trial
Footage from a body camera worn by Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Const. Greg Pierzchala will show the moment he was shot while responding to a vehicle in a ditch in December 2022 outside Hagersville, the Crown told the opening of the first-degree murder trial of the two accused. Crown prosecutor Fraser McKracken also …
Read More »Russia orders retreat from Kherson, its only captured Ukrainian capital since invading
Russia’s military announced on Wednesday that it’s withdrawing from Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson and nearby areas, in what would be another humiliating setback for Moscow’s forces in the eight-month-old war. Ukrainian authorities did not immediately confirm the move — and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suggested in recent days that …
Read More »Bears that attacked two Squamish women won’t be captured or killed
Conservation officers say they don’t plan to capture a pair of bears that attacked two women in Squamish, B.C.. saying the incidents appear defensive in nature. Conservation officers in Squamish, B.C., have temporarily closed part of a wildlife management area near the community’s downtown after two surprise bear attacks were reported …
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