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David Estévez Gamboa says he’s from the “old school,” having spent more than 40 years behind the wheel of a transport truck. But he apologizes when emotion overtakes him while discussing the killings of truck drivers during robberies and hijackings that plague Mexico’s highways. Between 30 and 50 transport trucks …

Front-line workers say Winnipeg is in the midst of a drug epidemic, driven by a surge in opioid overdoses that is killing users and overwhelming first responders who are dispatched to dozens of calls every day.  Dr. John Younes, Manitoba’s chief medical examiner, says he has “unequivocally” seen a surge …

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth clashed with Democratic lawmakers in Congress for a second day Thursday, rejecting senators’ accusations that the Iran war was launched without evidence of an imminent threat and waged with no coherent strategy. The three-hour hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee mostly traced the …

An Israeli drone strike killed one person in southern Lebanon on Friday, the first full day of a U.S.-brokered truce meant to end hostilities between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, paramedics in the area and the head of a local hospital told Reuters. The reports of the strike came minutes after …

The triage nurse who initially assessed Heather Winterstein on the day she died of sepsis in 2021 says she never spoke to the 24-year-old patient and didn’t take her vital signs after paramedics had, explaining to a coroner’s inquest that staff were overwhelmingly busy. Andrea Demery testified Thursday that her …

The physician who treated Heather Winterstein the day before she died in hospital from a severe reaction to bacterial infection said he may have erred in diagnosing her condition as being due to “social issues.” But the doctor also stressed that was a “working diagnosis,” not necessarily a definite or …

Melanie Chantelle González Barrios, 15, has two young children and says she dreams that some day, when they grow older, they’ll be able to leave Cuba and escape the daily fight for survival her family faces. González Barrios lives in a one-bedroom home in Havana’s Buena Vista neighbourhood with her …

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. Energy and trade experts are warning of a cascading impact on global supply chains that will …

For a second consecutive night, Lebanon braced for a new wave of Israeli air attacks. The pounding overnight Wednesday, particularly in Beirut’s southern suburbs, was the largest array of firepower the Middle Eastern country has seen in this 12-day-old war, which started when the United States and Israel attacked Iran …

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. Tens of thousands of women marched through Mexico City and across the country Sunday to mark …