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About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting 81 suspects and sparking shootouts that left at least 60 suspects and four police officers dead, officials said. The operation included officers in helicopters and armoured vehicles and targeted …
Read More »Prunella Scales, sharp-tongued and long-suffering wife on Fawlty Towers, dead at 93
Actor Prunella Scales, best known as acid-tongued Sybil Fawlty in the classic British comedy Fawlty Towers, has died, her children said Tuesday. She was 93 and had dementia. Scales’s sons, Samuel and Joseph West, said she died “peacefully at home in London” on Monday. “Although dementia forced her retirement from …
Read More »Queen Mother Sirikit, Thailand’s influential and glamorous royal, dead at 93
Thailand’s Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour and elegance to a postwar revival in the country’s monarchy and who, in later years, would occasionally wade into politics, has died aged 93, the Thai Royal Household bureau said on Saturday. Sirikit had been out of the public eye since she had …
Read More »Suspect in alleged child abduction, fatal Brampton shooting dead after ‘officer-involved shooting’: police
A suspect who allegedly shot and killed a woman in Brampton, Ont., Tuesday before abducting his one-year-old child is dead after an “officer-involved shooting,” Niagara police said Wednesday morning. Around 2:30 a.m., officers located the man, 38-year-old Anthony Deschepper, in a vehicle at a gas station near Thorold Stone and …
Read More »Dozens dead, missing, thousands of homes destroyed after rains sweep across Mexico
Miguel Angel Villegas Escobar says more than a dozen people have been killed in his region, which remains cut off from the rest of the Mexican state of Hidalgo, after torrential rains, overflowing rivers and mud washed out the area’s bridges and roads. Villegas Escobar, regional director of primary education …
Read More »Multiple people dead after blast levels Tennessee military explosives plant
An explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant left multiple people dead and missing on Friday, a county sheriff said, as first responders said secondary blasts forced rescuers to keep their distance from the burning site. The blast occurred at Accurate Energetic Systems, according to the Hickman County Sheriff’s Office. …
Read More »Organized crime figure dead, 2 others injured in shooting at Laval, Que., Starbucks
A man with ties to organized crime was killed and two others were seriously injured in a daylight shooting at a Starbucks in a busy strip mall in Laval, Que., which authorities said bore the hallmarks of a planned hit. Radio-Canada sources have confirmed the victim was Charalambos Theologou, also known …
Read More »Nearly 100 children hurt, several feared dead and dozens trapped after Indonesian school collapses
Rescuers ran oxygen and water to students trapped in the unstable concrete rubble of a collapsed school building in Indonesia, as they desperately worked to free survivors Tuesday morning more than 12 hours after the structure fell. Rescue workers, police and soldiers digging through the night pulled out eight weak and …
Read More »4 dead, 8 wounded in shooting and fire at Michigan church, police say
A gunman opened fire inside a Michigan church during a Sunday service before apparently setting the building ablaze, authorities said, killing at least four people and injuring eight others before police shot him. Hundreds of people were inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, about 80 kilometres north …
Read More »At least 12 dead in Vietnam from Typhoon Bualoi
Heavy rain and strong winds from Typhoon Bualoi flooded roads, knocked off roofs and caused at least 12 deaths in central Vietnam, before weakening to a tropical storm that moved into Laos on Monday, state media reported. The storm tore through communities, damaging houses, schools and power poles, sweeping away temporary …
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