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Behind a wall and across from Exit 7 of Mexico City’s famed Azteca Stadium, sits a water well with blue piping protruding from the ground that’s at the centre of a conflict threatening to disrupt preparations for the World Cup’s third visit to the country. The well was drilled by …
Read More »Robert Redford, famed actor and director, dead at 89
Actor, director and producer Robert Redford, who was both the quintessential handsome Hollywood leading man and an influential supporter of independent films through his Sundance Institute, has died. He was 89. His publicist Cindi Berger confirmed the death to CBC News on Tuesday, saying he passed away in his home in Sundance in the mountains …
Read More »Men who cut down Britain’s famed Sycamore Gap tree sentenced to more than 4 years in prison
Two British men who felled the beloved Sycamore Gap tree that had stood nearly 150 years were sentenced Tuesday to four years and three months in prison, minus time served. Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were convicted in May after forever altering the landscape of a beloved section of Hadrian’s Wall …
Read More »Oleg Gordievsky, famed Cold War spy and KGB defector, dead at 86
Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spied for the West during the height of the Cold War, has died at the age of 86. Gordievsky died on March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting from the Soviet Union in 1985. Police said on Saturday that they …
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