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Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria has escaped and is safe, the school’s principal told The Associated Press on …
Read More »Brazil’s climate credentials tested by search for oil off Amazon coast
At the river dock in Oiapoque, a frontier city near Brazil’s northern coast, Cleidiney Ribeiro steers his river boat into the water. “Progress is coming to Oiapoque,” he says with optimism, as he motors out an hour and a half to where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean. Cleidiney Ribeiro …
Read More »Cadaver dogs’ search for Lilly and Jack Sullivan didn’t find human remains
Nova Scotia RCMP say cadaver dogs did not locate human remains in the search for missing children Lilly and Jack Sullivan. In a news release Wednesday, the Mounties said two dog teams searched a total of 40 kilometres in the Lansdowne Station area in late September. The sparsely populated community …
Read More »Indonesia ends search for school building collapse survivors, with more than 60 killed
Indonesian rescuers wrapped up the search on Tuesday for victims trapped under the rubble of a collapsed Islamic boarding school in the province of East Java after retrieving more than 60 bodies, disaster authorities said. Grief and confusion gripped the small town of Sidoarjo last week after foundational failures caused the …
Read More »RCMP to give update on search for missing Alberta boy
RCMP are set to hold a media briefing on Wednesday regarding the search for a six-year-old boy who went missing more than one week ago in southern Alberta. Darius Macdougall was reported missing Sept. 21 after he didn’t return from a walk with six young relatives in the Crowsnest Pass area, where the family …
Read More »Search teams expand radius for missing 5-year-old boy in southern Alberta
Helicopters hum across a bright blue sky in southern Alberta, as the search for five-year-old Darius Macdougall stretches into its fourth day. Adam Kennedy with Search and Rescue Alberta said Wednesday afternoon it is expanding the search radius from three kilometres to 6.6 kilometres. The terrain, he said, is part of the …
Read More »Carney heads to U.K. in search of investment and partners — as pressure mounts to show results
Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to the United Kingdom Thursday to attract investment and strengthen ties that he argues are key to securing Canada’s future. Back in Ottawa, the Conservative Party argues Carney is running away from problems at home and has nothing to show for it. “He travels a …
Read More »Carney heads to Mexico in search of an ally — and opportunities
Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to Mexico Thursday with two separate, but related, goals. The first is to find ways to work with Mexico to preserve North America-wide free trade, or at least as much of it as can be saved from the most protectionist U.S. administration in a century. …
Read More »Wildfire near Lynn Lake started at mining site after burn piles weren’t properly extinguished: search warrant
Provincial investigators looking into the cause of this spring’s wildfire near Lynn Lake, Man., allege it started at the nearby Alamos Gold Inc. mining site and that the company was negligent because it didn’t use water to extinguish its burn piles, according to search warrant documents obtained by CBC News. …
Read More »Desperate search for survivors after Afghanistan earthquake kills at least 800
Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in the dead of the night in search of missing loved ones after an earthquake measuring 6.0 magnitude in eastern Afghanistan, with the Taliban government reporting Monday that 800 people were killed and more than 2,500 injured. The quake late Sunday hit towns in the province of …
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