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WorldJun 02, 2022

4 killed in shooting at Tulsa medical building; shooter dead

Police officials say four people have been killed in a shooting at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus. Tulsa police Deputy Chief Jonathan Brooks confirmed the number of dead Wednesday. He also said the shooter was dead, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The motive for the attack was unclear.St. Francis Health System locked down its campus Wednesday afternoon because of the situation at the Natalie Medical Building. The Natalie building houses an outpatient surgery center and a breast health center.
WorldJun 01, 2022

Ford CEO sees electric vehicle price war as EV costs decline

Ford's chief executive says the global auto industry is headed for a huge price war in the coming years as electric vehicle costs drop and companies sell EVs priced around $25,000. CEO Jim Farley told the Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference on Wednesday that the $25,000 electric vehicle will democratize EVs. Currently it costs way more to build an EV than one with a gas engine. But Farley said big cost reductions are coming with new battery chemistries that use fewer precious metals such as nickel and cobalt. Plus, he said EVs will take less time and labor to build, saving more money. Fo
WorldJun 01, 2022

Leader of now-defunct Colombian drug cartel dies in US jail

Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, an elderly leader of the former Cali cartel that smuggled vast amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, has died in a U.S. prison, his lawyer said Wednesday. In 2020, a judge had denied Rodríguez Orejuela, who was in his 80s, early release on compassionate grounds from a prison in Butner, North Carolina. His attorney, David O. Markus, had said at the time that the former drug kingpin was suffering a range of health problems. Rodríguez Orejuela and his brother, Miguel, built a huge criminal enterprise that succeeded the Mede
WorldMay 31, 2022

Strike in Belgium hits public transport, services

Public services in Belgium, including schools and transport networks, were disrupted on Tuesday after trade unions staged a one-day nationwide strike, local media reported. The strike caused huge delays and disruptions to public transport, including the temporary closure of certain bus and tram lines, the Belgian public transport company said. About 60 per cent of the country's post offices remained closed for the day, including mail sorting centres, which may result in further delays over the next few days. Rail traffic remained at a standstill in the Walloon provinces of Liege, Namur, and
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WorldMay 31, 2022

Russian gas deliveries to Orsted, Shell Energy Europe to be suspended from June: Gazprom

Danish energy giant Orsted and Shell Energy Europe have said that they will not pay for Russian gas in Rubles, Gazprom Export said on Tuesday, adding that it informed both companies that gas deliveries will be suspended from June 1. The Danish company Orsted notified Gazprom Export LLC that it does not intend to make payments for the supplied gas in rubles... Shell Energy Europe Limited... does not intend to make payments under the contract for the supply of gas to Germany in rubles," Gazprom Export said in a statement. The Russian company said that it had not received payment for April gas d
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WorldMay 30, 2022

Nepal Plane Crash: Out of 21 recovered bodies, 10 taken to base station

Out of 21 recovered dead bodies, Nepali Army took 10 bodies to the base station on Monday evening after a commercial passenger plane crashed onto the hills killing all 22 onboard. As per the officials, only the bodies of 21 passengers out of 22 onboard were located at the crashed site. "Till now we have recovered 21 dead bodies. 10 bodies are carried back to the base station with the help of Mi-17 helicopter in Khabang," said Teknath Situala, the Spokesperson at Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu who has been overseeing the rescue and search operation told ANI. "Because of bad weat
WorldMay 30, 2022

French 32-year-old journalist is killed in Ukraine

The French news broadcaster BFM TV said a 32-year-old French journalist was killed Monday in eastern Ukraine, fatally hit by shell shrapnel while covering a Ukrainian evacuation operation. BFM TV said its journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff was killed as he was “covering a humanitarian operation in an armored vehicle” near Sievierodonetsk, a key city in the Donbas region that is being hotly contested by Russian and Ukrainian forces. He had worked for six years for the French television channel. French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Leclerc-Imhoff on Twitter. Macron expressed co
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WorldMay 30, 2022

Biden says US not supplying Kyiv with missile systems capable of striking Russia: Reports

US President Joe Biden said that Washington will not supply Kyiv with missile systems capable of striking Russian territory, a UK-based media reported on Monday, citing sources. Last week, CNN reported, citing multiple US officials, that Washington may include advanced long-range systems in a new US military assistance package for Ukraine. Kyiv has been asking the United States to supply MLRS M270 and M142 HIMARS, the report said. However, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said on Thursday that the US had not made the final decision on the supply of its MLRS to Ukraine. The Biden administr
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WorldMay 28, 2022

Texas Governor says he was ``misled'' about the police response

Texas Governor Greg Abbott says he was ``misled'' about the police response to the shooting at the elementary school in Uvalde, and he's ``livid.'' In his earlier statements, the governor told a news conference, he was repeating what he had been told, and the information was inaccurate. Abbott said the response needs to be ``thoroughly, exhaustively'' investigated. 21 people were killed Tuesday when an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself in a fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary School in the southwestern Texas town.

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BCSep 15, 2025

Surrey, B.C., issues extortion rewards, citing dozens of threats

The City of Surrey is providing its police service with what it says is one of the largest rewards in Canadian policing history in response to dozens of extortion attempts in the community. It says the $250,000 fund comes as the Surrey Police Service actively investigates 44 extortion cases, including 27 that involved shootings. Mayor Brenda Locke says at a briefing that the extortions are a threat to the city's way of life and many people are living in fear. She says the extortionists are ``thugs and criminals'' who ``do not belong'' in Surrey. Chief Const. Norm Lipinski says a
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AlbertaSep 15, 2025

Jason Kenney warns of ‘deeply divisive’ impact of a sovereignty referendum in Alberta

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney is painting a bleak picture of what will happen if Albertans are forced to vote on a referendum on separation, calling it a deeply divisive, non-violent version of a civil war. Kenney, Alberta's premier from 2019 to 2022, says a small minority of angry people should not be able to push a separatist agenda that impacts everyone in the province. He says it's deeply divisive and would divide families, friends and communities if it goes forward. Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative government is officially lowering the required threshold for
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BCSep 15, 2025

British Columbians to get an update on the provincial books and economic picture

British Columbia's Finance Minister Brenda Bailey says the first quarterly update for the 2025/26 fiscal year will update B.C.'s economic landscape and her government's three-year-fiscal plan. Bailey, who will present her update this morning at the provincial legislature in Victoria, says the update will also include reporting on revenue and spending in the first quarter of the fiscal year. The final update for the last fiscal year pegged B.C.'s deficit at $7.3 billion, $564 million lower than original projected number in budget 2024, and $1.8 billion lower than the third-quarter forecast. Bai
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BCSep 15, 2025

Rogers wins gold, sets Canadian record in hammer throw at world championships

Canada's Camryn Rogers defended her women's hammer throw world title in dominant fashion. Rogers, from Richmond, B.C., broke her own Canadian record with a throw of 80.51 metres on Monday to take the gold medal at the world athletics championships. Silver medallist Zhao Jie of China was well back of Rogers with a throw of 77.60 metres. Another Chinese thrower, Zhang Jaile, was third at 77.10 metres. The 26-year-old Rogers now has two world championship gold medals to go with her Olympic title at the 2024 Paris Games. It was Canada's second gold at the world championships after E
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AlbertaSep 15, 2025

Alberta Next panel, seeking input on federal grievances, hosts town hall in Airdrie

Premier Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel is in Airdrie tonight, as she marches through a final stretch of town halls surveying the public on the province's relationship with the federal government. It's the eighth of 10 in-person town halls scheduled for the panel, which has been travelling across Alberta since mid-July to address grievances Smith says are fostering separatist sentiment. The event in the Calgary bedroom community comes hot on the heels of a town hall in Lethbridge, where Smith met a mostly friendly crowd that cheered mentions of separation and widely supported th