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Tumbler Ridge sits at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia, and is surrounded by expansive mountain ranges and a geological park.
Three toddlers and a 34-year-old man were killed in a strike near Kharkiv as a state of emergency is declared.
Bangladesh is holding national elections for the first time since 2024, when a student movement ousted the prime minister.
Six homeless people have died in the Italian city in recent weeks, highlighting the widening inequality as the Games unfold there.
Ulf Kristersson answers calls from voters in informal weekly show, on topics from women’s safety to beer “Hi Ulf!” says a male voice from the Swedish prime minister’s answering machine. “Just wondering how many beers you have on a Saturday night?” Another caller to Ulf Kristersson’s new podcast Ring statsministern! (Call the prime minister!), asks whether he is friends with Jimmie Åkesson, the leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats party who simultaneously backs his government and is a riva...
In her first interview about her father, the exiled Hong Kong activist Anna Kwok said the authorities were targeting her family to try to silence her.
Officials arrested Kwok Yin-sang after he tried to end his daughter’s insurance policy and withdraw the funds A Hong Kong court has found the father of a wanted activist guilty of a national security violation, after he tried to end her insurance policy and withdraw the funds, drawing international criticism for the targeting of relatives of pro-democracy campaigners. Kwok Yin-sang, 68, is the first person to be charged under a homegrown national security law , also known as Article 23, for “...
Israeli president’s visit met with protests outside Parliament House, with at least one independent MP boycotting question time Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese has told the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, that Australia expects transparency over the death of aid worker Zomi Frankcom , killed by an Israel Defense Forces strike in Gaza, and is pushing for “any appropriate criminal charges”. Her...
More than 25 people are injured, including two with life-threatening injuries, after the shooting at Tumbler Ridge secondary school Latest updates: ‘devastating’ shooting hits remote town of Tumbler Ridge Police in Canada say 10 people are dead, including the suspect, in a mass shooting that appeared to target a high school in northern British Columbia. More than two dozen victims have been hospitalized in what premier David Eby called an “unimaginable tragedy” that ranks among the deadliest ...
The 85-year-old magazine will return to the city for which it was named after a successful bid by Queensland University of Technology Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The literary journal Meanjin will return to the city it was born in that bears its Indigenous name. The Queensland University of Technology announced on Wednesday it had acquired the 85-year-old journal, whose life was cut short by Melbourne Unive...
Defence Secretary John Healey says British personnel in Norway will rise from 1,000 to 2,000 over three years.
She is said to have sold to independent music publisher Primary Wave on 30 December for around $200m.
Finding over abuse in Newcastle-Maitland diocese signals major shift in church’s liability to victim survivors The high court has delivered a landmark win for survivors of clergy abuse, finding the Catholic church had a duty of care to protect a child from one of its paedophile priests. A man known only as AA sued the Catholic church’s Newcastle and Maitland diocese over abuse he suffered at the hands of Father Ron Pickin in 1969, when he was aged just 13. Continue reading...
Legislation, called Virginia’s Law, after Virginia Giuffre, a survivor of Epstein’s abuse, also tackles jurisdiction Democrats in Congress were joined on Capitol Hill by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse to introduce legislation to end the statute of limitations and restrictions on jurisdiction in civil sexual abuse cases. The move comes less than two weeks after the justice department released 3.5m pages of heavily redacted documents related to Epstein, as ordered by the bipartisan Epstei...
Police say the person believed to be the shooter was among the dead. A shelter-in-place order for the town of Tumbler Ridge has been dropped.
Trump, outraged by clip of six lawmakers, called them ‘traitors’ and said behavior was ‘punishable by death’ A Washington DC grand jury declined to indict six Democratic lawmakers who were denounced by Donald Trump after they made a video urging troops to refuse illegal orders. Federal prosecutors had sought an indictment against the Democrats who participated in the video, including Elissa Slotkin, Mark Kelly, Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander and Chrissy Houlahan, who all have mi...
It comes after the King said the Royal Family were "ready to support" police in their inquiries.
Jamaat e-Islami, oppressed under Sheikh Hasina’s rule, could take unprecedented share of the vote on Thursday As the clock hit midnight, the women held their flame torches aloft and marched into the Dhaka night. “The people have given their blood, now we want equality,” they shouted above the roar of the traffic. For many in Bangladesh, the past few weeks have been a cause for jubilation. The first free and fair elections in 17 years have been promised for Thursday, after the toppling of the ...
The program, nearly 30 years old, had allowed Cuban medical workers to fill critical needs in Guatemala, while reaping income for Cuba.