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Baltimore bridge disaster: immigrants died doing job 'others do not want to do'
By Gabriella Borter BALTIMORE (Reuters) - They came to the United States for a chance at a better life. They found work filling pot holes on a bridge in the middle of the night, and they ended up dead in the Baltimore harbor. The six victims of ...
Trudeau blames conservative premiers for problems with national child-care program
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blamed conservative premiers for any shortfalls in his child-care program, accusing the provincial governments of not moving fast enough to build spaces. Trudeau was in Vancouver on Thursday, announcing ...
Brazil's Lula says current EU-Mercosur deal negotiations look more promising than before
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that the trade deal which Mercosur and the European Union blocs have been negotiating looks more promising than a previous version. In a press conference ...
Islamic State spokesperson praises group's attack on concert hall in Russia
CAIRO (Reuters) - The spokesperson for Islamic State praised the group's attack that killed more than 140 people in a Russian concert hall near Moscow. Abu Huthaifa al-Ansari was speaking in a recorded message posted on Thursday on the militant ...
Israel has not received everything it has asked for, top US general says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States' top general said on Thursday that Israel had not received every weapon that it has asked for, in part because President Joe Biden's administration was not willing to provide at least some of them.
N.L. auditor general to audit health sector contracts: nurses' union
Following a civil Confederation Building rally against the Newfoundland and Labrador government’s use of private nursing agencies to fill gaps in the public sector, the province’s nurses’ union is having one of its demands met: an audit of health ...
Bus accident in South Africa kills at least 45, Transport Ministry says
(Reuters) - South Africa's Department of Transport on Thursday said a bus crash near Mamatlakala in the province of Limpopo resulted in at least 45 fatalities and one seriously injured person. (Reporting by Urvi Dugar in Bengaluru)
South Carolina voting map faulted for racial bias by court revived for 2024
By John Kruzel (Reuters) - A federal court that previously threw out a Republican-drawn South Carolina electoral map for bias against Black voters decided on Thursday that it can be used in this year's congressional elections, a ruling that could ...
Waverley man gets probation for grabbing woman's buttocks at Halifax concert
A Waverley man has been handed a suspended sentence with 18 months’ probation for grabbing a woman’s buttocks without her consent while watching a Canada Day concert at Halifax’s Grand Parade in 2022. Raymond Daniel Clyke, 54, was originally charged ...
US CDC warns of increase in meningococcal disease
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday issued a health advisory to alert healthcare providers of an increase in invasive meningococcal disease, a serious bacterial infection that can result in organ ...