Canadian actor William Shatner blasted off to space aboard billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin NS-18 from Texas on Wednesday. The almost 10-minute flight was originally scheduled for Tuesday but it got postponed for Wednesday due to high winds. Embed from Getty Images Shatner’s space flight drew a range of... Read more
Groundbreaking WSL TV deal seen as proof of continued growth in women’s soccer
InternationalNewsSports Apr 9, 2021
New broadcast deal lauded as the next step in the growth of the league, and sport as a whole
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Offshore wind farm energy deal gets $1.6B investment from Norway
EnvironmentInternationalNewsWeather Apr 8, 2021
(Reuters) – Norway’s $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund has directly invested in a renewable energy project for the first time. The fund purchased a 50 per cent stake in the Borssele 1 and 2 wind farm off the Netherlands for $1.63 billion from Denmark’s Orsted, which will resume to... Read more
(REUTERS) – The global total number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise, and reached 127,877,462 as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The global total COVID-19 relevant death toll topped 2,796,561, according to data from the WHO. The United States remained the worst-hit country worldwide,... Read more
(REUTERS) – The formal investigation of how the giant container ship “Ever Given” ran aground in the Suez Canal begin on Wednesday. The Suez Canal ship that is finally free, caused a six-day blockage throwing global supply into disarray after the 400-meter-long ship became jammed diagonally across a southern... Read more
(REUTERS)– A Minneapolis firefighter who said she was prevented from offering medical aid to George Floyd during his deadly arrest returns to the witness stand on Wednesday. Genevieve Hansen, who was off duty at the time, is one of the key witnesses in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the... Read more
Lab origin of COVID-19 is ‘extremely unlikely,’ WHO report says
HealthInternationalNews Mar 31, 2021
(REUTERS) – A report released by the World Health Organization on Tuesday says it is considered “extremely unlikely” that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a laboratory. The report, from 17 Chinese and 17 foreign experts, did research on tracing the origin of COVID-19 in Wuhan City from Jan 14... Read more
(REUTERS) – The top-seeded 24-year-old Australian player Ashleigh Barty beat seventh-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3. The match on Tuesday marked the first time Barty has played a top-10-ranked opponent in over a year. Barty is set to face the fifth-seeded Elina Svitolina of Ukraine in... Read more
Indian Domestic Helpers Considered “Dirty”: 70 years after untouchability was banned
InternationalNewsPolitics Mar 25, 2021
By Saloni Bhugra At five in the morning, Sandhya Karwal, 16, woke up to get ready and cook breakfast for her husband. She wore pink trousers with a yellow and green kurta — a long shirt. She then walked 20 minutes to the house that she worked at as... Read more
The weakening of Brazilian environmental legislation affecting the Amazon has long-lasting and permanent consequences not only to the rainforest’s biodiversity and the world but to the homes and lives of a million Indigenous people living in the area.
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Toronto reacts to Mahsa Amini’s death
International Oct 5, 2022
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Health Oct 5, 2022
