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The defense minister said people were killed and injured at a base in Alberta, but officials did not offer details on the cause.
Ian AustenMilitary Bases and InstallationsFires and Firefighters
At least one person was killed in the strikes, which also hit a data centre used by Russia's equivalent of Facebook.
Canada's defense minister said Saturday that people were killed and injured in an incident at a military base in Alberta that caused a major fire.(Image credit: John Ulan)
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As civil war has left their country in ruins, many young Sudanese have turned to artisanal mining. An airstrike on a mine last week killed more than 100 and has provoked anger against Egypt, seen as the most likely suspectTorches still fixed on their heads but tools cast aside, the Sudanese goldminers of the North Valley had already mounted an impromptu rescue operation by the time Ammar* arrived at the site of a suspected Egyptian airstrike.At least 114 were killed, according to the Sudanese rights group Emergency Lawyers, in the strike on Saturday 10 October on an artisanal goldmine brimming with young Sudanese trying to eke out a living in a country where the economy has been shattered by three years of war. Continue reading...
Kaamil AhmedGlobal developmentGold
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power star on his muddy marriage proposal, controversial cheese opinions, memories of Sam Neill and having a good evil faceYou once played Basil Fawlty in an amateur student production of Fawlty Towers at Queen’s College in Melbourne. How amateur was your Basil Fawlty moustache?It was terrible. It was real but it was definitely coloured in – I still have holes in my beard. I’d also shaved my head, so if you look at the early promo posters, you can clearly see I’m wearing a wig. Our theatre was closed so we had to perform in a circus tent in the middle of winter, on an oval in the university grounds, which was all very Fawlty Towers. Continue reading...
Rich PelleyThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of PowerTelevision
A teacher and 32 children were killed in northwest Pakistan in an episode has prompted safety inspections of schools across the region.
Salman MasoodEducation (K-12)Private and Sectarian Schools
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