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• Police say boy, 4, has serious injuries after assault at soccer tournament in B.C.

  24-06-2019 23:34
  ASHCROFT, B.C. -- The Mounties are investigating an assault on a four-year-old boy who was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police say a woman reported to an off-duty RCMP officer on Sunday that she witnessed an assault on the boy by several other children the day before in Ashcroft, B.C. She told the officer she yelled at the children to stop and they scattered from the area. Sgt. Kathleen Fitzgerald, the detachment commander, says because the alleged incident happened as a soccer tourn
  
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• City postpones pilot project allowing alcohol in parks

  24-06-2019 23:26
  No alcohol will be allowed in Calgary Parks until next summer. The City of Calgary was going to launch the pilot project this year but has decided to postpone the initiative until the summer of 2020. The city developed a survey about allowing liquor at picnic tables and over 15,000 people took it. The city found a deep divide in the results with just a slight majority in favour of the initiative. However, whether for or against, the city says many Calgarians are worried things could get out of h
  
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• Emotional video of toddler seeing Paddle Prairie home destroyed by wildfire shared online

  24-06-2019 23:25 via globalnews.ca
  The vice-chair of the Paddle Prairie Métis Settlement shared an emotional video of her family returning home after the Chuckegg Creek wildfire destroyed their house.
  
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• Canadian Utilities signs deal to sell interest in Alberta PowerLine to consortium

  24-06-2019 23:23 via globalnews.ca
  Canadian Utilities Ltd. and its partner Quanta Services Inc. have signed a deal to sell Alberta PowerLine for approximately $300 million and the assumption of $1.4 billion of debt.
  
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• No charges laid in suspicious person case involving Lethbridge teen - CTV News Calgary

  24-06-2019 23:06 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  No charges laid in suspicious person case involving Lethbridge teen  CTV News CalgaryLethbridge police say charges will not be laid against a man who invited a 14-year-old girl to lunch after he approached her outside a community pool earlier this ...
  
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• No charges laid in suspicious person case involving Lethbridge teen

  24-06-2019 23:06
  Lethbridge police say charges will not be laid against a man who invited a 14-year-old girl to lunch after he approached her outside a community pool earlier this month. Police were called to Stan Siwik Pool at about 1 p.m. on June 16 and say a male drove up to the girl and engaged her in a conversation. He asked the girl if she wanted to go for lunch and she said no and advised the man that her parents were on the way to meet her. The man left the area and police issued a plea to the public to
  
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• 34 snow geese carcasses abandoned south of Lethbridge - CTV News Calgary

  24-06-2019 22:45 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  34 snow geese carcasses abandoned south of Lethbridge  CTV News CalgaryAlberta Fish and Wildlife is asking for help from the public to identify those responsible for abandoning 34 snow geese carcasses south of Lethbridge. *Warning ...
  
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• 34 snow geese carcasses abandoned south of Lethbridge

  24-06-2019 22:45
  Alberta Fish and Wildlife is asking for help from the public to identify those responsible for abandoning 34 snow geese carcasses south of Lethbridge. (Warning graphic content below) Officers received a report in April of geese being dumped about 10 kilometres south of Warner, near the end of Range Road 17-3. There they found four garbage bags with 34 snow geese carcasses inside. These birds can be hunted during the spring season, which runs from March 15 to June 15, but regulations say the anim
  
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• Ramp from 10th Avenue S.W. to Crowchild Trail re-opens ahead of schedule

  24-06-2019 22:14
  The ramp from westbound 10th Avenue S.W. accessing northbound Crowchild Trail has re-opened, ahead of schedule. A release from the city says crews worked around the clock over the weekend, despite the rain, to get the work done. It was originally scheduled to be open on Friday. As part of the reconfiguration of Crowchild Trail, the ramp was moved so traffic accesses the right hand side of the road, eliminating the need for merging vehicles to cross several lanes. More information on the ongoing
  
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• Tortoise found in northern Alberta reunited with Spruce Grove owner

  24-06-2019 22:07 via globalnews.ca
  A school official said she received a call from a Spruce Grove man who recognized his pet tortoise from Global News' coverage.
  
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• Minister's Youth Council recruiting Albertan teens - Lethbridge News Now

  24-06-2019 21:37 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Minister's Youth Council recruiting Albertan teens  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB - The provincial government is looking for 32 students from across Alberta to join their Youth ...
  
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• Lawyers urge Canada to stop Chinese exec's extradition to U.S. on fraud charges

  24-06-2019 21:14
  VANCOUVER -- Defence lawyers for a senior Huawei executive have asked Canada's foreign affairs minister to stop the extradition process against their client, saying the request made by the United States was for political purposes, not legitimate law enforcement reasons. Meng Wanzhou's lawyers say in a statement they decided to deliver written submissions to Chrystia Freeland following former prime minister Jean Chretien's comments that withdrawing extradition proceedings would improve relations
  
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• Suspect in Nebraska woman's death slashes neck during trial

  24-06-2019 20:17
  WILBER, Neb. - A man accused in the 2017 slaying of a Nebraska woman slashed his neck and fell from a wheelchair during his murder trial. Fifty-two-year-old Aubrey Trail yelled "Bailey is innocent, and I curse you all" Monday before swiping something across his neck in the courtroom in Wilber, 35 miles (56 kilometres) southwest of Lincoln. Deputies rushed to help as Trail lay bleeding on the floor. It is unclear when the trial will resume, or how badly Trail is injured. Authorities say he's had
  
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• Lethbridge rattlesnake wrangler works to keep both snakes and citizens safe - The Globe and Mail

  24-06-2019 19:33 via theglobeandmail.com
  Lethbridge rattlesnake wrangler works to keep both snakes and citizens safe  The Globe and MailRyan Heavy Head comes to the rescue of both the vipers and terrified homeowners.
  
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• Alberta drug trafficking network dismantled by police: ALERT

  24-06-2019 19:32 via globalnews.ca
  A total of 27 drug and firearm-related charges have been laid against seven people.
  
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• Father accused in son’s meningitis death says boy wasn’t sick enough to make parents worry

  24-06-2019 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  A father accused in his son's death has taken the stand in a southern Alberta courtroom where the man and his wife are accused of failing to get medical attention for the toddler.
  
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• Is the 'summer slide' real? Why children fall behind and how to stop it

  24-06-2019 18:54
  Children can fall behind in their math and reading skills over the summer, so professors recommend children read at least 15 books and regularly do math games with family over the break. Research shows students can lose approximately two months’ worth of school-year learning in math and reading skills over the summer which can lead to an achievement gap with their peers when classes resume. But York University faculty of education professor Sharon Murphy says the so-called “summer sl
  
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• Calgary man facing fraud charges in Lethbridge - CTV News Calgary

  24-06-2019 18:44 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  Calgary man facing fraud charges in Lethbridge  CTV News CalgaryA Calgary man is facing fraud charges after bank employees in Lethbridge became suspicious over a proposed transfer of funds.
  
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• Calgary man facing fraud charges in Lethbridge

  24-06-2019 18:44
  A Calgary man is facing fraud charges after bank employees in Lethbridge became suspicious over a proposed transfer of funds. Police say a man went into the TD Bank on Highlands Boulevard West, in Lethbridge, on June 21 and tried to transfer $145,000 from someone else’s account. The man provided an Ontario birth certificate and driver’s licence later found to be fake. “During the course of the transaction, several red flags were noted by bank staff and an employee was able to c
  
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• High levels of dental decay seen at screening event

  24-06-2019 17:16
  Nearly half of children who received a free dental screening at a weekend event in Calgary hadn’t seen a dentist in the previous year and had visible decay, according to the group behind the event. Free dental screenings were offered at the Genesis Centre on Sunday by Calgarians For Kids’ Health. Of the 97 children seen, 18 per cent had existing fillings, 42 per cent had visual decay and 42 per cent hadn’t seen a dentist in the previous year, the group reported. Further, the gr
  
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• Activists go on birth strike over climate change

  24-06-2019 16:57
  The founder of a British climate change activism group says she’s making the choice not to have children because she fears the droughts, famine, flooding and extreme heat of the world they will have to live in. Blythe Pepino, who lives in London, went public with her pledge not to have biological children at the end of 2018. BirthStrike has since amassed more than 450 similar vows, with 80 per cent coming from women, says Pepino. “For me, personally, it’s about me being able to
  
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• Calgary Pride to decide if uniformed officers can walk in parade

  24-06-2019 16:42
  Calgary Pride is meeting on Monday to decide whether uniformed officers will be allowed to walk in the city’s 29th annual pride parade. Last year, officers in uniform were banned from the parade with some members of the LGBTQ community saying police represented a threat to them in generations past. Calgary Pride’s website details the original small march where some Calgarians had to wear ‘masks and bags over their faces to protect from persecution.’ Calgary’s new po
  
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• 'Child's life at stake,' says uncle awaiting Canadian orphan's fate in Syria

  24-06-2019 16:21
  LONDON - Australia is the latest country to rescue orphans who were stranded at the notorious al-Hol refugee camp in northeastern Syria, the children of parents who joined ISIS and were killed. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced eight children had been freed from “a bleak and complicated situation” after secret negotiations through aid groups.Read: Australia repatriating 8 youth from ISIS familiesWhenever that happens, there’s a family in Toronto that thinks, &l
  
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• Wife of reality TV's Dog the Bounty Hunter in medically induced coma

  24-06-2019 16:03
  HONOLULU -- The wife of reality TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman is in a medically induced coma, a report said. Beth Chapman is in the intensive care unit of Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Sunday. A representative for the family released a statement Saturday night saying that only immediate family have been given access to the 51-year-old. The Chapmans starred in the reality TV series "Dog the Bounty Hunter" and recently appeared in "Dog & Beth:
  
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• Wife of reality TV Dog the Bounty Hunter in medically induced coma

  24-06-2019 16:03
  HONOLULU -- The wife of reality TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman is in a medically induced coma, a report said. Beth Chapman is in the intensive care unit of Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Sunday. A representative for the family released a statement Saturday night saying that only immediate family have been given access to the 51-year-old. The Chapmans starred in the reality TV series "Dog the Bounty Hunter" and recently appeared in "Dog & Beth:
  
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• One pilot dies, one survives after German fighter jets collide

  24-06-2019 15:57
  BERLIN -- A German air force pilot was killed Monday after his fighter jet collided with another during a training mission in northeastern Germany, the country's defence minister said. The pilot of the other Eurofighter Typhoon jet was able to eject safely and survived. Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said three unarmed fighter jets left their base in Laage, near the Baltic sea port of Rostock, shortly before 2 p.m. (1200 GMT). "After about 20 minutes, there was an aerial collision between
  
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• Group wants single-use plastics banned in Banff

  24-06-2019 15:44
  A group in Banff is once again calling for a ban on single-use plastics in the mountain town. The group, Bear Minimum, is presenting to town council on Monday where it says a special quilt will be unveiled. Formed in 2017, the group says it wants to see a ban in place by August. If successful, it would mark the first ban on single-use plastics in a national park. The federal government announced earlier this month it is looking at banning single-use plastics by 2021 while also requiring plastics
  
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• Group wants single-use plastic bags banned in Banff

  24-06-2019 15:44
  A group in Banff is once again calling for a ban on single-use plastic bags in the mountain town. The group, Bear Minimum, presented its proposal to town council on Monday and have created a blanket made from plastic bags to raise awareness. “We have made a quilt out of plastic bags, this was from a collection of bags within 30 minutes just walking the street and it’s going to last 1000 years,” said Emma Murrell-Orgill, founder of Bear Minimum. Formed in 2017, the group says it
  
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• Police investigate stabbing in city’s northwest

  24-06-2019 15:24
  Police are investigating a stabbing at an apartment complex in the city’s northwest that sent a man to hospital with non-life threatening injuries on Sunday evening. Emergency crews were called to 100 block of 16th Avenue N.W. at about 7:00 p.m. EMS officials say a male patient was taken to Foothills Hospital with minor injuries. Police say two people were involved in an altercation and they are investigating.
  
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• Woman, toddler, 2 infants found dead in Texas near Mexico border

  24-06-2019 15:19
  MISSION, Texas -- A sheriff in South Texas says Border Patrol agents have discovered the bodies of four people, including three children, within a wildlife management area near the border. Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra tells the McAllen Monitor that the dead appeared to be two infants, a toddler and a woman in her early 20s. The sheriff tells the newspaper that they may have been dead for a few days by the time they were discovered Sunday in Las Palomas Wildlife Management area near the Ri
  
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• Calgary man presumed drowned in Columbia River near Revelstoke

  24-06-2019 14:57
  Police are continuing to search for a Calgary man who fell into the Columbia River while fishing with a friend near Revelstoke last week and is presumed drowned. Two Calgary men were fishing on the river Thursday evening about 25 kilometres south of Revelstoke when a storm hit. Their boat overturned and both men were thrown into the water.   Both were wearing life jackets at the time.   Campers at Blanket Creek Provincial Park heard the men’s cries for help and called 911. One of
  
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• Calgary chosen to host 2023 World Petroleum Congress

  24-06-2019 14:54
  Calgary will be the host city of the 24th World Petroleum Congress and organizers say the event could inject as much as $65 million into the city’s economy. Members of the WPC made the decision early Sunday from St. Petersburg Russia. Calgary won the bid, after a fourth ballot, over a number of other cities including; Baku, Azerbaijan; Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Buenos Aires, Argentina Over 80 countries will participate and an estimated 5000 delegates will des
  
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• After World Cup rage, Cameroon faces demands for punishment

  24-06-2019 14:44
  VALENCIENNES, France -- After all the rage and rebellion in the stadium, England players received a far more convivial reception back at their hotel they shared with Cameroon. It came remarkably from Cameroon supporters who were far more graceful than some of their dissenting national team players earlier on Sunday evening in the humid cauldron of Stade de Hainaut. England players who had denied their country a place in the Women's World Cup quarterfinals by winning 3-0 were applauded back into
  
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• ‘I am going to get bit eventually’: Alberta rattlesnake wrangler keeps citizens safe

  24-06-2019 14:37 via globalnews.ca
  Ryan Heavy Head's life-long love of snakes has prepared him for an unusual job in southern Alberta.
  
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• Air Canada reviewing how crew left passenger on parked plane

  24-06-2019 13:24
  Air Canada said Sunday it's looking into how crew members could have disembarked from a plane without noticing a sleeping passenger who was left behind.Read more: Air Canada passenger says she woke up forgotten on empty planeThe airline was responding to an incident involving a woman who described waking up "all alone" on a "cold dark" aircraft after a flight to Toronto earlier this month. "I think I'm having a bad dream bc like seriously how is this happening!!?!" Tiffani Adams recounted in a J
  
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• Intense heat wave to strike Paris, shimmer across Europe

  24-06-2019 12:35
  PARIS -- The sunset had an orange glow and so does the new heat alert level for Paris. Authorities around the French capital have issued an orange alert for intense heat -- the second-highest level on its scale -- as very hot temperatures are expected across continental Europe this week. France's national weather agency Meteo France said the heat wave beginning Monday is expected to last all week with temperatures of up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) across the country. The peak
  
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• Intense heat wave to strike Paris and across Europe

  24-06-2019 12:35
  PARIS -- Authorities in the Paris region have issued an alert for intense heat expected in the French capital and across Europe this week. The alert level in Paris has been raised to “orange,” the second-highest level. France's national weather agency Meteo France said the heat wave beginning Monday is expected to last all week with temperatures of up to 40 C (104 F) across the country. The peak is expected Thursday. In Paris, charity organizations are patrolling to provide water to
  
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• Alerts issued in France as intense heat wave envelops Europe

  24-06-2019 12:35
  PARIS -- The sunset had an orange glow and so does the new heat alert level for Paris. More than half of France, including around Paris, was placed on an orange alert for intense heat Monday -- the second-highest level on the scale -- as very hot temperatures were predicted across continental Europe this week. The national weather agency Meteo France said the heat wave beginning Monday is expected to last all week with temperatures of up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) across the
  
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• RCMP locate Brookside patient

  24-06-2019 11:19 via globalnews.ca
  Coquitlam RCMP have issued a Canada-wide warrant for a woman reported as an unauthorized absence at Brookside Treatment Centre at Riverview in Coquitlam, B.C.
  
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• Coquitlam RCMP issue Canada-wide warrant for Brookside patient

  24-06-2019 11:19 via globalnews.ca
  Coquitlam RCMP have issued a Canada-wide warrant for a woman reported as an unauthorized absence at Brookside Treatment Centre at Riverview in Coquitlam, B.C.
  
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• Iranians say their 'bones breaking' under U.S. sanctions

  24-06-2019 11:16
  TEHRAN, Iran -- As the U.S. piles sanction after sanction on Iran, it's the average person who feels it the most. From a subway performer's battered leather hat devoid of tips, to a bride-to-be's empty purse, the lack of cash from the economic pressure facing Iran's 80 million people can be seen everywhere. Many blame U.S. President Donald Trump and his maximalist policy on Iran, which has seen him pull out of Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and levy punishing U.S. sanctions on the
  
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• Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques set to return after more than six months in space

  24-06-2019 10:06
  LONGUEUIL, Que. -- David Saint-Jacques is set to return to Earth on Monday after more than six months aboard the International Space Station. The Canadian astronaut will join NASA astronaut Anne McClain and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko aboard a Soyuz capsule that's expected to land just before 11 p.m. ET.David Saint-Jacques faces long recovery after return to Earth, doctor saysSaint-Jacques' mission began ahead of schedule on Dec. 3, when he was part of the first crewed Soyuz mission followi
  
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• Astronaut David Saint-Jacques returns to Earth, sets Canadian space record

  24-06-2019 10:06
  LONGUEUIL, Que. -- David Saint-Jacques returned to Earth on Monday after more than six months aboard the International Space Station. The native of Saint-Lambert, Que., has set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a Canadian at 204 days. The Canadian astronaut was joined by NASA astronaut Anne McClain and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko aboard a Soyuz capsule that landed in Kazakhstan.CTV's W5: David Saint-Jacques, a Space Odyssey David Saint-Jacques faces long recovery after return t
  
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• Lethbridge's population officially reaches 101482 - Lethbridge News Now

  24-06-2019 09:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge's population officially reaches 101482  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – As of the 2019 City of Lethbridge Census, which counts up to April 1st, 2019, the city is only the third in the province to reach six digits.
  
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• China says U.S.-China trade teams in contact ahead of G20

  24-06-2019 08:59
  BEIJING -- Chinese and U.S. trade negotiators are discussing ways to resolve disputes ahead of a meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Japan later this week, a Chinese official said Monday. The sides were seeking to "consolidate the important consensus reached between the two leaders" in a telephone call last week, Wang Shouwen, a Commerce Ministry vice minister, told reporters. Wang gave no details about specific issues under discussion. This week's G20 mee
  
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• Michael Jackson's popularity endures, even after new scandal - Lethbridge News Now

  24-06-2019 08:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Michael Jackson's popularity endures, even after new scandal  Lethbridge News NowLOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson's depiction as a child molester in the HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland” earlier this year, but the negative publicity ...
  
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• Ethiopia says coup attempt thwarted, military chief killed - Lethbridge News Now

  24-06-2019 08:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Ethiopia says coup attempt thwarted, military chief killed  Lethbridge News NowADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia's government foiled a coup attempt in a region north of the capital, Addis Ababa, and the country's military chief was shot ...
  
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• New technology helps search teams find people in wilderness

  24-06-2019 07:28
  HONOLULU -- Yesenia D'Alessandro loaded a GPS tracking app on her cellphone and trudged into a remote Hawaii forest, joining more than 100 other volunteers looking for a missing hiker. She climbed through muddy ravines, crossed streams and faced steep drop-offs in the thick tangle of trees and ferns where her college friend Amanda Eller vanished last month. "You have to search everywhere," said D'Alessandro, who flew in from Maryland. "You have to go down to that stream bed, even though you don'
  
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• Building under construction topples in Cambodia, killing 17 - Lethbridge News Now

  24-06-2019 07:26 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Building under construction topples in Cambodia, killing 17  Lethbridge News NowSIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia — Cambodian rescuers combing through the rubble of a collapsed seven-story building recovered the bodies of 17 construction ...
  
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• Steamy romance novelist Judith Krantz dies at 91 - Lethbridge News Now

  24-06-2019 07:15 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Steamy romance novelist Judith Krantz dies at 91  Lethbridge News NowLOS ANGELES — Writer Judith Krantz, whose million-selling novels such as “Scruples” and “Princess Daisy” engrossed readers worldwide with their steamy ...
  
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