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Ex-Ajax and Manchester United goalie Van der Sar leaves intensive care after bleed around his brain
AMSTERDAM (AP) - Former Netherlands goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar has been released from an intensive care unit in a Dutch hospital and hopes to return home next week as he recovers from a bleed around...
Jul 18, 2023
Ex-Ajax and Manchester United goalie Van der Sar leaves intensive care after bleed around his brain
AMSTERDAM (AP) - Former Netherlands goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar has been released from an intensive care unit in a Dutch hospital and hopes to return home next week as he recovers from a bleed around...
Jul 18, 2023
In Ukraine, a family's ordeal to identify and honor a veteran killed in Bucha ends after 16 months
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) - The Ukrainian veteran's gravestone carries his photograph and birthday, but the date Roman Shadlovskyi died is a broad estimate: March 2022, the month Russian forces brutally kil...
Jul 18, 2023
BC SPCA staff discover two abandoned dogs at animal centre with porcupine quills embedded in their faces
The BC SPCA is hoping you can help Asha and Saki, two one-year-old husky mix sisters, who were abandoned in front of the BC SPCA's North Cariboo community animal centre in Prince George, with porcupin...
Jul 18, 2023
Boy who died from asthma amid wildfire smoke is 'face of climate crisis,' doctor says
VANCOUVER - The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment says a nine-year-old B.C. boy who died from asthma exacerbated by wildfire smoke is the face of the climate crisis in Canada. The...
Jul 18, 2023
Drones, ATVs hamper B.C.'s wildfire fighting efforts during record-breaking season
Firefighters battling hundreds of blazes in British Columbia say they've been facing more than the usual obstacles, blaming members of the public for interfering with operations. The BC Wildfire Servi...
Jul 18, 2023
House Republicans tee up a vote on support for Israel after Democrat's comments about 'racist' state
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House will vote Tuesday on a Republican-led resolution reaffirming support for Israel, an implicit rebuke of a leading Democrat who, over the weekend, called the country a "racis...
Jul 18, 2023
Lyon's American owner John Textor hits back after French soccer watchdog limits transfer business
PARIS (AP) - Lyon owner John Textor has attacked a decision by French football's financial watchdog to monitor the club's transfer activities this season. The American businessman, who also has stakes...
Jul 18, 2023
Tatin Lake evacuation alert lifted
FRASER LAKE - The Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako has lifted the evacuation alert for the Tatin Lake wildfire.The lightning-caused fire sparked July 7 and is located approximately 15 kilometres n...
Jul 18, 2023
Charged up: report says Canada's looming power problem is massive, not insurmountable
OTTAWA - Canada must build more electricity generation in the next 25 years than it has over the last century in order to support a net-zero emissions economy by 2050, according to a new report from t...
Jul 18, 2023