June 9, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly receding in our collective memory. But the virus that caused it lives in our sewers, in our backyards, and may even have curled up in a sunny spot on the living room floor. The coronavirus that prompted over 750 million infections among humans, and almost 7 million deaths also spread
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More than 400 fires are currently active, marking the worst wildfire season in Canadian history. More than 400 fires across Canada have left more than 20,000 people displaced in what Canadian authorities say promises to be the worst wildfire season in the country’s history. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a telephone conversation with US
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Why it matters: Road traffic can wreak havoc on wildlife. Many previous studies have shown that roads can change the behavior of wildlife. But it has been difficult to separate the effects of irreversible landscape changes, such as deforestation for freeway construction, from the effects of everyday human activity, such as rush hour traffic. In
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A company that has developed a blood test that detects dozens of cancers has admitted that about 400 of its customers were mistakenly told last month that they might have the disease. Grail said in an email statement on Sunday that a vendor it works with sent hundreds of emails with incorrect test results due
READ MOREMexican prosecutors are investigating what the country’s president on Wednesday called an “execution” after soldiers beat and then shot five men they pulled from a wrecked pickup truck. The investigation, confirmed by the Department of Defense, follows the media release on Tuesday of video footage from the northern state of Tamaulipas, dated May 18, showing
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French authorities said a man with a knife stabbed several people, including children, in southeastern France on Thursday. This was stated by Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin. said on Twitter that the man had injured several people in a park in Annecy, a city of about 130,000 people in southeastern France. The extent of
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She couldn’t win a single game. In the third round of the French Open on Saturday, China’s Wang Xinyu had to believe she had at least a chance of beating Iga Swiatek, the tournament’s reigning women’s singles champion and top seed. After all, Wang is no fool. This is a 21-year-old girl who reached a
READ MOREWith rescue work completed, authorities have begun clearing the mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 300 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country’s deadliest rail disasters in decades, officials said. on Sunday. Investigators are investigating the possible causes of the crash that occurred Friday night
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A railway ministry spokesman said 10 to 12 carriages of one train derailed before being hit by another passenger train coming from the opposite direction. The death toll from the derailment of two passenger trains in India has risen to 120, according to media reports. The Press Trust of India quoted State Fire Chief Sudhansha
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Key points Two trains collided in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. The death toll is expected to rise. Rescue teams have been mobilized, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Twitter. The death toll from India’s deadliest rail accident in more than a decade continues to rise, with at least 207 people killed and 900
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