December 6, 2023
The New South Wales Rural Fire Service is mourning the death of a volunteer firefighter who died battling a blaze in the state’s west. The volunteer was working on the Hudson fire just west of Walgett on Thursday when he was struck by a fallen tree. Fellow RFS members rendered first aid until ambulance crews
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NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Hamsa Diakite can’t remember the last time her family of eight had a good meal. She once sustained them by selling fried bread until a coup in Niger three months ago resulted in sanctions against the West African nation, squeezing incomes in one of the world’s poorest countries and leaving millions
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Yves here. Most readers likely know well that the only residents who will be located hard by nasty places to live like near toxic manufacturing or garbage dumps will be poor. It’s the opposite of NIMBY. And they will be disproportionately from minority groups, but let us not kid ourselves that this is primarily a
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MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – JULY 22: England are set to take the field on the fourth day of the 4th LV= Insurance Ashes Test match between England and Australia at Emirates Old Trafford on July 22, 2023 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images) Australia won the battle, but Bazball fought for a bigger cause
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NRLW’s historic launch of the new 10-team competition is now unlikely to take place in Sydney next week. It was learned that a venue had been booked in Barangaroo for Tuesday’s event, which was to be attended by NRLW captains, senior players and dozens of junior rugby league players and fans. This was to be
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The EU is making major efforts to move energy production and some heavy industry to the bloc’s periphery. This is partly done out of necessity after Brussels decided it no longer needs Russian energy, but it is also part of the EU’s concept of keeping the “garden” clean. Balkans this is one of the areas
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Sacramento – The Catholic Diocese of Sacramento is headquartered on a dirt road between a gas station and a cemetery, about two miles from the State Capitol. It’s an office building with a hard to reach entrance and no church to look after those in need. This is where about a dozen Hispanic asylum seekers
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Heather McIlfatrick of the Children’s Cancer Institute says their new “Donate Your Age” campaign encourages gratitude and generosity by inviting people to donate a dollar for every year of their lives. “We also know that many people take aging for granted and even complain about it from time to time – gray hair, lines and
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Indian police have arrested five men accused of human sacrifice nearly four years after the discovery of the victim’s decapitated body in a Hindu temple baffled officers. Shanti Shaw, 64, was killed and beheaded with a machete in 2019 after visiting a temple in Guwahati, a city in northeast India. Accomplices on the loose Police
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End of Jet Zero? Britain will have to sacrifice 40% of its farmland for biofuels to make the green dream of zero air travel a reality. TO Colin Fernandez Published: 7:04 pm EDT, February 27, 2023 | Updated: 7:10 pm EDT, February 27, 2023 The UK will have to use half of its farmland to
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