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Bolivia and Jamaica moved to within one win of returning to the World Cup after decades-long absences on Thursday after securing opening victories in FIFA’s intercontinental playoff tournament in Mexico.Bolivia, chasing their first World Cup appearance since the 1994 finals in the United States, came from behind to defeat Suriname 2-1 in Monterrey.The South Americans’ …

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Bolivia produced a second-half fightback to shatter Suriname’s unlikely dream of World Cup qualification with a 2-1 victory in their FIFA playoff game in Mexico on Thursday.A 79th-minute penalty from Santos striker Miguel Terceros following an equalizer from teenage substitute Moises Paniagua fired Bolivia into a winner-take-all final playoff against Iraq next Tuesday.Suriname, who had …

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All Canadian leaders, including corporate bosses, should speak both official languages of English and French, the country’s foreign minister said Thursday, after the Air Canada CEO failed to issue a condolence message in French for a fatal airport disaster.Two pilots were killed in the deadly collision late Sunday between an Air Canada jet and a …

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The four astronauts selected for the Artemis 2 Moon mission will be the first to travel there in more than five decades.In doing so, they will become the new faces of American space exploration.Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch will make the voyage with their Canadian colleague Jeremy Hansen, and are now preparing …

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NASA’s Artemis 2 lunar mission is set to be the first crewed flyby of the Moon in more than half a century, and could launch as soon as April 1.Here is what to know about the highly anticipated mission that will usher in a new chapter of space exploration:- The goal -Artemis is the legacy …

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More than half-a-century after the groundbreaking Apollo program’s last crewed flight to the Moon, three men and one woman are preparing for a lunar journey set to turn a new page in American space exploration.The long-delayed NASA mission dubbed Artemis II is slated to lift-off from Florida and venture to Earth’s natural satellite as early …

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Toronto unveiled its upgraded World Cup stadium on Tuesday, insisting that temporary seating installed to meet FIFA capacity requirements would be safe for fans.”The stands will be perfectly safe,” said Nick Eaves, chief operating officer at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, which operates the Toronto stadium called BMO Field.For the first time in World Cup …

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The first boat of a flotilla carrying medical supplies, food and solar panels reached Cuba on Tuesday to aid the island as a US fuel blockade deepens its energy crisis.The Maguro shrimp fishing boat docked in Havana three days later than hoped after battling strong winds, currents and a pesky battery, with two other ships …

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When Moninder Singh learned recently of assassination threats against his family in Canada, where a fellow Sikh activist was killed in 2023, he says he remained defiant.”We won’t be silenced,” the chairman of the Sikh Federation of Canada told AFP.Singh was speaking at the United Nations’ European headquarters in Geneva, where he has been appealing …

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Two pilots were killed and dozens of people injured after an Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia airport, US authorities said Monday.The crash late Sunday halted flights at LaGuardia, a major transport hub, with the Bombardier jet left tilted back onto its tail, its cockpit smashed, …

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