A plane carrying dozens of people collided with a fire truck on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia airport, killing the pilot and co-pilot and causing “serious injuries” to others, authorities said Monday.Due to the crash late Sunday, US aviation authorities halted all flights at LaGuardia, and the port authority said the airport would stay …
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A plane carrying dozens of people collided with a fire truck late Sunday on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia airport, forcing a halt to flights at the transport hub, authorities said.AFP pictures showed the heavily damaged nose and cockpit section of the Air Canada Express plane, which had arrived from Montreal, on the tarmac …
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Amazon MGM’s sci-fi adventure flick “Project Hail Mary” debuted at the top of the North American box office this week with an astronomical $80.5 million, industry estimates showed Sunday.Ryan Gosling stars in the film as a teacher-turned-astronaut who awakes on a spaceship with a mission to save Earth from a sun-dimming phenomenon.It is adapted from …
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Toronto’s mayor moved Friday to ban US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from the Canadian city during this summer’s World Cup, saying their recent conduct proves they bring “fear and disorder.”The motion presented by Mayor Olivia Chow is entitled “No ICE in Toronto” and says the presence of agents “is liable to create fear …
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British writer Len Deighton, who has died at 97, created the sardonic working-class spy played by Michael Caine in the 1965 Cold War film “The Ipcress File”.Deighton “passed away peacefully on Sunday”, his literary agent said, calling him “one of the greatest spy and thriller writers of the twentieth century”.Deighton’s thick-bespectacled agent provided an antidote …
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NATO allies and other Western nations pushed back Monday on US President Donald Trump’s demand that military alliance members help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the critical conduit for crude oil Iran has effectively closed.UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said London was working with allies to craft a “viable” plan to reopen the strategic waterway …
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Here are the latest events in the Middle East war:- Blasts in Tehran -Explosions hit the Iranian capital on Monday, an AFP journalist reported, hours after Israel said it conducted large-scale overnight strikes. The blasts were heard in central Tehran as air defence systems were activated, the journalist said. It was not immediately clear what was …
As Hollywood grapples with existential questions and fickle audiences, one of its top stars, Ryan Gosling, has a simple credo.”In this stage of my life, if I’m going to make films, I want it to be a film that is worth going to the theatre to see,” the Canadian actor told journalists in Paris.The comment …
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The United States struggled to another major sporting victory over border rival Canada on Friday to reach the World Baseball Classic semi-finals, where the Americans will face the unbeaten Dominican Republic.Alex Bregman hit a two-run single and David Bednar thwarted a seventh-inning threat as the US team of Major League Baseball stars edged Canada 5-3 …
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Canadian, German and Norwegian leaders on Friday reaffirmed their commitment to Arctic security, which has come under strain, while visiting troops at a large NATO exercise.”We are fully prepared, individually and collectively, to defend the Arctic and the High North,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told a press conference in Bardufoss, a military town located …
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