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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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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