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B.C. hits Canadian September heat record again as smoke warnings persist
VANCOUVER - Temperatures in British Columbia have hit all-time Canadian record levels for the month of September for the second consecutive day, as extremely hot and smoky conditions persist across mu...
Sep 04, 2025
Wildfire near B.C.'s Coquihalla Highway triggers evacuation order and alerts
KAMLOOPS - About 84 properties along the Coquihalla Highway in the British Columbia Interior are on alert and one other has been ordered to evacuate due to an intense wildfire that saw drivers go thro...
Sep 04, 2025
Congo's health ministry announces a new Ebola outbreak
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Congo's health ministry on Thursday announced a new Ebola outbreak, the 16th in the central African country, after a case was confirmed in the southern Kasai province. "To date, ...
Sep 04, 2025
The District of Columbia sues over Trump's deployment of the National Guard
WASHINGTON (AP) - The District of Columbia on Thursday sued to stop President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard during law enforcement intervention in Washington. The city's attorney general...
Sep 04, 2025
Lorena is downgraded to a tropical storm but still poses a flood and mudslide threat to Mexico
MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Lorena has weakened to a tropical storm but forecasters said a life-threatening risk of flash flooding and mudslides was still present for parts of Mexico's Baja California peni...
Sep 04, 2025
Macron says 26 countries pledge troops as a reassurance force for Ukraine after fighting ends
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that 26 of Ukraine's allies have pledged to deploy troops as a "reassurance force" for the war-torn country once fighting ends in th...
Sep 04, 2025
Union escalates B.C. public service job action, saying no improved offer in sight
VANCOUVER - The union representing thousands of British Columbia public service workers says it is escalating job action in the dispute. The BC General Employees' Union says pickets are being expanded...
Sep 04, 2025
Palestinian death toll passes 64,000, health officials say, as Israel and Hamas dig in on demands
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - More than 64,000 Palestinians have been killed in the nearly two-year war in the Gaza Strip, local health officials said Thursday, as Hamas and Israel reiterated their...
Sep 04, 2025
Death toll from Afghan earthquake jumps to 2,205, the Taliban say
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) - Hundreds of bodies have been recovered from houses destroyed by a major earthquake in Afghanistan last week, pushing the death toll to over 2,200, a Taliban government sp...
Sep 04, 2025
Death toll in Lisbon streetcar crash rises to 17
LISBON, Portugal (AP) - The death toll in the Lisbon streetcar crash has risen to 17, an emergency services official said Thursday. Two of the injured died overnight in a hospital, Margarida Castro Ma...
Sep 04, 2025