Members of Red Pheasant Cree Nation are looking for help finding someone who started a grassfire that’s blanketed the community in smoke. Just after 4 p.m. Monday, the band posted a photo of a truck on its Facebook page offering a $500 reward to the person who can identify the driver. Staff at the health centre also shared an “urgent memo” online, warning community member to take precautions and stay indoors.
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Amit Shah said both Congress and RJD chief Lalu Prasad always acted against the backward castes to promote dynastic rule and blamed them for ignoring former Bihar CM late Karpoori Thakur. Shah asked people to vote for Modi for the third term for 400 plus seats to end corruption and send all the tainted leaders behind the bars.
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The U.S. and Mexico are withdrawing their bid to host the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The 2031 World Cup will call for the same level of investment as the Men’s. It will be the first time the tournament will be hosted by three countries.
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Erika Fairweather and Lewis Clareburt lead New Zealand’s nine-strong swimming contingent named for this year’s Paris Olympics. The duo will both head to Paris after respective victories at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar earlier this year. Fairweather, 24, won the 400m individual medley and 200m butterfly at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
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Hazel Ouwehand stormed home in the Women's 100m Butterfly in a New Zealand record time of 57.43s. The other six athletes will make their Olympic debuts in Paris after swimming qualification times at the New Zealand Swimming Championships earlier this month.
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Taylor Swift continues to dominate in the week following the release of her 11th album, “The Tortured Poets Department” The 31-track album has hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, tying Swift with Jay-Z for second-most no. 1 albums at 14. Vinyl accounts for 859,000 units sold, the highest number of vinyl sales in modern history.
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Steward Health Care announced in late February that it had secured a robust financing agreement that will provide a $150 million cash infusion to provide additional liquidity. With that deadline on Tuesday, Steward hospital workers say they have received little information about what's going to happen to the hospitals and their jobs. Gov. Maura Healey and other elected officials have called for Steward operators to pull out of the state.
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The 3rd East African Community (EAC) Regional Science, Technology, and Innovation Conference, held from 6 to 8 March, 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. Setting this achievement apart is the inclusion of Open Science principles and guidelines in the new policy framework. This marks a first for the region and Africa and is set to unlock the full potential of scientific research.
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Juan Miguel Echeverria was considered the most likely athlete in the world to beat Mike Powell’s long jump world record (8.95m) but, after winning the 2019 Lima Pan American Games, he resigned from the Cuban team to go live in Europe.
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Billie Eilish is taking her upcoming third studio album, Hit Me Hard And Soft on the road in March and February of next year. Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 3. The band have returned with a new single, Dogs of War.
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