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    Dubai flooding: Dramatic photos after UAE sees heaviest rainfall in 75 years

    The United Arab Emirates witnessed the heaviest rainfall in 75 years this week, triggering massive flooding that swept away cars, caused flights to be canceled and left multiple people dead.

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    Crash closing westbound Highway 417 at Innes Road

    A serious crash is closing westbound Highway 417 at Innes Road, one of the main ways for drivers from the east to get to central Ottawa.The crash happened near the Aviation Parkway, according to an Ontario Provincial Police post on X around 4:15 a.m.It appears drivers going west on Highway 174 can move through the area after joining the 417. Ottawa police, who patrol the 174, say the closure lasts until the spilt between the two highways.There are no further details available on what happened or

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    How the jury is being selected in Trump’s hush money trial

    Jury selection is set to resume Thursday in Manhattan Criminal Court, where a panel of 12 jurors and six alternates will ultimately be chosen to decide the former president’s fate.

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    Parched Texas growing season looms as US, Mexico spar over water treaty

    Texas farm groups warn of a disastrous season ahead for citrus and sugar as Mexican and U.S. officials try to resolve a dispute over a decades-old water treaty that supplies U.S. farmers with critical irrigation. The neighboring countries have tussled over the 1944 treaty before, but the current drought-driven water shortages are the most severe in nearly 30 years and add to existing political tensions over genetically modified corn. Under the treaty designed to allocate shared water resources

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    Trump hush money jury selection resumes as lawyers probe for bias

    Donald Trump is due in Manhattan court on Thursday as lawyers continue searching for jurors to decide the former U.S. president’s fate in a historic criminal trial just months before his upcoming rematch with President Joe Biden. Seven jurors have already been selected after two days of grilling by prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers, who are tasked with finding New Yorkers who can be fair to the Republican presidential candidate in heavily Democratic Manhattan, where the businessman-turned-politic

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    'Incredibly optimistic time' for Regina's CJTR after community station purchased by cable company

    A Regina community radio station that was facing a financial crisis has been purchased by another well-known Saskatchewan-owned telecommunications company.CJTR 91.3 FM has many volunteer hosts that bring a diverse range of programs — from polka to punk to an LGBTQ+ talk show. But its future had been in question — until Tuesday night, when its membership voted nearly unanimously in favour of selling the station to Access Communications. People who work at the grassroots station say it is a relief

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    ShowBiz Minute: Grant, Swift, Ballerinas

    Hugh Grant says he took "enormous sum" to settle suit alleging illegal snooping by The Sun tabloid; Taylor Swift's QR code mural appears on a building in Chicago; How many ballerinas can dance on tiptoes in one place? A world record 353 at New York's Plaza Hotel. (April 18)

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