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  • NewsBBC

    Baltimore bridge: Massive US crane to haul wreckage after deadly collapse

    Authorities still have to recover four bodies, remove the collapsed span and reopen the busy US port.

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  • NewsThe Canadian Press

    France asks for foreign police and military help with massive Paris Olympics security challenge

    France says it has asked 46 countries if they would be willing to supply more than 2,000 police officers to help secure the Paris Olympics this summer, as organizers finalize security planning for the French capital's first Games in a century while on heightened alert against potential attacks. The Interior Ministry said Friday that the request for foreign security assistance was made in January, seeking nearly 2,185 reinforcements. The officers are sought to help with Games security and “the sp

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  • NewsThe Canadian Press

    A tropical cyclone makes landfall in northern Madagascar, killing 18 people

    ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — A tropical cyclone that swept across Madagascar has killed 18 people and left four missing after making landfall on the north of the Indian Ocean island nation earlier this week, authorities said on Friday. The storm has also caused severe flooding that partly submerged entire villages, displaced or affected some 47,000 people and set off landslides that injured three people, the National Office for Disaster Management said. Cyclone Gamane hit northern Madagascar

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  • US PoliticsThe Canadian Press

    Former US Sen. Joe Lieberman and VP candidate remembered at hometown funeral service

    STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Political dignitaries, family and friends gathered Friday to honor the late Joe Lieberman at a funeral service in Stamford, Connecticut, the hometown of the four-term U.S. senator who grew up as the son of a liquor store owner and came within hundreds of votes of becoming the first Jewish vice president in 2000. Lieberman died Wednesday in New York City from complications from a fall, according to his family. He was 82. Services are being held at Congregation Agudath Sholo

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  • SportsBBC

    Bristol City 1-0 Leicester City: Anis Mehmeti stunner piles pressure on promotion-chasing Foxes

    Anis Mehmeti's second-half stunner piles more misery on Championship title-chasers Leicester City as they lost 1-0 to Bristol City.

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  • NewsBBC

    Inmates discharged after suspected food poisoning

    The Ministry of Justice says investigations into what caused Thursday's mass sickness are ongoing.

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  • SportsBBC

    Xabi Alonso to stay at Bayer Leverkusen amid Liverpool interest

    Xabi Alonso announces he will remain as manager of Bayer Leverkusen beyond this summer despite interest from Liverpool and Bayern Munich.

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