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Evacuations, damage as raging wildfire spreads in Cape Town
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - People were evacuated from Cape Town neighbourhoods Monday as a huge wildfire sweeping across the slopes of the city's famed Table Mountain was fanned by high winds and threa...
Apr 19, 2021
Patrick Marleau set to break Gordie Howe's record for most NHL games played
LAS VEGAS - Patrick Marleau is poised to make history tonight.The 41-year-old native of Aneroid, Sask., will surpass Gordie Howe's record for most games played in NHL history when the San Jose Sharks ...
Apr 19, 2021
NASA's Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another plane...
Apr 19, 2021
1 dead, 100,000 displaced as typhoon blows near Philippines
MANILA, Philippines - An approaching typhoon has left at least one person dead, another missing and prompted the evacuation of more than 100,000 people as a precaution in the eastern and central Phili...
Apr 19, 2021
Residents evacuated as mountain fire spreads in Cape Town
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Residents are being evacuated from Cape Town neighbourhoods Monday as a wildfire spreading on the slopes of the city's famed Table Mountain was fanned by strong winds overnig...
Apr 19, 2021
Australia-New Zealand travel bubble opens with joy, tears
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - As the passengers walked a little dazed through the airport gates, they were embraced one after another by family members who rushed forward and dissolved into tears. Elation...
Apr 19, 2021
Bitter experience helps French ICUs crest latest virus wave
ROUEN, France - Slowly suffocating in a French intensive care ward, Patrick Aricique feared he would die from his diseased lungs that felt "completely burned from the inside, burned like the cathedral...
Apr 19, 2021
UK's Johnson cancels India trip as its virus cases surge
LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called off a trip to India amid surging coronavirus cases in the country. The British and Indian governments said Monday that "in the light of the cur...
Apr 19, 2021
German Greens launch chancellor bid as Merkel bloc squabbles
BERLIN - Germany's environmentalist Greens chose co-leader Annalena Baerbock on Monday to make their first bid for the chancellery in the country's September election, while a power struggle in Chance...
Apr 19, 2021
Australia reverses decision to withhold medals from veterans
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's government on Monday reversed a decision to strip soldiers of unit citations due to war crime allegations in Afghanistan and announced an inquiry into suicides among ...
Apr 19, 2021