DAVAO, Philippines – A landslide set off by days of heavy rain buried a house where people were holding Christian prayers in the southern Philippines, killing at least seven people, including children, and seriously injuring two others, a disaster-response official said. Five to 10 people remained unaccounted following the landslide in a far-flung … Read more
With the arrival of the repayment deadline for Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) loans, some small business owners say they’ve been scrambling at the last minute to get their payments in on time. In 2020, the federal government gave out almost 900,000 interest-free CEBA loans worth about $50 billion as a lifeline to businesses during the … Read more
UNITED NATIONS – South Korea called on the divided UN Security Council on Thursday “to break the silence” over North Korea’s escalating missile tests and threats. “It’s a big question,” South Korea’s UN Ambassador Hwang Joonkook told reporters after an emergency closed meeting of the council on the North’s first ballistic missile test … Read more
BRASILIA – The vaccination records of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro are false, the country’s comptroller general’s office said on Thursday after an investigation regarding the alleged tampering of information on his COVID-19 vaccination card. The records show that Bolsonaro, a COVID-19 skeptic who publicly opposed the vaccine, received a dose of the … Read more
BOSTON – Police arrested an American Airlines flight attendant on Thursday on suspicion of trying to secretly record a 14-year-old female passenger using a bathroom aboard an airplane he was working on last September. Police also allege Estes Carter Thompson III, 37, of Charlotte, N.C., had recordings of four other minor female passengers … Read more
New York – What started as an April Fool’s Day joke ended up as a real-life product popular enough to sell out in a day. On Wednesday, Burt’s Bees and Hidden Valley Ranch announced an unusual collaboration — a set of lip balms that taste like a basket of chicken wings. The set … Read more
On the surface, it may seem obvious why “Transplant” became one of Canada’s most successful TV dramas. The medical procedural embraced the basics of prime-time crowd-pleasers: good-looking doctors in life-or-death situations, smoky workplace romances, complex hospital jargon. But show creator Joseph Kay ensured there was always more to the CTV series than proven … Read more
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – At least 14 deaths in Tennessee have been linked to a storm system that blanketed the state in snow and sent temperatures plummeting as bitterly cold weather kept an icy grip Thursday on a swath of the U.S. from Oregon to the Northeast. Tennessee officials updated the state’s death toll … Read more
New York – Spirit Airlines could end up in bankruptcy and be forced out of business because of a federal court decision to block a proposed sale to JetBlue Airways, according to a note from an airline analyst. Unlike many airline bankruptcies, in which the airline in bankruptcy court either sheds debt and … Read more
NEW YORK – A New York midwife who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined US$300,000, the state’s health department announced this week. Jeanette Breen, who operates Baldwin Midwifery on Long Island, administered the pellets as an alternative to vaccinations and then falsified their immunization records, the … Read more
