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I was taking the LRT back to my home on the south side of Edmonton. I had just spent two hours in a downtown theater watching Batman when the moody image of a dark, rainy Gotham City captivated me, as did the story itself. Sitting on a bench overlooking the corridor, I was relaxed, enjoying the warm air from the heaters and the lulling effect of the rocking carriage. There was a scattering of other passengers, most of them engrossed in their digital worlds....

After a rough weekend on Highway 2, Leduc RCMP said there was a crash near the Edmonton Airport in the southbound lanes of the QEII Monday morning. All lanes have since been cleared, but police are warning drivers of ice-covered roads along the highway between Edmonton and Calgary and urging drivers to take “special precautions when traveling on icy Alberta roads.” Read more: Calgary, southeastern Alberta under snow warnings read more Calgary, southeastern Alberta under snow warnings “Winter conditions are now in full swing,” Cpl....

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) – The board of the Inter-American Development Bank voted unanimously on Thursday to recommend the firing of President Mauricio Claver-Carone after an independent ethics investigation found misconduct, three sources with knowledge of the vote said. The recommendation throws the final decision on Latin America’s biggest development bank to its top body, the board, which will vote from Friday to Tuesday, one of the sources said....

Chris Philp, the policing minister, said the number of people entering the UK illegally was “overwhelming” and the immigration system was struggling to cope. He told Times Radio: “At this point in terms of human rights, I mean look, it’s very, very difficult to accommodate 40,000 people who turn up illegally in a very short period of time. “Obviously the Home Office is doing its best to accommodate them, but if some people choose to enter a country illegally and needlessly, it’s a bit cheeky to start complaining about the conditions when you’ve entered a country illegally without needing to....

In Peru halten Indigene 70 Touristen als Geiseln Aus Protest gegen die Regierung haben Indigene in Peru rund 70 Personen festgenommen – darunter auch Schweizer. Hintergrund der Aktion ist eine riesige Ölpest aus einer Pipeline. Das Schweizer Aussenministerium EDA steht in Kontakt mit den peruanischen Behörden. 1/2 Grund für die Geisel: Die Eingeborenen protestieren gegen die Untätigkeit der Regierung nach der Ölkatastrophe. Etwa 70 Touristen, die in einem Nebenfluss des Marañon gefangen gehalten werden, seien Peruaner und Ausländer, fügte er hinzu....

Batches of deadly radioactive uranium will begin arriving within two years to be buried in the tunnels carved into the rock. Other countries, including the UK, are considering plans to build their own geological disposal facilities, which should safely isolate the 260,000 tonnes of highly radioactive waste that has accumulated worldwide since the dawn of nuclear power in the 1950s. Sky News had rare access to the site, called Onkalo, which means “hollow” in Finnish....

Interest the company earns on its $109 billion cash pile nearly tripled from a year ago to $397 million in the third quarter, it disclosed on Saturday, noting that the gain was “mainly due to increases in short-term interest rates.” Berkshire keeps the vast majority of its cash in short-term Treasury bills, bank deposits and money market accounts, where interest rates have been rising rapidly as the Federal Reserve has tightened monetary policy....

title: “Israel Election Netanyahu Seeks Comeback As Country Votes Bbc " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-21” author: “William Ferebee”

U.S. District Court Judge Drew Tipton said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas did not have the authority to issue a September 2021 note urging immigration officials to focus on apprehending immigrants deemed to pose a threat to public safety or national security. immigrants who have recently crossed the US border illegally. Tipton, appointed by former President Donald Trump, has agreed to cancel the Mayorkas note, which has been challenged by Republican officials in Texas and Louisiana....

As a judge at the Supreme Court of Ukraine, the full-scale start of hostilities with Russia also forced him to exchange the sword of justice for an assault rifle. Judges, he will readily admit, do not usually go to war. But he characterized the choice before him and his country as “existential”. “It’s the choice I had to make,” Misenko told CBC News in an interview Monday on the sidelines of an international justice conference in Ottawa....

After a week of financial turmoil following anti-Semitic comments on social media and in interviews, Kanye West is addressing those thoughts, as well as what he said about George Floyd and Black Lives Matter. In a strange 16-minute video shared by WmgLab Records on YouTube on Saturday and apparently recorded sometime after Adidas ended its business relationship with West on Tuesday, the artist appears to address a crowd of paparazzi and onlookers gathered outside from a building as it exits....

And in 2016, she wore one as she drove her one-year-old daughter, Princess Charlotte, away from a service in Berkshire. On another occasion in 2016, Kate was seen wearing a plaster cast at the world premiere of A Street Cat Named Bob at Mayfair. Fans of the royal family do not know why Kate needs the pink bandages. Speculations as to why include the fact that the Duchess is known to be a miserable cook who grows her own vegetables....

Knappe Mehrheit für Bündnis um Ministerpräsident Frederiksen ©APA/AFP Die Mitte-Links-Koalition um die Sozialdemokraten von Ministerpräsidentin Mette Frederiksen hat bei der dänischen Wahl eine knappe Mehrheit errungen. Nach Auszählung aller Stimmen im Land gelang dem linken Lager in der Nacht zum Mittwoch eine Mehrheit von 90 von 179 Sitzen. Die städtische Opposition gewann 73 Sitze. Die neue Partei “Gemäßigte” des ehemaligen Ministerpräsidenten Lars Løkke Rasmussen zieht mit 16 Abgeordneten ins Parlament ein....

Irving had refused to apologize during a post-practice media session earlier Thursday, and the Nets subsequently said Irving is “currently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets.” “We were disappointed today, when given the opportunity at a media briefing, that Kyrie refused to unequivocally say he has no anti-Semitic beliefs, nor to acknowledge specific hateful material in the film. This was not the first time he has had the opportunity — but failed — to clarify,” the Nets said in a statement....

M. Aksionov a également visité la centrale nucléaire de Zaporijia accompagné de Sergueï Kirienko, directeur adjoint de l’administration présidentielle russe. Le commandement militaire ukrainien a noté dans son rapport quotidien des dernières vingt-quatre heures publié vendredi que “la soi-disant ‘évacuation’ du territoire temporairement occupé de la région de Kherson se poursuit”. Kyiv décrit ces transferts de population comme des “déportations”. Il note un “renforcement du groupe ennemi sur la rive droite” de la région de Kherson....

L’armée sud-coréenne a déclaré avoir tiré mercredi 2 novembre trois missiles air-sol de précision en réponse à un missile nord-coréen qui a atterri près des eaux sud-coréennes plus tôt dans la journée. Les missiles ont été tirés dans les eaux “près de la frontière nord à une distance correspondant à la zone touchée par le missile nord-coréen”, a-t-il déclaré dans un communiqué, ajoutant que le geste montrait que Séoul répondrait “strictement à toute provocation”....

Publié à 19h59 Alice Girard-Bossé La Presse “Nous étions 7. Maintenant, malheureusement, nous sommes 5. [Mardi], Elliot, 19 ans, est décédé tragiquement dans un accident stupide. J’ai eu l’honneur d’être sa belle-mère pendant 16 belles années”, a-t-elle déclaré sur Facebook sous le choc.” « Nous allons prendre du temps en famille pour accepter ce second coup. Nous partageons cette immense douleur avec sa mère, Marie-Christine et ses grands-parents”, a-t-il ajouté....

La femme a été déclarée morte vendredi matin, ont confirmé les autorités. Vendredi après-midi dernier, la femme aurait conduit son véhicule directement dans le ruisseau alors qu’elle était avec son bébé d’un mois et sa petite fille. La mère de famille tenterait probablement de mettre fin à ses jours, ainsi qu’à ses enfants. Le nourrisson a été emporté et retrouvé mort lundi matin après une recherche intensive dans la voie navigable....

Xose Bouzas / Xose Bouzas / Hans Lucas via Reu Les bancs de la France révolutionnaire à l’Assemblée nationale, le 3 novembre 2022 POLITIQUE – Nouvelle motion rejetée. Suite à un nouvel usage de l’article 49.3 par le gouvernement dans l’intégralité du projet de loi de finances 2023, la motion de censure déposée par le caucus français récalcitrant a finalement été largement rejetée ce vendredi 4 novembre. Déposée seule par la France Insoumise et en réponse au quatrième recours de l’article 49....