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A Queensland coroner has found that Canadian backpacker Piper James, 19, died from drowning after a dingo attack on K’gari, the island off Australia’s east coast where her body was found Jan. 19 near the Maheno shipwreck. The finding gives the clearest official account yet of a death that drew attention across Australia and Canada because dingoes on K’gari are a protected wild population and a major part of the island’s identity. The ruling also …
Nancy Grewal, a 45-year-old Windsor woman known online for videos about Punjab politics and community issues, died after she was stabbed Tuesday night on Todd Lane in LaSalle, where police say a homicide investigation remains active. The case has drawn attention well beyond the Windsor area because it sits at the intersection of crime, online speech and workplace safety. Police have confirmed only the basic outline: Grewal was found wounded shortly before 9:30 p.m. on …
Authorities and volunteer search groups in western Mexico have reported the recovery of hundreds of bags containing human remains from clandestine graves in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, including sites in Zapopan near Estadio Akron, a stadium scheduled to host 2026 World Cup matches. The discoveries have amplified scrutiny of security and public safety in Jalisco state as Mexico prepares to co-host soccer’s biggest tournament with the United States and Canada. The recoveries are part of …
American Airlines removed a Boeing 737 MAX 8 from service after workers found a puncture in a right-wing aileron following a round-trip flight between Miami and Medellín, Colombia, a discovery that prompted U.S. and Colombian authorities to investigate what happened. The airline said no one was hurt and the crew reported no in-flight problems, but the location of the damage drew immediate attention because the aileron is a flight control surface used to help an …
A teenager who police said seized a firearm from an officer opened fire at a public school in southern Thailand, killing the school’s principal and injuring two students before surrendering after a tense hostage standoff that lasted about two hours, authorities said. The shooting at Patongprathankiriwat School in Songkhla province jolted a region near the Malaysian border and prompted a heavy police response as families gathered outside the gates waiting for children to be led …
A gun attack at a small secondary school and a nearby home in northeastern British Columbia left 10 people dead, including the suspected shooter, and more than 25 injured Tuesday, police said, shattering a remote community where many residents know one another by name. The violence unfolded in Tumbler Ridge, a town of roughly 2,400 people on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, and sent frightened students and staff rushing for safety as officers …
Masked robbers armed with military-style weapons blocked a busy highway in southern Italy on Monday, set vehicles on fire and used explosives to attack an armored cash transport van near the town of Tuturano, triggering a brief exchange of gunfire with police and a manhunt that ended with two detentions, authorities said. The daylight assault on State Road 613, the main route between the port city of Brindisi and the city of Lecce in the …
North Korea has executed school-age youths and sent others to labor camps for watching or sharing banned South Korean entertainment, including the Netflix series “Squid Game,” Amnesty International said in a report based on interviews with people who fled the country. The claims, which cannot be independently verified, add fresh detail to long-running warnings that North Korea is tightening controls on outside information as it tries to block what it calls “reactionary” culture. Amnesty said …
Three sisters ages 16, 14 and 12 died early Wednesday after falling from the balcony of their family’s ninth-floor apartment in a sprawling high-rise complex outside New Delhi, police said. The fall happened around 2:15 a.m. local time, and investigators recovered a handwritten note from the girls’ bedroom. Police said the case is being investigated as a suicide involving minors, with early attention on whether an online game or social content may have influenced the …
Olympic bronze medalist Alysha Newman has been provisionally suspended from competition for violating anti-doping whereabouts rules, the Athletics Integrity Unit said this week. The notice, dated Feb. 3, cites “whereabouts failures,” which cover missed tests or filing errors within a 12-month period and trigger an automatic ineligibility pending a case outcome. The ruling sidelines one of Canada’s most prominent track and field athletes less than two years after she won a historic pole vault bronze …