Friday, March 25, 2022

Italy to miss World Cup again following stunning upset loss to North Macedonia

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European champion Italy will miss the World Cup. Again. The unthinkable happened in Palermo, Italy on Thursday as the Azzurri were beaten 1-0 by North Macedonia following a last-gasp goal by Aleksandar Trajkovski in their playoff semifinal.



source https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/soccer-italy-ousted-world-cup-contention-2022-1.6396818?cmp=rss

5 days after crash, 2nd black box eludes China searchers

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Five days after the crash of a passenger jet in mountainous southern China, the disaster's cause remains a mystery while the search for the plane's second "black box" continued Friday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-crash-black-box-1.6397127?cmp=rss

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Text messages show wife of U.S. Supreme Court justice urged overturning Biden election

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Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent weeks of text messages imploring White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to act to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to copies of the messages obtained by the Washington Post and CBS News.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/biden-trump-election-clarence-thomas-text-messages-1.6396958?cmp=rss

Russia's war in Ukraine has driven more than half the country's children from their homes

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Russia's invasion has displaced more than half of Ukraine's children. The United Nations children's agency says half of the country's children, or 4.3 million of an estimated 7.5 million, have now fled their homes, including about 1.8 million refugees who have left the country.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-war-children-displaced-1.6396356?cmp=rss

Lifestyle of largest meat-eating dinosaur revealed by its bone density

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Did Spinosaurus, the largest-known carnivorous dinosaur, wade into rivers and lakes like a heron? Or did they swim underwater like a hippo or croc? It turns out that the answer was in their bones.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/spinosaurus-bones-1.6395820?cmp=rss