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The Compassion Hub has been a hive of activity since many people set up camp on the corner of Gore Street and Albert Street East over the summer. That camp was removed Thursday, as Sault Ste. Marie Police Service — along with social services, community outreach, paramedics and the city’s public works department — participated in what it described as a “cleanup” of the encampment, citing “heightened public safety and health concerns for the residents of the area and those in the camp” in a press release issued after the much-discussed removal....

People providing mental health support across the country have been much busier helping those who have been traumatized after Pope Francis arrived in Canada and apologized for the harm done by members of the Catholic Church. “Once we started, before the Pope gave his first speech on Monday, we saw about 125 people come to us at Maskwacis,” said Nola Jeffrey, executive director of the Tsow-Tun Le Lum Society, a substance abuse and trauma organization....

Named Lulo Rose, the large 170-carat pink gemstone was found at the Lulo diamond mine, according to owners Lucapa Company – an alluvial mine, meaning it was found in a river bed. “Only one in 10,000 diamonds are pink. So you’re definitely looking at a very rare item when you find a very large pink diamond,” Lucapa CEO Stephen Wetherall told The Associated Press. It is likely to fetch a high price when it heads to the auction room, but Mr Wetherall suggested its color could fetch it an even higher premium....

In a 5-4 decision on Friday, the high court ruled that if a complainant’s partner ignores the condition of using a condom, the intercourse is non-consensual and the complainant’s autonomy and equal sexual agency have been violated. “When a complainant states, ‘no, not without a condom,’ the consent law tells us, emphatically, that actually means ‘no,’ and cannot be reinterpreted as ‘yes, without a condom,'” the decision states. A court has ordered a new trial in a British Columbia case in which a complainant told a new sex partner, Ross McKenzie Kirkpatrick, that he would only have sex if he wore a condom....

“Unfortunately, nobody has gotten to the bottom of 9/11,” Trump told ESPN on Thursday. “It should, in terms of the maniacs who did this horrible thing, in our city, in our country, in the world. So no one was really there. But I can tell you that there are a lot of really wonderful people that are out here today. And we’re going to have a lot of fun and celebrate....

Un homme a été arrêté, qui aurait déclenché au moins huit incendies dans la matinée. L’essentiel Un incendie, parti de Lussas, en Ardèche, mercredi matin, se dirige vers Voguë, plus au sud, en cette fin de journée. Le village de Voguë est évacué, ainsi que le château et un camping près de Saint-Privas, au total au moins 350 personnes ont été mises en sécurité 450 pompiers sont mobilisés, mais le feu progresse vite et a du vent Depuis mercredi matin, huit à dix départs de feu ont été observés Un homme d’une quarantaine d’années est soupçonné de les avoir délibérément déclenchés, arrêté et placé dans une cuve ivre en attendant d’être entendu...

A partir de lundi, la France connaîtra sa troisième vague de chaleur depuis juin, selon les prévisions météorologiques. Alimenté par une canicule venue du Sahara, il devrait faire grimper le mercure jusqu’à 39 degrés localement dans le sud, avant de remonter progressivement vers le nord de la France. “Ça va être compliqué… On va souffrir”, démissionne un Montpelliérain rencontré par les équipes de BFMTV. Actuellement, Météo-France a placé huit départements du sud-est en alerte jaune canicule....

CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the videos that circulated widely on social media after first appearing on a pro-Russian Telegram channel. CNN also has not independently verified the nationality of the perpetrators or the victim. The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said it was disappointed by the videos. In a statement issued late Friday, the Monitoring Mission said “torture and summary executions of prisoners of war and persons hors de combat are war crimes....

Nach einer großangelegten Evakuierungsaktion haben Sprengstoff-Experten am Sonnabend in Göttingen fünf Blindgänger-Bomben aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg entschärft. Die Sprengung am späten Abend verlief offenbar erfolgreich. Die Sperrung des Evakuierungsbereichs ist aufgehoben. Bei allen fünf Verdachtsstellen in Göttingen waren im Laufe des Tages Blindgänger mit Langzeitzündern aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gefunden worden. Die fünf Zehn-Zentner-Bomben mussten dann am späten Abend kontrolliert gesprengt werden. Dieser Vorgang verlief nach Angaben der Stadt erfolgreich....

The next drawing is set to take place on Friday, July 29th at 11pm ET. It will be the 13th since the last Mega Millions jackpot series began in April and follows a group of very close calls during the most recent drawing on Tuesday. Mega Millions said nine people nearly won the jackpot, which at the time stood at $830 million, but was slightly short as their tickets had the first five winning numbers without the sixth and final Mega Ball figure....

Raleigh, NC — Democrat Willie Rowe beat incumbent Gerald Baker to secure the party’s nomination in the Wake County Sheriff’s race. Rowe is set to face Republican challenger and former Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison in the Nov. 8 general election. With 208 of 208 precincts reporting, Rowe had 23,763 votes (75.35%) compared to 7,773 votes (24.65%) for Baker. “We’re in this position because of you,” Rowe said. “The phone calls, the texts, reaching out to people, spreading that message by word of mouth, social media [and] every avenue....

The inquiry by the Commission on Young Lives, chaired by the former children’s commissioner for England Anne Longfield, said a “once in a generation” £1bn recovery package was needed to boost an overstretched NHS system too often forced to turn away unwell youngsters. A “rising tide” of poor mental health in which incidences of self-harm, attempted suicide, anxiety, eating disorders and behavioural difficulties were more extreme and frequent, was overwhelming attempts by NHS services to offer timely and consistent help to youngsters, it said....

Dans l’attente de son procès pour des accusations d’agressions sexuelles qu’il aurait commises dans l’exercice de ses fonctions en août 2021, Samuel Ducharme a de nouveau été arrêté le 18 juillet. La deuxième victime présumée, qui aurait été agressée il y a plus de 10 ans, a porté plainte ces derniers mois et suite à une enquête du Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), le Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales (DPCP) a déposé une nouvelle inculpation contre l’officier....

Jones’ decision to seek bankruptcy protection for his company, Free Speech Systems, which operates the right-wing conspiracy outlet Infowars, also comes after he was found liable in a separate defamation case in Connecticut. In that Connecticut case, a different group of families similarly sued Jones for false claims he made about the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. Three smaller companies associated with Jones filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, briefly shutting down cases in both Texas and Connecticut....

Alibaba shares have fallen since the company announced it will file for a listing in Hong Kong. (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images) Shares of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba fell sharply on Friday after a report said billionaire Jack Ma plans to divest control of Ant Group. Alibaba (ie: BABA) owns about a third of Fintech powerhouse Ant. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Ant wanted to distance himself from Alibaba, which Ma founded, after a prolonged period of regulatory pressure....

It was 2009 – 12 years before she would be elevated to her current role as foreign secretary – and she was on the verge of finally becoming an MP after being selected to stand in the safe seat of South West Norfolk. Dozens of hardline, rural Tory activists, dubbed the “Turnip Taliban”, had called an urgent meeting, angry that an 18-month affair with the Conservative MP Mark Field had not been disclosed when she was endorsed as a candidate....

„Unsere primäre Aufgabe als Arbeitsmarktservice ist es, Menschen aus der Ukraine bei der Arbeitssuche zu unterstützen“, erklärt Dr. Johannes Kopf, Leiter des AMS. „Außerdem ist es uns wichtig, Sie über unsere Möglichkeiten zum Leben und Arbeiten in Österreich zu beraten und zu informieren, denn wenn Sie in einem neuen Land ankommen, werden Sie mit vielen unbekannten Dingen konfrontiert. Wir hoffen, dass unser viersprachiger Reiseführer für Menschen, die die Ukraine verlassen, nützlich sein wird, und wir wünschen ihnen alles Gute für ihre Zeit in Österreich....

Comment A group of scientists has concluded that ancient Europeans drank milk for millennia despite the digestive problems it may have caused, casting doubt on theories on how humans evolved to tolerate it. Scientists have long speculated that an enzyme needed to avoid any gastrointestinal discomfort developed rapidly in populations where domesticating dairy animals was prevalent. People who could tolerate milk, that theory goes, gained a new source of calories and protein and passed on their genes to more healthy offspring than those without the genetic trait — known as lactase persistence — that allows them to digest the sugar in milk into adulthood....

Like Tolkien, I grew up in Birmingham and it was a smile-inducing wonder to realize that many of the books’ landmarks were based on the geography of the author’s childhood – that the Shire itself was a representation of his childhood happiness. Sarehole Mill; that the Old Forest where Tom Bombadil lived was reminiscent of the Moseley Bog where the author had his childhood adventures (now maintained as a nature reserve by the Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust)....

But Alistair Chesser, chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust, said on Friday that “further delay” in starting to provide “palliative care” to Archie Battersbee would “not be appropriate” without a court order. Doctors treating Archie at the Royal London hospital in east London – part of the Barts trust – think he is brain-stem dead and say continued life-support treatment is not in his best interests. Archie’s parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, have asked the UN to intervene....