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Month: December 2023

‘I’m so broken’: Grieving family speaks out after B.C. cancer patient awaiting treatment chooses MAID

By Robert Buffam Click here for updates on this story     VANCOUVER, B.C. (CTV Network) — Kathleen Carmichael says B.C.’s health-care system let her family down. Her partner, Dan Quayle, opted for a medically assisted death 13 days ago. It was a choice he made after waiting for chemotherapy and treatment that didn’t come fast enough.

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‘Oppenheimer’ to be released in Japan after delay following ‘Barbenheimer’ controversy

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Cinemagoers in Japan will soon be able to see box office hit “Oppenheimer,” months after much of the rest of the world. The blockbuster’s release was postponed amid controversy over an unofficial marketing campaign that critics said trivialized the 1945 nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Film distributor

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Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda says he’ll seek reelection in 2024 for another 5-year term

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s president says he will seek reelection for another five-year term as the leader of the Baltic nation that’s a member of the European Union and NATO. President Gitanas Nauseda announced on Thursday his intention to run as a candidate in next year’s presidential election. He spoke at a news conference

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Donald Trump returns to court, lauds his defense expert who sees no evidence of accounting fraud

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump returned to his civil fraud trial Thursday to spotlight his defense, renewing his complaints that the case is baseless and heaping praise on an accounting professor’s testimony that backed him up. With testimony winding down after more than

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Susie Wolff rejects conflict of interest allegations after FIA announces investigation

By Sammy Mncwabe, CNN (CNN) — F1 Academy managing director Susie Wolff has rejected conflict of interest allegations between her and husband, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff, after the FIA announced an investigation on Tuesday. This comes after the FIA, motorsport’s governing body, issued a statement saying: “The FIA is aware of media speculation centred

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Mexico focuses on looking for people falsely listed as missing, ignores thousands of disappeared

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government is pouring resources into detecting what it suggests are “fake” missing people. It says they are cases reported by political opponents to embarrass the government, or kidnapped people who return home but don’t notify authorities. Yet officials make no significant effort to find actual

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