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66-year-old man charged after 17-hour standoff at medical building in Mississauga

A 66-year-old Calgary man has been charged Friday after barricading himself inside a Mississauga medical building with multiple firearms for 17 hours, Peel Regional Police said. Police responded to a medical office building in the area of ​​Eglinton Avenue West and Erin Mills Parkway near Credit Valley Hospital around 7:40 p.m. Upon arrival, officers were …

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Zelenskyy says Ukrainian flag flies again in Lyman as Russia pulls troops out of town

After being encircled by Ukrainian forces, Russia withdrew troops on Saturday from an eastern Ukrainian city it had been using as a frontline hub. It was the latest victory in the Ukrainian counteroffensive that has humiliated and angered the Kremlin. Russia’s withdrawal from Lyman complicates its internationally reviled declaration just a day earlier that it …

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Google reportedly cancels Stadia-exclusive follow-up to ‘Death Stranding’

One of the main issues that worked against Stadia from the jump was Google’s failure to secure blockbuster exclusives for the cloud gaming service, which will shut down in January. Sure, people were able to play Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk 2077, and Destiny 2 on the platform, but they’re all available elsewhere. As a …

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How the 1995 Quebec referendum was a turning point for racist comments in political discourse that still resonate

On a stage in Montreal Wednesday night, singer Allison Russell recalled what it was like to live in the city after the Parti Québécois lost the referendum 27 years ago. “They spat on me, called me a monkey and told me to go back to Africa,” Russell, who is black and was born in Montreal, …

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Russia has seized the head of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, according to Ukraine

Ukraine’s nuclear power supplier accused Russia on Saturday of “kidnapping” the head of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, a facility now occupied by Russian troops and located in a region of Ukraine that the Russian President Vladimir Putin has moved to annex illegally. Russian forces captured the general manager of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, …

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NASA has just released the closest and most stunning photos of Jupiter’s Europa in decades

NASA continues to drop more incredible and spectacular photos of outer space in views we’ve never seen before. However, the newest images don’t come from the James Webb Space Telescope, which has been giving us some amazing images lately. These new photos come from NASA’s Juno probe and show the first photos of Jupiter’s Europa …

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Apple AirPods Pro: The 1st generation headphones may get a surprising shiny update

A new feature could be coming to the first generation of AirPods Pro. David Phelan The Apple AirPods Pro are now in their second generation model, with new features and important improvements. But one of these, surprisingly, could also make it to the first-generation headphones. MORE FROM FORBESApple AirPods Pro (2022) review: Familiar looks, exceptional …

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