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South Africa to step up security ahead of anti-migrant deadline
1+ hour, 27+ min ago (362+ words) Johannesburg (AFP) " South African police will boost deployments nationwide ahead of a June 30 deadline set by fringe anti-illegal immigration groups for undocumented foreigners to leave, law enforcement authorities said Monday. The country, one of Africa's largest and most industrialized economies,…...
HUNTER: Is it time to talk about executing killers who murder cops and kids?
6+ day, 55+ min ago (584+ words) In Ontario over the past two weeks, two cops have been slain and a third seriously injured Benjamin Ritchie caught the night train to Nowheresville at 12: 46 a. m. on May 20. Ritchie took his seat in the death chamber at the Indiana State…...
Gunmen shoot dead 12 near Johannesburg: South African police
1+ week, 5+ day ago (491+ words) Johannesburg (AFP) " Gunmen stormed an informal settlement near Johannesburg and shot dead 12 people overnight, South African police said Wednesday, in the latest mass shooting in the crime-weary country. The shootings happened before midnight on Tuesday in an impoverished area of…...
Ultimate World Cup watchlist: The Top 20 games fans won't want to miss
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1158+ words) Games like Brazil vs. Morocco, France-Norway, Portugal vs. Colombia and England facing Croatia should be must-watch matchups. See more Toronto Sun on Google "save as a Preferred Source This will be the biggest World Cup in history, loaded with 104 matches…...
Poachers suspected of killing, dumping elderly couple's bodies in croc-infested river
3+ week, 6+ day ago (399+ words) See more Toronto Sun on Google "save as a Preferred Source A retired couple vacationing in South Africa was found stabbed to death in crocodile-infested waters after a suspected run-in with poachers. Ernst Marais, 71, and his wife Dina, 73, were spending…...
Mc CAUGHEY: Infection-control standards doomed hantavirus cruise ship
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (449+ words) This mad scramble was preventable. The answer is to rigorously follow infection prevention principles. Among the passengers who boarded that day was a 70-year-old birdwatcher who had spent his final days ashore traipsing through an Argentinian dump covered with rat…...
Canadians on cruise ship hit by hantavirus on flight to Quebec
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (515+ words) None of approximately 140 on board the MV Hondius were exhibiting symptoms, health officials said Four Canadians who were among the passengers aboard the hantavirus-hit cruise ship are on a plane en route to Canada Sunday. Wearing protective gear, the Canadians…...
Hantavirus cruise ship heading to Canary Islands in urgent search for port
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (514+ words) Three people have died, two require urgent care in suspected outbreak. Health officials on Tuesday were racing to find a port for the cruise ship on which hantavirus is suspected of breaking out. The MV Hondius is currently off Cape…...
Human remains found in giant crocodile
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (242+ words) Pieces of a 59-year-old man were found inside a 1, 000-pound crocodile. The mortal remains of a South African hotel boss have been found inside a 15-foot crocodile after it was airlifted. Gabriel Batista, 59, was believed to have been eaten up…...
What to know about hantavirus after 3 died in suspected cruise ship outbreak
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (742+ words) The rodent-borne hantavirus is suspected in an outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean in which three passengers have died within three weeks. The World Health Organization said one case of hantavirus has been confirmed and that there…...