The Alberta Energy Regulator said on Monday it is responding to a crude spill by Husky Energy Inc in Canada’s oil-rich Alberta, and while the pipeline in question has been shut, the leaked volume and cause are unknown. According to the agency, the incident happened last Thursday, and the company is still working to isolate the oil, which leaked into the Coxhill Creek stream west of Alberta’s largest city of Calgary.
Day: March 20, 2017
George Clooney Surprises Elderly Fan For Her Birthday
George Clooney made a birthday wish come true for one elderly fan in England after making a surprise visit to her senior living facility. The Ocean’s Eleven star and his wife Amal own a countryside home near the Sunrise Sonning Retirement and Assisted Living Facility in Reading, and staff members recently decided to reach out to the actor in a bid to convince him to stop by and make Pat Adams’ dreams a reality.
.com | ‘Israel bias’ row enters UN rights council stage
A United Nations rights expert issued a blistering criticism of Israel’s policies on Monday, deepening a row over alleged anti-Israel bias within the UN following US pressure. In a report, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Michael Lynk, charged Israel with “the subjugation of humanity” and intensifying a crackdown on human rights campaigners.
.com | Trump wants to work with Palestinians – official
US President Donald Trump sees Mahmoud Abbas as a “strategic partner” and the Palestinian leader wants to engage with him to work towards a two-state solution, a senior Palestinian official said on Monday. Jibril Rajoub, a high-ranking member of Abbas’s Fatah party seen as a possible successor to the 81-year-old president, said he believed Trump could be less beholden to certain interest groups than previous US presidents.
Suffolk young driver’s insurance cap call debated by MPs – should premiums be limited to A 1,200?
Car insurance premiums would go up for everyone if a Lowestoft teenager’s plea for a 1,200 cap for young people went ahead, insurance giant Aviva has claimed. The warning came as MPs spent more than two hours debating 19-year-old Rhys Parker’s parliamentary petition which called for a cap on the amount 18 to 25-year-old should pay to insure their vehicles.
Rare Princess Diana letters to her personal secretary to be auctioned off
Letters written by the late Princess Diana to her personal secretary, Jane Parsons M.B.E, are going to be auctioned off in April. According to Vanity Fair , the contents of the correspondence reveal an “intimate glimpse into the marriage” between Prince Charles and the Princess of Wales.
St. Catharines, Ont., man wanted for 2nd-degree murder in death of stepson, 7
A search for an Ontario man accused of fatally injuring his stepson moments before attempting to kill a local bank employee stretched into its third day on Monday as police conceded the fugitive could be just about anywhere. Niagara regional police said they’ve issued a Canada-wide warrant for the arrest of 43-year-old Justin Kuijer of St. Catharines, Ont.
One-fifth of Canadians diagnosed with hypertension don’t actually have it: study
More than half of family doctors in Canada use outdated methods to measure blood pressure and it’s leading to a misdiagnoses in a number of patients, a Canadian study found. According to researchers at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre , about 20 per cent of people getting treatment for hypertension don’t actually have it, and it’s mainly due to improperly measured blood pressure with older instruments.
Prince Charles: Ordering Prince Harry to Dump Meghan Markle?
Earlier today, we reported that Meghan Markle may be planning to quit acting in order to move to London and focus on her relationship with Prince Harry. It’s not easy to leave behind the glamorous life of a regular on a basic cable legal drama beloved by retirees and the unemployable alike, but Harry and Meghan seem to be the real thing, and marrying into royalty is a pretty sweet deal in its own right.
Canada sends Buy American letter to U.S. lawmakers, as potential battle looms
The Canadian government has fired off a letter to a group of U.S. lawmakers who support tougher Buy American rules, foreshadowing a possible tussle ahead as American procurement policies get debated this year. David MacNaughton, Canada’s ambassador to Washington, sent a letter last week to four Democratic lawmakers who have urged President Donald Trump to restrict foreign suppliers, including on the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Russia will strike U.S. elections again, FBI warns
Future U.S. elections may very well face more Russian attempts to interfere with the outcome, the FBI and the National Security Agency warned on Monday. “They’ll be back,” said FBI director James Comey.
U.S. House Republicans to release healthcare bill changes
FILE PHOTO: House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady speaks with the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 14, 2017. Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will release changes to their healthcare bill on Monday, a top lawmaker said, in hopes of winning passage for the legislation later this week, and eventually, in the Senate.
Hardware Reconfigurable Devices Market Driven By Growing Consumer Demand – IndustryARC Research
Hardware Reconfigurable Devices Market is Set to Show Rapid Development With Technology Innovation And Improved Efficacy Of Hardware During The Period 2017-2022 / EIN News / — Hyderabad, India, March 20, 2017 — The report ” Hardware Reconfigurable Devices Market: By Types of Device By Process -Forecast “, published by IndustryARC, estimates that with the cost of good quality materials getting cheaper and more flexible, there will be a significant surge in APAC regions. Browse 60 Market Tables, 15 Figures spread through 170 Pages and an in-depth TOC on “Hardware Reconfigurable Devices Market 2017-2022”.
Did India miss a fifth bowler in third Test?
IMAGE: ‘India can afford to bring in a fifth bowler in the playing eleven to share the burden of its four-men bowling attack’. Photograph: BCCI Legendary Sunil Gavaskar feels India missed a fifth bowler in the third Test against Australia which ended in a tame draw, in Ranchi on Monday.
How Comey got the job done
Today, the most famous FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover did his job. Director James Comey revealed a bombshell — and he also probably made a few more enemies.
Settler leader blasts lack of new settlement construction
A settler leader vowed that there would be construction in all the West Bank settlements, and expressed frustration that limitations have not been lifted since the January inauguration of US President Donald Trump. “The decision of the leadership of the Yesha Council is that there will be construction in every settlement, we are longer in the Obama era and it can’t be that the Trump era is even worse than the Obama era,” Army Radio on Monday quoted Avi Roeh, the leader of the settler umbrella group the Yesha Council, as telling a meeting of the group.
The real face of Jordan
Every once in a while, the Jordanian people are given a chance to express how they really feel about Israel. It’s ugly.
March 20, 2017Rivlin responds to public broadcasting saga from Vietnam
Antisemitism in the US is on the rise – what do US senators and Israeli ministers have to say about it? Save your seat In Hanoi and Beijing, they’re talking about Israel’s public broadcasting crisis, or more accurately why the crisis should not be a pretext for holding new elections. Reporters traveling in Vietnam with President Reuven Rivlin and in China with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were more inclined to report on the broadcasting dilemma and possible election crisis than on bilateral relations.
From Bhutan to Tasmania
When I was around seven years old my father and mother brought us to Nepal in the beginning of 1992 due to the political conflict. The people of Bhutan wanted democracy in the country, but the government of Bhutan refused people’s wants.
Neglect No More: Ending Neglected Tropical Diseases Helps Us All
Most Americans have never heard of them. But intestinal worms known as soil-transmitted helminths were once endemic across Appalachia and the southeastern United States.