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With the extensive $234 million rehabilitation project planned for the historic Veterans Memorial Bridge, some have asked: Why not build a new one? The state Department of Transportation says it’s too expensive. The cost to build a new bridge over the Susquehanna River between York and Lancaster counties would likely be more than $340 million,…
An attempted jail break from DR Congo’s largest prison has left at least 129 people dead and led to women being raped, the interior minister said Tuesday. The circumstances around the bid to bust out of the Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa, which holds 10 times the number it is meant to house, in…
What is the Philadelphi corridor? The Philadelphi corridor is a ribbon of land about nine miles (14km)s in length and 100 metres wide along Gaza’s border with Egypt, including the Rafah crossing.It was designated as a demilitarised border zone after the withdrawal of Israeli settlements and troops from Gaza in 2005 and runs from the…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Ugandan athlete living in Kenya was attacked and set on fire by her boyfriend and is receiving treatment for burns on 75% of her body, police said. Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who finished at the 44th position in the 2024 Paris Olympics, was attacked in her house in the…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog was holding talks with senior officials Tuesday in Ukraine over safety concerns for Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, where attacks were recently reported nearby. Rafael Grossi, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency, was making his 10th visit since the Russia-Ukraine war began…
The British government has said it will probe surge pricing after furious Oasis fans faced huge hikes in ticket prices for the Britpop band’s much-anticipated reunion. Fans were left frustrated on Saturday when sales websites crashed due to sheer weight of demand. But many who eventually made it to the front of the online queue…
A particularly bright fireball recently lit up Appalachia as it streaked across the night sky before vanishing over North Carolina, according to NASA. The “very bright fireball” was first spotted 45 miles above Piney Flats, Tennessee, at about 1:15 a.m. Friday, Aug. 30, the space agency said in a Facebook post. It was moving eastward…
Enbridge (NYSE: ENB) is an $85 billion midstream giant with a business that spans across North America. Its dividend yield is 6.7%, which is multiples of the 1.2% yield you’d collect from the S&P 500 index and the 3.1% on offer from the average energy stock, using Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSEMKT: XLE) as…
ELKHART — Personal use of cellphones, laptops and other devices will remained banned in the classroom but allowed elsewhere following revisions to a new policy adopted by Elkhart Community Schools. The policy originally said students could not use personal communication devices during instructional time, during their lunch break or on a school bus or vehicle…
“It’s a huge challenge,” said Pierre-Olivier Ngadjole, a doctor with the Swiss humanitarian organization Medair, which runs the Munigi treatment center. At the hospital in South Kivu, Nathalie’s mother, Ms. Binja, said she was aware that she could be infected with mpox because of the close contact with her daughter. But she said, “I don’t…