![]() Parks Canada is always grateful for input and feedback from visitors,” external relations manager Jared Kist said in an email Friday evening. “Parks Canada is committed to providing visitors with high-quality and meaningful experiences. Less than a day after a Free Press story on its conspicuous closure - amid sweltering heat and thousands of expected visitors - Parks Canada has decided to speed up its prep time and open the Fort Parka splash pad in time for Pride weekend (nearly one month ahead of its original schedule). Pride-goers, rejoice: Parks Canada is walking back a prior decision and rushing to open its splash pad at The Forks in time for the weekend festivities. Parks Canada reverses course to open The Forks spray pad 2 minute read Yesterday at 6:33 PM CDT Army soldiers and air force helicopters joined the effort in Odisha state.Īn Associated Press photographer saw bodies still entangled in a badly mangled coach, as rescuers struggled to retrieve them working under the oppressive heat with temperatures reaching up to 35 degree Celsius (96 degrees Fahrenheit). Scores of bodies, covered by white sheets, lay on the ground near the tracks while locals and rescuers raced to free the hundreds of people trapped in the rail cars under the twisted metal and broken glass. The death toll rose steadily throughout the night. India train crash kills over 280, injures 900 in one of nation’s worst rail disasters Rafiq Maqbool, Ashok Sharma And Krutika Pathi, The Associated Press 6 minute read Updated: 3:56 PM CDTīALASORE, India (AP) - Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country's deadliest rail crashes in decades, officials said Saturday.Ĭhaotic scenes erupted on Friday night as rescuers climbed atop the wrecked trains to break open doors and windows using cutting torches. ![]() The Chinese vessel overtook the American ship and then veered across its bow at a distance of 150 yards (about 140 meters) in an “unsafe manner," according to the U.S. guided-missile destroyer and a Canadian frigate were intercepted by a Chinese warship as they transited the strait between the self-governed island of Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, and mainland China. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the same forum Saturday that Washington would not “flinch in the face of bullying or coercion” from China and would continue regularly sailing through and flying over the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea to emphasize they are international waters, countering Beijing's sweeping territorial claims. Li Shangfu told the Shangri-La Dialogue that China doesn't have any problems with “innocent passage” but that “we must prevent attempts that try to use those freedom of navigation (patrols), that innocent passage, to exercise hegemony of navigation.” In his first international public address since becoming defense minister in March, Gen. ![]() SINGAPORE (AP) - China's defense minister defended sailing a warship across the path of an American destroyer and Canadian frigate transiting the Taiwan Strait, telling a gathering of some of the world's top defense officials in Singapore on Sunday that such so-called “freedom of navigation” patrols are a provocation to China. Free Press 101: How we practise journalismĬhina defends buzzing American warship in Taiwan Strait, accuses US of provoking Beijing David Rising, The Associated Press 5 minute read Updated: 10:35 PM CDT.
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