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Heat waves sweeping Europe this summer have brought not just record high temperatures and scorched fields: The drought-stricken waters of Italy's River Po are running so low they revealed a previously submerged World War Two bomb.

Organizers of the Montreal Pride Festival cancelled Sunday's parade, citing a lack of security staff for the parade route. The decision was made in collaboration with Montreal police, they said.

Ukraine's state nuclear power company Energoatom said on Sunday that a worker was wounded when Russian forces again shelled the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, on Saturday evening.

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The T'Sou-ke First Nation is working alongside a B.C. tech company to learn more about how climate change is affecting the waters it harvests food from.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that if Russia proceeded with referendums in occupied areas of his country on joining Russia, there could be no talks with Ukraine or its international allies.

Five people, including a suspect, were taken to hospital with serious injuries after a violent incident that drew a massive police presence to downtown Vancouver's main entertainment district Saturday night.

Air Canada denied a customer complaint and instructed employees to classify flight cancellations caused by staff shortages as a "safety" problem, which would exclude travellers from compensation under federal regulations. That policy remains in place.

Montreal's Pride Parade has been cancelled due to a lack of volunteers able to guarantee a secure event.

The rapid growth of a long-burning forest fire in central Newfoundland has triggered a state of emergency in the area and the expansion of an outdoor fire ban to the entire province.

He has a way of winning Wisconsin Senate races in spite of his weird behavior. Democrats see ousting him this fall as key to keeping the Senate.

The Senate bill avoided the political pitfalls of past legislative attempts by offering only incentives to cut climate pollution, not taxes.

The president needs to seize this moment and brag about his wins.

At least four fixtures of Alabama’s great teams of the 1960s had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., at their deaths. Researchers expect it in other players, too.

Information and medications needed to end a pregnancy are increasingly available outside the health care system.

A London museum has agreed to return 72 objects looted from Benin City in 1897 to the Nigerian government.

The Senate is continuing to work Sunday on a series of amendment votes but faced a new hiccup early afternoon as Democrats look to pass their sweeping climate, health care and tax package.

Palestinian militants launched rockets toward Jerusalem on Sunday, after Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip overnight killed a senior militant commander -- the second since Israel's operation against Islamic Jihad began. The response from the Iran-backed group marked another escalation in a weekend of violence that has left dozens of people dead in Gaza and sent thousands of Israelis scrambling for shelters.

Archie Battersbee, a 12-year-old British boy, at the center of a long legal battle between his parents and doctors over the withdrawal of his treatment, died on Saturday, his mother Hollie Dance said.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants say the truce should go into effect late Sunday evening.

The bill - which aims to help reduce US carbon emissions by 40% by 2030 - could pass next week.

The US president is leaving for his home state of Delaware after testing negative for the virus.

The visibly malnourished all-white beluga has been stuck 70km north of Paris since at least Tuesday.

The chair of the Horniman Museum said it was "moral" to return items taken by "force" years ago.