Ten people were wounded in a Hezbollah rocket barrage from Lebanon toward Israel’s North, Magen David Adom (MDA) announced on Friday. At least nine of those who were reported wounded, of varying degrees, have been transferred for medical treatment. Later, a tenth person, a 37-year-old man in moderate condition was hospitalized after enduring shrapnel … Read more
A rocket fired from Lebanon directly hit a house in Givat Avni in the Lower Galilee, according to Israeli media on Monday. Israel Fire and Rescue teams said they arrived at the scene and cut off energy sources to prevent a fire from developing in the building. Despite the fall, the people living in the … Read more
As It Happens6:32Brazil is on fire, and both crime and climate change are to blame As Cristiane Mazzetti flew over the Brazilian Amazon this month surveying wildfire damage, she couldn’t help but feel frustrated. Mazzetti is a forest campaigner for Greenpeace in Brazil. For years, the environmental group has been trying to curb the deforestation … Read more
Fuel tanks caught fire on Monday on Iran’s side of the Iran-Afghanistan Dogharoun Special Economic Zone at the border, semi-official Iranian state Tasnim news agency reported. The fire, that broke out in fuel tanks on Iran’s side of the Iran-Afghanistan border has been extinguished, Iranian state media reported later on Monday. “The fire injured … Read more
The City of North Bay, Ont. and the Department of National Defence (DND) are set to begin a $20-million project this spring to remediate a site contaminated with perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — often referred to as “forever chemicals.” From the early 1970s to mid-1990s, DND conducted training exercises at the city’s Jack Garland Airport with aqueous film-forming foams that contain … Read more
Oil refinery reservoirs in the eastern Iranian city of Birjand caught fire early on Sunday morning, causing thick smoke that could be seen from several kilometers away, Islamic Republic state media reported. IRNA said firefighters have been dispatched to extinguish the fire at the mini-refinery. Iranian officials received an order to evacuate a nearby … Read more
