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• Jaime Torres wins the Preakness with Seize the Grey 2 years after starting to ride horses

  19-05-2024 02:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Jaime Torres was watching horse racing on television in his native Puerto Rico in 2019 when he decided he wanted to be a jockey. Less than five […]
  
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• The Israel-Hamas war is testing whether campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest

  19-05-2024 15:03 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Stephen Hawking on the Big Bang. Millions of students for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. They were provocative in […]
  
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• Rescuers in Iran trying to reach a helicopter involved in an ‘incident’ while accompanying president

  19-05-2024 14:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Rescuers in Iran are trying to reach a helicopter involved in “an incident” while traveling with an entourage including President Ebrahim Raisi, state television […]
  
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• Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers a ‘hard landing,’ state TV says without further details

  19-05-2024 14:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating. Raisi was traveling in […]
  
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• Paul McCartney song starts Paralympics on 100-day countdown to opening ceremony in Paris

  19-05-2024 14:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  GENEVA (AP) — With an assist from Paul McCartney the Paralympic Games starts its 100-day race on Monday to the opening ceremony in Paris in August. The former Beatle has […]
  
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• Senior Republican close to Trump criticizes Biden’s arms holdup in speech to Israeli parliament

  19-05-2024 14:13 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Elise Stefanik, a House Republican leader seen as a candidate to be Donald Trump’s running mate, delivered a speech before Israel’s parliament on Sunday in […]
  
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• Why US Catholics are planning pilgrimages in communities across the nation

  19-05-2024 13:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  A long-planned series of Catholic pilgrimages has begun across the United States this weekend, with pilgrims embarking on four routes before converging on Indianapolis in two months for a major […]
  
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• The Senate filibuster is a hurdle to any national abortion bill. Democrats are campaigning on it

  19-05-2024 13:45 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Sen. Tammy Baldwin, facing a tough reelection fight in one of the races that will determine control of Congress, has made protecting reproductive rights a cornerstone of […]
  
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• What we’ve learned so far in the Trump hush money trial and what to watch for as it wraps up

  19-05-2024 13:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Testimony in the hush money trial of Donald Trump is set to conclude in the coming days, putting the landmark case on track for jury deliberations […]
  
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• French security forces work to regain control of airport highway in violence-scorched New Caledonia

  19-05-2024 13:19 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Using armored vehicles and backhoes to shove aside charred barricades, French security forces worked Sunday to retake control of the highway to the international airport in violence-scorched New Caledonia, shuttered […]
  
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• Slovak prime minister’s condition remains serious but prognosis positive after assassination bid

  19-05-2024 13:18 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, remained in serious condition on Sunday but has been given a positive prognosis four days after he was shot […]
  
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• Academic and doctor Chris van Tulleken: ‘Ultra-processed products are food that lies to us’

  19-05-2024 13:00
  
  The author on how his mission to improve our national diet began – and where it needs to goChris van Tulleken has suggested we meet at his local pizza place, Sweet Thursday, in Hackney, east London. If the choice seems counterintuitive for a man with a mission to improve our national diet, he puts me right when we sit down. “Pizza has become emblematic of junk food,” he says, “but proper homemade pizza is very healthy.”At Sweet Thursday, purist Italian chefs work th
  
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• Heavy rains set off flash floods in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 84 people

  19-05-2024 12:48 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — More heavy rains in Afghanistan have triggered flash floods, raising the death toll to 84 in the country’s north following weeks of devastating torrents that had already […]
  
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• Heavy rains set off flash floods in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 47 people

  19-05-2024 12:48 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — More heavy rains in Afghanistan have triggered flash floods, raising the death toll to 47 in the country’s north following weeks of devastating torrents that had already […]
  
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• Juventus appoints Montero as interim coach for final 2 matches after Allegri fired

  19-05-2024 12:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TURIN, Italy (AP) — Juventus Under-19 coach Paolo Montero will take charge of the senior team for the final two matches of the season after Massimiliano Allegri was fired last […]
  
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• The sequel has been much better for Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving as Mavs head to West finals

  19-05-2024 12:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — A smiling Luka Doncic pumped his fist as he settled in next to Kyrie Irving to answer questions about the Dallas Mavericks advancing to the Western Conference […]
  
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• At low-scoring PGA, Morikawa, Schauffele sleep on lead that could vanish by their tee time Sunday

  19-05-2024 12:31 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Collin Morikawa went to sleep with a share of the lead at the PGA Championship. He’s well-aware that by the time he reaches the first tee […]
  
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• Medina date – a cookery course in Morocco

  19-05-2024 12:00
  
  In the coastal city of Essaouira, our writer masters the ceremonial art of tea-pouring and learns how to make flaky chicken pastilla and gazelle horns with almond paste and orange blossom waterIt is early morning on the edge of Essaouira’s medina and the famous Atlantic winds are picking up. The sea looks tawny and wild, the sky is darkening by the minute. It begins to rain, heavily. Even the windsurfers who flock here all year round seem to have vanished. Market traders huddle and the pla
  
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• In the fight for planetary health, how do we preserve our mental health?

  19-05-2024 12:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO – It was early May and wildfire season had already started to rage in Western Canada when seven people settled into a monthly support-group meeting over Zoom. The facilitator, […]
  
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• Economists to have a close eye on April inflation report as BoC rate decision nears

  19-05-2024 12:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  OTTAWA – Forecasters expect this week’s inflation report to show Canada’s inflation rate fell last month, but financial markets are still unsure whether a June interest rate cut is in […]
  
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• Colour fast: bright paints to refresh a family home

  19-05-2024 12:00
  
  Whenever this creative couple feel like a change at home, they reach for the paint tin…The house didn’t look like much at first sight. From the outside, it wasn’t particularly attractive. It only had three rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom, while the top floor was an unused attic. But Jenny and Jens Brandt Grönberg immediately saw the potential; the little house radiated a cozy atmosphere and, importantly, it was affordable. “It suited us that it wasn’t all that
  
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• Chef Sally Abé: ‘It’s only when I go into a male-dominated kitchen that I notice the friction’

  19-05-2024 12:00
  
  She wants to change restaurant culture from within – and her thrilling memoir showing sexism and a culture of fear in some kitchens shows why
  • Read an extract from Sally Abé’s A Woman’s Place Is in the KitchenWhen people started to tell Sally Abé that she was brave for writing a memoir, she was perplexed. “I was like, why? And they said, well, what if everyone hates you?” Her book, A Woman’s Place Is in the Kitchen, is about to be published
  
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• Canadian immigration asks medical worker fleeing Gaza if he treated Hamas fighters

  19-05-2024 12:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Lawyers are questioning Canada’s approach to screening visa applications for people in Gaza with extended family in Canada after one applicant, a medical worker, was asked […]
  
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• As Canada renews strategy for Rohingya crisis, advocates urge rethink

  19-05-2024 12:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  OTTAWA – As Canada’s strategy for supporting Rohingya people expires, advocates are calling for a rethink of how Ottawa is trying to limit suffering in refugee camps in Bangladesh, and […]
  
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• 2 dead and 5 missing after a boat collision on the Danube River in Hungary

  19-05-2024 11:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Police say two people have died and five are missing following a boat collision on the Danube River in Hungary. Hungarian police received a report late […]
  
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• Nigel Slater’s recipes for roast spring vegetables, tarragon and lemon dressing, and chicory with basil and honey vinaigrette

  19-05-2024 11:30
  
  It’s the season of salads, so a good dressing is a must The dressing I make most often is a simple vinaigrette with vinegar, olive oil, a dash of smooth mustard and salt and pepper. I give it only the faintest breath of garlic, the clove left to steep in the vinegar for 10 minutes to take out its sting. I use a workaday olive oil rather than something more peppery or fruity, shaking everything up in a tightly sealed jar. I could make it in my sleep.Sometimes, a slightly more aromatic dress
  
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• Mbappé left out of PSG squad for final league game of the season

  19-05-2024 11:25 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Kylian Mbappé has been left out of the squad traveling to Metz on Sunday for the final league game of the season. PSG has already been crowned […]
  
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• An airstrike kills 20 in central Gaza and fighting rages as Israel’s leaders air wartime divisions

  19-05-2024 11:20 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed 20 people in central Gaza, mostly women and children, and fighting raged across the north on Sunday as Israel’s leaders […]
  
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• Canucks must ‘want that big moment’ heading into decisive Game 7: coach

  19-05-2024 11:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  EDMONTON – All season long, the Vancouver Canucks have preached resilience. Now comes the ultimate test. After an ugly 5-1 loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday, the Canucks need […]
  
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• Ukraine and Russia exchange drone attacks while Russia continues its push in the east

  19-05-2024 10:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia reported some 60 drones and several missiles shot down over its territory overnight into Sunday, with Ukraine in turn saying it destroyed over 30 Russian […]
  
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