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Guthrie family at 'hour of desperation' in search for their missing mother
Savannah Guthrie’s family is “at an hour of desperation” in the search for her missing mother, the Today show co-host said in a video released Monday ahead of a looming ransom deadline apparently set by Nancy Guthrie’s abductors. Source link
Fact check: Are Russia and Belarus in the Olympics?
Twenty athletes with Russian and Belarusian passports are competing in the Winter Olympics, but they’re not representing a country. Here are the facts about ‘Individual Neutral Athletes.’ Source link
Ancient High Arctic people were skilled seafarers, new study shows
Archeologists have found the remains of a cluster of tents with hearths on a remote High Arctic island that date back more than 4,000 years. They offer surprising new insights about the first people who lived near what is now the Canada-Greenland border. Source link
Lindsey Vonn's father says Olympic crash is 'end of her career' if he has any say
Lindsey Vonn’s father said Monday that the American superstar will no longer race if he has any influence over her decision and that she will not return to the Winter Olympics after breaking her leg in the downhill over the weekend. Source link
Ghislaine Maxwell takes the Fifth in U.S. House committee appearance from prison
Lawmakers tried on Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell but the former girlfriend and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be self-incriminating. Source link
Canadian airlines issue travel advisories as Cuban airport warns it will run out of jet fuel
Several Canadian airlines have issued travel advisories for Cuba as the Caribbean island’s major airport warns it will run out of jet fuel by Tuesday. Source link
First bowling alley in Somalia welcomes middle class and diaspora returnees
The Feynuus Bowling Center in Mogadishu is the latest sign of revival in the once-thriving Indian Ocean port shaped by 35 years of civil war and militant bombings. Source link
Buckingham Palace prepared to 'support' any police investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
Buckingham Palace said on Monday it is ready to support any police investigation into King Charles’s younger brother after emails suggested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor might have shared confidential British trade documents with Jeffrey Epstein. Source link
Grief grows as bodies of kidnapped workers of Canadian mining company identified in Mexico
Jaime Castañeda was in the coastal Mexican city of Mazatlán on Sunday to identify the body of his 43-year-old brother. José Manuel Castañeda Hernández was working for Vancouver-based mining company Vizsla Silver Corp. when he was kidnapped last month, along with nine other employees. Source link
At least 53 killed after migrant boat sinks off Libyan coast
Two babies are among at least 53 people dead or missing after an inflatable migrant boat sank off Libya, the UN migration agency said on Monday, the latest tragedy on a dangerous route for those seeking a better life in Europe. Source link