The wildfire season in B.C. has been transformed in a flash, with lightning strikes sending the tally of blazes burning in the province past 100.On Wednesday morning the province’s firefighters faced only about 20 blazes in what had been a relatively quiet season, but as of Saturday morning there were about 115 fires burning, including about 77 started in the last 24 hours.Two-thirds of the fires are burning out of control and most new blazes, orders and alerts are concentrated in the southern B.C. Interior.But Attila Banhegyi remains unfazed after choosing to remain behind in his house in Boston Bar, B.C., near the Brunswick…

Recent coverage of Flock Safety, the fast‑growing US surveillance technology company, reveals how opposition to automated license plate readers is playing out at the local level. In South Carolina, officials have been sparring over whether to install 25 new cameras, a dispute that reflects broader questions about cost, oversight, and…

Published on 23/07/2026 – 12:20 GMT+2•Updated 15:59 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned Washington against continuing arms sales to Kyiv during a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Philippines on Thursday, the Kremlin said. During the meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the ASEAN…

Latest ACC pickup: Loyola Marymount’s Jan Vide to Virginia.Here is a list of ACC high school recruits, and some international signees too.BOSTON COLLEGE OUTDonald Hand (Loyola Chicago)Akbar Waheed (St. Bonaventure)Jayden Hastings (Cincinnati)Marko Radunovic (Fairfield)Caleb Steger (Texas State)INAndrija Bukumirovic (UT Martin)JB Frankel (Northeastern)Ernest Shelton (Merrimack)Brandon Benjamin (Fairfield)Colby Duggan (Charleston)Armoni Zeigler (Ball…

Civilians in Ecuador faced attacks and abuses as part of a joint US-Ecuador military campaign meant to target organised crime in the country, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).The rights group on Tuesday called on the US Congress to assert greater oversight over the administration of…

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