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The scene where a train decapitated two men in KwaZulu-Natal. PHOTO: Supplied by Reaction Unit South Africa Two men have died in Tongaat, north of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, after a train decapitated them while they were asleep on a railway line, police said on Tuesday. "It is alleged this morning…

Posted March 16, 2021 5:01 am The cause of the fire has not been released. . The Canadian Red Cross At least seven people have been temporarily left without a home after a fire caused significant damage to both sides of a large two-storey duplex in Dieppe, N.B., Monday night. The…

Author of the article: Brian Cross Publishing date: Mar 15, 2021  •  March 15, 2021  •  3 minute read  •  5 Comments The Downtown Mission remains closed Monday, March 15, 2021. The mayor's chief of staff has questioned the management of the mission. Photo by Nick Brancaccio /Windsor Star The…

Comedian Sarah Silverman attacked the “absolutist-ness” of Democrats and progressives and questioned whether or not she wants to be associated with a political party at all. “It’s the absolutist-ness of the party that I am in that is such a turnoff to me,” Silverman said in a video the liberal…

Jessica McCaskill, a 35-year-old investment banker from Chicago who overcame homelessness as a child and moonlights as a professional boxer, sprang a seismic upset on Saturday night in dethroning Cecilia Brækhus, the undisputed welterweight champion widely regarded as the sport’s pound-for-pound world No 1. The younger and busier American challenger…

A man has been arrested in connection with a brutal attack on an elderly Asian American woman in White Plains, New York, police said Friday. Nancy Toh, 83, was spit on and punched near the Westchester shopping center on Tuesday, police said. She hit the ground hard enough that she…

Author of the article: Julie Kotsis Lacie Krzemien. left, Lisa Valente and Lucie Bellerive participate in a protest on Thursday, March 11, 2021 in front of Windsor City Hall speaking out against the treatment of homeless people in the community. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star Demonstrators outside city hall…

Author of the article: Reader Letters A homeless man looks over his belongings in Windsor's "Tent City" between Caron and Salter Avenue north of University Avenue West on Nov. 4, 2020. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star This is a strange time in our world with the COVID-19 virus in…