Rescue teams rushed Thursday to find hundreds of people missing on the Nepal-Tibet border in flash floods and landslides that killed at least 165 and swept away entire villages.
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From high in the hills around Las Vegas, tourist Choune Osterero gazes down at the line of chalky mineral deposits left on the rocks around Lake Mead as the level of America's largest reservoir has dropped over the last quarter of a century of drought.
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Politics
Alberta’s opposition leader is urging Premier Danielle Smith to cancel or postpone a provincial referendum on separation from Canada, arguing that holding the vote during an active trade war with the United States undermines national unity. NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi criticized the timing as political pandering, while Smith’s office defended the Oct. 19 date as a response to citizen petitions.
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Rescue teams rushed Thursday to find hundreds of people missing on the Nepal-Tibet border in flash floods and landslides that killed at least 160.
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