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Tour bus rollover on Cabot Trail leaves 10 injured

Cabot Trail rollover

A commercial tour bus carrying 21 people crashed south of Neils Harbour in Cape Breton on Sunday afternoon, seriously hurting one person and injuring nine others when it rolled into a ditch on its side.

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A close look at Michael Bay’s explosive visual style

We all know that “epic” Michael Bay look and feel with lots of hugely impressive imagery. But how does the director achieve this? Perceptive film blogger Tony Zhou has put together another wonderfully intelligent and comprehensible breakdown, this time focusing on Bay’s style — often called “Bayhem” for obvious reasons. Zhou shows how complex camera movements and the coordination of multiple different elements produces incredibly busy frames that brim with action. Ultimately, Zhou believes it’s Bay’s choices of when to deploy his signature moves that makes so many of his films devoid of substance.

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Key Republicans balk at White House border funds request

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leading Republican lawmakers balked on Sunday at supporting a White House spending request aimed at bolstering the U.S. border with Mexico, where thousands of children have crossed recently, while calling for changes in the law to allow faster deportations.

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Nathan O’Brien Amber Alert: Final search of Liknes home ends

Kathryn Liknes, Nathan O'Brien and Alvin Liknes

After multiple searches of the home where three Calgary family members were last seen, police say they have ended the investigation into the Parkhill property and are returning it to the family.

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An embrace and a handshake: how John Kerry brokered peace between Afghan rivals

KABUL (Reuters) – It was late on Saturday evening in a fourth-floor room of the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Kabul that the election crisis in Afghanistan that had threatened to divide the nation was staved off.



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Amid new spy scandal, Kerry calls U.S. and Germany ‘great friends’

VIENNA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, standing alongside Germany’s foreign minister, on Sunday stressed the strategic importance of relations between the two countries, which have been battered by new allegations of U.S. spying on Berlin.