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When a runaway train loaded with oil jumped the tracks in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, 47 people died in Canada’s worst rail disaster in nearly 150 years.

A decade since the United States and Cuba restored diplomatic relations — which many believed would transform the island — Cuba is in its worst crisis since Fidel Castro took power.

In an ideologically divided Roman Catholic Church, the right has accused him of going too far and the left of not going far enough.

The findings, from the largely uncharted waters of Bounty Trough, show that “we’ve got a long way to go in terms of understanding where life is found in the ocean,” a researcher said.

Of the 160 whales stranded near the town of Dunsborough on Thursday morning, more than 100 were returned to the ocean. Twenty-nine others, however, died on the beach.

It is the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia says he wants to remedy by waging war against Ukraine; it is the legacy of Moscow’s dominance that Ukrainians hope to free themselves of by defeating Moscow.

The mass deaths of the fish were most likely caused by climate change. The vacation area and its businesses have been suffering since.

The explosions took place at a commemoration for Qassim Suleimani, the top commander killed by a U.S. drone strike four years ago.

Prosecutors say a man hurled a firebomb at the bar after being ejected. Mexico has struggled to tamp down on raging violent crime.

The victims were on an organized trip for people with mental disabilities in Wintzenheim, near the borders of Germany and Switzerland.