Saturday, March 16th, 2024
Canada’s Kim Boutin strikes 500m gold for her 1st short track individual world title
Speed skater Kim Boutin raced to her first world championship gold medal in the women’s 500-metre event at the ISU world short track championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Saturday. The Sherbrooke, Que., native led the five-athlete final from start to finish, clocking 42.626 seconds for the victory. Xandra Velzeboer of the Netherlands, the two-time defending champion in the event, took silver in 42.833 and Kristen Santos-Griswold of the United States claimed bronze in 42.929. Velzeboer edged Boutin in the 2022 world championships in Montreal, which was the only other 500 medal the 29-year-old Boutin has received at the worlds.Read more
Ukraine hits Russian city, oil refinery on 2nd day of presidential vote, governor says
A Ukrainian missile attack killed two people in western Russia, and a separate drone strike set an oil refinery ablaze on Saturday, an official said, during the second day of an election that Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Kyiv of trying to disrupt. The Ukraine war has cast a shadow over voting in the three-day presidential election, which is all but certain to hand Putin six more years in the Kremlin but has been marked by scattered acts of protest. The head of the electoral commission, Ella Pamfilova, said there hadRead more
Iceland volcano spews smoke, lava in 4th eruption since December
A volcano in Iceland erupted for the fourth time since December on Saturday, the country’s meteorological office said, spewing smoke and bright orange lava into the air in sharp contrast against the dark night sky. In a video shot from a Coast Guard helicopter and shown on public broadcaster RUV, fountains of molten rock soared from a long fissure in the ground, and lava spread rapidly to each side. The eruption began at 8:23 p.m. local time and the fissure was estimated to be about 2.9 kilometres long, roughly theRead more