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Free Press Head Start for Aug. 11
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Good morning!
It may be a relief not to be experience a hot, dry summer here (like last year), but other parts of the world aren’t so lucky. A major wildfire in France has destroyed 68 square kilometres since Tuesday as the country experiences a heat wave; national parks in Africa are under increasing threat from below-average rainfall and new infrastructure projects; and weeks of dry weather in Germany have seen the Rhine River sink to critical levels, making it increasingly difficult to transport goods.
Closer to home, new reporting revealed that Free Press reporter Ryan Thorpe was targeted for death after he infiltrated a neo-Nazi group and exposed one of its members as a Canadian Armed Forces reservist in a series of articles.
— David Fuller
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Today’s weather
Your forecast: Mainly sunny with a high of 24 C, Humidex 26 and UV index 8 or very high.
Today’s must-read
A 73-year-old widow in East Selkirk who was attacked during a home invasion is recovering from her injuries but is still suffering flashbacks from the incident, according to her daughter. RCMP have arrested a suspect and are investigating. Chris Kitching reports.
A woman was sleeping when a man began trying to break into her East Selkirk-area house just before midnight Saturday. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Aug. 11, 1942: The Winnipeg Free Press reported British troops, some armed with machine guns, came to the aid of police in Bombay and fired on protesters taking part in Mahatma Gandhi’s civil disobedience campaign; 13 people were killed and 30 injured. German forces advanced against the Soviet Union’s Red Army in the Caucasus region, threatening Soviet naval stations at Novorossiysk and Tuapse. U.S. marines battled the Japanese in the Solomon Islands. The Allied hold on territories in the Middle East was gravely menaced by Axis offensives, according to a British military source. Search our archives for more here.
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