Author: Justin M. Larson

Jacques Moretti is questioned by lawyers over the New Year’s Day fire disaster in Crans-Montana that left 41 people dead. Source link

The attack at a school and a residence in the small, remote town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, has shocked a country where such acts of violence are rare. Source link

An employee checks a Heineken beer bottle on a packaging conveyor at the Heineken NV brewery in Zoeterwoude, Netherlands.Jasper Juinen | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDutch brewer Heineken is planning to lay off up to up to 7% of its workforce, as it looks to boost efficiency through productivity savings from AI, following weak beer sales last year. The world’s second-largest brewer reported lackluster earnings on Wednesday, with total beer volumes declining 2.4% over the course of 2025, while adjusted operating profit was up 4.4%. The company also said it plans to cut between 5,000 and 6,000 roles over the next…

The police said the suspect died of a self-inflicted injury after the shooting in Tumbler Ridge, a remote community in British Columbia. Source link

British troops in Norway will rise from 1,000 to 2,000 to address Russia’s “greatest” threat since the Cold War. Source link

French AI startup Mistral said on Wednesday it will invest 1.2 billion euros ($1.43 billion) into digital infrastructure in Sweden, including AI data centers.The announcement comes as Europe scrambles to build out the infrastructure needed to power rapidly developing AI tools, as it seeks to build tech sovereignty amid rising geopolitical tensions.The funds will facilitate the development of AI data centers, advanced compute capacity and localized AI capabilities, Mistral said.Founded in 2023, Mistral has emerged as one of Europe’s leading AI companies and raised a 1.7 billion euro funding round in September, hitting an 11.7 billion euro valuation. Dutch chip…

‘I will know every victim,’ says mayor of close-knit Tumbler Ridge. Source link

Patrick Pouyanne, chief executive officer of TotalEnergies SE, during the Conference de Paris, organized by the International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA) in Paris, France, on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe CEO of French energy major TotalEnergies said it was “too expensive and too polluting” to return to Venezuela, despite calls from U.S. President Donald Trump for Big Oil to invest billions in the country. The company quit Venezuela in 2022 but the Trump administration has urged oil majors to return since the U.S. military operation to seize the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, on Jan.…

Fringe movements are using games and other online platforms to draw growing numbers of children to their causes, new data and dozens of interviews show. Source link

The shooting in Tumbler Ridge was one of the deadliest in Canada’s history. Seven people, including the suspected shooter, were found dead at the local secondary school. Source link

Canada Launched Major Gun Reforms in 2020 After Its Deadliest Mass Shooting Source link

HANGZHOU, CHINA – JUNE 14, 2024 – A guest walks past the logo of the 2024 Dassault Systemes Automotive and Transportation Industry Summit Forum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, June 14, 2024. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesShares of French software giant Dassault Systèmes plummeted as much as 21% in early trade on Wednesday, putting the stock on track for its worst trading day ever. By 8:50 a.m. in London, the Paris-listed shares were 21% lower, after trading of the stock was briefly suspended at the open. Stock Chart IconStock chart…

Juan Pablo Guanipa was recaptured by Venezuela’s security forces on Sunday, hours after he and other political prisoners were freed. Source link

Canada Launched Major Gun Reforms in 2020 After Its Deadliest Mass Shooting Source link

“Olympique de Marseille and Roberto De Zerbi, coach of the first team, have announced the end of their collaboration by mutual agreement,” Marseille said in a statement.”Following discussions between all stakeholders in the club’s management – the owner, president, director of football, and coach – it was decided to make a change at the helm of the first team.”This was a difficult collective decision, taken after careful consideration in the best interests of the club, in order to respond to the sporting challenges of the end of the season.” Source link

This report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.The dispatchCompass is that rare beast —  a British company that is a genuine world leader in its field.The world’s biggest contract caterer, which annually serves 5.5 billion meals in schools, colleges, workplaces, hospitals and sporting venues in more than 25 countries, is considered a well-run business.Accordingly, its trading updates tend not to excite, routinely consisting of news on organic sales growth, margin improvements and — with workplace catering operations gradually being outsourced around the world — new business wins.Last week’s update, though, brought something more eyebrow-raising as Compass announced that, from April 1, it will change…

Canada launched major gun reforms in 2020 after its deadliest mass shooting. Source link

Half a dozen beavers have been legally released at two sites in Somerset in a bid to restore a river and wetland. The releases, one involving a mother and her three children and another involving a pair of Eurasian beavers, took place at spots across the National Trust’s Holnicote Estate on Exmoor on Tuesday. It is the second time the charity has been granted a licence by Natural England to release beavers into the wild after the first release on the Purbeck Estate in Dorset in March last year. The species was previously released into enclosed areas of the Holnicote Estate…

The community sits at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, in northeastern British Columbia, and is surrounded by expansive mountain ranges and a geological park. Source link

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the suspected shooter was among the dead and that 25 others had been wounded. A shelter-in-place order for the town of Tumbler Ridge was dropped. Source link

Police say the person believed to be the shooter was among the dead. A shelter-in-place order for the town of Tumbler Ridge has been dropped. Source link

The program, nearly 30 years old, had allowed Cuban medical workers to fill critical needs in Guatemala, while reaping income for Cuba. Source link

Young primates in a southern African nature park were observed to constantly interfere when their mother was giving attention to a younger brother or sister. Source link

About 137,000 .50-caliber rounds have been seized since 2012, and of those, 47 percent came from a plant in Kansas City, Mo., Mexico’s defense secretary said. Source link