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SMITHERS — A British Columbia man suffered minor injuries after fending off a cougar attack by punching the animal in the face in the province's northern Interior.

CRANBROOK — A man has suffered "significant" injuries after a grizzly bear attack in the British Columbia Interior. The province's Conservation Officer Service says in a post on Facebook that the attack happened at about 4:30 p.m.

ISTANBUL (AP) — Wildfires that have engulfed Turkey for weeks threatened the country’s fourth-largest city on Sunday, forcing more than 3,500 people to flee their homes and leaving two people dead.

NEW YORK (AP) — When world leaders, diplomats, business leaders, scientists and activists go to Brazil in November for the United Nations' annual climate negotiations, poverty, deforestation and much of the world's troubles will be right in their fac

MONTRÉAL — Environment Canada has issued air quality warnings across southern Quebec due to smoke from wildfires in the Canadian Prairies.

After the Flint water crisis, Michigan became a national leader on safe drinking water, requiring the removal of lead pipes and the reduction of harmful “forever chemicals” years before the federal government acted.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan on Saturday warned of glacial flooding in the northwest with more rain forecast for the area in the coming week.

TORONTO — The big, backyard honey locust had a seating area set up under its canopy and a swing hanging from a sturdy branch.

UNICOI COUNTY, Tenn. (AP) — In a rugged patch of the Appalachian Trail in eastern Tennessee, volunteers size up a massive, gnarled tree lying on its side.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia lumber organizations are condemning the decision by the U.S. Commerce Department to raise anti-dumping duties on Canadian softwood to 20.56 per cent, calling them unjustified, punitive and protectionist. The B.C.