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FILE - In this Tuesday, June 30, 2020 file photo, Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno arrives for a group photograph during the G5 Sahel summit, in Nouakchott, Mauritania. Deby, who ruled the central African nation for more than three decades, was killed on the battlefield Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in a fight against rebels, the country s top military commander announced on national television and radio. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP, File)
What are the chances in 2021 of a world leader dying on the battlefield? asked France24 news commentator Francois Picard. Chad’s longtime president and military leader for 31 years recently died from wounds sustained after going to a military front.
Yukon Liberals sworn in as former health minister launches legal challenge
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Voters and poll workers are shown at a Whitehorse polling station during the Yukon election on Monday April 12, 2021. Divisions are forming in Yukon s legislative assembly as the opposition Yukon Party called on the Liberals to either attempt to govern or stand aside after no clear winner in last week s election. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Kelly
WHITEHORSE – Members of the Yukon Liberals were sworn in Friday as the party’s former health minister launched a legal challenge after losing her seat.
The election finished with the incumbent Liberals and the Yukon Party tied at eight seats, and the New Democrats winning three, leaving all the parties short of the 10 seats needed for a majority.
Winning candidates from the New Democrats and Yukon Party have already been sworn in.
Meanwhile, the Liberal party s former health minister filed a petition in Yukon Supreme Court on Thursday to declare the results in the riding of Vuntut Gwitchin as invalid.
Pauline Frost finished in a tie with her NDP opponent Annie Blake in the riding before Blake was chosen as the winner after the drawing of lots.
The petition alleges that two voters in the riding were ineligible to cast ballots.
Chief electoral officer Max Harvey did not immediately return requests for comment.
Liberal party president Emily Farrell said the challenge is to protect the integrity of Yukon s elections.
Yukon NDP win in Vuntut Gwitchin invalid, says Liberal Pauline Frost in petition to court
Former Liberal MLA Pauline Frost is challenging the election results in her Vuntut Gwitchin riding. She lost after a tie last week and a random draw on Monday.
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Legal challenge comes on heels of a random draw that unseated Frost, and sent NDP’s Annie Blake to legislature
Posted: Apr 23, 2021 5:16 PM CT | Last Updated: April 23
Former Liberal MLA Pauline Frost, seen here outside the Yukon courthouse on Monday, has launched a legal challenge over the outcome of the territorial election in the riding of Vuntut Gwitchin. A tie on voting day led to a random draw this week, won by the NDP s Annie Blake.(Claudiane Samson/Radio-Canada)
Texas rancher swaps his oil pumps for wind turbines
By Francois Picard / AFP, SAN ANGELO, Texas
Cattle rancher Bobby Helmers cranes to listen as the blades of his six giant wind turbines slice through the air in the same Texas fields that once echoed with the sounds of oil pumps.
Like J.R. and Bobby Ewing, lead characters in the hit 1970s and 1980s TV series
Dallas, Helmers hosted oil wells on his land for decades, but with renewable energy increasingly viable even in the petroleum-rich Lone Star State, the 79-year-old is among several ranchers who have plugged their pumps and made the shift to wind power.