Canadians say they're worried a U.S. company may be emitting toxic gas into their community
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Toronto — Residents of a city just outside Toronto tell CBS News they had no idea an American company was running a major facility near their homes that may be releasing a toxic gas into the air.
The company says the facility is safe and in compliance with limits imposed by the Canadian government, but some Mississauga residents said they want to know why the Sterigenics plant was even allowed to open there, as the company has faced hundreds of lawsuits in the U.S. and on the heels of it shutting down another facility on the other side of Toronto that was found to be spewing far more of the toxic fumes than it should have been under government safety guidelines.
Sterigenics specializes in the sterilization of medical equipment for health facilities using a chemical that's a known carcinogen, though it has told CBS News — without providing evidence — that it captures virtually all of the gas before it escapes its plants.
Seoul, South Korea — In a symbolic display of anger, North Korea blew up the northern parts of inter-Korean roads no longer in use on Tuesday, South Korea said, after the rivals exchanged threats of destruction amid rising animosities over North Korea's claim that South Korea flew drones over its capital.
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an Armenian church dating back almost 2,000 years, making it the oldest structure of its kind in the country and one of the oldest in the world. Germany's University of Münster, which partnered with a team at the Armenian academy of Sciences on the archaeological dig, announced the discovery Friday and called it "a sensational testimony to early Christianity in Armenia."
Seoul, South Korea — North Korea has accused rival South Korea of flying drones to its capital to drop anti-North Korean propaganda leaflets and threatened to respond with force if such flights occur again. North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday that South Korean drones were detected in the night skies of Pyongyang on Oct. 3 and Wednesday and Thursday this week.
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 was awarded Friday to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, with the Nobel committee lauding the "grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki" for its work to "achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again."