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World More than 1,300 pilgrims died amid scorching heat during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia’s health minister said Sunday. 83% of deaths among unauthorized pilgrims who walked long distances, minister saysThe Associated Press · Posted: Jun 23, 2024 3:25 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 hours ago A MuslimContinue Reading

World Gunmen opened fire at a synagogue, two Orthodox churches and a police post in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday, killing 15 police officers, the region’s Interior Ministry was quoted as saying. Authorities say gunmen fired on 2 Orthodox churches, a synagogue and a police postThe AssociatedContinue Reading

On a Tuesday morning in late May, at least three dozen police officers surrounded an encampment in central Paris. The streets above the banks of the Seine were virtually empty and the cafes still closed when they evicted more than 100 boys and young men, many from West Africa. It was justContinue Reading

World Iran’s supreme court has overturned Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi’s death sentence on charges linked to the country’s 2022-23 period of unrest, his lawyer wrote in a post on the X social media platform on Saturday. Dissident musician jailed after publicly supporting countrywide protestsThomson Reuters · Posted: Jun 22, 2024Continue Reading

To understand Canada’s failure to criminally prosecute foreign collusion, an old news report from Washington offers a useful starting point. In 1981, a Canadian correspondent made an observation: when it came to using security intelligence in policing, Canada and the U.S. were diverging onto opposite paths. The Americans were ramping up, while Canadians were diallingContinue Reading

World During the broadcast of a Major League Baseball game in Birmingham, Ala., to honour the Negro Leagues, Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson offered up a raw remembrance of being barred from restaurants and hotels when he played in the minors in the 1960s. Jackson spoke during MLB game honouringContinue Reading

Rural Alberta may be a continent away from the faded British seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea, but Nigel Farage believes both places will be remembered for starting political revolutions.  Already a familiar face to Britons, Farage has injected some drama into an otherwise staid British general election that the Labour Party underContinue Reading

World Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has failed to qualify for next week’s debate in Atlanta, according to host network CNN, falling shy of benchmarks both in state ballot qualification and necessary polling. Kennedy has not reached 15% in four reliable national polls by June 20, oneContinue Reading

World Aid organizations say sick, malnourished children are facing death in Gaza, as they can’t cross the Rafah border to find proper medical treatment amid the Palestinian territory’s collapsing medical system, struggling with a critical lack of supplies after over eight months of the Israel-Hamas war. ‘No feasible’ option forContinue Reading