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World Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia’s Queensland state were without power on Sunday after Alfred, a downgraded tropical cyclone, brought damaging winds and heavy rains, sparking flood warnings. Gold Coast city was the worst-hit area with more than 112,000 without powerThomson Reuters · Posted: Mar 09, 2025 6:39Continue Reading

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Howard Lutnick took his five-year-old son to school for his first day of kindergarten, causing the Wall Street CEO to be a little late getting to work at his World Trade Center office in New York City. That delay ended up saving the life of Lutnick, who is nowContinue Reading

Hello, royal watchers. This is your regular dose of royal news and analysis. Reading this online? Sign up here to get this delivered to your inbox. A high-profile invitation for a state visit. A warm welcome to a private residence in the countryside. A display of military honours worn on the chest. KingContinue Reading

World The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, including nearly 750 civilians, a war monitoring group said Saturday. ‘This was one of the biggest massacres during theContinue Reading

World South Korea’s impeached conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from prison on Saturday, a day after a Seoul court cancelled his arrest to allow him to stand trial for rebellion without being detained. Opposition party urges court to dismiss Yoon to avoid further public unrestThe Associated Press ·Continue Reading

World At least 14 people were killed and 37 wounded, including five children, in Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s eastern city of Dobropillia and a settlement in Kharkiv region overnight, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said on Saturday. Russian forces attacked eastern city with ballistic missiles, multiple rockets andContinue Reading

On a weekday at the world’s largest refugee camp, dozens of women and men form two surging queues, pushing to reach the front of the line to get their official aid registration cards processed. The crowd is made of refugees from neighbouring Myanmar’s persecuted Muslim minority Rohingya community, recently arrivedContinue Reading

In her two decades as a human rights lawyer, working on issues in more than 25 countries, Hadar Harris says she is alarmed by what she’s witnessing on U.S. soil and worried that some Americans may not be paying close enough attention.  “I would say that this is a very dangerousContinue Reading

World China announced tariffs on some Canadian agricultural and food products on Saturday in response to Canada placing import levies on Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminum products. Levies to be applied to rapeseed oil, peas and other goodsCBC News · Posted: Mar 07, 2025 8:34 PM EST | Last Updated: March 8 AContinue Reading