News/World (Page 49)

World An 86-year-old Missouri man has died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honour student who rang the white man’s doorbell by mistake, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Andrew Lester, 86, was due to be sentenced March 7 in shootingContinue Reading

World Hamas handed over the bodies on Thursday of Israeli infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, the two youngest captives taken by Hamas in their Oct. 7, 2023, attack and among the most potent symbols of the trauma inflicted that day. The bodies of the hostages are now inside IsraelThomsonContinue Reading

Cross-border tensions or not, there’s growing talk in Washington that Canada and the U.S. could expand their military co-operation in a continental missile shield. It came up last week at a U.S. Senate committee hearing, when the top-ranking Democrat reported he’d just gotten positive signals from Defence Minister Bill BlairContinue Reading

World The process of electing a new pope follows rules and rituals that have been followed, and sometimes tweaked, since the 13th century — when cardinals were first sequestered to prevent any outside meddling. Secretive, centuries-old process once took yearsThe Associated Press · Posted: Feb 19, 2025 8:01 PM ESTContinue Reading

World The Trump administration said on Wednesday it was rescinding federal approval of New York City’s congestion pricing program that is designed to reduce traffic and raise money to upgrade aging subway and bus systems. Transportation authority sues to keep plan in placeThomson Reuters · Posted: Feb 19, 2025 5:37 PM EST | Last Updated: FebruaryContinue Reading

World By car and on foot, through muddy olive groves and sniper sight lines, tens of thousands of Palestinians in recent weeks have fled Israeli military operations across the northern West Bank — the largest displacement in the occupied territory since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Largest displacement in West BankContinue Reading

World Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge. AuthoritiesContinue Reading

World More than $50 billion US will be required to rebuild Gaza after Israel’s 15-month campaign against Hamas levelled it, according to a joint report released Tuesday by the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank. Repairing infrastructure damage and rebuilding houses will take up more than halfContinue Reading

World Israel and Hamas will begin indirect negotiations on a second stage of the Gaza ceasefire deal, officials said on Tuesday, as the Palestinian militant group said it would hand over more hostages, including the bodies of two children, this week. Israel, Hamas to begin indirect negotiations on Phase 2 of ceasefireContinue Reading