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Israel’s military has called up reservists in preparation for a possible resumption of fighting in Gaza if Hamas fails to meet a Saturday deadline to release more Israeli hostages and a nearly month-old ceasefire breaks down. Concern that the ceasefire will collapse is growing as fury mounts in Arab countries over U.S. PresidentContinue Reading

Donald Trump’s administration will head to court on Wednesday as it moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), one day after the White House fired the inspector general for the agency. Paul Martin, the inspector general whose dismissal was first reported by CNN, had issued a reportContinue Reading

World At the moment, the U.S. is threatening two actions: a worldwide tariff of 25 per cent on steel and aluminum starting March 12, and it has also paused, until March 4, the threat of an economy-wide 25 per cent tariff on Canada and Mexico while it works on border-security deals withContinue Reading

World The Associated Press on Tuesday said the White House barred its reporter from an event at the Oval Office because the news agency would not start using “Gulf of America” to describe the Gulf of Mexico. The Associated Press said last month it would continue to use ‘Gulf ofContinue Reading

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Tuesday the ceasefire in Gaza would end and the military would resume fighting Hamas until it was defeated if the Palestinian militant group did not release hostages by midday Saturday. Following Netanyahu’s ultimatum, Hamas issued a statement renewing its commitment to the ceasefire and accusing IsraelContinue Reading

World Salman Rushdie described in graphic detail on Tuesday the frenzied moments in 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western New York and repeatedly slashed him with a knife, leaving him with life-threatening injuries.    Hadi Matar is accused of stabbing the author multiple timesContinue Reading

World U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Hamas should release all hostages it is holding in Gaza by midday Saturday or he would propose cancelling the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and “let hell break out.” Militant group said earlier it will stop releasing hostages until further notice, citing ceasefire violationsThomsonContinue Reading

WARNING: This story contains offensive language. Shopify, the Ottawa-headquartered e-commerce platform, has taken down Kanye West’s merchandise website Yeezy.com, which had been selling a $30 T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika since the weekend. “All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform,” a Shopify spokesperson told CBC News on Tuesday. “This merchantContinue Reading

World The Vatican’s charity voiced outrage Monday at what it called the “reckless” and “unhuman” U.S. plans to gut USAID, with Pope Francis’s point-man on development aid insisting that the Trump administration remember Christian principles about caring for others as it begins governing. Czerny, speaking for Vatican’s Caritas Internationalis charity,Continue Reading