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World A fire tore through a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital in northern India, killing 10 newborn babies and injuring 16 others, authorities said. Witnesses say rescue operation didn’t begin until about 30 minutes after fire eruptedThe Associated Press · Posted: Nov 16, 2024 8:41 AM EST |Continue Reading

Supporters of Israel’s decades-old settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territories have been quick to welcome Donald Trump’s recent U.S. election victory and what they clearly expect will be a boon to their aim of formally annexing the West Bank.   Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, himself a settler, was confidentContinue Reading

World U.S. president-elect Donald Trump reached into his inner circle on Friday and chose his transition spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, as his White House press secretary, putting a 27-year-old firebrand in position to aggressively defend him. Leavitt has endeared herself to Trump by her ardent defence of himThomson Reuters · Posted:Continue Reading

World The Onion’s winning bid for Alex Jones’s Infowars platform is under review by a U.S. federal bankruptcy judge after Jones and his lawyers complained about how an auction was conducted. Satirical news outlet had been announced as winner of bankruptcy auction on ThursdayThe Associated Press · Posted: Nov 15,Continue Reading

Trump has a controversial pick for national intelligence director. What might it mean for Canada? Stephanie Carvin, an associate professor at Carleton University who previously worked as a national security analyst, says Tulsi Gabbard would oversee intelligence from across U.S. agencies — and could reshape how that intel is sharedContinue Reading

World Iran will back any decision taken by Lebanon in talks to secure a ceasefire with Israel, a senior Iranian official said on Friday, signaling Tehran wants to see an end to a conflict that has dealt heavy blows to its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. Israeli airstrike hit Beirut suburb FridayContinue Reading

World At the sprawling forested Ādaži military base, north east of Riga, Latvia, 3,000 troops have spent the past two weeks participating in a Canadian-led NATO military exercise designed to simulate an attack on the Baltic nation coming from beyond its nearly 300 km-long border with Russia.  Officials say CanadaContinue Reading

A week after Israeli soccer fans were attacked in the streets of Amsterdam, triggering damning accusations of a “Jew hunt” in a city with an ugly history of antisemitism, a clearer picture of what happened that night is slowly emerging. It suggests a far more nuanced take on events thanContinue Reading

World Donald Trump’s pathway to deporting millions of undocumented migrants may hinge on a 226-year old-law last used to target and detain non-citizens of Japanese, German and Italian descent during the Second World War. U.S. president-elect has vowed ‘largest deportation program in American history’ Mark Gollom · CBC News · Posted: NovContinue Reading