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The world’s largest religious gathering, the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India, turned deadly Wednesday, with officials confirming at least 30 deaths and 60 people injured in a stampede on the biggest day of the festival.  Some 100 million people were expected to converge on one of the holiest spotsContinue Reading

World Rebel leader who toppled Syria’s Assad regime named interim presidentThe leader of Syria’s rebels who toppled President Bashar al-Assad last month was named the country’s interim president on Wednesday as former insurgents cancelled the existing constitution, saying a new charter would be drafted soon. Former insurgents cancel existing constitution, newContinue Reading

World U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will order the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay for as many as 30,000 migrants. U.S. president vows to send the ‘worst criminal illegal aliens’ to facility in CubaThomson Reuters · Posted:Continue Reading

World The U.S. is threatening a two-stage tariff plan in which Canada and Mexico could get hit with initial trade penalties within days then face broader penalties this spring. Possibility of emergency tariffs over border for now, then wider-ranging tariffs in spring Howard Lutnick, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to beContinue Reading

World The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday abandoned all criminal proceedings against two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the Florida classified documents case, wiping out any legal peril the pair could have faced. Walt Nauta, Carlos De Oliveira were charged with conspiring to obstruct FBI investigationThe Associated Press ·Continue Reading

World ‘No life, no water, no food,’ man says as hundreds of thousands return to north GazaThe joy of thousands of Palestinian families who made it back home to north Gaza after a ceasefire with Israel is turning to despair as the cold reality of uninhabitable, bombed-out homes and dire shortages of basic suppliesContinue Reading

RFK Jr. grilled over vaccines, abortions at U.S. confirmation hearing U.S. health secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparred with lawmakers over his controversial statements on vaccines and abortion at his first confirmation hearing. He also made several factual errors about how Medicaid and Medicare operate. Past statements attributed toContinue Reading

World A new study suggests parents really do have a favourite kid based on birth order, gender and personality. Although the reasons may be more complex. ‘Some children may be easier to parent than others,’ note authors of study on parental differential treatment Natalie Stechyson · CBC News · Posted: Jan 29,Continue Reading

World Google Maps has a history of changing place names and world borders for different users in different locations, especially during geopolitical disputes. Geographers say those changes, including the one this week, remind the public of the political power place names can hold — even if they’re only temporary. PlaceContinue Reading