World

Ruslam Benco is trying to do everything he can to get his family back home to Canada. The young father, his wife and his two young children are currently in Tiberias, in northern Israel, but following Saturday’s unprecedented Hamas…
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A social media post from Edmonton’s mayor about the ongoing violence in the Middle East this weekend has drawn sharp criticism as well as support. “When events unfold across the globe, they can have a deep impact on people who live…
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A B.C. woman who is currently on a trip to Israel said she had a typical day and night in Tel Aviv turned into a nightmare. Shauna Osten had been dancing into the early hours of Saturday morning. When she woke up just a few hours…
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Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the award-giving body said on Thursday. The prize is awarded by the Swedish…
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For Australia natives Marty and Jess Ansen, the vacation never ends. The retired Brisbane couple told A Current Affair they have scheduled 51 back-to-back cruise journeys onboard Princess Cruises since they first set sail in June…
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With control over some of his most prized real estate holdings in jeopardy, former President Donald Trump said he’ll make a rare, voluntary trip to court in New York on Monday for the start of a civil trial in a lawsuit that…
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Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and U.S. colleague Drew Weissman, who met in line for a photocopier before making mRNA molecule discoveries together that paved the way for COVID-19 vaccines, won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine…
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A close associate of the B.C. Sikh leader who was gunned down outside a Surrey gurdwara this summer says he, too, was warned about threats against his life. Gurmeet Singh Toor sits on the executive committee of the Guru Nanak Sikh…
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The fallout continued over Parliament’s recognition last week of a man who fought for the Nazis — a move some have called the most embarrassing international debacle in Canadian history — and now there calls to remove two monuments…
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Thousands of Armenians streamed out of Nagorno-Karabakh after the Azerbaijani military reclaimed full control of the breakaway region while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Azerbaijan Monday in a show of support to…
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