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More foreigners prepared to leave the Gaza Strip on Thursday as its Hamas-run government said at least 195 Palestinians died in Israeli attacks on a congested district on the outskirts of Gaza City, strikes that Israel said had killed Hamas commanders.  Israeli military details latest ground fighting in Gaza, says …

CBC News answers your questions about the government of Alberta’s plan to potentially create its own retirement plan and pull out of the Canada Pension Plan.  CBC News answers questions about how the Canada Pension Plan works and what Alberta could do. The government of Alberta’s plan to potentially create …

The U.S. Federal Reserve kept its key short-term interest rate unchanged Wednesday for a second straight time but left the door open to further rate hikes if inflation pressures should accelerate in the months ahead.  Benchmark U.S. lending rate stays at highest level in 22 years. The U.S. Federal Reserve …

Republican lawmaker George Santos easily survived a vote on Wednesday to expel him from the U.S. House of Representatives, as most Republicans and 31 Democrats opted to withhold punishment while both his criminal trial and a House ethics committee investigation proceed.  Expulsion lacked support of new Speaker, who has said …

Dominador Canoy, 42, who earns an average of six US dollars per day collecting plastic bottles floating on the river using his makeshift raft, is seen in his house erected at the banks of Pasig River in Manila on Aug. 19, 2016. (AFP / Noel Celis)  MANILA, Philippines — Nearly …

JAKARTA: The position of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) when it comes to addressing the South China Sea conflict is “crystal clear” — all nations should adopt and implement the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos). Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsuri stressed this …

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reacts as he leaves the 10 Downing Street, in London, on May 5, 2022 following a meeting with Britain’s Prime Minister. (AFP / Daniel Leal)  MANILA, Philippines —  Both chambers of Congress will convene for a joint session on Saturday to hear Japanese Prime Minister …

Co-founder of the military wing of Hamas and its current leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar is considered to be the architect of the Oct. 7 attacks. But decades before his rise to power, he studied Hebrew while serving four life sentences in Israeli prisons.  Hamas leader a ‘cunning, sophisticated psychopath,’ …

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is standing firm that his government will not make any further exemptions to the carbon tax after announcing a three-year break on heating oil.  Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe threatening to stop collecting carbon tax if further exemptions aren’t granted. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is standing firm …

An amputation on a hallway floor and a death by lack of medicine are a few of the stories emerging from Gaza’s besieged and bombarded hospitals. Al-Shifa, the largest, is sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians, and the only cancer centre in Gaza has been damaged by an airstrike.  Doctors at …