US & World

Canada’s Special Representative to Afghanistan David Sproule is condemning the Taliban’s latest curtailment of women’s rights. The regime moved earlier this week to prevent women from hearing each other pray or reciting the Qu’ran. Move comes after UN urged Ottawa to step up calls for international protection of human rights. …

India has officially protested the Canadian government’s allegation that the country’s powerful Home Minister Amit Shah had ordered the targeting of Sikh activists inside Canada, calling it “absurd and baseless.” Canadian diplomat summoned and handed a letter to formally protest accusation. India officially protested on Saturday the Canadian government’s allegation …

U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris made an unannounced trip to New York to appear on Saturday Night Live, briefly stepping away from the battleground states where she’s been campaigning with just three days to go before the election.  Democrat candidate made unannounced diversion to New York amid swing state campaigning. U.S. …

The recent visit by King Charles and Queen Camilla to Australia and Samoa was a pared-down, carefully planned and jam-packed visit that offered a look at the evolving nature of royal tours. Monarch diagnosed with cancer early this year expected to return to ‘normal’ travels in 2025. Hello, royal watchers. …

Americans head to the polls Tuesday, and most of the attention is on the tight presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. CBC News has been following both candidates’ campaigns since Harris replaced Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s nominee in July. Read some of the highlights from that …

Fellow journalists light a candle in commemoration of the 13th anniversary of the Maguindanao Massacre, in which 32 journalists and media workers were killed, at the National Press Club in Manila on November 23, 2022. (AFP / Jam Sta Rosa)  PARIS, France — Worldwide killings of journalists jumped in 2022-23 …

Photo Credit: AP News BEIRUT (AP) — Israel launched dozens of intense airstrikes across Lebanon’s northeastern farming villages on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding scores more, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported. In central Gaza, Palestinians recovered the bodies of 25 people killed in a barrage of Israeli …

The Fifth Estate analyzed Benjamin Netanyahu’s actions over the last year and spoke with experts who have been at the negotiating table between Israelis and Palestinians to understand how the Israeli prime minister’s moves may be guided by self-interest and may be having a ripple effect on the U.S. election.  …

A U.S. senator is raising concerns that TD Bank Group executives did not face charges as part of the bank’s settlement over its failure to detect large-scale money laundering.  Massachusetts lawmaker concerned that bank executives did not face charges A U.S. senator is raising concerns that TD Bank Group executives …

Displacement has affected the majority of Palestinians in Gaza living through the year-long war between Israel and Hamas. International organizations, including the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, have set the number of internally displaced people at 1.9 million in the Gaza Strip.  ‘People were terrified,’ Youssef Zaid says of being forced …