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After nations agreed to a landmark deal to create a global climate damage fund on the first day of climate talks at COP28, Canada pledged its own support on Friday and joined the list of developed countries to back the new deal.  Other countries have pledged between $10M and $100M …

Food insecurity is a growing problem in Canada. Here’s what some other countries have done to try to curb the issue.  Last year, 1 in 5 households in Canada were food insecure, new report says. This story idea came from audience members, like you, who got in touch with us. …

Two years ago at the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, global leaders pledged to cut methane emissions by 30 per cent. In the U.K., some of that work is happening on sheep farms in the English countryside.  In the English countryside, researchers are on a mission to shepherd in a …

A newly unsealed U.S. criminal indictment has unleashed an unprecedented flood of details about an alleged plot connected to the Indian government to carry out multiple assassinations in North America, including three in Canada.  Indictment suggests there were plans to carry out 3 killings on Canadian territory. A newly unsealed …

DIPLOMATIC GIANT. In this file photo, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrives at 10 Downing Street in central London on Oct. 25, 2016. Described as a etary of state Henry Kissinger, a key figure of American diplomacy in the post-World War II era, Kissinger died November 29 (Thursday …

Hosting the UN’s biggest climate talks allows the United Arab Emirates to showcase its transition from petrostate to emerging green-energy powerhouse. But as COP28 opens in Dubai, its national oil company is also rushing to expand oil and gas production, leading some to question its commitment to meeting climate targets.  …

Israel and Hamas agreed on Thursday to extend the ceasefire in their war by at least one more day, minutes before the six-day truce was due to expire. Mediators secure deal to keep truce in place, exchange more Israeli hostages for Palestinian detainees. Israel and Hamas struck a last-minute agreement …

A newly unsealed U.S. criminal indictment has unleashed an unprecedented flood of details about an alleged plot connected to the Indian government to carry out multiple assassinations in North America. Perhaps the most surprising allegation in the murder-for-hire indictment filed in New York State against Indian national Nikhil Gupta is …

An Israeli hostage freed by Hamas says she was initially fed well in captivity until conditions worsened and people became hungry. She was kept in a “suffocating” room and slept on plastic chairs with a sheet for nearly 50 days.  Held for nearly 50 days, 78-year-old Ruti Munder said she …

Pope Francis looks on during the weekly general audience on November 8, 2023 at St Peter’s square in The Vatican. Pope Francis has cancelled his upcoming trip to Dubai for the COP 28 climate talks, after doctors’ recommendations, the Vatican said on November 28, 2023. (AFP / Filippo Monteforte)  ROME, …