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DESPITE fraying relations with the patriarch of the Duterte clan, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday said he would reassemble the UniTeam coalition that swept him and Vice President Sara Duterte to power. The President said this after his Partido Federal ng Pilipinas formalized an alliance with the Lakas-Christian Muslim …

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a U.S. threat to withhold some arms would not prevent Israel from continuing its offensive in Gaza, indicating it might proceed with an invasion of the packed city of Rafah against the wishes of its closest ally. FILE – Israeli …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the head of the state guards on Thursday, two days after two of its members were accused of plotting to assassinate the president.  State security service says assassinations were to be alleged ‘gift’ for Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the head of the …

Western Canada and the North are expected to face an above-average fire risk in June, federal officials say.  There were fewer wildfires in B.C. and Alberta this spring due to favourable weather. Western Canada and the North are expected to face an above-average fire risk in June, federal officials say. …

Using shields, batons and flashbang explosives, Calgary police officers forcibly removed a group of protesters Thursday night from an encampment set up on the University of Calgary campus.  Police with shields and riot gear forcibly removed some protesters from area. Using shields, batons and flashbang explosives, Calgary police officers forcibly …

Despite Western sanctions meant to curtail energy exports and squeeze its economy, experts say Russia is using its so-called shadow fleet of tankers to make as much as $1 billion a day selling oil, skirting a global price cap and funding its war in Ukraine. Russia is making as much …

Ramón Fonseca, a partner in the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal over the hiding of wealth in offshore entities, has died, a lawyer from his firm confirmed Thursday. He was 71.  Prosecutors last month had requested a 12-year prison sentence for Fonseca and …

If it swims, floats or sinks, it may have been tested inside the Aquatron’s laboratories and tanks since it opened 50 years ago. The golden anniversary is being marked this weekend with an open house.  University laboratory celebrating 50 years of studying species and testing technology. Before Transformers, there was …

An excerpt from a videotaped 2022 police interview shows Jeremy Skibicki admitting not only to the killing he’d been arrested for, but three others as well.  Lawyers for Jeremy Skibicki say he should be found not criminally responsible for deaths of 4 women. ‘I killed 4 people,’ Jeremy Skibicki confesses …

Measures like pasteurization and rules for raw milk cheese keep disease-causing bacteria and viruses like avian flu out of dairy products in Canada, food safety experts say. Early research shows pasteurization works to neutralize H5N1, even when virus fragments are present in milk. An outbreak of avian flu in U.S. …