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The Palmachim airbase about an hour away from Jerusalem has become a critical operations centre in Israel’s war against Hamas. While injured Israeli soldiers are airlifted from the battlefield in Gaza, there’s no escape from the war for Palestinian civilians.  ‘You have to be deaf not to understand that civilians …

GENEVA, Switzerland: Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere hit new record highs in 2022, with no end in sight to the rising trend, the United Nations warned Wednesday. The UN’s World Meteorological Organization said levels of the three main greenhouse gases — the climate-warming carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide …

The war between Israel and Hamas creates two challenges for Justin Trudeau, as it would for any Canadian prime minister. And the strain of tackling both those challenges has only become more apparent with each passing day, culminating on Tuesday with new comments from Trudeau on the war. The PM …

TikTok will prohibit content that promotes Osama bin Laden’s 2002 letter detailing the former al-Qaeda leader’s justifications for attacks against Americans, the app said on Thursday. Letter was written after al-Qaeda’s Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the United States. TikTok will prohibit content that promotes Osama bin Laden’s 2002 letter …

Toronto police say they have seized 551 kilograms of cocaine and 441 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in a drug bust they describe as the largest in the force’s history. Seven people, of the Greater Toronto Area, have been arrested and charged in connection with the illicit drugs, according to Supt. …

Halima Abdi spent 15 months fighting to stay in Edmonton with her Canadian children. She received the good news hours before she was supposed to board a flight back to Kenya. Border agency says removal was cancelled after the issuance of a temporary resident permit. For 15 long months, Edmontonian …

Mathieu Bertrand, an RCMP officer responsible for combatting organized crime, says Canada has become an internationally significant producer and exporter of fentanyl. Seizures of fentanyl precursors at border have surged, law enforcement numbers show. The head of the RCMP unit responsible for fighting organized crime says Canada is not just …

Self-proclaimed “Queen of Canada” Romana Didulo and her followers left a rural Saskatchewan school earlier this week after officials paid a visit about a heater propped up on a propane tank in the school — a fire code violation that was seen in one of the group’s live streams. Richmound …

A federal grant program that offers homeowners money to make their homes more energy efficient is running out of money faster than anticipated — alarming homeowners and industry stakeholders who fear the program might end earlier than expected.  People in the energy efficiency sector fear the program will stop accepting …

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — The Philadelphia Eagles face the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday, Nov. 20, in a blockbuster rematch of last season’s Super Bowl classic that may well turn out to be a preview of next February’s NFL championship game. Kansas City Chiefs’ quarterback Patrick Mahomes (AFP)  Nine months …