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Five high school students wounded in Maryland shooting

Daniel Trotta |Updated 16 minutes ago |2 min read

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - Gunfire broke out at a park in Greenbelt, Maryland, where hundreds of high school students had gathered while skipping school on Friday, wounding five males aged 16 to 18, police said. One victim was in critical ...

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Huge blast at military base used by Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, army sources say

Reuters |Updated 35 minutes ago |1 min read

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A huge blast rocked a military base used by Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) to the south of Baghdad late on Friday, army sources told Reuters. (Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; Editing by Chris Reese)

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North Korea conducts cruise missile warhead test on Friday, KCNA says

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea conducted a cruise missile warhead test and test launch of its new anti-aircraft missile in the West Sea of Korea on Friday, the North's KCNA news agency said on Saturday. North Korea had conducted a power test of a ...

Robert Regular attended Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court Wednesday, April 10 for the third day of his sexual assault trial.

Trial for C.B.S. lawyer Robert Regular continues into day 10

Evan Careen · Multimedia journalist |Updated 1 hour ago |4 min read Premium content

Conception Bay South lawyer Robert Regular was scheduled to be the last person on the witness stand in his trial, but his lawyers informed the court on April 19 that they may want to call one more. The reliability of records provided by Regular has ...

People walk past remains of vehicles near the presidential palace, after they were set on fire by gangs, as violence spreads and armed gangs expand their control over the capital, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti March 25, 2024.

Haiti's death toll rises as international support lags, UN report says

Sarah Morland |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

By Sarah Morland (Reuters) - More than 2,500 people were killed or injured in gang violence in Haiti from January through March, up 53% from the last three months of 2023, the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) said on Friday. At ...

A handout photograph, shot in January 2024, shows a woman and baby at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan.  MSF/Mohamed Zakaria/Handout via

UN warns 800,000 people in Sudan city in 'extreme, immediate danger'

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in "extreme and immediate danger" as worsening violence advances and threatens to "unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout Darfur," top U.N. officials warned the ...

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Chad air force chief orders US to halt activities at army base, letter shows

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |3 min read

(Reuters) - Chad's air force chief ordered the United States to halt activities at an air base near the capital N'Djamena, according to a letter sent to the transitional government and seen by Reuters. Chad has so far not followed the steps of ...

The chair of Wellness Within, Natasha Hines,  for Rankin story on her reaction to Minister John minimizing gender-based violence, in Halifax April 19, 2024.

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Advocacy groups speak out against N.S. justice minister’s dismissal of gender-based violence

Andrew Rankin · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 2 hours ago |3 min read Premium content

Natasha Hines knows something about gender-based violence. She’s a nurse and chair of Wellness Within, a reproductive rights group. In those two roles she sees first-hand evidence that gender-based violence is an epidemic. “All organizations that ...

U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak deliver remarks on the Australia - United Kingdom - U.S. (AUKUS) partnership, after a trilateral meeting, at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, California U.S. March 13, 2023.

US State Dept 'fully expects' to finalize new AUKUS trade exemptions in next 120 days

Reuters |Updated 6 minutes ago |3 min read

By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department said on Friday it fully expects to finalize new trade exemptions for the AUKUS defense project with Australia and Britain in the next 120 days, signaling a further delay in the move, ...

A 17-year-old youth was sentenced April 19 in provincial court in Georgetown in relation to the death of Tyson MacDonald. FILE

P.E.I. youth sentenced for misleading police after death of Tyson MacDonald

Terrence McEachern · Journalist |Updated 3 hours ago |4 min read Premium content

A 17-year-old youth has been sentenced to custody, community supervision and probation for providing false statements and misleading police in relation to the death of Tyson MacDonald. The youth appeared in Youth Justice Court in Georgetown on April ...

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