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Brazil's congress passed legislation on Thursday loosening environmental licensing, a potential blow to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as he seeks to burnish his country's green credentials before hosting the United Nations global climate summit, COP30, this year.
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The assassination attempt against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign stop on July 13, 2024, was a perfect storm of failings coming together and became a turning point for the agency tasked with protecting the U.S. president.
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Palestinians and human rights activists expressed alarm after Israel's defence minister said he plans to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp at the southern tip of the war-battered enclave, according to Israeli media. Some said it would violate international law and amount to crimes against humanity.
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U.S. customs duty collections jumped again in June as U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs gained steam, topping $100 billion US for the first time during a fiscal year and helping to produce a surprise $27-billion US budget surplus for the month, the U.S. Treasury Department reported Friday.
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Two Canadian doctors, from Calgary and Montreal, have been treating patients at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza. These doctors and other health officials in the region say severe fuel shortages leave operating rooms without light, oxygen tanks without air and an overall inability to carry out basic medical treatment on patients in critical...
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The UN human rights office said Friday it had recorded at least 798 killings within the past six weeks near aid points in Gaza run by a U.S.- and Israeli-backed group and near convoys run by other relief groups as European officials reached a new deal with Israel to allow desperately needed food and fuel into Gaza.
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U.S. President Donald Trump hosted the leaders of several African countries on Wednesday at the White House. After Liberian President Joseph Boakai spoke about wanting to work with the U.S., Trump praised Boakai's 'beautiful English' and asked him where he'd been educated.
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Europe's top human rights court ruled that Russia was responsible for widespread violations of international law in Ukraine, including the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014, marking the first time an international court has held Moscow accountable for human rights abuses related to the conflict there.
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Grok, the chatbot developed by the Elon Musk-founded company xAI, has removed what it called "inappropriate" social media posts after complaints from X users and the Anti-Defamation League that Grok produced content with antisemitic tropes and praise for Adolf Hitler.
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The 2025 Wife-Carrying World Championships concluded over the weekend in Sonkajärvi, Finland, with this year's edition featuring a team event and a separate women's series. Altogether, more than 200 people from 18 countries took part, with U.S. couple Caleb and Justine Roesler emerging victorious in the main race.
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A wildfire spurred by hot summer winds reached France's second-largest city Tuesday, grounding all flights to and from Marseille, injuring at least nine people and forcing many residents to evacuate their homes or barricade themselves indoors as smoke choked the Mediterranean air.
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Critics expressed alarm Tuesday after Israel's defence minister said he plans to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp at the southern tip of the war-battered enclave, according to Israeli media, with some saying it would violate international law and amount to crimes against humanity.
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An Israeli report released Tuesday said that Hamas used sexual violence as a "tactical weapon of war” in its Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, building on other investigations by international and Israeli rights groups and the United Nations into the militant group's assault.
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Tim Clare says board games like Monopoly and Wingspan are more than just a fun thing to do. He says games give people a chance to take control of their circumstances, especially during chaotic times, and make choices in a situation that likely won't actually affect their life one way or the other.
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Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a "client list," the U.S. Justice Department said Monday, announcing that no more files related to the wealthy financier's sex trafficking investigation would be made public, despite suggestions to the contrary from the Trump administration.
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In mid-May, an online researcher posted a series of professional stamps on X bearing the names of engineers across the United States. The researcher claimed they were being used by North Korean remote workers. Among them was the seal of Canadian architect Stephen Mauro.
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Since January, Israel has forced tens of thousands of people out of decades-old refugee camps in the occupied West Bank and installed barriers to restrict movement across the territory. The IDF says it's preventing terrorism, but displaced Palestinians tell CBC's Margaret Evans they're worried it could be a precursor to annexation.
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