[ad_1] As It Happens6:57Uvalde shooting parents ‘dumbfounded’ after report exonerates police officers Veronica Mata says she can’t understand how the police officers who stood in a school hallway for more than an hour while children and teachers were being slaughtered…
[ad_1] A United Nations expert on Friday criticized U.S. efforts to boost humanitarian aid to Gaza, such as plans for a temporary port and recent airdrops, which he said were “absurd” and “cynical” methods as long as military aid to Israel…
[ad_1] A pro-Palestinian group slashed and spray-painted a century-old portrait of Arthur James Balfour at the University of Cambridge on Friday, defacing a painting of the British official whose pledge of support in 1917 for “the establishment in Palestine of…
[ad_1] U.N. officials, aid groups and experts on humanitarian crises have said the airdrops are insufficient and largely symbolic, given the dire needs of the two million Gazans still trapped in a war zone. They have urged Israel to open…
[ad_1] According to Ireland’s Constitution, a woman’s place is in the home. But voters will decide on Friday — International Women’s Day — whether to change the 87-year-old document to remove passages the government says are outdated and sexist. Twin referendums…
[ad_1] Former U.S. president Donald Trump raised concerns about banning TikTok ahead of a vote next week by the U.S. House of Representatives that would give TikTok owner ByteDance about six months to divest the popular short video app. The front-runner…
[ad_1] The Canadian government is imposing new sanctions on two Iranians it accuses of participating in the violent repression of women and girls in Iran. Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly made the announcement on International Women’s Day. Joly says Iranian women…
[ad_1] Pep Guardiola would, in an unguarded moment, probably concede that he has a slight tendency toward hyperbole. With eyes wide and voice breathless, he will sing the praises of some hopelessly overmatched opponent his Manchester City team has just…
[ad_1] Britain, the European Union and the United Arab Emirates will join the United States in opening a maritime route for humanitarian relief to Gaza, officials said on Friday, adding momentum to a complex and untested effort to bring urgently…
[ad_1] Nearly a year after it closed its embassy in Afghanistan following Kabul’s fall to the Taliban in 2021, the federal government was trying to plan flights out of the country to bring in an estimated 12,000 Afghans it believed were “current and…