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Syriais set to hold parliamentary elections on Sunday for the first time since the fall of the country's longtime autocratic leader Bashar al-Assad, who wasunseated in a rebel offensive in December.

Two people were killed and others injured when security forces in Morocco opened fire on protesters who where attempting to steal their weapons, local authorities said. The protests, which began Saturday with demands for better education and healthcare, have been organized online by a loosely formed youth group called GenZ 212.

An assailant drove a car into people outside a synagogue in northern England on Thursday and then began stabbing them, killing two and seriously wounding four in a terrorist attack on the holiest day of the Jewish year, police said.

Blame was thrown around by all sides on the first day of the shutdown after the White House and Congress failed to agree on a way to keep the U.S. government funded and open. The White House said layoffs to the federal workforce were imminent.'

Israel faced international condemnation and protests on Thursday after its military intercepted almost all of about 40 boats in a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza and took captive more than 450 foreign activists, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg.

Some conservative football fans online are outraged after the NFL secured Bad Bunny, one of the world's biggest pop stars - and also a vocalcritic of U.S. President Donald Trump - to headline the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show.

U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to treat any armed attack on Qatar as a threat to the United States' own security, according to a document published on Wednesday that says U.S. forces could step in to defend the Middle Eastern nation.

Minnesota Lynx's five-times All-Star Napheesa Collier ripped into the WNBA's leadership and Commissioner Cathy Engelbert in a post-season media conference on Tuesday, accusing the league of a "tone-deaf, dismissive" approach to players.

Israel's defence minister on Wednesday ordered all remaining Palestinians to leave Gaza City, saying it was their "last opportunity" and that anyone who stayed would be considered a militant supporter and face the "full force" of Israel's latest offensive.

U.S. President Donald Trump was reminded Wednesday that FIFA, not any government, ultimately decides which cities will host 2026 World Cup games.

Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest -his first win after narrowly finishing in second place three previous years.

Jane Goodall, the British conservationist and researcher renowned for her work with chimpanzees, has died at age 91.

A massive brick chimney running 20 storeys up the side of a New York City apartment building collapsed after an explosion Wednesday, sending tons of debris plummeting to the ground.

Confusion surrounds the state of internet connectivity in Afghanistan, after some networks were apparently restored on Wednesday following an outage that began Monday.

The Trump administration violated the U.S. Constitution when it targeted non-citizens for deportation solely for supporting Palestinians and criticizing Israel, a federal judge said Tuesday in a scathing ruling that argued President Donald Trump and his policies are serious threats to free speech.

On the heels of Canada's recognition of Palestinian statehood, we trace the promise, failure, and uncertain future of the two-state solution.

Tony Blair, who resigned a U.K. prime minister 18 years ago, appears to think he has one more big political assignment left in him - bringing peace and reconstruction to Gaza. Some Palestinians will need convincing that he's the man for the job.

An offshore 6.9 magnitude earthquake collapsed walls of houses and buildings late Tuesday in a central Philippine province, killing at least 69 people, injuring many others and sending residents scrambling out of homes into darkness as the intense shaking cut off power, officials said.

Nicole Kidman has filed for divorce from Keith Urban after 19 years of marriage, bringing a surprising end to a long and seemingly successful union that brought together two superstars from the worlds of movies and music.

A social media video, verified by Reuters, shows brown and murky floodwaters in the streets of Ibiza, Spain, after a powerful storm hit the island.

The NHL's biggest stars are poised to head back under the brightest lights this winter when the league makes its Olympic return at February's 2026 Milan-Cortina showcase in Italy, ending a 12-year absence.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth declared an end to "woke" culture in the military Tuesday before hundreds of top U.S. military officials who were abruptly summoned to Virginia from around the world.

The United States will deport hundreds of Iranians back to Iran in the coming weeks, with the first 120 deportees being prepared for a flight in the next day or two, Iran said Tuesday.

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan urged the Taliban on Tuesday to restore internet and telecommunications access across the country, saying the blackout imposed by the government in Kabul has left the country almost entirely cut off from the outside world.

Some of the world's biggest comedians, including Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Pete Davidson and Kevin Hart, are performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival - but not everyone is laughing. Some other comics and the non-profit group Human Rights Watch, have criticized those performing, noting the country's record of human rights abuses.

At least three students were killed, with many others injuredand dozens were presumed buried in the unstable concrete rubble of a collapsed school building in Indonesia early Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump has called the expansion of federal immigration agents and National Guard troops into Chicago, Memphis, Tenn.,andPortland, Ore., necessary, blasting Democrats forcrimeand lax immigration policies. Here's the latest from on the ground in the three cities expecting to see more federal law enforcement in the coming days.

Google's YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million US to settle a lawsuit by U.S. President Donald Trump over his 2021 account suspension following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

South Africa was stripped of a win in 2026 World Cup qualifying by FIFA on Monday and lost top spot in its group for fielding an ineligible player.

Police in Texas on Monday outlined how they linked a man connected to homicides in other states to the 1991 unsolved killings of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop, saying DNA evidence led to a "significant breakthrough" in the brutal crime that has haunted the state's capital and stumped investigators for decades.

Crews continued searching for victims in the charred rubble Monday as authorities said "some" people were unaccounted for following the Sunday morning attack that wounded eight others in Grand Blanc Township, about 96 kilometres north of Detroit.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has banned the importation of raw milk cheeses from France, Italy and Switzerland in an effort to prevent an outbreak of lumpy skin disease in cattle.

Namibia has sent more than 500 soldiers to help battle a huge wildfire that has burned across 30 per centof the country's best-known national park, home to hundreds of species including the critically endangered black rhino.

Heavy rain and strong winds from Typhoon Bualoi flooded roads, knocked off roofs and caused at least 12 deaths in central Vietnam, before weakening to a tropical storm that moved into Laos Monday, state media reported.

Moldova's pro-European ruling party won a resounding victory over its Russian-leaning rival in a key parliamentary election, results showed on Monday, a major boost for the country's bid to join the European Union and break away from Moscow's orbit.

A shutdown of the U.S. government is looking all but inevitable and there's growing concern the Trump administration is poised to use it as an opportunity to launch mass firings of federal employees.

A gunman opened fire inside a Michigan church during a Sunday servicebefore apparently setting the building ablaze, authorities said, killing at least four people and injuring eightothersbefore police shot him.

Denmarkordered a ban on Sunday on civil drone flights, after drones were observed at several military facilities overnight, following a week in which drone sorties caused the temporary closures of several Danishairports.

Over 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza's Health Ministry said Sunday, a day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to the White House for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on halting Israel's ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip.

The death toll following a stampede at a political rally for a popular Indian actor and politician in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has climbed to 40, the state's health minister said Sunday, as medics treated at least 124 injured in hospitals.

Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine early on Sunday, killing at least four people and injuring dozens, in one of the most sustained attacks on the capital since the full-scalewarbegan.

More than 3,000 kilometres north of the nation's capital, soldiers, ships and aircraft of Canada's Armed Forces gathered this week in one of the most remote areas of the country to answer one question: How would they board a foreign vessel that neither wanted to be seen, nor stopped.

With months ticking down to the goal of $10-per-day daycare across Canada, there are at least five provinces who have yet to meet that goal. And there is mounting evidence from other countries that Canada's market-based approach risks wasting public dollars - and worsening quality of care.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand confirmed that Indian law enforcement officials are actively collaborating with Canada as the two countries continue to thaw a once-icy relationship following allegations that Indian agents were linked to an extrajudicial killing on Canadian soil.

The United Nations reimposed sanctions on Iran early Sunday over its nuclear program, further squeezing the Islamic Republic as its people increasingly find themselves priced out of the food they need to survive and worried about their futures.

Cycling team Israel-Premier Tech has been excluded from an upcoming race in Italy over concerns about pro-Palestinian protests and disruption if the team was to participate.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he will send troops to Portland, Ore., "authorizing Full Force, if necessary" to handle "domestic terrorists" as he expands his controversial deployments to more American cities.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is asking the Supreme Court to uphold his birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

The International Paralympic Committee has lifted the partial suspensions of Russia and Belarus. The IPC general assembly in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday first voted against a full suspension for Russia by 111 to 55, with 11 abstentions, and then voted against a partial suspension by 91-77 (with eight abstentions).