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An Australian mother and her daughter were killed, and father and the son severely injured when their family’s holiday van crashed into a parked container truck in Sri Lanka on Wednesday morning. Brisbane mother Louis Collins, 37, and her four-year-old daughter Poppy died at the scene of the crash. “The world has just lost two angels, but […]

TOKYO—A Japanese volcano that figured in a 1960s James Bond movie erupted explosively on Friday, June 22, for the first time since April, sending smoke thousands of meters into the air, less than a week after a strong earthquake shook the country’s west. Shinmoedake, in a mainly rural area about 616 miles (985km) from Tokyo […]

KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysia has named Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus, a former central bank deputy who was involved in investigating the 1MDB scandal, as the new governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, a spokesman for the prime minister said on Friday, June 22. Her appointment comes after the exit of Muhammad Ibrahim less than halfway through his five-year […]

LONDON—British police said on Friday morning London’s Charing Cross rail terminal had been evacuated after reports of a man on the tracks claiming to have a bomb. “The station has been evacuated as a precaution and no services are currently stopping at the station,” British Transport Police posted to Twitter at 7:22 a.m. local time. Witnesses […]

JAKARTA—An Indonesian court on Friday, June 22, sentenced to death a cleric linked to ISIS, for masterminding from his jail cell a string of deadly terrorist attacks across the world’s largest Muslim-majority country. The ruling comes as Indonesia struggles to rein in a rising tide of homegrown terrorism, inspired in part by the terrorist group […]

The frequency of large-scale protests in Iran against its ruling regime has been increasing, and lately, they have taken on a pro-U.S. stance. In a video from a June 20 protest in Abadan, Iran, a group chants, “Our enemy is right here. They’re lying when they say it’s America.” The chants echoed a similar protest […]

MONTREAL—Quebec is once again replacing its high school history textbooks, this time to include more content on the country’s Indigenous peoples. It is the second time since 2016 that the government is revising the curriculum. The two-year course first introduced in 2016 and beginning in secondary three has proven controversial, with cultural communities across the […]

VICTORIA—Hundreds of tiny tremors, felt only by sensitive monitors, have shivered under southern Vancouver Island in the last 48 hours, leading one scientist to predict they may signal what he calls a “tectonic dance.” John Cassidy, an earthquake seismologist with Natural Resources Canada, says the shaking has most of the hallmarks of a so-called episodic […]

WAGMATCOOK, N.S.—A ceremony is scheduled for today to mark the grand opening of a unique court on Nova Scotia’s Wagmatcook First Nation. The Nova Scotia Judiciary says the court in Cape Breton is the first of its kind in the province and among only a few in the country that incorporates Indigenous restorative justice traditions […]

CALGARY—A 1919 painting depicting the impact of mustard gas on soldiers fighting in the First World War is being re-created as a human tableau. The painting, called “Gassed” by American artist John Singer Sargent, shows soldiers blinded and injured by mustard gas being led to a casualty tent for treatment. Artist Adad Hannah enlisted about […]

New budget airline Swoop is offering big savings on tickets, but expect few frills with your airfare. The airline is backed by WestJet, and recently had its maiden flight from Hamilton to Abbotsford, B.C.

France failed to disclose key evidence exonerating a Canadian of a terrorist attack in 1980. French officials did not share fingerprint comparison evidence in their possession with their Canadian counterparts—evidence that ultimately helped to clear Hassan Diab of committing a terrorist attack.

EDMONTON—University of Alberta researchers have discovered a new species of ancient underwater lizards. The metre-long predator ate fish up to 75 million years ago in waters that once covered what is now southern Italy. The fossil is so well preserved that scientists can examine its scales and muscle tissue. They can even see its lunch—a […]

OTTAWA—The federal government has tapped a physician, former provincial ministers and policy experts to make up its new advisory council on the implementation of a national pharmacare program. Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor announced the creation of the new group alongside the advisory council’s chair, former Ontario health minister Eric Hoskins, at an event Wednesday […]

WASHINGTON—The missile engine test site that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had reportedly promised to destroy is a major facility in the western part of the country that has been used for testing engines for long-range missiles, according to a U.S. official. President Donald Trump told reporters after their June 12 summit that Kim […]

WELLINGTON—New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gave birth to her first child, a girl, on Thursday, Ardern said in a posting on Instagram. Ardern, 37, became New Zealand’s youngest prime minister when she took office through a coalition deal last year after an inconclusive election, and now becomes the first woman in the country’s history […]

The Australian government’s $144 billion package for income tax cuts was passed in parliament on Thursday. The centre-right Coalition government’s tax cut package was opposed in part by Labor, but passed Senate without changes with the support of One Nation and Centre Alliance parties. Prime Minister Turnbull called the changes the “most comprehensive reform of […]

Police combed through bushland in Berowra on Wednesday, June 20, in an attempt to locate the body of Sydney woman Qi Yu who was allegedly murdered by her teenage housemate. She was reported missing when authorities found her white 2016 Toyota Corolla in Burwood, four kilometres away from her residence in Campsie on June 9, […]

WELLINGTON—New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was admitted to hospital in Auckland early on Thursday for the birth of her first child. Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters was now acting prime minister and would run the country for the next six weeks while Ardern took maternity leave according to a previously published agreement, her office […]

OTTAWA—The U.S. commerce secretary says Canada is not a national security threat and that a revitalized NAFTA could make the Trump administration’s tariffs on steel and aluminum go away. Wilbur Ross also acknowledged on June 20 that the U.S. doesn’t have a trade deficit on steel with Canada—in fact, he says, it has a surplus […]

FREDERICTON—The official languages commissioner in New Brunswick—Canada’s only officially bilingual province—says the government still isn’t getting it right. Katherine d’Entremont is recommending a new secretariat be created to help ensure compliance with the Official Languages Act, which was enacted nearly 50 years ago. “The plan is not changing the status quo. In other words, the […]

Draft conclusions for a European Council Summit, which begins on June 28, propose the creation of migrant processing centers outside the bloc, in a bid to break the deadlock on migration policy threatening EU integration. In the draft document, European Council President Donald Tusk proposes that EU member states create “regional disembarkation platforms” outside the European […]

BRUSSELS—Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and other tech giants could face more curbs on their market power after a European Parliament committee voted on Wednesday in favor of tougher copyright rules. The copyright rules, proposed by the European Commission two years ago, are designed to take account of the growing role of online platforms, forcing them to […]

All full-time female faculty members at the University of Guelph will be getting a raise after a salary review found they were being paid less than their male colleagues. Charlotte Yates, the provost at the Ontario university, said the decision comes after crunching the numbers gathered through the review launched last year. The university will […]

Britain’s referendum on European Union membership in 2016 split the UK into a nation of “remainers” and leavers.” But after two years, neither camp is happy with how things are going. On Saturday, pro-EU remainders will head into the streets en masse to vent their frustrations on the two-year anniversary of the vote. But with […]

LONDON—Prime Minister Theresa May won a crucial Brexit vote in Parliament on Wednesday, keeping her divided government’s plans to end more than 40 years of British partnership with the European Union on track. After pro-EU Conservative lawmaker Dominic Grieve said he would support the government’s proposal for a “meaningful vote” in Parliament on Britain’s exit, […]

OTTAWA—Canadian officials have seized 18 tonnes of suspected European eel meat as part of a 92-country sting involving the trade of illegal animal parts. Environment Canada says officers in several provinces also intercepted shark fins and controlled snakes, as well as products such as briefcases and handbags made from endangered species. The efforts were part […]