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Intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have caused at least 46 deaths, Chile's president said Saturday evening, and officials said at least 1,100 homes had been destroyed. 92 blazes in central region have burned through at least 8,000 hectares, minister says Intense forest fires …

Sixteen people were killed, among them civilians, and 25 injured in overnight U.S. airstrikes on pro-Iran targets in Iraq, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani's office said on Saturday. Iraq summons U.S. chargé d'affaires in protest over airstrikes, state media says Sixteen people were killed and 25 injured, civilians among them, …

Dr. Saleh Eleiwa, an emergency physician at Al-Shifa Hospital, was on a call with his cousin in Canada on Nov. 18 when he approached an IDF checkpoint while evacuating the hospital under Israeli raid. Witnesses have told the family that Eleiwa was taken by the IDF, but neither Israel nor …

Canada's Federal Court has overturned a decision granting refugee status to an American transgender woman who successfully argued that a combination of gun culture and rising transphobia left her at risk of persecution in the United States. Yukon resident Daria Bloodworth represented herself in bid to claim asylum in Canada …

Ocean temperatures are rising so dramatically that the organization that monitors threats to coral reefs worldwide has added three new alert categories. Alert Level 5 means 'risk of near-complete mortality' from coral bleaching, says Coral Reef Watch As It Happens5:59Coral reef monitor adds new alert levels to keep up with …

The federal Conservatives are demanding that the Liberal government donate to Ukraine tens of thousands of surplus air-to-ground rockets that are slated for disposal. But the weapons may not be ready for the field. A defence official says Canada doesn't have warheads for all the weapons The federal Conservatives are …

The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend. Strikes 'will continue at …

Geopolitical observers say the Houthis' disruption of trade in the Red Sea, ostensibly in support of Palestinians in Gaza, is winning them new recruits in Yemen, where they control two-thirds of the population, often through brutal means. Militant group remains defiant in face of U.S., U.K. airstrikes When Yemen's former …

Farmers' protests that began in France in mid-January have spread across Europe in a fight for less bureaucracy and protection of their livelihoods amid the continent's rising cost of living. Farmers scale back protests after France's government announces new measures Farmers protest at EU summit for more help with costs, …

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday issued an executive order that targets Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have been accused of attacking Palestinians in the occupied territory, imposing financial sanctions and visa bans in an initial round against four individuals. U.S. ready to impose financial sanctions on Israeli …