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Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51. 'Luminary of the disability justice movement' died of infection, friend says Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51. Wong …

A large protest against insecurity and government corruption turned violent in Mexico City on Saturday as demonstrators clashed with riot police outside the National Palace. President Claudia Sheinbaum accuses right-wing groups of infiltrating movement A large protest against insecurity and government corruption turned violent in Mexico City on Saturday as …

A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger, through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed him with a shotgun in February 2020. Court rejected defence arguments that racist posts and …

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order to exempt a wide range of food imports, including beef, tomatoes, coffee and bananas, from sweeping tariffs imposed earlier this year on nearly every country, the White House said. New exemptions come as U.S. consumers grow increasingly frustrated over high …

Russian forces launched a massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv early on Friday, striking residential buildings and triggering explosions and fires in districts throughout the capital, officials said. Aerial attack sparks fires and scatters debris across many districts of capital Four people were killed after Russia unleashed a massive …

Mu’ayyad Ajjour and his neighbour Mohamed Zaida have searched every day among the ruins of a building, hoping they will find the remains of five-year-old Masa, Ajjour's cousin, so they can give her a proper burial. Her body is one of thousands thought to be buried in the debris of …

Mu’ayyad Ajjour and his neighbour Mohamed Zaida have searched every day among the ruins of a building, hoping they will find the remains of five-year-old Masa, Ajjour's cousin, so they can give her a proper burial. Her body is one of thousands thought to be buried in the debris of …

Many industry observers have been cool to Donald Trump’s proposal to allow 50-year mortgages in the United States. And it’s very unlikely such an idea would gain traction anytime soon in Canada, where amortization periods have been shortened over the last two decades. Canada unlikely to allow very long mortgage …

Former FBI director James Comey and current New York State Attorney General Letitia James have argued their recent indictments are politically motivated prosecutions fuelled by Donald Trump's animus. They say the appointment of Trump's hand-picked choice to oversee their cases negates their indictments altogether. Senate hasn't confirmed a U.S. attorney …

While crews were deployed to parts of Gaza to do maintenance work on power lines, they say they face challenges that stall the work, including border closures blocking essential equipment and machinery. Ceasefire means electricity once again from Israel, but equipment needed to fix destroyed infrastructure It’s pitch black out …