Canada’s parliament has passed a landmark bill giving Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government new powers to fast-track major national projects.
The One Canadian Economy Act was passed by the Senate on Thursday, and allows the cabinet to streamline…
Category: 2. World
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BBC inside Iran state building hit by Israeli missile strike
The BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet reports from the ruins of an Iranian state TV building in Tehran.
It was hit by an Israeli missile strike during the recent conflict – forcing a newsreader to flee while live on air.
Lyse…
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Hope, fear and anger for families waiting for war to end
Sally NabilBBC World Service
Reporting fromQandil Mountains, Iraq
MUSTAFA OZER/AFP via Getty Images)When the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced last month that it would disband and end its decades-long insurgency against Turkey,…
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Cases in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania raise fear of regional trend
Basillioh RukangaBBC News, Nairobi
AFP/Getty ImagesKenya’s crackdown on protesters over the last year has sullied its image as a beacon of democracy Kenya has been hit by a recent wave of repression, tarnishing its reputation as a beacon of…
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Brad Pitt’s home ‘ransacked’ in Los Angeles, police say
Actor Brad Pitt’s home in Los Angeles has been ransacked by a trio of thieves.
Three suspects broke into the home in the Los Feliz late on Wednesday through a front window and “ransacked the location,” according to the Los Angeles Police…
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Large fireball seen shooting across sky over Southeastern US
Early on Thursday, the American Meteor Society received multiple reports of a fireball sighting over various Southeastern states, including Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Video from drivers in these states show a flashing light in the sky…
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The woman who could bust Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’
Ana FaguyBBC News, Washington DC
Getty ImagesSenate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough may not be a household name, but the so-called referee of the Senate has found herself at the centre of a firestorm after she objected to several parts of US…
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Anna Wintour steps back as US Vogue’s editor-in-chief
Dame Anna Wintour is stepping back as editor-in-chief of American Vogue after 37 years.
The British-born fashion magnate, 75, is leaving the role she has held longer than any other editor, but will retain senior positions at its publisher.
Dame…
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US, West exercise all pressures to deprive Iran of its rights
Abbas Arahchi made the comments while visiting the national Iranian TV’s Glassy Building which was attacked in the recent Israeli regime’s aggression in Tehran on Thursday evening.
Araghchi said that the incumbent US president Donald Trump…
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Israeli strike at Gaza market kills 18 Palestinians, doctor and witnesses say
At least 18 Palestinians have been killed after an Israeli drone strike targeted a Hamas police unit attempting to assert control over a market in the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, a doctor and eyewitnesses told the BBC.
Eyewitnesses said…
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