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Parti Quebecois (PQ) leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon reacts to the results of the provincial elections, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on October 5, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Separatists won provincial elections in Quebec on Monday (October 5, 2026), with a promise to hold a vote on leaving Canada after U.S. President Donald Trump leaves office,…
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday (October 5, 2026) called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza ahead of the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. “It is time for the ceasefire to become permanent. It is time to…
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White House senior adviser Massad Boulos. File. | Photo Credit: AP A U.S. envoy met over the weekend with Sudan’s top general as the Trump administration pushes for diplomatic efforts to end a war that has created what many describe as the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Massad Boulos, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser for Arab…
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U.S. President Donald Trump. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters President Donald Trump said Monday (October 5, 2026) that he will stop using taxpayer funds for television advertisements glorifying himself that sparked a major backlash, and instead tap his super PAC to cover costs going forward. In a post on his social media site, Mr. Trump…
Pro-Saudi-backed Yemeni government fighters fire their weapons during what government forces say was an advance against the Iran-backed Houthis, near Dhubab, Taiz Governorate, Yemen, in this still image taken from video released October 5, 2026. Photo: Southern Giants Brigades/Handout via Reuters Forces of the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen have recaptured several key areas around…
The three countries signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement in August, under which an armed attack on one member is considered an attack on all. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey agreed on Monday (October 5, 2026) to move immediately to implement their collective defence commitments and ensure the “rapid deployment”…
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A 15-year-old lost a hand on Monday (October 5, 2026) in the latest round of French high school protests that have erupted into clashes with police, with more than 200 students injured in the violence. France has been shaken by a wave of demonstrations by teenage students at high schools, or lycees, since late September…
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Cornell students thronged a campus plaza to protest the university’s response to allegations of sexual assault at a fraternity house, and the school’s main administration building was splashed with graffiti and damaged overnight. At a demonstration that overflowed the large space in front of the school’s student centre, students, faculty members and others wore purple…
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A razor-wire boundary fence along the Polish-Lithuanian border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, near the Suwalki Gap. The Suwalki Gap is a 104-kilometre stretch that forms the only land corridor connecting the Baltic states with the rest of NATO, while separating Belarus from Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave. | Photo Credit: AFP On October 1, Russian…
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A measles alert sign hangs outside the entrance to the Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, U.S. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a statewide disaster emergency on Monday over a measles outbreak, after 108 cases were reported in the state this year. Since July 15,…
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