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Draft Israeli legislation that would stop the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) working in the Gaza Strip and West Bank would be a “catastrophe” if enacted, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday. Guterres said he raised his concerns with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Such a measure would …

Canada is dusting off and updating emergency protocols to deal with fallout from a possible tactical nuclear exchange in Europe or the spread of radiation across the ocean from a Ukrainian power plant explosion. Internal Public Safety Canada notes show the measures include updating a highly secret plan to ensure …

Ray Coombs watched the Hay River arrive at his homestead “like a big tidal wave” of water and ice.  “It was really surreal what happened,” he told CBC’s Loren McGinnis. “And then it seemed like the perfect storm.  “I could hear crackling like a major forest fire — that was …