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The Israeli military launched one of the biggest waves of strikes on Gaza in weeks on Tuesday, residents said, and health officials issued a new warning that health care faced total collapse from Israel’s blockade of all supplies. Gaza’s Health Ministry said a United Nations-backed polio vaccination campaign meant to target over 600,000 …

The death toll from a Russian missile strike in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has risen to 18, including nine children, regional governor Serhii Lysak said Saturday. Another 61 people were injured in Friday’s attack, ranging from a three-month-old baby to elderly residents. Forty people remain hospitalized, including two …

Hamas handed over the bodies on Thursday of Israeli infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, the two youngest captives taken by Hamas in their October 7, 2023 attack and among the most potent symbols of the trauma inflicted that day. Hamas handed over the bodies of the two …

Crown and defence lawyers in the case of a priest who sexually abused children in Nunavut are together recommending he receive a six-year sentence.  Eric Dejaeger, 77, pleaded guilty earlier this week to six counts of sexually abusing children in Igloolik between 1978 and 1982 — some of them as young as four.  …

WARNING: This story contains details of violence involving young children. A British judge sentenced a teenager who murdered three young girls to minimum of 52 years in prison on Thursday, after the killer was removed from the dock for interrupting his sentencing. On Monday, Axel Rudakubana, 18, admitted carrying out the …

A gunman who fatally shot at least 12 people, including two children, in Montenegro has killed himself while surrounded by police, officials said Thursday. At least four others were wounded in the shooting rampage in the western town of Cetinje on Wednesday that followed a bar brawl, officials said. The …

Israeli tanks pushed into northern parts of the Khan Younis area in the south of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, and Palestinian medics said Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 20 people across the enclave. The latest strikes came as Hamas said it had information that Israel intended to carry out a …

Frozan Hassan Zai thought she would finally be safe after leaving an abusive marriage in the Netherlands with her two children, her second time fleeing a country. She arrived in Canada, married a Canadian, had a child, started a business and has helped others to come to this country.  Eight …

U.S. President Joe Biden is scheduled to formally apologize on Friday to Indigenous people in the U.S. for the government’s role in the abuse and neglect of children sent to federal boarding schools to assimilate them into white society. At least 973 Native American children died in the abusive boarding school …

McMaster Children’s Hospital says it will resume tonsil and adenoid surgeries next week, almost four months after two children died following the procedure. Hamilton Health Sciences said Monday that an external review by independent experts launched in June did not find any specific issues with the hospital’s ear, nose and …