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Nilab still remembers the day Kabul fell to the Taliban in 2021. She was at the bank trying to pay for her sister’s passport in preparation for fleeing the country.  Dressed in a red suit from work and with her hair uncovered, every taxi driver refused to take her home. Nilab, 29, …

The BBC said Monday it will no longer work with MasterChef host Gregg Wallace after a report found that dozens of misconduct allegations made against the hit cooking show presenter were upheld. The report, led by a law firm, said 45 out of the 83 allegations made against Wallace during his time on …

A wildfire has entered the northern Saskatchewan community of Beauval, the village’s mayor says. “The fire entered the northern village of Beauval and has created structural damage in the community as we speak,” Beauval Mayor Rick Laliberte said in an interview around 7 p.m. Thursday. Shortly after 4 p.m., a fire approached …

Mass layoffs at dating app provider Bumble are the latest sign that more people are splitting from the high-tech way of making connections. The Texas-based online dating platform disclosed in a securities filing last week that it plans to lay off about one-third of its workforce, amounting to some 240 employees, with …

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration must temporarily halt its sweeping government overhaul because Congress did not authorize it to carry out large-scale staffing cuts and the restructuring of agencies, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco sided Friday with a group of unions, non-profits …

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to axe key parts of NASA’s moon program in favour of commercial alternatives and his Mars-focused agenda, targeting an array of established projects in a proposed $6-billion US cut to the space agency’s overall budget for next year. The “skinny” — or outline — version …

The former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) says major funding cuts to the agency could lead to more cases of diseases such as paralytic polio and malaria.  In an interview airing Sunday on CBC’s Rosemary Barton Live, Samantha Power described the consequences of the Trump administration’s decision to …

As It Happens6:17This Toronto pizzeria has completely cut out U.S. ingredients A Toronto pizza maker says he won’t use U.S. ingredients in his pies as long as Donald Trump is president.  Graham Palmateer, owner of Gram’s Pizza in Toronto’s west end, says he’s swapped out every U.S. product in his …

In Nanyuki, a market town just northwest of Mount Kenya, some foreign aid workers and volunteers are worried what U.S. President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will mean for the people there. “It’s a concern. It’s a real issue,” said Rex Taylor, co-founder and president of The Small Project, a …

Hundreds of weather forecasters and other U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired on Thursday, lawmakers and weather experts said. Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the …