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At least 19 people died in Nepal on Monday, authorities said, as police in the capital fired tear gas and ammunition at protesters trying to storm parliament. Some of the mainly youth protesters, animated by government corruption and a ban on social media, forced their way into the parliament complex …

There’s heightened emphasis on the role climate change may play in the spread of legionnaires’ disease as London, Ont., deals with its second deadly outbreak since the summer of 2024. Some scientists point to the Earth’s warming temperatures and changing weather patterns — some of the signals of climate change — as playing a big role …

This latest act of violence on a U.S. military installation — sites that are supposed to be among the most secure in the country — again raised concerns about safety and security within the armed forces’ own walls. The army said it’s investigating the mass shooting that took place Wednesday …

Israeli forces killed at least 27 people in attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including three people who died in a strike on a church that the late Pope Francis used to speak to regularly, medics and church officials said. Eight men tasked with protecting aid trucks were reported …

Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley on Tuesday killed 12 people, the region’s governor Bachir Khodr told Reuters, in the deadliest airstrikes since last year’s truce ended months of fighting between Israel and the armed group Hezbollah. The Israeli military said earlier on Tuesday it had begun striking targets belonging …

A preliminary report depicted confusion in the cockpit shortly before an Air India jetliner crashed and killed 260 people last month, after the plane’s engine fuel cut-off switches flipped almost simultaneously and starved the engines of fuel. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner bound for London from the Indian city of Ahmedabad began …

Texas inspectors signed off on Camp Mystic’s emergency planning just two days before catastrophic flooding killed more than two dozen people at the all-girls Christian summer camp, most of them children. The Department of State Health Services released records Tuesday showing the camp complied with a host of state regulations …

The video call is grainy, but it’s crystal clear what the person on the phone is trying to sell: illicit drugs, packaged and ready to be shipped to Canada.  The seller, who goes by the name Kim, says he sells cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA and nitazenes, a powerful class of synthetic …

The recent shootings at the homes of Minnesota state lawmakers, which have left two people dead, are a “grim milestone” in the ongoing history of American political violence. That’s the assessment of analyst Riley McCabe, who helped compile a comprehensive report on that subject released in late 2024 by Washington think-tank the Center for Strategic and …

Iran fired a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early Monday, killing at least five people, while Israel claimed that it had now achieved “aerial superiority” over Tehran and could fly over the Iranian capital without facing major threats. After days of attacks on Iranian air defences and missile …