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Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The death toll from Venezuela’s twin earthquakes has risen to 3,535, authorities said on Monday, while …

A week after Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes, doctors on Wednesday said the biggest dangers now facing survivors are untreated wounds and infectious diseases. Thousands of displaced Venezuelans are sleeping in crowded shelters or outside without access to clean water amid dismal sanitary conditions following the June 24 earthquakes that officials …

Fighting in southern Lebanon abated on Monday after the announcement of a U.S.-Iran deal to end the wider conflict, but local authorities warned displaced people not to rush home, and Israel said it would not withdraw its troops from the area. Lebanon has suffered the deadliest spillover of the conflict between the U.S. and Iran, with nearly …

Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The City of Coquitlam says most residents who were displaced by a mudslide last week will …

Israeli airstrikes continued to pound Lebanon on Friday, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes in densely populated neighbourhoods to seek shelter elsewhere, as aid groups warned the escalating conflict could lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. “We’re sleeping here in the streets — some in cars, some on the …

Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Typhoon Fung-wong blew out of the northwestern Philippines on Monday after setting off floods and landslides, knocking out power to entire provinces, killing at least four people …

An Israeli airstrike on a school building killed dozens of people sheltering inside on Monday, as questions remained about distributing aid to Palestinians in Gaza. While the aid system is worked out, Israel has continued to carry out strikes across the densely populated Gaza Strip, killing at least 45 people on …

Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 Palestinians, eight of them at a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City, medics said, as the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of a hospital in the north. Palestinian medics said eight people, including children, were killed in the …

An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced people in central Gaza killed at least 28 people, including women and children, on Thursday, while three hospitals in the north were told to evacuate putting patients’ lives at risk, medics say. The strike, which wounded 54 others, happened in the city …

More than 200 residents at Birchwood Terrace in Winnipeg are going to be displaced all summer as structural issues in the building continue. It has been more than seven weeks since residents were asked to leave the apartment building, leaving many residents living in hotels. The province has offered support …