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After striking workers took to picket lines and a “couple million” packages piled up just before Christmas last year, Canada Post is back at the negotiation table with the union representing its employees this week. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) and the postal service are trying to reach …

An Israeli airstrike destroyed a three-storey home in Gaza City on Saturday, killing 10 people — half of them children — as Arab mediators scrambled to restart a ceasefire. Israeli strikes killed at least 49 people in the past 24 hours, according to health officials. The dead in the early-morning …

Russian missiles struck the heart of the Ukrainian city of Sumy as people gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday, killing at least 34 people, officials said, in the second large-scale attack to claim civilian lives in just over a week. The two ballistic missiles hit around 10:15 a.m., officials said. Images …

Two Israeli missiles hit a building inside a main Gaza hospital on Sunday, destroying the emergency and reception department and damaging other structures, medics said, in a strike Israel said was against Hamas fighters exploiting the facility. Health officials at the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City evacuated the patients …

WARNING: This story contains details of a man burning alive. Nidaa Mansour was on her phone when she read a news alert that an Israeli airstrike had hit a tent used by local media in southern Gaza, causing flames to erupt in the tent. She frantically called her husband, Ahmad Mansour, a journalist …

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 …

Ukraine has clearly grabbed the attention of U.S. President Donald Trump with its apparent willingness to share access to rare-earth resources with Washington, in exchange for its continued support and security guarantees. Trump wants what he calls “equalization” for support the U.S. has provided to Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion. And he wants …

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday called for an end to attacks on hospitals in Gaza after Israel struck one and raided another in the past few days. “Hospitals in Gaza have once again become battlegrounds and the health system is under severe threat,” said WHO …

Gaza authorities said an Israeli airstrike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital on Thursday, but the Israeli army said it had attacked a vehicle carrying Islamic Jihad militants. Medics said the five were among at least 21 people killed in Israeli air assaults across the Palestinian enclave before dawn …

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 …