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More than 70 players have signed contracts to play in the PWHL, as teams prepare to open training camps next Wednesday. CBC | Sports News
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How Gaza’s refugee camps became targets in Israel’s war with Hamas
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Read More »More than 180 PWHL players to hit ice Nov. 15 when new league’s training camps open
Training camps will mark the first time players and coaches in the new Professional Women’s Hockey League get on the ice together as they push toward January’s scheduled start to its first season. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Aid workers brace for impact of coronavirus in refugee camps
Refugees live in crowded conditions in camps around the world. Humanitarian and medical workers fear populations will be decimated when coronavirus arrives in the camps. CBC | World News
Read More »Minor league players left scrambling as COVID-19 impacts spring camps
Major League Baseball issued a memo Sunday advising teams to avoid group workouts while the sport is on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday, the league cancelled the rest of spring training and delayed the opening of the season at least two weeks. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Iraqi security forces raid protest camps after populist cleric withdraws support for demonstrators
Security forces set fire to anti-government protest tents in the southern Iraq early Saturday and re-opened key public squares in Baghdad that had been occupied by demonstrators for months. CBC | World News
Read More »Crossing checkpoints, visiting ‘Wall Street’ and refugee camps part of this Mideast adventure tour
Millions of tourists visited Israel last year, but only a small proportion went on to the West Bank. Most didn’t stay the night, returning to Israeli hotels to sleep. One American group was bucking the trend, with a “dual narrative” tour aimed at understanding the politics and approaching all the different perspectives with open minds and hearts. CBC | World News
Read More »China lashes out at NY Times report on Muslim re-education camps
China’s foreign ministry lashed out at The New York Times on Monday over its release of leaked documents portraying the inner workings of Beijing’s campaign to detain more than a million Muslims in re-education camps. CBC | World News
Read More »Turkey’s pledge to ‘take custody’ of ISIS prisoner camps called precarious by experts
Turkey says it will take custody of Islamic State prisoners in the territory it captures, but there are fears among human rights — and even defence — observers that a humanitarian catastrophe could follow. CBC | World News
Read More »Wild elephants attack Rohingya camps, kill 4 in Bangladesh
Wild elephants have attacked a new camp where Rohingya refugees were sleeping, killing a woman and her three children in southern Bangladesh. CBC | World News
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