As Bangladesh tries to rebuild a robust democracy following the student-led uprising that ousted PM Sheikh Hasina, a clearer picture is emerging of the previous regime’s treatment of dissenters. Hasina is accused of overseeing a system of enforced disappearances that targeted hundreds of political opponents. CBC | World News
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U.S. strikes on a Yemeni oil port kill 74 people, Houthis say
U.S. airstrikes targeting an oil port held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed 74 people and wounded 171 others, the group said Friday, marking the single-deadliest known attack under President Donald Trump’s new campaign targeting the rebels. CBC | World News
Read More »Trump is demanding universities change policies or face defunding. Would Poilievre do the same?
U.S. President Donald Trump has been threatening to cancel funding for some universities unless they accede to his demands to change ideological policy, similar to a pledge Pierre Poilievre has made for Canadian post-secondary schools. CBC | World News
Read More »WHSmith to close 2 more stores this weekend as high street becomes ‘ghost town’
WHSmith is set to close two more retail locations across the UK this weekend and customers are not happy with the news. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »An American constitutional crisis brews in a Central American prison
U.S. President Donald Trump has done numerous things in his second term that have been deemed authoritarian. But there’s one line he hasn’t crossed, at least not yet. He has not wilfully, clearly, defied a court order, crossing the Rubicon into a constitutional no man’s land where there are no rules. Until now. CBC | World News
Read More »Lib Dem council spends £13k making bathrooms gender neutral while raising tax
The Supreme Court ruled that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act “refer to a biological woman and biological sex”. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Actor Michelle Trachtenberg died of complications from diabetes: medical examiner
Michelle Trachtenberg, the actor known for roles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Harriet the Spy, died as a result of complications from diabetes, New York City’s medical examiner said Wednesday. CBC | World News
Read More »Labour sunk to new level of snakery – and it was our bravest who bore insult
This shabby Government couldn’t even be decent for the people to whom they owe their freedom. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »‘The assisted dying Bill is alive and kicking — and stronger than ever’
Big Read: Campaigners remain cautiously optimistic that the landmark legislation will pass its next parliamentary hurdle. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Drake adds Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance to his lawsuit against record label
Drake has expanded his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group, saying more people were duped into believing he was a pedophile after rapper Kendrick Lamar performed Not Like Us at the Super Bowl and the Grammy Awards. CBC | World News
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