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Rescue teams trying to find dozens of construction workers missing since a multi-storey apartment complex collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa have made contact with 11 people buried alive beneath the mangled wreckage, authorities said Tuesday. CBC | World News
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Pasteurized milk includes remnants of H5N1 bird flu, U.S. officials say
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that it has found bird flu virus particles in some samples of pasteurized milk. CBC | World News
Read More »18 children among 22 killed by Israeli strikes in Rafah, Palestinian health officials say
Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 22 people, including 18 children, health officials said Sunday, as the United States was on track to approve billions of dollars of additional military aid to Israel, its close ally. CBC | World News
Read More »15 Palestinians killed across West Bank in Israeli forces raid, settler violence: health officials
Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, while an ambulance driver was killed as he went to pick up wounded from a separate attack by violent Jewish settlers, Palestinian authorities said. CBC | World News
Read More »5 aid workers killed in strike while delivering food in Gaza, Palestinian officials say
Five aid workers with the international humanitarian group World Central Kitchen (WCK) were reported to have been killed while delivering food in Gaza on Monday. The Hamas-run Gaza media office blamed the strike on Israel — while the Israeli military says it’s investigating the “tragic incident.” CBC | World News
Read More »45 dead in South Africa bus crash, 8-year-old girl only survivor, officials say
A bus carrying 46 people crashed over a bridge in South Africa, killing everyone on board except an 8-year-old girl, local officials said Thursday. CBC | World News
Read More »Two hospitals in southern Gaza under attack by Israeli forces, Palestinian health officials say
Israeli forces besieged two more Gaza hospitals on Sunday, pinning down medical teams under heavy gunfire, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, while Israel said it had captured 480 militants in continued clashes at Gaza’s main Al-Shifa Hospital. CBC | World News
Read More »2 dead, 6 injured after suspected Houthi attack on commercial ship near Yemen, U.S. officials say
A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden killed two of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel on Wednesday, authorities said, the first fatal strike in a campaign of assaults by the group over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. CBC | World News
Read More »After Navalny’s death, Canada announces more sanctions on Russian officials
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canada is placing sanctions on six additional Russian officials, saying they were involved in the treatment of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. CBC | World News
Read More »Born during Gaza war, infant twins killed in Israeli airstrike, Palestinian health officials say
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