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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University student from Turkey who was held for over six weeks in an immigration detention centre in Louisiana after co-writing an opinion piece criticizing her school’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza, was released from custody on Friday after a federal judge granted her bail. CBC | World News
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U.S. says Israel won’t be involved in Gaza aid distribution
A U.S.-backed mechanism for distributing aid into Gaza should take effect soon, Washington’s ambassador to Israel said on Friday ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East, but he gave few details. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. wants to send deportees to Libya, site of migrant mass graves and brutal detention centres
The Donald Trump administrations plans for mass deportations now include Libya, which would represent a remarkable development given both the north African country’s controversial treatment of migrants, and its fraught history with the U.S. CBC | World News
Read More »China beefs up economic safeguards ahead of U.S. trade talks in Switzerland
China has announced a barrage of measures meant to counter the blow to its economy from U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war, as the two sides prepare for talks later this week. CBC | World News
Read More »Canada’s allies are wondering if they can still shelter under the U.S. nuclear umbrella
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Read More »Another jet just slid off a U.S. aircraft carrier. The same aircraft carrier, in fact
An F-18 fighter jet was lost in the Red Sea on Tuesday after tipping off the flight deck of the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier, in the second such incident in about a week, two U.S. officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. Department of Education tells Harvard it will freeze billions in future grants, aid
The U.S. Department of Education informed Harvard University on Monday that it was freezing billions of dollars in future research grants and other aid until the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college concedes to a number of demands from the Trump administration, a senior department official said. CBC | World News
Read More »Former U.S. women’s basketball head coach Fortner takes over Canada’s senior squad
Longtime NCAA, WNBA and international coach Nell Fortner has been named head coach of Canada’s senior women’s national team, Canada Basketball announced Monday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Trump says he’s unsure whether people in the U.S. are entitled to due process rights
President Donald Trump said he was unsure whether people in the U.S. are entitled to due process rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution, as his administration pushes aggressively to deport immigrants who are in the country illegally and other non-citizens. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. man sentenced to 53 years for hate-crime killing of 6-year-old Palestinian American
An Illinois landlord who killed a six-year-old Palestinian American boy and severely injured the boy’s mother in a vicious hate-crime attack days after the war in Gaza began was sentenced Friday to 53 years in prison. CBC | World News
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