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Nine people have been killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

US attorney general goes on attack during questioning by House judiciary committee over handling of filesThe US attorney general Pam Bondi attacked and insulted Democrats during a House judiciary committee hearing on Wednesday as she defended the justice department’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.Democrats pounded Bondi with questions about the way the department has complied with a law last year mandating the complete release of the files with […]

Actor best-known for role in Hal Ashby’s black comedy also appeared in films by Robert Altman and Wes AndersonBud Cort, actor best known for his role in dark comedy Harold and Maude, has died at the age of 77.According to Variety, Cort died in Connecticut after a long illness. Continue reading...Source: www.theguardian.comRead full article

Tiffany Smyth is married to Seamus Culleton, who despite having a valid work permit was detained in SeptemberThe wife of an Irish man who has been held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for five months - despite having a valid work permit – is pleading for help in instigating his release from the “dire conditions” he is facing in detention.“I just want him home where he belongs. I […]

Former Mail editor was barely audible on witness stand while claimants’ barrister raced against judge’s deadlinePaul Dacre was “no shrinking violet” in the 27 years he edited the Daily Mail, he said in his witness statement to the high court in London this week. He had “captained a tough ship” in order to safeguard “the ‘patina’ and prestige that differentiated the Daily Mail from other titles, both the popular ones […]

Cross-party UK MPs campaigning for senior Fatah leader’s release from Israeli jail, saying he is unifying figureThe son of Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian prisoner often described as the Nelson Mandela of the Palestinian movement, has called on the British government to put his father’s release at the heart of Palestinian democratic renewal.Arab Barghouti warned the UK government that its recent recognition of a Palestinian state risks providing nothing but false […]

Closure of airspace draws attention to crime groups’ high-powered weapons – and may give Trump an excuse to attackAn alleged incursion by Mexican cartel drones into US airspace and the sudden closure of El Paso’s airspace has drawn renewed attention to the use of high-powered weapons by organized crime groups in Mexico.There were conflicting accounts on Wednesday about whether the city’s airspace was shut down due to cartel drones or […]

Winning bidders include Chevron, Eni, QatarEnergy and Aiteo.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article