Category: World
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At least 47 people were killed in an overnight raid on a farming community overlooking Port-au-Prince, according to the UN; a Haitian rights group counts 30 to 40. Residents say police fought and still could not protect them. An election is due in December.
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Hospital officials say four people including two children were killed in central Gaza on Monday. The Israeli military says it struck weapons stored inside mosques after issuing warnings. What the law actually requires when a protected site is used militarily.
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Palestinian sources say Israeli missiles destroyed a desalination plant in Sheikh Radwan. The Israeli military says it struck Hamas weapons depots inside mosques and did not target the plant. Both accounts are set out here, along with what the law protects.
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More than 300 deaths in a week and over 2,600 since May. Forty health workers have died, wages have gone unpaid, and 16,000 vaccine doses have arrived for an Ebola species the vaccine was never designed against.
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The cheque goes to the importing country’s own treasury, written by one of its own companies. But who writes the cheque and who bears the cost are different questions, and the answer changes with the product. A plain-language guide to tariff incidence.
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A forest fire burns in the air. A peat fire burns in the ground, travels beneath firebreaks, survives rain, and produces far more smoke per unit of fuel. Understanding the difference explains why water-bombing achieves so little and why the haze lasts for weeks.
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Ontario’s premier says Canada could cut off electricity and critical minerals to the United States. Provinces do control their own resources — but the grid is shared, the contracts are long, and the constitutional question has never been tested.
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South Sumatra alone has 1,429 fire hot spots, haze has crossed into Malaysia and Brunei, and 52 aircraft are water-bombing and cloud-seeding. Police have arrested 72 people and are investigating four companies for clearing land with fire.
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A car crossing the Canada-US border is rarely a foreign product arriving in a domestic market — it is usually a partly finished North American product coming back. That is why a 50 per cent auto tariff behaves differently from an ordinary import tax.
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On Ukraine’s Independence Day, the British prime minister said MBDA would release classified details of UK components in the SCALP cruise missile so Ukraine can assemble its own. Analysts were quick to point out what the step does not do.