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Israeli soldiers pushed three apparently lifeless bodies from roofs during a West Bank raid
Israeli soldiers take part in a military raid, in Qabatya, near Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, September 19, 2024. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
world
Israel committed ‘severe’ violations of global child rights treaty in Gaza, UN committee says
FILE PHOTO: A Palestinian child is vaccinated against polio, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Jabalia in northern Gaza Strip, September 10, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa/File Photo
canada
Legal groups file three complaints over Vancouver Police Department treatment of Palestine protesters
A man who was taking part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration has handcuffs removed and is released after being detained by police officers, in Vancouver, on Oct.19, 2023. The Pivot Legal Society and the BC Civil Liberties Association say they've launched three complaints against the Vancouver Police Department alleging illegal surveillance and police brutality against pro-Palestinian protesters. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
opinion
We must protect the rights of those born to mothers in prison
Robin Hansen
opinion
Zara Esmaeili sang publicly in Iran without a hijab, and hasn’t been heard from since
Samira Mohyeddin
politics
Federal government extends ban on senior Iranian officials back to 2003
<p>Demonstrators protest against Iran outside the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa, Monday July 26, 2004. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand</p>
world
Women in Iran are going without hijabs as second anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death approaches
FILE - An Iranian woman without wearing her mandatory Islamic headscarf flashes a victory sign as two head-to-toe veiled women walk at the old main bazaar of Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
opinion
My fighting Iranian sisters and I stood up for Mahsa Amini. Here we stand again
Yalda Moaiery
canada
Alberta First Nation suing federal government over right to clean drinking water
Drinking water is poured into a glass from a faucet in North Vancouver, July, 30, 2019. An Alberta First Nation has revived a lawsuit it first launched 10 years ago in an effort to get the federal government to recognize its human right to clean, safe water. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
world
As war rages in Gaza, Israel’s crackdown on West Bank insurgency is killing Palestinian youths
A Palestinian boy walks amid the devastation following an Israeli army raid in Tulkarem in the north of the occupied-West Bank, on September 12, 2024. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on September 11 that the military should use its "full strength" to strike at Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank, where a sweeping military operation has killed dozens. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP) (Photo by ZAIN JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)
world
U.S. sanctions 16 allies of Venezuela’s president over accusations of obstructing the election
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro addresses government loyalists gathered at the presidential palace in support of his reelection one month after the presidential vote, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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Alberto Fujimori, a former president of Peru who was convicted for human-rights abuses, dies at 86
FILE PHOTO: Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori answers a question during an interview with Reuters inside his rented house in Las Condes neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, November 5, 2006. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado/File Photo
canada
Federal government urged to take action against eight Chinese seafood companies over alleged abusive labour practices
In this undated photo, crew members work on the squid-fishing lines on the deck of the Chinese squid-fishing boat, the Zhen Fa 7.
u.s. business
Nike shareholders vote against proposal on workers’ rights
FILE PHOTO: The Nike swoosh logo is seen outside the store on 5th Ave in New York, New York, U.S., March 19, 2019. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
world
Israel draws U.S. rebuke after saying IDF killed American activist ‘unintentionally’
FILE PHOTO: Turkish-American woman Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a graduate of the University of Washington, poses wearing her mortarboard and keffiyeh in a family photograph taken at the University of Washington's 2024 commencement ceremony, in Seattle, Washington, U.S, June 8, 2024. International Solidarity Movement/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
world
The ‘exchange fund’: Russian POWs in Ukraine adjust to their new reality
Russian border guards captured during the offensive of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region in a detention center on Thursday, September 5, 2024, Sumy region.
opinion
With the world’s attention elsewhere, we cannot forget about Afghan women
Kelly Cryderman
world
Jury selection begins in trial for 3 former Memphis officers charged in Tyre Nichols’s death
FILE - Candles spell out the name of Tyre Nichols during a candlelight vigil for Nichols on the anniversary of his death, Jan. 7, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. The city of Memphis has released hours of more video in the case of five former police officers charged with the violent beating and death of Nichols. The recordings were released Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024 based on a judge’s order on the same day last November that former officer Desmond Mills Jr. pleaded guilty to federal charges. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht, file)
opinion
The Taliban are waging war on women in Afghanistan. This is how we are resisting
Zahra Nader
explainer
What’s happening in Sudan? A country torn by civil war is facing famine and the world’s worst displacement crisis
FILE PHOTO: Families displaced by RSF advances in Sudan's El Gezira and Sennar states shelter at the Omar ibn al-Khattab displacement site, Kassala state, Sudan, July 10, 2024. REUTERS/ Faiz Abubakr/File Photo