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Toronto Police investigate a shooting at the Piper Arms Pub near the Scarborough Town Centre in Toronto on Saturday, March 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP A dozen people were injured in a shooting at an eastern Toronto pub in what police called a reckless act of violence by three men who entered the bar … Read more
House Republicans unveiled a spending bill Saturday (March 8, 2025) that would keep federal agencies funded through Sept. 30, pushing ahead with a go-it-alone strategy that seems certain to spark a major confrontation with Democrats over the contours of Government spending. The 99-page bill would provide a slight boost to defence programs while trimming nondefense … Read more
View of flooded streets in Harding Green neighbourhood following a heavy storm that hit Bahia Blanca, 600 km south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Argentina’s port city of Bahia Blanca has been “destroyed” after being pummeled by a year’s worth of rain in a matter of hours, killing … Read more
“Heavy rains unleashed a landslide in southwest Colombia, killing at least one person,” officials said Saturday (March 9, 2025). Three other people were missing. The victim was dragged away in his vehicle by Friday’s (March 8, 2025) landslide, according to Nicolás Toro, mayor of the town of Pasto, who spoke with El Contraste Noticias, a … Read more
Smaller government and spending cuts have been core Republican objectives at least since the advent of Reaganomics in the 1980s. So when Donald Trump announced in September 2024 that he would create a “government efficiency commission” to eliminate wasteful expenditure, people were not surprised. He also made it known that the idea came from Elon … Read more
According to U.S. investigations, Tahawwur Hussain Rana’s links to the 26/11 attacks go back to August 2005, when he and his old school-mate from the Hasan Abdal Cadet College in Pakistan’s Punjab province, David Coleman Headley (born Daood Syed Gilani) first discussed the plot. Headley had been chosen and trained by Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) chief Hafiz … Read more
Mahir Çayan, a Stalinist and an admirer of the Cuban revolution, was the head of the People’s Liberation Party-Front of Turkiye in the early 1970s. In March 1972, Çayan and 10 of his comrades abducted three NATO technicians from a radar station in Turkiye’s Ünye. Their demand was to prevent the execution of Deniz Gezmiş, … Read more
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar meets British Deputy PM Angela Rayner in Manchester on March 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: @DrSJaishankar/X/PTI Approaching the end of his official tour of the U.K. and Ireland, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar inaugurated a new consulate in Manchester on Saturday (March 8, 2025) and visited the Lancashire Cricket Club … Read more
Image used for representation | Photo Credit: The Hindu Six members of the minority Ahmadi community were arrested by police on Saturday (March 8, 2025) after it earlier provided protective custody to around two dozen of them following threats from a sectarian politico-religious party. The police registered cases against the Ahmadi community members after taking … Read more
Russia said its troops had retaken three villages seized by Ukraine. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia on Saturday (March 8, 2025) said its troops had retaken three villages seized by Ukraine in the Kursk border region, where Kyiv’s forces have been losing ground recently. The Russian Defence Ministry announced the recapture of Viktorovka, Nikolayevka … Read more