CAIRO — Egypt’s ousted former President Hosni Mubarak has died at the age of 91, state television said on Tuesday, weeks after undergoing surgery. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost
Continue ReadingBAGHDAD — An Iraqi family of four who returned from a visit to Iran tested positive for the coronavirus, the first Iraqis known to have caught the disease, Iraq’s health ministry said on Tuesday, as the authorities rushed to prevent its spread from its neighbor. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost
Continue ReadingANKARA — All 132 passengers and crew on a flight from Iran to Turkey will be quarantined for 14 days and tested for coronavirus infection, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Tuesday, after TV broadcasters reported suspected infections on board the flight. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he was moving forward with a plan to build some 3,500 homes for Jewish settlers in one the most sensitive areas of the occupied West Bank, a project frozen after international criticism. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost
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Continue ReadingVideo Assistant Referee has its critics in Major League Soccer, not least Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but for the most part it has avoided the widespread fan antipathy that has roiled the English Premier League, German Bundesliga and elsewhere. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost
Continue ReadingBOSTON — A California woman whose family’s company created the microwavable snack Hot Pockets faces sentencing on Tuesday for paying $300,000 to people who helped her two daughters cheat on college entrance exams and helped one win admission to the University of Southern California as a fake volleyball recruit. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost […]
Continue ReadingCHARLESTON — Surging front-runner Bernie Sanders will be in the hot seat at the Democratic debate in South Carolina on Tuesday, when his six presidential rivals try to derail his growing momentum before the next big round of nominating contests. Read More …read more Source:: Nationalpost
Continue ReadingHosni Mubarak, the former president of Egypt, has died aged 91, according to Egyptian state media. The autocrat ruled the country from 1981 until he was toppled in the 2011 popular uprising during the Arab Spring revolts in the region. He was jailed for years after the uprising, but was freed in 2017 after being […]
Continue ReadingOver the weekend, Canada has been absorbing new revelations about the late Jean Vanier (1928-2019), co-founder of the international spiritual movement l’Arche (the Ark). Vanier is one of the most widely admired Canadians who has ever existed. He was routinely described during his lifetime as a saint for his extreme devotion to the cognitively disabled. […]
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