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Palestinians inspect the damage of a destroyed house following Israeli airstrikes in the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. A four-day truce announced Wednesday will free dozens of Israeli hostages held by militants as well as Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. It will also bring a large influx of aid to the besieged territory.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Mohammed Dahman

Toronto man says daughter dead in Gaza blast after son turned back at border

Other families able to cross into Egypt but need help getting to Canada

Palestinians inspect the damage of a destroyed house following Israeli airstrikes in the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. A four-day truce announced Wednesday will free dozens of Israeli hostages held by militants as well as Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. It will also bring a large influx of aid to the besieged territory.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Mohammed Dahman
Families and friends of about 240 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring them home during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. Israel’s Cabinet has approved a ceasefire agreement with the Hamas militant group that would bring a temporary halt to a devastating war that has continued for more than six weeks. The Israeli government said that under an outline of the deal, Hamas is to free at least 50 of the roughly 240 hostages taken in its Oct. 7 attack over a four-day period. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Truce-for-hostages deal set to bring 4-day pause to Gaza conflict

Agreement brings hope more Canadians will soon be able to leave the Gaza Strip

Families and friends of about 240 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring them home during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. Israel’s Cabinet has approved a ceasefire agreement with the Hamas militant group that would bring a temporary halt to a devastating war that has continued for more than six weeks. The Israeli government said that under an outline of the deal, Hamas is to free at least 50 of the roughly 240 hostages taken in its Oct. 7 attack over a four-day period. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
The Indian flag flies at the High Commission of India in Ottawa on Wednesday, September 20, 2023. India restored electronic visa services for Canadian nationals, an Indian foreign ministry official said Wednesday, two months after Canada alleged the South Asian nation was involved in the assassination of a Sikh separatist in Canada.THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle

India restores e-visa services for Canadian nationals after 2-month break

Service suspended in wake of Canadian suggestions India was involved in death of Sikh separatist

The Indian flag flies at the High Commission of India in Ottawa on Wednesday, September 20, 2023. India restored electronic visa services for Canadian nationals, an Indian foreign ministry official said Wednesday, two months after Canada alleged the South Asian nation was involved in the assassination of a Sikh separatist in Canada.THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canada is closely watching a potential deal between Israel and Hamas to release hostages. Joly speaks during a news conference concerning the situation in Israel, Wednesday, October 11, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Joly says Canada watching closely, hoping Israel/Hamas strike hostage deal

‘Our objective right now is that finally, humanitarian pauses (will be) allowed to happen’

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canada is closely watching a potential deal between Israel and Hamas to release hostages. Joly speaks during a news conference concerning the situation in Israel, Wednesday, October 11, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
FILE - Ukraine’s Eurovision singer Jamala speaks during a news conference about her winning song “1944” in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. Russia has placed a Ukrainian singer who won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest on its wanted list, state news agencies reported Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. The reports said an Interior Ministry database listed singer Susana Jamaladinova as being sought for violating a criminal law. The independent news site Mediazona, which covers opposition and human rights issues, said Jamaladinova was charged under a law adopted last year that bans spreading so-called fake information about the Russian military and the ongoing fighting in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov, File)

Russia puts Ukrainian winner of Eurovision Song Contest on wanted list

Susana Jamaladinova accused of breaking an information law adopted last year

FILE - Ukraine’s Eurovision singer Jamala speaks during a news conference about her winning song “1944” in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. Russia has placed a Ukrainian singer who won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest on its wanted list, state news agencies reported Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. The reports said an Interior Ministry database listed singer Susana Jamaladinova as being sought for violating a criminal law. The independent news site Mediazona, which covers opposition and human rights issues, said Jamaladinova was charged under a law adopted last year that bans spreading so-called fake information about the Russian military and the ongoing fighting in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov, File)
Palestinians look for survivors inside the remains of a destroyed building following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Mohammed Dahman

Families await word on whether 135 Canadians cleared to leave Gaza left

As of Friday 376 Canadians and their relatives have been able to leave the Palestinian territory

Palestinians look for survivors inside the remains of a destroyed building following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Mohammed Dahman
FILE - Former first lady Rosalynn Carter answers questions during a news conference at a Habitat for Humanity building site, Nov. 2, 2015, in Memphis, Tenn. Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, has died at the age of 96. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Rosalynn Carter, outspoken former first lady, dead at 96

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during…

FILE - Former first lady Rosalynn Carter answers questions during a news conference at a Habitat for Humanity building site, Nov. 2, 2015, in Memphis, Tenn. Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, has died at the age of 96. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
The Galaxy Leader is seen at the port of Koper, Slovenia on Sept. 16, 2008. Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized the Israeli-linked cargo ship in a crucial Red Sea shipping route on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023, officials said, taking over two dozen crew members hostage and raising fears that regional tensions heightened over the Israel-Hamas war were playing out on a new maritime front. (AP Photo/Kristijan Bracun)
The Galaxy Leader is seen at the port of Koper, Slovenia on Sept. 16, 2008. Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized the Israeli-linked cargo ship in a crucial Red Sea shipping route on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023, officials said, taking over two dozen crew members hostage and raising fears that regional tensions heightened over the Israel-Hamas war were playing out on a new maritime front. (AP Photo/Kristijan Bracun)
A view of the government house before polling stations open during a presidential runoff election between Javier Milei and Sergio Massa in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Fiery right-wing populist wins Argentina’s presidency amid economic woes

Javier Milei has proposed to slash the size of the state and rein in inflation

A view of the government house before polling stations open during a presidential runoff election between Javier Milei and Sergio Massa in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A Palestinian woman reacts over the body of a child as she sits by bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes on Jabaliya refugee camp, at the Indonesian hospital, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Ahmed Alarini)

31 ‘very sick’ babies evacuated from Gaza’s largest hospital

Hundreds of trauma patients remain stuck, according to WHO team

A Palestinian woman reacts over the body of a child as she sits by bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes on Jabaliya refugee camp, at the Indonesian hospital, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Ahmed Alarini)
This image provided by Maxar Technologies shows a closeup view of SpaceX Starship stacked atop of the Super Heavy booster at the launch site, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, in Boca Chica, Texas. (Satellite image ©2023 Maxar Technologies via AP)

SpaceX launched its giant new rocket but explosions end the 2nd test flight

The demo lasted 8 or so minutes, about twice as long as the 1st test in April

This image provided by Maxar Technologies shows a closeup view of SpaceX Starship stacked atop of the Super Heavy booster at the launch site, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, in Boca Chica, Texas. (Satellite image ©2023 Maxar Technologies via AP)
FILE - Demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Capitol building Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, in Washington, on the one year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. As the 2024 campaign heats up, experts on extremism fear the threat of politically motivated violence will only intensify. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Political violence threatens to intensify as the U.S. 2024 campaign heats up

‘Spending hours and hours consuming conspiracy theory material is intoxicating’

FILE - Demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Capitol building Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, in Washington, on the one year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. As the 2024 campaign heats up, experts on extremism fear the threat of politically motivated violence will only intensify. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks Jill Biden to her seat at the APEC welcome ceremony, Wednesday, November 15, 2023 in San Francisco. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Trudeau adopts up-close-and-friendly approach at Pacific Rim summit

PM has multiple intimate meetings on the agenda during San Francisco event

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks Jill Biden to her seat at the APEC welcome ceremony, Wednesday, November 15, 2023 in San Francisco. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Palestinians with dual nationality register to cross to Egypt on the Gaza Strip side of the border crossing in Rafah on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Hatem Ali

Trudeau reconfirms support to Israel in wake of Netanyahu rebuke

PM says he also emphasized importance of protecting civilians and minimizing casualties

Palestinians with dual nationality register to cross to Egypt on the Gaza Strip side of the border crossing in Rafah on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Hatem Ali
FILE - This microscope photo provided on Oct. 25, 2023, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows crescent-shaped red blood cells from a sickle cell disease patient in 1972. Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K. In a statement on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it approved Casgevy, the first medicine licensed using the gene editing tool CRISPR, which won its makers a Nobel prize in 2020. (Dr. F. Gilbert/CDC via AP, File )

UK 1st country to approve gene therapy treatment for sickle cell, thalassemia

Country has approved Casgevy, the first medicine licensed using the gene editing tool CRISPR

FILE - This microscope photo provided on Oct. 25, 2023, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows crescent-shaped red blood cells from a sickle cell disease patient in 1972. Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K. In a statement on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it approved Casgevy, the first medicine licensed using the gene editing tool CRISPR, which won its makers a Nobel prize in 2020. (Dr. F. Gilbert/CDC via AP, File )
Sun shines on leaves on a big leaf maple tree in the Willamette National Forest, Ore., Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. In recent years, at least 15 native tree species in the region have experienced growth declines and die-offs, with 10 linked to drought and warming temperatures, according to recent studies and reports. (AP Photo/Amanda Loman)

Pacific Northwest forests ‘moving uphill’ as climate change advances

Researchers seeing evidence of tree species dying off, retreating to cooler, damper spaces

Sun shines on leaves on a big leaf maple tree in the Willamette National Forest, Ore., Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. In recent years, at least 15 native tree species in the region have experienced growth declines and die-offs, with 10 linked to drought and warming temperatures, according to recent studies and reports. (AP Photo/Amanda Loman)
People watch rescue and relief operations at the site of an under-construction road tunnel that collapsed in mountainous Uttarakhand state, India, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. Rescuers have been trying to drill wide pipes through excavated rubble to create a passage to free 40 construction workers trapped since Sunday. About 200 disaster relief personnel have been using drilling equipment and excavators in the rescue operation with the plan to push steel pipes 2.5-foot (0.76 meter) -wide through an opening of excavated debris with the help of hydraulic jacks to safely pull out the stranded workers. (AP Photo)

Workers trapped in collapsed Indian tunnel as glitches delay rescue

Some of the 40 workers trapped since Sunday getting sick as rescue efforts continue

People watch rescue and relief operations at the site of an under-construction road tunnel that collapsed in mountainous Uttarakhand state, India, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. Rescuers have been trying to drill wide pipes through excavated rubble to create a passage to free 40 construction workers trapped since Sunday. About 200 disaster relief personnel have been using drilling equipment and excavators in the rescue operation with the plan to push steel pipes 2.5-foot (0.76 meter) -wide through an opening of excavated debris with the help of hydraulic jacks to safely pull out the stranded workers. (AP Photo)
Palestinians look for survivors under the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Mohammed Dahman

2 more Canadians exit Gaza, Freeland sidesteps Israel rebuke of Trudeau

Deputy Prime Minister calls situation in Gaza is ‘heartbreaking’

Palestinians look for survivors under the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Mohammed Dahman
Palestinians look for survivors following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. Scores of Canadians are still hoping to leave the Gaza Strip, as Canadians and Israelis mourn the loss of dual national Vivian Silver in last month’s attack by Hamas.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Fatima Shbair

‘Maximum restraint’ needed to protect civilian life in Gaza Strip: Trudeau

PM’s comments came during Vancouver stop as Canadian death toll in conflict tallied at 7

Palestinians look for survivors following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. Scores of Canadians are still hoping to leave the Gaza Strip, as Canadians and Israelis mourn the loss of dual national Vivian Silver in last month’s attack by Hamas.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Fatima Shbair
FILE - Pittsburgh Penguins forward Adam Johnson in action during an NHL hockey game in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. Police in England arrested a man Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, on suspicion of manslaughter in the death of American ice hockey player Adam Johnson, whose neck was cut by a skate during a game. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)

Arrest made in on-ice death of pro hockey player in England

Police say suspicion of manslaughter the reason, do not immediately identify suspect

FILE - Pittsburgh Penguins forward Adam Johnson in action during an NHL hockey game in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. Police in England arrested a man Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, on suspicion of manslaughter in the death of American ice hockey player Adam Johnson, whose neck was cut by a skate during a game. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)