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The defacement of the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa overnight Sunday is now being investigated as a potential hate crime. In a statement, the Ottawa Police Service said the hate and bias crime unit “is actively leading the investigation,” after the monument, located close to Parliament Hill at 1918 Chaudière Crossing, was defaced with red paint, including lettering appearing to spell out “feed me.”“The desecration of Canada’s Holocaust Memorial was fuelled by a climate where incendiary rhetoric and false narratives about Israel are increasingly used to target Jews in Canada and around the world,” says interim president Noah Shack at…

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Insmed — Shares surged more than 26%. The global biopharmaceutical company announced positive results Tuesday from a Phase 2b study of treprostinil palmitil inhalation powder, a once-daily treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension. J.M. Smucker — The food company’s stock pulled back about 8% after its fourth-quarter revenue of $2.14 billion missed the consensus estimate of $2.18 billion, according to FactSet. Earnings for the quarter beat expectations, however. The company’s guidance also missed expectations. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing — U.S.-listed shares of the chipmaker rose more than 2% after its revenue for May…

Japan and South Korea have ended their successful 2026 World Cup qualification campaigns on a high with emphatic home victories over Indonesia and Kuwait respectively.In Osaka, Daichi Kamada scored after 15 minutes to set Japan, preparing for an eighth consecutive World Cup, on the way to a 6-0 victory.Takefusa Kubo added a second five minutes later and Kamada extended the lead just before the break. Soon after the restart, Ryoya Morishita and Shuto Machino piled on and Mao Hosoya made it six.South Korea, already qualified for an 11th straight World Cup, sealed top spot in Group B after beating Kuwait…

There were no injuries reported, with only some damage to the car as a result of the incident. The police also seized several items as part of the arrest, according to Balveer’s statement.   According to the Johor police statement, a Malaysian couple were driving a BMW car around the Tun Aminah area in Skudai, Johor, when they were horned at several times by a driver who was driving a Singapore-registered Toyota Corolla Altis. The incident has gained widespread attention across social media, after Facebook user Vicky Sing posted clips of what she said was an incident involving her, her boyfriend…

Millions of people around the world are unable to have the number of children they desire, and financial constraints, lack of quality healthcare and gender inequality are some of the barriers to reproductive choices, according to a UN report. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) unveiled its State of the World Population report on Tuesday, warning that a rising number of people are being denied the freedom to start families due to elevated living costs, wars and lack of suitable partners and not because they reject parenthood. Roughly 40 percent of respondents cited economic barriers – such as the costs of…

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The cost of Canada’s incoming fleet of advanced stealth fighters has exploded by nearly 50 per cent in just a few years, auditor general Karen Hogan said Tuesday in a new report. The fighter jet audit is one of eight tabled in the House of Commons by Hogan and environment commissioner Jerry DeMarco which flagged problematic procurement contracts, a backlog in applications for First Nations status and a lag in reducing federal office space.An investigation by the auditor general of Canada finds costs associated with the F-35 advanced fighter jet program are running $8.7 billion higher than the original estimates.And…

Online retail giant Amazon has unveiled a new platform in Australia, promising to streamline purchases between businesses and offer savings as rising operating costs continue to be a headache.Amazon Business is an online marketplace tailored to organisations — like small businesses, sole traders, not-for-profits and major companies — to help with their business purchases.Its offerings include pricing and quantity discounts for bulk orders and Business Prime, which has similar shipping benefits to the Prime membership.Other features also include multi-user accounts, which enable teams to share payment and shipping addresses, as well as guided buying, allowing businesses to train staff on…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Flau’jae Johnson and Angel Reese won a women’s college basketball national championship together when the two players were with the LSU Tigers.However, it appears a lot has changed since then. LSU Tigers guard Flau’jae Johnson, #4, and forward Angel Reese, #10, answer questions during the press conference to their NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 game at MVP Arena in Albany, New York, on March 28, 2024. (Gregory Fisher-USA TODAY Sports)Reese, who now plays in the WNBA for the Chicago Sky, opened up about her relationship with Johnson in September during an episode of…

BEIJING: Huawei Technologies’ chips are one generation behind those of its US peers but the firm is finding ways to improve performance through methods such as cluster computing, Chinese state media quoted CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying on Tuesday (Jun 10). The chipmaker invests 180 billion yuan (US$25.07 billion) in research annually and sees promise in compound chips – chips made from multiple elements – Ren said in an interview with the People’s Daily newspaper of the governing Communist Party. There is “no need to worry about the chip problem”, Ren said, addressing concerns stemming from US export controls. The…