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Descrease article font size Increase article font size It was an emotional day in court for friends and family of Nova Scotia rapper Pat Stay, as they heard details about the night he was stabbed to death at a Halifax bar. The Crown called its witness Wednesday in the second-degree murder trial for Adam Joseph Drake.Sgt. Perry Astephen of Halifax Regional Police told the jury how police responded to the call of a man down on Sept. 4, 2022.He said when officers arrived at the Yacht Club Social on Lower Water Street, the area was swarming with clubgoers. Get daily…

Fresh off securing a transfer to Scottish club Aberdeen, Western Sydney Wanderers dynamo Nicolas Milanovic is set to receive his first taste of senior national team football by being called into a Socceroos training squad.Milanovic will have a chance to impress Tony Popovic and push his claims for a maiden Australia cap later this month with the Wanderers attacking midfielder expected to be part of a warm-weather training camp in Abu Dhabi later this month.The Socceroos are due to spend the best part of a week in the Middle East as they gear up for June’s World Cup qualifiers against…

SEOUL: South Korea has fined Chinese e-commerce giant Temu nearly US$1 million for illegally transferring Korean users’ personal information to China and other countries, a data protection watchdog said Thursday (May 15). Chinese platforms such as Shein, Temu and AliExpress have skyrocketed in global popularity in recent years, offering a vast selection of products at stunningly low prices that have helped them take on United States titan Amazon. Temu outsources and stores users’ data with companies in several countries, including China, Singapore, South Korea and Japan, according to Seoul’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC). But the company “failed to disclose…

Last year, a million Palestinians fled to Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, to escape the brunt of Israel’s bombardment in its war against Hamas. When Israeli forces later invaded Rafah itself, they flattened areas along the border with Egypt, but many neighborhoods were largely spared the worst of the war.That is no longer the case.The Israeli military has destroyed extensive parts of Rafah since it ended a cease-fire in March after talks with Hamas collapsed. In early May, after much of the destruction was already complete, Israel announced it would soon launch an “intensive” escalation of its…

In her first interview since announcing her bid for Alaska governor, Bernadette Wilson, a former radio host and longtime conservative figure in Alaska, spoke to Fox News Digital about the issues in the race and working with the Trump administration on energy development.Wilson, a lifelong Alaskan who was born on the Kenai Peninsula and grew up in Anchorage, is a political outsider. Even so, politics does run in her family. Her great-uncle Wally Hickel served as governor, first in the 1960s as a Republican and again in the early 1990s as a member of the Alaska Independence Party.She noted she…

For more than a century, there was broad consensus that the 14th Amendment established birthright citizenship for children born in the United States. But President Trump has challenged that precedent. Abbie VanSickle, a reporter covering the Supreme Court for The New York Times, explains.

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Since March, Fredericton community school co-ordinator Michelle Roy-Brock says she has applied for over $80,000 in funding for the school where she works. “At my school, we have a 50 per cent child poverty rate, so we meet those needs quite a bit,” she said.Those grants help pay for anything from hygiene kits to winter clothes to food for students to take home over the weekends. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. But…

WA’s biggest sheep abattoir has taken out a $12 million loan with the State Government to turbocharge a $50m capital works program expected to boost its processing capacity by a third.The cash boost will help WA Meat Marketing Co-operative at Katanning carry out significant upgrades, including building a second variable retention time freezer and creating a new sheep and lamb processing line.The VRT freezer, expected to be turned on early next year, will boost the abattoir’s chilled and frozen capacity to being able to hold about two and a half days worth — or 7500 to 8000 — of chilled…

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BANGKOK: More than 400 Myanmar people fled across the Thai border on Thursday (May 15) as ethnic minority armed groups bombarded a junta base with drones, the kingdom’s armed forces said. Myanmar’s military sparked a civil war, seizing power in a 2021 coup and now battling an array of pro-democracy guerrillas and ethnic minority armed groups which have long been active in the country’s fringes. Much of the fighting has focused on control of border crossings where combatants can fill their war chests by running lucrative toll gates controlling trade and smuggling routes. Thailand’s military said the Karen National Liberation Army…