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It’s entirely possible that four or five summers from now, Connor Bedard’s name will be etched on the Stanley Cup.He’ll have won the Conn Smythe Trophy that spring, of course, after a truly absurd playoff run flanked by Michael Misa and Frank Nazar, with Artyom Levshunov logging a heroic 30 minutes a night on the back end. Kevin Korchinski will have racked up the points as his partner on the top pair, with Sam Rinzel lighting it up, as well. Alex Vlasic’s work as the shutdown defender will be the stuff of legends. That second line of Nick Lardis, Sacha…

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty says an Egyptian plan for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, that ensures Palestinians remain in their land, is ready and will be presented to an emergency Arab summit.Arab countries who were swift to reject President Donald Trump’s plan for the US to take control of the Gaza Strip and resettle Palestinians are scrambling to agree on a diplomatic offensive to counter the idea.Trump’s plan, announced on February 4 during a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, has infuriated Palestinians and Arab countries and upended decades of US diplomacy focused on…

BEIJING: Chinese authorities are instructing the country’s top artificial intelligence entrepreneurs and researchers to avoid travel to the United States, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Friday (Feb 28), citing people familiar with the matter. The authorities are concerned that Chinese AI experts travelling abroad could divulge confidential information about the nation’s progress, the newspaper said. Authorities also fear that executives could be detained and used as a bargaining chip in US-China negotiations, the Journal said, drawing parallels to the detention of a Huawei executive in Canada at Washington’s request during the first Trump administration. The White House and…

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Syrian security forces were deployed across a predominately Druse town on the outskirts of Damascus, the capital, early Sunday, two days after a gunfight between government officers and armed men from a local neighborhood left one person dead and several others wounded.A tense calm has returned to the town, Jaramana, after the deadly clash Friday night between the security forces of Syria’s new government and the Druse, a religious minority. The person killed was a security officer, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which added that nine other people were wounded.Druse spiritual leaders blamed the killing on “an…

More than 50 school districts in Maine have policies that allow minors to hide their gender identity from their parents, according to a new watchdog report. Parents Defending Education (PDE), a grassroots organization tracking gender ideologies in schools across the country, filed public records requests to confirm that at least 57 of the state’s 192 school districts have policies excluding parents from knowing whether their children identify as another gender.The report comes after President Donald Trump chastised Democrat Maine Gov. Janet Millis last week over her refusal to enforce Trump’s “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order.TRUMP VOWS TO CUT OFF…

Thousands of people gathered on Saturday at national parks from California to Maine to protest the Trump administration’s firing of at least 1,000 National Park Service employees last month.A group called Resistance Rangers — consisting of about 700 off-duty rangers, including some who were fired from the National Park Service — tried to organize protests at each of the country’s 433 national park sites on Saturday to stand up against what they see as threats to public lands, including the job cuts. By the afternoon, there were protests at at least 145 sites, according to Nick Graver, a 30-year-old graduate…

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered a new trade investigation that could heap more tariffs on imported lumber, adding to existing duties on Canadian softwood lumber and 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian and Mexican goods due next week. In his third new tariff probe in a week, Trump signed a memo ordering Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to initiate a national security investigation into U.S. lumber imports under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The trade law is the one Trump also used to impose tariffs on global steel and aluminum imports.The probe covers derivative…

Iran’s parliament has voted to remove the country’s Economy Minister Abdolnaser Hemmati from office over mismanagement of the economy and a plunging currency, state media reports say.The parliament has ousted Hemmati in a no confidence vote almost eight months after President Masoud Pezeshkian appointed his cabinet.Over the eight-month period, Iran’s currency has lost close to half of its value against the US dollar, according to unofficial websites, such as alanchand.com.The Iranian rial now trades at 927,000 to the US dollar, against 595,500 in August of last year.MPs opposing Hemmati argued that he had failed to prevent price increases in basic…

CAMBODIA HANDS OVER THAIS Cambodia said on Saturday that it deported 119 Thais across the two countries’ shared border. Cambodia’s immigration department said in a post on its Facebook page that the Thais – 61 men and 58 women – had “snuck in to work and stayed illegally” in the kingdom. They were among 230 foreigners detained during raids on alleged cyber scam centres in the border city of Poipet on Feb 22 and 23, it said. The Thais were deported via the Poipet border checkpoint on Saturday, it added. Saturday’s handover comes a day after Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn…