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Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Quebec government and the province’s medical specialists have struck a tentative deal after two years of intense negotiations. New Premier Christine Fréchette and the Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec (FMSQ) made the announcement Monday afternoon.Fréchette said she met with ministers France-Élaine Duranceau and Sonia Bélange last week to review the discussions.“This agreement respects Quebecers’ ability to pay and will improve access to care for the entire population,” Fréchette said on social media.The CAQ party leader said she will allow “the FMSQ’s bodies to review the agreement before revealing its details.”…

A terminally ill woman has been awarded $1.6 million in damages by a court after suing her former schoolteacher for sexually abusing her in the early 1980s.

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping called for the normal passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz to be maintained, in a phone call on Monday (Apr 20) with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, held as Beijing steps up efforts to help end the Iran war.China is concerned over renewed instability around the strategic waterway, as a US-Iran ceasefire came under fresh strain after the US seized an Iranian cargo ship and Tehran signalled it would not join new peace talks for now.China is the main buyer of Iranian crude. Iran has largely closed the strait to ships…

NewsFeedAmnesty International’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard says ‘voracious predators’ like the US, Israel and Russia have waged war on civilians with impunity and destroyed the international order based on global human rights.Published On 21 Apr 202621 Apr 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Ahead of a special election on Tuesday, Virginia Republicans blasted a proposed constitutional amendment in their state that could soon cost them their congressional seats, calling the effort the most “unfair” of a string of redrawn maps across the country.Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., believes it’s a sentiment shared by voters.”I was with a group of Virginia Watermen this morning from across the state and they’re [feeling] the same way. They say ‘no, we’re not going to let them turn us into a state that’s only governed by a portion of the state,’”…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A 10-year-old Alabama girl remembered for her “bright and joyful” spirit was found dead inside an Alabama home late Friday night, sparking a homicide investigation that has led to one juvenile being charged with murder.Piedmont police discovered the body of Katheryn Bigbee less than an hour after she was reported missing, AL.com reported.”Officers responded immediately to the residence,” Piedmont Police Chief Nathan Johnson said in a statement. “They tragically discovered a deceased juvenile inside the home.”Authorities have not disclosed the location of the home or whether it was the girl’s residence. A…

Saskatoon’s firefighters union is raising concerns about the city’s overdose crisis, weeks after the city’s only safe consumption site shuttered its doors. Jay Protz, president of IAFF Saskatoon Firefighters Local 80, says his members are noticing an unprecedented increase in calls for service over the past few weeks, putting more pressure on crews and resources.“We just don’t have the capacity to keep going to the same call over and over, and then throw in a fire, throw in a heart attack, throw in all these other calls that we go to,” Protz told Global News in an interview.“Those pressures start…

Marmota has cranked up a maiden 20,000-metre reverse circulation drill program to chase a big strike extension along its Greenewood-Mainwood gold system in its South Australian Gawler Craton project area.The company has already begun drilling the estimated 220-hole program, which has the potential to significantly extend known gold mineralisation along what could be a continuous 2km-long gold mineralised strike between the two prospect areas.Marmota appears to have joined the dots between its remarkable, still-evolving high-grade gold mineralisation at Greenewood and a scattering of historic one-metre gold assays at its Mainwood prospect, 2km to the south-west.The old Mainwood hits, sit within…

“NETWORK BLACKOUT”AMTOB secretary general Mohammad Zulfikar said shutdowns of data centres would create ripple effects across the wider network.”A partial or complete network blackout could bring calls, internet, SMS (text messages) and all other services to a standstill or cause severe disruption,” he told AFP.”The internet may become painfully slow or go down entirely, as data centres are the command hubs where traffic is routed and controlled.”The government hiked fuel prices on Saturday, including raising diesel by 15 per cent, from 100 to 115 taka (US$0.93) a litre, and petrol by 16 per cent, from 116 to 135 taka (US$1.09)…

Led by veteran guard McCollum, the Atlanta Hawks staged a late comeback to upset New York Knicks to tie their playoff series 1-1.Published On 21 Apr 202621 Apr 2026CJ McCollum scored six of his ‌game-high 32 points in the final two-plus minutes on Monday night for the ⁠visiting Atlanta Hawks, ⁠who stormed back from an eight-point deficit in the last five minutes to stun the New York Knicks 107-106 in Game 2 of their ⁠Eastern Conference first-round series.The Hawks ended on a 15-6 run to even the best-of-seven series at a game apiece. Game 3 is scheduled for Thursday night…