Russia on Friday said it was sending two warships armed with cruise missiles to waters off the Syrian coast and blamed Ankara for the deaths of 33 Turkish soldiers in Syria’s Idlib region the previous day. The killing of the Turkish soldiers on Thursday and the wounding of 32 others, announced by the governor in…
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World·Breaking An airstrike by Syrian government forces in Syria’s northwestern Idlib region killed 22 Turkish soldiers, the local governor in the southeastern province of Hatay said early Friday. Social Sharing News of strike follows word that Turkish forces helped Syrian rebels retake key northwestern town Thomson Reuters · Posted: Feb 27, 2020 5:12 PM ET…
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As the worst-hit areas of Asia continued to struggle with a new virus, with hundreds more cases reported Thursday in South Korea and China, worries about infection and containment spread across the globe. South Korea reported 505 more coronavirus cases Thursday, bringing its total to 1,766. Most of the new cases were in the country’s…
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The Democratic race to pick a presidential nominee will hit overdrive with 14 states voting on Super Tuesday next week. We asked Democratic Party insiders who know Canada well — each has served as ambassador to this country — for their views on the state of play. All the ex-ambassadors remain involved in Democratic politics and are endorsing,…
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An employee opened fire Wednesday at Milwaukee’s Molson Coors complex, killing five fellow workers before taking his own life, police said. The gunman was identified as a 51-year-old Milwaukee man who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. “There were five individuals who went to work today, just like everybody goes to work, and…
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Saudi Arabia temporarily suspended entry to the kingdom for the Umrah Islamic pilgrimage and visits to al Masjid Al Nabawy in Medina, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Twitter on Thursday, local time, amid fears over the spread of the coronavirus. The kingdom has also suspended entry to Saudi Arabia for anyone with tourism visas…
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