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Gravenhurst in the Muskoka region was hit with around 140 centimetres of snowfall and has declared a state of emergency A person walks through the Dominion Arboretum at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa on Jan. 13, 2024.Photo by Spencer Colby /The Canadian Press Intense snow squalls battering Ontario are moving south after burying some … Read more

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health. Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images Science beat: From ‘Fringe’ to . . . Boss “Four years ago, Jay Bhattacharya was ostracized” by colleagues at Stanford and “censored on social media platforms” because the “public-health establishment” deemed him a “fringe” epidemiologist, recalls City … Read more

The bodies of Syrian army soldiers and allied fighters lie next to a Syrian army vehicle in Aleppo, Syria, early Saturday. (Omar Albam / Associated Press) The Syrian military rushed reinforcements to the country’s northwest and launched airstrikes on a major city Sunday in an attempt to push back insurgents who seized the country’s largest … Read more

A Ukrainian serviceman with the 24th Mechanized Brigade trains Friday in the Donetsk region. (Oleg Petrasiuk / Associated Press) Russian President Vladimir Putin approved budget plans, raising 2025 military spending to record levels as Moscow seeks to prevail in the war in Ukraine. Around 32.5% of the budget posted on a government website Sunday has … Read more

Kristrún Mjöll Frostadóttir, leader of the Samfylking, Social Democratic party, is interviewed Saturday in Reykjavik. (Marco di Marco / Associated Press) Voters in Iceland joined a global trend of punishing incumbents in a parliamentary election, with a center-left party winning the largest share of votes in the North Atlantic island nation. With all the votes … Read more

The election count continues Sunday at the Royal Dublin Society, after voters went to the polls during Ireland’s election. (Peter Morrison / Associated Press) Ireland’s two long-dominant center-right parties looked likely to form a new government as results came in Sunday from a fractured national election, though with a reduced vote share and complex coalition … Read more

Safaa Haidous carries her daughter Yara, 4, as she speaks with her husband, Rawad Srour, who stands on the roof of their destroyed house in Hanouiyeh village, southern Lebanon. The family had returned Thursday to collect belongings. (Hussein Malla / Associated Press) Israeli jets Sunday launched an airstrike over a southern Lebanese border village, while … Read more

A view of an empty chair in a sex worker’s booth in Antwerp, Belgium. (Virginia Mayo / Associated Press) Starting Sunday, sex workers in Belgium will be able to sign formal employment contracts and gain labor rights on par with those in other professions in a legal breakthrough some call a “revolution.” The new law … Read more

Anthony Agotha, right, special envoy for Climate and Environment Diplomacy, European Union; Juan Carlos Monterrey, head of Panama’s delegation; Olga Givernet, French Delegate Minister for Energy; and Camila Zepeda, head of Delegation for Mexico, talk to each other after a press conference at the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in … Read more

Police in have revealed tragic new details behind the mysterious death of a 26-year-old Polish newlywed two years after she was found on the streets of Miami. Aleksandra Leczycka had traveled to Florida from Siedlce, Poland, with her new husband on their honeymoon in August 2022, and after apparently enjoying a dream vacation, the pair … Read more