Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Canada will significantly reduce the number of new immigrants it allows into the country after acknowledging that his government failed to get the balance right coming out of the pandemic.

An Israeli airstrike on a compound housing journalists in southeast Lebanon has killed three media staffers, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Friday.

Deir al-Balah (Gaza Strip): An Israeli strike on a school where displaced people were sheltering in the central Gaza Strip killed at least 17 people on Thursday, nearly all women and children, Palestinian medical officials said.

The Israeli military has alleged six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza as operatives of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, accusing them of actively supporting these groups. Israel Defence Forces (IDF) shared photographs and claimed it possessed documents, such as personnel lists and training records, linking the journalists to militant activities.

Ankara: Assailants set off explosives and opened fire in an attack on Wednesday on the premises of the Turkish state-run aerospace and defense company TUSAS, killing four people and wounding several, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.

Ottawa: A 19-year-old Sikh woman was found dead inside a walk-in oven of the Walmart store's bakery department in Canada's Halifax city, according to media reports.

During an emergency debate in the Canadian House of Commons, MPs raised serious allegations of Indian government involvement in crimes against Canadian Sikhs, prompting calls for significant actions against India. The New Democratic Party (NDP) has proposed that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) be designated a terrorist organisation in Canada. Additionally, they urged for a ban on entry for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) officials linked to violence and sanctions against India.

E. coli food poisoning linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers has sickened at least 49 people in 10 states, including one person who died and 10 who were hospitalized, federal health officials said Tuesday.