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Middle East latest: 3 hostages arrive in Israel as fragile Gaza ceasefire takes hold

Middle East latest: 3 hostages arrive in Israel as fragile Gaza ceasefire takes hold

Jan 19, 2025 | 4:21pm
The first three hostages released from Gaza arrived in Israel on Sunday for tearful reunions with families, hours after the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold following 15 months of war. Palestinians waited for the first release of prisoners held by Israel. Footage showed 28-year-old Emily Damari, 24-year-old Romi Gonen and 31-year-old Doron Steinbrecher in a tense […]
Canadians pay tribute to Oct. 7 victims, hostages in cross-country events

Canadians pay tribute to Oct. 7 victims, hostages in cross-country events

Oct 6, 2024 | 2:38pm
Hundreds of people gathered Sunday in cities across Canada to remember the victims of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel and the ongoing war in Gaza. In the nation’s capital, a sea of Israeli flags could be seen draped over participants in front of Ottawa City Hall, with Canadian flags waving alongside them […]
Iran fires ballistic missiles at Israel, US calls it a severe escalation

Iran fires ballistic missiles at Israel, US calls it a severe escalation

Oct 1, 2024 | 3:43pm
Iran has fired a barrage of missiles at Israel, sending Israelis diving into shelters but prompting celebrations across Iran. There was no immediate report of casualties in the attack late Tuesday. Israel said it intercepted many of the missiles, and officials in Washington said U.S. destroyers assisted in Israel’s defense. Iran said most of its missiles hit their […]
Israel and Hezbollah renew fire after the deadliest day in Lebanon since 2006

Israel and Hezbollah renew fire after the deadliest day in Lebanon since 2006

Sep 24, 2024 | 6:51am
Israel and Hezbollah are trading strikes again as the death toll from a massive Israeli bombardment has climbed to nearly 560 people. There was also a new Israeli airstrike on a southern Beirut suburb on Tuesday, the second day of escalated exchanges across the Israeli-Lebanon border. Thousands of people fled on Monday from southern Lebanon […]
Battle of Britain ceremony a chance to recall ‘big occasions’ in RCAF history

Battle of Britain ceremony a chance to recall ‘big occasions’ in RCAF history

Sep 16, 2024 | 1:56pm
Rosthern-born pilot Ernest Archibald (PeeWee) McNab was flying over southern England with other Canadian pilots on Aug. 15, 1940, when he saw a flight of German bombers below and pounced on them. The 34-year-old squadron leader — the son of Saskatchewan’s then-lieutenant governor, Archibald Peter McNab — latched onto a twin-engine Dornier bomber and put […]
Iran fires at apparent Israeli attack drones near Isfahan air base and nuclear site

Iran fires at apparent Israeli attack drones near Isfahan air base and nuclear site

Apr 19, 2024 | 8:16am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An apparent Israeli drone attack on a major air base near the central city of Isfahan activated Iranian air defenses early Friday. The strike came just days after Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on Israel. No Iranian official directly acknowledged the possibility that Israel had attacked, and the Israeli military did not […]
Iran fires drones and ballistic missiles at Israel in unprecedented revenge attack

Iran fires drones and ballistic missiles at Israel in unprecedented revenge attack

Apr 13, 2024 | 4:56pm
JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles toward Israel late Saturday in an unprecedented revenge mission that pushed the Middle East ever closer to a regionwide war. The attack marked the first time Iran had ever launched a direct military assault on Israel, despite decades of enmity dating back to the […]
Canadian-American citizen among seven aid workers killed by Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Canadian-American citizen among seven aid workers killed by Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Apr 2, 2024 | 6:46am
A Canadian-American citizen is among the seven aid workers who were killed by an apparent Israeli airstrike in Gaza. The World Central Kitchen says three British nationals, an Australian, a Polish national, an Canadian-American dual citizen and a Palestinian working for the charity were in the process of delivering food that had arrived by sea […]

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