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Israel’s defence minister has ordered a “complete siege” on the Gaza Strip following an unprecedented incursion into Israel by Hamas fighters that the country’s United Nations ambassador called “Israel’s 9/11.” Israel’s security…
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A former deputy national security advisor for Israel is calling the attack by Hamas this weekend an “earthquake” for the country and people’s sense of security, and says the conflict has become a “battle for national survival.” Chuck…
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Without warning on Saturday, Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers attacked Israel by air, land and sea. Millions of Israelis in the country’s south awoke to the searing sound of incoming rockets and the inevitable thud of impact. Air raid…
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Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and U.S. colleague Drew Weissman, who met in line for a photocopier before making mRNA molecule discoveries together that paved the way for COVID-19 vaccines, won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine on…
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Russia is “weaponizing” the mistake of inviting and honouring Yaroslav Hunka to Parliament, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland warned Thursday. She told reporters that Canada needs to push back hard against Russian President…
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Three scientists based in the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their work on quantum dots – tiny particles just a few atoms in diameter that can release very bright colored light and whose applications in every day…
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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canada is determining how it can best help with an international military…
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Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating incredibly short pulses of light that can capture processes inside atoms and molecules, in work which could advance medical…
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A 17-year-old Edmonton high school student has won top honours at an international science competition for her project that examines CAR T-cell therapy, an alternative cancer treatment. Elizabeth Chen, a Grade 12 student at Old Scona…
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Scotland run up their second-highest win at a World Cup in Romania rout, finishing just five points shy of the 89-0 victory they enjoyed against Ivory Coast in 1995; they next face No 1 side Ireland in a…
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