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A Quebec judge denied the request for a provisional injunction to remove protesters at McGill University on Wednesday as the encampment by pro-Palestinian activists stretched into its fifth day. The decision comes after a lawyer representing the two students asked a judge to order a “restricted area” preventing five pro-Palestinian groups…

Chinese media say the country's third aircraft carrier has set out for its first sea trials. The move will likely increase the wariness of the United States and put pressure on Taiwan's incoming government, observers say. State-run China Central Television reported that the Fujian left a shipyard in Shanghai on…

The state-sponsored persecution of Jews in Germany in the name of combating antisemitism has punched holes in the nation’s own mendacious narrative of antisemitism being something that is imported from the Arab and Muslim world by way of immigrants and refugees. Germany’s antisemitism schtick has outlived its usefulness (illustrated by: Mahdi…

Author Douglas Murray has criticised a government anti-terrorism unit in the United Kingdom for drawing “suspicious lines” around iconic English literature. The list featured Douglas Murray’s ‘The Strange Death of Europe’ as well as the works of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Joseph Conrad and George Orwell.“This is some of the best thought and creative…

Arizona lawmakers seemed poised on Wednesday to repeal an abortion ban that first became law when Abraham Lincoln was president and a half-century before women won the right to vote.The expected vote in the Arizona State Senate could be the culmination of a fevered effort to repeal the law that has made abortion a central focus of Arizona’s…

Paul Auster, the prolific novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with his postmodern reanimation of the noir novel and who endured to become one of the signature New York writers of his generation, died on Tuesday evening at his home in Brooklyn. He was 77.His death, from complications of lung cancer, was confirmed by…

By Chas GeigerBBC politics reporter1 May 2024, 14:22 BSTUpdated 1 hour agoImage source, UK Parliament/PA MediaThe UK will not accept the return of asylum seekers from Ireland, the prime minister has told MPs.The Irish government has complained of a significant spike in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Ireland from Northern Ireland, and…

The population of giant pandas in the wild has grown from about 1,100 individuals in the 1980s to nearly 1,900 today, marking a remarkable turnaround in the fortunes of this iconic species. Similarly, the numbers of the endangered Hainan gibbons, considered the rarest primates in the world, have increased dramatically, with…

The French foreign minister said on Wednesday diplomats were still working to secure a truce in the war between Israel and Hamas and the release of hostages held in Gaza.The mediation efforts were intensifying following a renewed push led by Egypt to revive the stalled negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist…

Israel's decision to retire its American-made Patriot air defense systems may open a window of opportunity for Ukraine, which through two years of Russia's full-scale war has struggled to stop Moscow's missiles and drones striking targets nationwide.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Tuesday that the country will phase out its Patriot…