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fter more than four years of living in an open air prison, 19 Canadians detained in northeastern Syria are on their way back to Canada, sources tell CTV News. Six women and their 13 children were taken out of Al-Roj camp Tuesday evening by Canadian officials according to one eyewitness account. Al-Roj is one of several camps and
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jails operated by Kurdish forces in the region where more than 40,000 suspected ISIS militants and supporters are held. The majority of the detainees are children. The United Nations called on all countries to repatriate their foreign nationals more than two years ago. RCMP have been at the camp conducting security assessments of the
Israeli police storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, raising fears of wider fighting
T he Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued a revised schedule for Punjab Assembly polls on Wednesday, in line with the Supreme Court’s (SC) directives that the elections be held on May 14 instead of the previously notified date of October 8. The revised schedule was issued in a notification, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, citing the apex court’s order of the previous day in a petition filed by the PTI against the ECP’s decision to delay the Punjab Assembly elections from the originally decided date of April 30 to October 8. Elections to the Punjab Assembly
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he official Palestinian news agency Wafa said dozens of worshippers who were spending the night praying were injured in the police raid. JERUSALEM — Israeli police stormed into the AlAqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City early Wednesday, firing stun grenades at Palestinian youths who hurled firecrackers at them in a burst of violence during a sensitive holiday season. Palestinian militants in Gaza responded with rocket fire on southern Israel, prompting repeated Israeli airstrikes. The fighting, coming as Muslims mark the holiday month of Ramadan and Jews prepare to begin the Passover festival on Wednesday evening, raised fears of a wider conflagration.
have been due since Janary this year when the house was dissolved. In early March, the ECP had proposed that the elections be held between April 30 and May 7 and subsequently, President Arif Alvi accepted the commission’s recommendations by setting April 30 as the date for the polls.The date was officially notified by the electoral watchdog on March 8, but it was later deferred to October 8 in another notification issued he premier and Vanby the ECP on March 22. couver’s top officials deIn the latest notification issued today, fended their approach to the commission said it was recalling Wednesday’s takedown of the its March 22 notification and parDowntown Eastside tent entially modifying the March 8 notificampment with police enforcecation. Under the revised schedule, ment, insisting safety issues had the last date for the filing of appeals escalated to the point they had against the decisions of the return returnto act. Ongoing fires in and ing officer rejecting or accepting the around the tents, escalating viocandidates’ nomination papers has lence, and reported sexual asbeen set as April 10. sued today, the saults of women were all repeatedly cited commission said it was recalling its by officials, who described the remaining March 22 notification and partially campers as entrenched and unwilling to modifying the March 8 notification. leave despite multiple officers of shelter The appellate tribunal can decide spaces.“We need to restore Hastings as a these appeals by April 17 and a re re- street that is safe and welcoming to vised list of candidates has to be issued everyone,” said Mayor Ken Sim. by April 18... 18...Source:dawnnews.com “I am confident we are taking a step in
The mosque sits in a sensitive hilltop compound sacred to both Jews and Muslims. Al-Aqsa is the third-holiest site in Islam and is typically packed with worshippers during Ramadan. The spot, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, is also the holiest site in Judaism, revered as the location of the biblical Jewish temples. The conflicting claims have spilled over to violence before, most recently a bloody 11-day war between Israel and Hamas, the Islamic military group that rules Gaza. By early morning, the Jerusalem compound had quieted down. A Palestinian official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media, Cont. @ page 16
‘We have to break the cycle’: Vancouver leaders, B.C. premier defend tent city decampment
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the right direction.” The chiefs of Vancouver’s police and fire departments, the city manager and the mayor held a news conference at city hall as the tent clearing was underway. Journalists were required to show accreditation with extra security and a rare police presence inside and out. Source:bc.ctvnews.ca