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Many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the poorest are not and a significant number are seeing their conditions deteriorate, the UN says.

Toronto police are set to provide an update this morning on a shooting last summer that killed a 44-year-old mother of two who was hit by a stray bullet. 

The experts said the the Taliban and al-Qaida remain close, and “the high concentration of terrorist groups” in Afghanistan is undermining security in the region.

A merchant ship sailing off Somalia has been hijacked by unknown raiders, fuelling fears pirates are returning to the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea waters.

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are poised to move much closer to winning their party's nominations during the biggest day of the primary campaign.

U.S. officials analyzed data from El Nino winters dating back to 1959 and found the climate phenomenon typically leads to below-average snowfall for much of Canada.

Some applicants had waited almost three years for a decision, and as of the end of last year, 99,000 refugee applications were still waiting to be processed.

Kimberly Polman was allegedly trained by ISIS to fight. The Canadian served in Katibah Nusaybah, an ISIS branch that provided weapons training to women.

The government said Canadians who joined ISIS would face the 'full force' of the law, but not a single woman who lived under ISIS has yet been convicted.

Russia refused to extend the deal in July, complaining that a parallel agreement promising to remove obstacles to Russian exports of food and fertilizer hadn't been honoured.

The suits accuse the government of offering advantages to Ukrainians that were not offered to Afghans hoping to escape the Taliban takeover in 2021.

The Canadian Congress of Black Parliamentarians said it is committed to ensuring that legislation at all levels of government reflects issues of concern in racialized communities.

Teachers across Canada are turning to social media platform TikTok to share everything from their daily experiences to learning tips and even their classroom outfits.

It names the Toronto Police Services Board, current police chief Myron Demkiw and former chiefs James Ramer, Mark Saunders and Bill Blair as defendants.

America's top diplomat lashed out at Russia at a U.N. Security Council meeting for ignoring the world's appeals and pulling out of the year-old deal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was confident that Russia could replace Ukrainian grain exports to Africa, which have stopped since the end of the Black Sea grain deal.

A precarious deal brokered last summer to help feed the world hangs in the balance over whether Russian President Vladimir Putin, the UN and the E.U. can break a deadlock.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced Russia would suspend the Black Sea Grain Initiative until its demands to get its own agricultural shipments to the world are met.

An Oxfam Canada spokesperson said they were concerned about the ripple effects the suspension of the deal could have on food prices, food donation drives and inequity in Canada.

A precarious deal brokered last summer hangs in the balance and rests on the shoulders of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the UN and the European Union.