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Warning: This story contains some details of sexual exploitationA Saskatoon judge is sending the former coach and athletic director at a Saskatoon Christian school to jail for "an act of violence on a child."Aaron Benneweis pleaded guilty in October 2023 to sexually assaulting and exploiting a 13-year-old female student.On Thursday, Judge Marilyn Gray sentenced Benneweis to two years less a day, to be followed by three years probation. This is the sentence that prosecutor Sheryl Fillo had propos

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Palestinian doctor Hani Bseiso faced an agonising decision when his teenage niece was wounded by Israeli shelling of her Gaza City home: amputate her leg or risk her bleeding to death. Unable to reach a nearby hospital, and using little more than a pair of scissors and some gauze he had in his medical bag, he removed the lower part of A'Hed Bseiso's right leg in an operation carried out on the kitchen table without anaesthetic.

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Minsk is supposedly ready to cooperate with NATO, but only if the Alliance stops its “aggressive rhetoric and actions” against Belarus, the country's Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said at a briefing on Jan. 19.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized Benjamin Netanyahu's position on Palestinian statehood after the Israeli president claimed in a nationally-televised speech that the so-called "two-state solution" is dead."I was not surprised to hear Prime Minister Netanyahu share that. That has long been his position," Trudeau said Thursday when asked about the comments at a press conference in Iqaluit."He and I had, just a few weeks ago, an extensive conversation on exactly this topic and others."Canad

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Cole Hosack was only supposed to be in Dawson Creek, B.C., for a few days.The 24-year-old was travelling over the holidays from Prince George, B.C., to Medicine Hat, Alta., to start a new job. He was with a friend who has family in Dawson Creek, so they stopped in town to celebrate on New Year's Eve.He went to a bar on Dec. 31 and hasn't been heard from since."My worst fear right now is not finding him for the next 30 years," his mother Julie Hosack said in an interview with CBC News.Hosack orga

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ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hired attorney Nathan Wade to lead the Georgia prosecution of Donald Trump and 18 others over efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Now, allegations of a romantic relationship between Willis and Wade are raising questions about his past work and qualifications and threaten to taint one of four criminal cases against the former president. She has defended her hiring of Wade — who has little prosecutorial experience — and has not directly

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Former Canadian world champion pole vaulter Shawn Barber has died. He was 29 years old. Barber died Wednesday night, his agent Paul Doyle told The Canadian Press. The specific cause of death was not disclosed, but Barber had been dealing with an ongoing illness. Canadian women's pole vaulter Alysha Newman shared several photos and a lengthy caption in an Instagram post. "I wish I could say heaven received another angel but if I'm being honest it was way too soon," she wrote. "Shawn, my teammate,