A few hundred Jewish people on their way from Toronto to Ottawa for a protest were abandoned when over a dozen drivers did not show up, with protest organizers accusing the company responsible for driving the buses of antisemitism. “We were shocked that, of more than 70 buses UJA booked, 17…

A passenger bus lost control on a downhill curve in a central Philippine mountain village, plunging into a ravine.Police, army troops and emergency responders worked for hours to extricate victims using stretchers and ropes.The search for victims ended overnight, but officials urged village leaders to report any additional victims in…

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have released footage on Wednesday showing what it says is “one of the largest weapons depots” it has found in the Gaza Strip during its ongoing war with Hamas. The IDF said the weaponry was discovered “near a clinic and school in the northern Gaza Strip” as…

Sweden has signed a defense cooperation agreement with the U.S. which allows access to all military bases in Scandinavia.Swedish Defense Minister Pål Jonson said the agreement would enhance the country’s ability to receive U.S. support in times of war or crisis.The deal was signed at the Pentagon by Jonson and…

A cargo ship broke down in Egypt’s Suez Canal on Wednesday and crashed into a bridge over the crucial waterway, authorities said, adding that the incident did not disrupt canal traffic.The Singapore-flagged One Orpheus went off course after its rudder broke down before ploughing into the Mansi Bridge, near the…

A new lower house of the Dutch parliament was sworn in Wednesday, two weeks after the far-right party of lawmaker Geert Wilders won a general election in a seismic shift that reverberated through Europe.While the newly configured Second Chamber is now installed, talks to form a new ruling coalition remain…

Juanita Castro, the sister of Cuban dictators Fidel and Raúl Castro who worked with the CIA to undermine their communist government, died Monday. She was 90.Castro, an expatriate who spent most of her life in Miami, was confirmed dead by María Antonieta Collins, who co-wrote Castro’s 2009 book, Fidel and…

A man in Pakistan was found dead after zoo staff saw that a big cat had a shoe in its mouth.The incident happened Wednesday at Bahawalpur’s Sherbagh Zoo, which is located in the Punjab province, according to CBS News.Zaheer Anwar, a government official, told media outlets that zoo staff were…

A gondola in Venice, Italy, capsized after tourists didn’t listen to warnings to sit down and stop taking selfies.According to The Guardian, a group of tourists from China were taking selfies and moving around the gondola when orders were given to sit down.The gondolier was attempting to navigate the small…

Authorities say dengue fever is on the rise in Mali, posing a new threat to the West African nation struggling with extremist attacks and political turbulence.The director general of health and public hygiene, Dr. Cheick Amadou Tidiane Traore, told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that his department had…