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South Carolina state officials blamed the carnage on a turf war between gangs over territory, money and contraband items like cellphones. For seven hours, Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said, inmates armed with handmade knives fought each other, leaving seven dead in the worst U.S. prison riot in a quarter-century.

Daniel Jean, Canada's top intelligence official told a Commons committee it was his decision to brief reporters about the presence of convicted terrorist Jaspal Atwal during the prime minister’s trip to India. Opposition members rejected the explanation.

The "social justice warrior" ethos and politicization of oversight agencies is having an impact on police services. In Ottawa, a nasty fight on social media about depolicing has broken out between an anonymous officer, the mayor and the police chief.

A bomb exploded at a packed football stadium in southern Somalia and killed five spectators while wounding several others, police said. The Somalia-based, al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion.

Mark Holland, parliamentary secretary to the Public Safety Minister says  two new federal cyber security agencies will work closer with business. The RCMP will manage the new National Cyber Crime Co-ordination Unit, and the Communications Security Establishment will operate the new Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.

Jack MacLaren, an Ottawa area MPP for Ontario's Trillium Party wants the federal government to take the Tamil Tigers off the list of recognized terrorist organizations. Toronto police have been quoted as saying there are thousands of Tamil Tiger fighters in Canada and that terrorist members of the group have been smuggled into the country.

Lesly Emmanuel, Kunarobinson Christhurajah, Nadarajah Mahendran and Thampeernayagam Rajaratnam have each been charged under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act with organizing the voyage of the MV Sun Sea, which docked in British Columbia in August, 2010, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils.

The Windsor Police Service is currently about 18 percent women. Chief Al Frederick wants that number to be 50 per cent but admits parity is a goal he might not see. Superintendent Pam Mizuno, the force's highest ranked woman, was named deputy chief Wednesday.

CBC News reports the Ontario government will ask bystanders to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to apparent victims of opioid overdoses. The medical community is divided about the value of rescue breathing to overdose victims.

Jean-Pierre Fortin, national president of Canada’s Customs and Immigration Union, says the government’s preparations for another wave of irregular migrants this summer consist largely of reallocating of staff from other areas of the country. He warns that it could lead to overworked border security staff and longer wait times at ports of entry across the country as the busy summer travelling season sets in.

A new National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians will review Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's trip to India. The committee will look at alleged "foreign interference in Canadian political affairs" and inappropriate use of intelligence. A background briefing by national security adviser Daniel Jean suggested that factions in the Indian government tried to sabotage Trudeau's February trip to India.

Four people were killed today in a shooting at the Osmangazi University in Turkey's northwestern province of Eskisehir, the school's rector and local media said. The shooter killed the assistant dean, faculty secretary, lecturer and a staff member from the education faculty of the university, rector Hasan Gonen told Turkish media.

Lisa Korthals was killed by an avalanche in the mountains she adored, while guiding a group of tourists in the Whistler back country on March 28.

United States security concerns about the new Gordie Howe International Bridge between Windsor and Detroit could block Chinese-owned construction firms from bidding on the multi-billion dollar project. A Chinese state-owned firm is trying to buy Canadian construction giant Aecon, but has yet to get Ottawa’s approval. The Trudeau government is reported to believe it would be unacceptable to the United States for a Chinese government company to build the bridge.

When a man gets shot in a neighbourhood, we talk about guns and gangs. When a partner shoots and kills his wife, we talk about domestic violence. When a person shoots multiple people in a private or public setting, we talk about mental health. The truth is that these issues are all related to gun violence, and it’s time we stopped limiting the conversation of gun crimes to gangs and at-risk youth.

In a Calgary speech, Richard Fadden, a former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said countries around the world are still struggling with the definition of cyber war. It is not certain that the destruction of a nation's assets by cyber-devices constitutes an act of war, he said, although Russia has carried out such attacks in the recent past.

A woman suspected of shooting three people at YouTube’s headquarters was angry about the policies and practices of the company and had visited a gun range before she drove to the company’s headquarters near San Francisco, police said.

The federal government’s massive infrastructure spending program continues to lag well behind schedule, with half of planned spending in 2016 alone still not designated toward specific projects, according to a new report.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he was putting on hold an agreement with the UN refugee agency to relocate thousands of African migrants to Western countries.

While several western government are concerned about the security aspects of telecommunications equipment made by Huawei, the minister for public safety, Ralph Goodale has told Parliament the Chinese company is safe. Last month three former leaders of Canadian national security agencies warned the government to limit its ties with the company.

The Public Health Agency of Canada says it has established a link between a recent outbreak of salmonella and a brand of frozen raw breaded chicken products sold primarily in eastern Canada. PHAC issued a recall Wednesday of Harvest Creek Chicken Nuggets with a best-before date of Oct. 11.

Dr. Kathy Suh, director of infection protection and control at The Ottawa Hospital, said 12 patients in one unit and two in another have been identified as carrying MRSA. She said most of the patients are carriers — they have it on their skin — and are not infected with it.

Today the Group of Seven (G7) Employment and Innovation ministers concluded a two-day meeting on Preparing for Jobs of the Future. The group agreed to six goals that focus on helping workers get the skills, training and opportunities they need to succeed in a changing economy.

Firefighters felt “embarrassed” and “ashamed” that they were stopped from helping victims of the Manchester Arena terror attack more quickly, the north-west secretary of the Fire Brigades Union has said. Mark Rowe said crews were waiting to be deployed after the bombing – some of them so close that they had heard the explosion – but “the order never came down from the top”.

The police informant behind the Project Forseti investigation is suing the federal government over his and his family’s treatment while in witness protection. According to a statement of claim, Noel Harder and his family suffered financial, psychological and emotional distress by the RCMP during their time in the program.

Ending a 16-month quest to stay in the United States, where he was raised and fought to defend, Miguel Perez Jr., a veteran with a green card and a felony drug conviction, has been deported to Mexico, where he has not lived since childhood.

Canada could soon have its first customs facilities inside the United States, says an American official who cites Florida and Arizona as potential sites for pilot projects in ongoing experiments to modernize the border.

As countries around the world punish Russia for its alleged murder of a former spy on British soil, Canada is expelling four Russian diplomats. The foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland said the four used“their diplomatic status to undermine Canada’s security or interfere in our democracy.”

Marking the first time the US government has unequivocally called out the Chinese government for its cyber activities, the USTR report says billions have been lost from Chinese-initiated cyber attacks and intrusions on American and foreign companies.

The bomb exploded on Sunday at a security checkpoint after soldiers intercepted and stopped a suspicious vehicle, Captain Mohamed Hussein told The Associated Press. Those dead included two soldiers as well as the suicide bomber, he said, while many of the 10 wounded were rickshaw drivers.

The government of Canada is strengthening domestic privacy protection but about 90 per cent of Canadians' internet communications pass through the United States. That means Canadians' personal information is subject to American surveillance but without the protection granted to U.S. citizens.

Transport Canada is allowing first responders like the RCMP and the Ontario Provincial Police to test new aerial drone capabilities with a series of pilot projects and trials that could soon include the private sector. Current regulations put strict limits on air operations, typically insisting that drones remain within a visual line of sight from a ground operator.

Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said Facebook will audit thousands of apps in response to the “breach of trust” created by Cambridge Analytica — the chief executive's first comments since a crisis erupted Friday over data siphoned by the political marketing firm used by the Trump campaign.

Lisa Raitt, the Conservative deputy leader accused the Trudeau government of failing in its responsibility to deport people for public safety or security concerns. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says some countries refuse to issue travel documents, but his office is working on the issue.