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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.

Boko Haram has released more than 100 of the schoolgirls it abducted last month, returning them to their village in north-east Nigeria. Waving the black and white flag used by the Islamic State and wearing balaclavas, military fatigues and ammunition belts, members of the group released most of the girls they had abducted in Dapchi early on Wednesday morning.

Iraqi authorities have discovered a mass grave with the bodies of 38 Indian construction workers abducted when ISIL militants overran the northern city of Mosul in 2014, officials said Tuesday.

Darshan Singh Sidhu, one of seven people in India originally implicated in the alleged “honour” killing of a B.C. woman in that country in 2000, was granted a permanent resident visa to Canada by mistake in 2008 after he lied about his criminal record.

Fraudulent health care payouts in Canada could amount to as much as $2.4 billion annually. The Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association says hundreds of millions of dollars are wasted each year.

For years, the Coalition for Gun Control has been advocating for tighter gun controls, and was joined today on Parliament Hill by legal experts, victims of gun violence and women’s groups to review and comment on the long-awaited Government of Canada new gun-legislation, Bill 71.

A Global News investigation has found the federal government has become increasingly ineffective at carrying out deportations for public safety and security reasons. Removals of those who are supposed to be the government’s top priorities — foreign citizens under deportation orders for security, international human rights abuses, serious crimes and organized crime — have declined by a third since 2014.

The Shin Bet said the man, identified as Romain Franck, 23, was part of a broader Palestinian smuggling ring. It said he used his consular vehicle, which gets more lenient security checks, to transport the weapons through Israel's tightly secured border with the Gaza Strip.

Elections Canada is determined to counter fake news, cyber-attacks and foreign interference in the 2019 federal election. 'Significant investments' to IT security include a new data-hosting service.

For the better part of three decades, Hussein Ali Sumaida’s legal status in the country has remained in perpetual limbo. On the one hand, immigration authorities have found the one-time double agent for the Iraqi secret police and the Israeli intelligence service to be inadmissible to Canada because of his espionage activities. On the other hand, authorities say he faces the possibility of torture if he returns to his native Iraq or Tunisia, his father’s birthplace.

The recently elected leader of Canada's New Democratic Party, Jagmeet Singh explains his relationship with Sikh extremists seeking a homeland in India.

Thousands of British soldiers are to be vaccinated against anthrax poisoning in a direct response to the recent nerve agent attack in Salisbury. The announcement is part of a range of measures that will be announced by the Defence Secretary on Thursday, including £48m that will be invested to create a "cutting-edge" Chemical Weapons Defence Centre at Porton Down in Wiltshire.

The move to suspend its free trade agreement with Turkey is reflecting regional politics as imports and exports, says a leading academic at the London School of Economics.

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah survived an assassination attempt in northern Gaza on Tuesday morning, according to Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency. Hamdallah had just passed through the Erez border crossing from Israel when a bomb detonated near his convoy, tearing the siding off at least one black SUV and blowing out the car's windows.

Marc Brunet and his wife, Helene, have been charged with fraud after they allegedly sold more than $800,000 worth of shares in their company, MultiCast Networks Holdings Inc. (MCN) to private investors. The OSC alleges “a significant percentage of the money obtained was used by the Brunets for their personal benefit.”

U.S. prosecutors are requesting a life sentence for a Canadian who admitted to plotting terrorist attacks on NYC landmarks at the behest of a high-ranking Islamic State operative. Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, a 20-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., pleaded guilty in October 2017 to planning bombings and mass shootings at Times Square, in subway stations and at concert venues.

A federal grand jury indicted a Texas father and son duo this week in an alleged hearing aid scam that targeted American Airlines workers and netted nearly $17 million.

After a string of near-fatal overdoses, Saskatoon police warned users to turn in product purchased from "Lil' Joe" or "Joe Bro", with the number 306-881-7300. Police said they were not interested in making arrests for possession.

Investigators found the “black box” from a Turkish private jet that crashed in an Iranian mountain range on its way from the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul, killing all 11 people on board, including a Turkish bride-to-be and her bachelorette party.

Aviva Canada found about half the total expenses submitted for repairs to crashed vehicles during its investigation in Ontario were bogus — an amount the company estimates adds up to hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

The 43-year-old woman was arrested after arriving at Melbourne International Airport on a flight from India. She was travelling with a 38-year-old Portuguese man who was also arrested. A number of bottles of cosmetics products were found in the luggage and tested. Testing returned positive results for Ketamine and GHB. Police accuse them of bringing 200 ml of GHB and 800 ml of Ketamine into the country.

To keep coaching hockey, Jim Besse had to give his fingerprints to police - because he shared a birthdate with a known sex offender. He is now suing the RCMP, Calgary police, and the Calgary police commission for violating his rights.

Podcast debate on the motion "Humanitarian Intervention Does More Harm Than Good". Doctors Without Borders' co-founder Bernard Kouchner, and Kori Schake former French Minister of Health and Humanitarian Affairs, and State and Defense Departments, will defend the military's role in halting human rights abuses. They are opposed by Frank Ledwidge, a former British military intelligence officer who served in the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Columbia University military intervention researcher Rajan Menon.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named Brenda Lucki as the first permanent female RCMP commissioner. In her acceptance speech, Commissioner Lucki has vowed to ask the "hard questions" as she fulfills her new role.

The Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, stated that the government will invest $327.6 million over five years, and then $100 million a year thereafter to bring together federal, provincial and territorial efforts to support community-level prevention and enforcement efforts related to the illegal trafficking of firearms, and invest in border security to interdict illicit goods including guns and drugs.

After years without the drugs to do lethal injections, the South Carolina Senate has agreed to require condemned inmates go to the electric chair instead.

Journalist Terry Glavin writes, when Air India 182 was blown up in 1985, " I almost certainly knew exactly who had murdered all those people."

The federal government has been eyeing changes that would allow authorities to more quickly identify people considered unfit to have guns for reasons such as mental instability or violent behaviour, an internal memo shows.

Canadian Faruq Khalil Muhammad 'Isa has pleaded guilty in New York to charges of sending money and support to Tunisian jihadists who may have killed five American soldiers in Iraq. His plea could spare him life inprisonment.

The investigation into the possible poisoning of the Russian spy Sergei Skripal gained new momentum as Scotland Yard announced its counter-terrorism police would take charge, and the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, promised a “robust” response if the Kremlin’s role in the case was proved.