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Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have resumed their years-long negotiations over the controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile River’s main tributary

Families of some of the people who died in two Boeing 737 Max crashes are asking the government to impose a fine of nearly $25 billion on the company

Boeing 737 MAX-8 jets in March 2019, staff at his department prepared three very different speeches.They outlined three different scenarios: restricting the aircraft from Canadian airspace, as many countries already had, declaring the MAX-8 safe to fly, as the Americans did, or allowing the aircraft to operate “only if certain standards were met.”The speeches are part of a newly released trove of internal documents on the federal government’s decision to ground the Boeing jets following a deadly 2019 crash in Ethiopia that killed 18 Canadians.Next month marks the fifth anniversary of the disaster.It’s not unusual for staff to draft multiple versions of speeches for ministers. But the fact that each of Garneau’s three prepared remarks contained vastly different decisions on the grounding of the MAX-8 illustrates the uncertainty at Transport Canada over the jets’ safety.Emails, memos and briefing notes obtained by Global News through access to information law show three days of flurried activity at Transport Canada as the agency’s position continuously evolved.

HRW) said on Monday. In a 73-page report, the rights group said Saudi guards used explosive weapons to kill some migrants and shot at others from close range. It compiled testimony from 38 Ethiopians who tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023, as well as four relatives or friends of migrants. Human Rights Watch said attacks against groups of migrants, who used remote mountain tracks to cross into Saudi Arabia by foot, were «widespread and systematic» and that the «killings are continuing». A Saudi official, who did not provide their name, said on Monday in an emailed response to questions to the government's media office that HRW's allegations were «unfounded and not based on reliable sources.» Saudi authorities have also strongly denied allegations made by U.N.

₹15 crore at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai on Sunday. THE DRI official recovered 1,496 grams of a white powder, purported to be cocaine. The value of the drug is said to be approximately ₹15 crore in the illicit market.

By Kanishka Singh