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The main entrance to the new Western Memorial Regional Hospital in Corner Brook. – Diane Crocker/SaltWire file photo

Teams preparing for moving day at new Western Memorial Regional Hospital

With just over a month to go, Hilda Bellows said there are a lot of things happening at the new Western Memorial Regional Hospital to get ready to welcome patients and the public on June 2. Bellows, who is NL Health Services – Western Zone’s project ...

Updated 16 minutes ago |7 min read

From a little boy 'succeeding with everything he did' to an addict: N.L. mom desperate to get help for her son

Updated 10 minutes ago |13 min read

"Michelle" is desperate to help her almost 16 year old son who's life has changed because of addiction.

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P.E.I. woman gets jail for break-in offences

Updated 1 hour ago |3 min read

Jacqulyn Veronica Richard, 32, was sentenced on April 23 in provincial court in Charlottetown for break-in offences and missing a previous court appearance. FILE

Moncton woman charged in human trafficking investigation, missing women saved

Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

Mount Pearl lawyer Andrew J. Martin disbarred after lying to client, creating fake email to remove himself from file

Updated 2 hours ago |3 min read

City of Summerside launches grant to help support vulnerable residents

Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read

AbbVie's skin disease drug found to be more effective than Regeneron's Dupixent in study

Reuters |Updated 6 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - AbbVie said on Thursday its drug, Rinvoq, for treating a type of inflammatory skin condition was found to be more effective than Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi's Dupixent in a late-stage head-to-head study. Rinvoq helped 19.9% ...

Palestinian kids inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 25, 2024.

Israel intensifies strikes on Gaza's Rafah ahead of threatened invasion

Nidal al-Mughrabi |Updated 26 minutes ago |4 min read

By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - Israel stepped up airstrikes on Rafah overnight, killing at least six Palestinians, medics said on Thursday, after saying it would evacuate civilians from the Gaza border city and storm it despite allies' ...

Iraq hangs 11 convicted of terrorism in latest mass executions, security officials say

Reuters |Updated 35 minutes ago |1 min read

NASSIRIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq had hanged 11 militants sentenced to death on terrorism charges, local security officials said on Thursday. The executions were carried out on Monday at a prison in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya and all ...

Swedish soldiers fire a machine gun on a range as they train outside Visby on the Baltic island of Gotland, Sweden, March 21, 2024.

Sweden to move ahead with sending troops to Latvia as part of NATO forces

Reuters |Updated 46 minutes ago |1 min read

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden will move ahead with plans to send troops to Latvia as part of NATO's deployment in the Baltic countries, which share land borders with Russia and its ally Belarus, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on ...

Indonesia's president-elect Prabowo Subianto delivers his speech while vice president-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka stands beside him at General Election Commission (KPU) headquarters AS the country's election commission officially announced them as the presidential election winners in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 24, 2024.

Indonesia's Prabowo closes in on parliamentary majority after rival party pledges support

Reuters |Updated 46 minutes ago |2 min read

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian president elect Prabowo Subianto received a boost on Thursday after a prominent political party that backed another candidate pledged its support for his administration, moving him a step closer to securing a ...

Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane TC-JVV taxies to take-off in Riga International Airport, Latvia January 17, 2020.

Russia accuses U.S. of pressuring Turkish Airlines to deny Russians flights to Mexico

Gleb Stolyarov, Lucy Papachristou |Updated 46 minutes ago |2 min read

By Gleb Stolyarov and Lucy Papachristou (Reuters) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has accused the United States of exerting pressure on Turkey's national airline to bar Russian citizens from flights bound to Mexico. His comments ...

Spain's Socialist leader and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez looks on as his wife Begona Gomez votes during the general snap election in Madrid, Spain, July 23, 2023.

Spain prosecutor requests dismissal of corruption case against PM Sanchez's wife

Reuters |Updated 55 minutes ago |3 min read

MADRID (Reuters) - Madrid's prosecuting authority said on Thursday it had requested the dismissal of a corruption case against Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife that prompted him to announce he is considering resigning. The authority ...

A supporter of India's main opposition Congress party holds up a banner as Rahul Gandhi (not pictured) addresses party supporters during the first day of his 66-day long "Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra" ("Unite India Justice March"), in Thoubal district of the northeastern state of Manipur, India, January 14, 2024.

India says US human rights report "deeply biased"

Reuters |Updated 6 minutes ago |1 min read

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department's annual human rights report on India is "deeply biased" and shows a "poor understanding", India's foreign ministry spokesperson said on Thursday. The human rights assessment found "significant" ...

People work to move into a cemetery bodies of Palestinians killed during Israel's military offensive and buried at Nasser hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21, 2024.

Palestinian authorities seek probe into mass graves at Gaza hospitals

Ahmed Elimam |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

By Ahmed Elimam DUBAI (Reuters) - A Palestinian civil defence team on Thursday called on the United Nations to investigate what it said were war crimes at a Gaza hospital, saying nearly 400 bodies were recovered from mass graves after Israeli ...

Demonstrators protest outside the UK COVID-19 inquiry, in London, Britain, December 11, 2023.

Two million Britons suffer long COVID symptoms, survey shows

David Milliken |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Two million people across England and Scotland are still suffering from long COVID symptoms, of whom 381,000 have had their day-to-day activities limited a lot, according to an official study published on ...