By James Tubb on May 6, 2024. NEWS FILE PHOTOMedicine Hat News A standing request by Mayor Linnsie Clark for human resource reports and expense information is set to be debated for the third time in a month when council meets tonight (6:30 p.m. at city hall, or broadcast live on Rogers Community Cable). Read the News coverage of the issue here. Council will also debate a bylaw to institute its incoming development subsidy program as well as proposed changes to the city’s Unsightly Property bylaw, which would require owners to paint window and door coverings rather...…By James Tubb on May 6, 2024. NEWS FILE PHOTOMedicine Hat News A standing request by Mayor Linnsie Clark for human resource reports and expense information is set to be debated for the third time in a month when council meets tonight (6:30 p.m. at city hall, or broadcast live on Rogers Community Cable). Read the News coverage of the issue here. Council will also debate a bylaw to institute its incoming development subsidy program as well as proposed changes to the city’s Unsightly Property bylaw, which would require owners to paint window and door coverings rather...WW…

By The Associated Press on May 7, 2024. BERLIN (AP) – Authorities were searching the European parliament office of a prominent German far-right lawmaker in Brussels on Tuesday, Germany’s top prosecutor’s office said. Maximilian Krah, the Alternative for Germany party’s top candidate in the upcoming European Parliament elections, has been under scrutiny after an assistant of his was arrested last month on suspicion of spying for China. Jian Guo – a German national who had worked for Krah since his election to the European Union legislature in 2019 – has been...…By The Associated Press on May 7, 2024. BERLIN (AP) – Authorities were searching the European parliament office of a prominent German far-right lawmaker in Brussels on Tuesday, Germany’s top prosecutor’s office said. Maximilian Krah, the Alternative for Germany party’s top candidate in the upcoming European Parliament elections, has been under scrutiny after an assistant of his was arrested last month on suspicion of spying for China. Jian Guo – a German national who had worked for Krah since his election to the European Union legislature in 2019 – has been...WW…

By Emma Burrows, The Associated Press on May 7, 2024. Vladimir Putin began his fifth term Tuesday as Russian leader at a glittering Kremlin inauguration, setting out on another six years in office after destroying his political opponents, launching a devastating war in Ukraine and concentrating all power in his hands. Already in office for nearly a quarter-century and the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin, Putin’s new term doesn’t expire until 2030, when he will be constitutionally eligible to run again. At the ceremony inside the gilded Grand Kremlin...…By Emma Burrows, The Associated Press on May 7, 2024. Vladimir Putin began his fifth term Tuesday as Russian leader at a glittering Kremlin inauguration, setting out on another six years in office after destroying his political opponents, launching a devastating war in Ukraine and concentrating all power in his hands. Already in office for nearly a quarter-century and the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin, Putin’s new term doesn’t expire until 2030, when he will be constitutionally eligible to run again. At the ceremony inside the gilded Grand Kremlin...WW…

By The Canadian Press on May 7, 2024. High Commissioner of India to Canada Sanjay Kumar Verma poses for a photo in Ottawa on Thursday, August 31, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick DoyleHere is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today… India envoy to speak, days after RCMP arrests India’s envoy to Canada is scheduled to speak publicly today for the first time since the RCMP made arrests related to a homicide that has roiled tensions between the two countries. High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma is to...…By The Canadian Press on May 7, 2024. High Commissioner of India to Canada Sanjay Kumar Verma poses for a photo in Ottawa on Thursday, August 31, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick DoyleHere is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today… India envoy to speak, days after RCMP arrests India’s envoy to Canada is scheduled to speak publicly today for the first time since the RCMP made arrests related to a homicide that has roiled tensions between the two countries. High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma is to...WW…

By Samy Magdy, Melanie Lidman And Lee Keath, The Associated Press on May 7, 2024. Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on buildings near the separating wall between Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)CAIRO (AP) – An Israeli tank brigade seized control on Tuesday of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt as Israel moved forward with an offensive in the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remain on a knife’s edge. The development came after hours of whiplash in the...…By Samy Magdy, Melanie Lidman And Lee Keath, The Associated Press on May 7, 2024. Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on buildings near the separating wall between Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)CAIRO (AP) – An Israeli tank brigade seized control on Tuesday of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt as Israel moved forward with an offensive in the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remain on a knife’s edge. The development came after hours of whiplash in the...WW…