Author: The Canadian Post
Tens of thousands of people marched to Istanbul’s Galata Bridge after dawn prayers on New Year’s Day, waving Turkish and Palestinian flags and demanding an end to Israel’s war in Gaza.
Harry Chandler was raising the flag at a naval hospital when Japanese planes appeared over Pearl Harbor. He spent that day pulling wounded men from oil-covered water. He died Monday in Florida at 103.
Drew Allar threw three touchdown passes and Penn State’s defence held Ashton Jeanty to a season-low 104 yards in a 31-14 Fiesta Bowl win that sent the Nittany Lions to the Orange Bowl semifinal.
The foreign ministers of France, Germany and Poland jointly condemned violence against peaceful protesters in Georgia, announced downgraded ties and backed Georgians’ European aspirations.
In his first New Year address, President Lai Ching-te promised to keep raising Taiwan’s defence budget and cast the island as part of a global line of defence for democracy against authoritarian pressure.
Hundreds of elderly men who say they were beaten and abused as boys at two notorious Florida reform schools have applied for a share of a $20-million state restitution fund before its deadline.
