RAMALLAH -- At least 25 Palestinians were injured and 119 others detained in the northern West Bank city of Tubas as an Israeli military operation entered its second day, Palestinian officials said on Thursday.
Nidal Odeh, head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in the area, said medics treated 25 people wounded since the operation began at dawn on Wednesday. He said some of the injured were young men who had been detained, interrogated and beaten by Israeli forces before being released. Their injuries were moderate, he added. (West Bank-Israel-Military Operation)
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OTTAWA -- A Canadian minister on Thursday resigned from Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet, strongly opposing an oil pipeline deal signed the same day.
Languages Minister Steven Guilbeault's departure occurred just hours after the Canadian federal government and the oil-producing Canadian province of Alberta agreed to advance the development of a private-sector pipeline capable of transporting at least 1 million barrels per day of low-emission bitumen. (Canada-Minister Resignation)
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MOSCOW -- A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, sending the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts and one U.S. astronaut into near-Earth orbit.
The spacecraft lifted off at 12:28 p.m. Moscow time (0928 GMT). It is expected to complete two orbits of the Earth and dock with the International Space Station (ISS) in approximately 3 hours and 10 minutes. (Russia-Spacecraft)
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LIMA -- Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was sentenced Thursday to 11 years, five months and 15 days in prison on charges of rebellion and conspiracy stemming from his failed attempt to dissolve the Congress in December 2022.
The ruling, issued by the Special Criminal Chamber of the country's Supreme Court of Justice, also applies to former Prime Minister Betssy Chavez, who is currently under asylum at the Mexican embassy in Lima, and former Interior Minister Willy Huerta. (Peru-Former President-Sentence) ■
