OTTAWA, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday condemned recent violence as unacceptable after shots were fired at two Jewish schools in Montreal overnight and clashes between students at a university in the same city late on Wednesday.

Police on Thursday said they were investigating overnight shootings at two Jewish schools in Montreal. Both schools reported finding a bullet hole in their front doors Thursday morning, local media reported.

There were no injuries and it was not clear whether the incidents were linked.

JERUSALEM, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Israel vowed on Thursday that its forces would keep intensifying the fighting in the heart of Gaza City in the next few days, despite the implementation of a four-hour daily humanitarian pause.

Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Herzi Halevi toured the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday with Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet internal security agency. They were shown in videos released by the military sitting inside a moving tank and later talking with commanders in a dimly lit room.

SMITHS STATION, Ala. (AP) — After the 2019 suicide of a local teenager, small-town mayor and pastor F.L. “Bubba” Copeland helped students place roadside signs in his Alabama community to try to reach others who might be hurting.

“You are worthy of love.” “Don’t give up.” “You matter.”

Those were the same messages friends said they tried to get through to Copeland before he took his own life along one of those county roads two days after a conservative news site exposed social media posts where he appeared in women’s clothing, a wig and makeup.

JERUSALEM, Nov 9 (Reuters) - The armed wing of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in Gaza released a video on Thursday showing an elderly woman and a young boy who were among around 240 hostages seized by militant gunmen who attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

It said it was prepared to release the two for humanitarian and medical reasons once appropriate conditions were met. It did not give further details.

MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS/: US attempts to suppress the development of the Russian oil and gas sector through sanctions will fail, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in an interview with RTVI.

"I am sure that just as in the past, the current attempts through sanctions to suppress the opportunities for our development and movement forward, in particular in the oil and gas sector, including in the LNG sector - a very promising segment, the demand for these products is high - these attempts will fail," he said.

RIYADH, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's crown prince on Friday called for an end to the war in Gaza, a stance later echoed in a declaration with African leaders attending a summit in Riyadh.

"We condemn what the Gaza Strip is facing from military assault, targeting of civilians, the violations of international law by the Israeli occupation authorities," Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman said during the African-Saudi summit in the kingdom's capital.

"We stress on the need to stop this war and the forced displacement of Palestinians," he added.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- UN humanitarians said on Thursday that they released 25 million U.S. dollars to jumpstart relief from the once-in-a-century flooding in Somalia that has already affected nearly 1.2 million people.

The United Nations and its partners estimate that 1.6 million people could be affected by flooding in the current rainy season from October to December, with 1.5 million hectares of farmland potentially being destroyed, said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

WARSAW, Nov 10 (NNN-XINHUA) – The European Parliament voted yesterday, to lift the immunity of four Polish members (MEPs), who are accused in their country of violating hate crime laws.

The four – Beata Kempa, Beata Mazurek, Patryk Jaki and Tomasz Poreba – are members of Poland’s conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party. They face allegations lodged by Rafal Gawel, a left-wing Polish activist, who was previously convicted of embezzlement in his home country, but claimed that he was the victim of a politicised justice system.

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) conducted multiple operations, recovering over 200 kg of drugs and arresting seven suspects, the ANF said on Friday.

During the anti-narcotics operations, the ANF recovered drugs, including opium, hashish, heroin, methamphetamine and others, the ANF said in a statement, adding that other than drugs, 1,000 intoxicated tablets were also seized.

09 November 2023; MEMO: A group of Israelis have been accused of theft of jewellery and other items from Israelis killed at a music festival during the 7 October operation by Palestinian Resistance group, Hamas, in areas surrounding the besieged Gaza Strip.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After seven months of hosting Republican presidential candidates in Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds said it “feels good to get in the game” with her endorsement of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

But the popular Iowa governor declined to say whether other candidates should concede and throw their support behind him as well, even as she acknowledged that a wider field could advantage former President Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As they face an increasingly urgent task to emerge as a clear alternative to former President Donald Trump, five Republican presidential candidates gathered Wednesday for the party’s latest debate.

Trump, the overwhelming front-runner in the race, skipped the event, as he has the first two, citing his polling advantage. There was no shortage of noteworthy confrontations on stage, as the participants debated the Israel-Hamas war, the future of abortion rights and Trump himself.