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JERUSALEM -- Israel said Tuesday it would grant legal residency to 4,000 Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, a gesture to the Palestinian Authority that will allow people who have lived under severe restrictions for years to get official IDs. Source

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A judge in South Carolina denied bond Tuesday for attorney Alex Murdaugh on the second set of charges he has faced since finding his wife and son dead last June. Circuit Judge Clifton Newman issued the decision after hearing attorneys describe how Murdaugh used portions of US$3.4 million in insurance payments to pay off his father, personal credit card bills and checks to himself. Source

TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford refused to apologize for comments he made about immigrants coming to the province “to collect the dole,” instead saying that he is “pro immigration.” Speaking to reporters in Tecumseh, Ont. Source

GENEVA -- More than 10,000 children in Yemen have been killed or injured in violence linked to years of war in the impoverished country, a spokesman for UNICEF said Tuesday. The verified tally from the United Nations' reporting and monitoring operation provides what is surely an undercount of the real toll because many more child deaths and injuries go unrecorded, UNICEF spokesman James Elder told reporters. Source

MONTREAL -- Quebec's Official Opposition is welcoming the Canadiens decision to declare Montreal an unceded Indigenous territory. While some historians agree that the territory never belonged to the Kanien?kehá?ka (Mohawk) nation, Liberal leader Dominique Anglade supports the Canadiens' decision. Source

Vancouver - A group of quick-thinking young men were forced to get creative by using their turbans as a makeshift rope to help rescue a pair of hikers in a Metro Vancouver park earlier this month. Source

Warning: Disturbing content VANCOUVER -- Monique Collette dreamed of the day she’d get to bring her two dogs home to B.C. She had adopted her small mixed-breed dog, Chocolate, as well as a golden retriever she named Maverick, during the three years she spent teaching English in China. Source

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says it's working with police both in Haiti and the U.S. in the abduction of a group of 17 missionaries, including a Canadian, as the Caribbean country once again struggles with a spike in gang-related violence. Source

Kanye is now Ye. A Los Angeles judge on Monday approved the request of the rapper, producer and fashion designer to legally change his name from Kanye Omari West to just Ye, with no middle or last name. Source

BERLIN -- A 96-year-old former secretary for the Stutthof concentration camp's SS commander appeared before a court in northern Germany on Tuesday to formally hear the charges against her. The indictment read out before the state court in Itzehoe, near Hamburg, charges Irmgard Furchner with more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder. Source