OTTAWA — Canada is sending another $40 million in aid to organizations that are helping people in the Gaza Strip after pausing funding to the UN’s relief agency for Palestinians — with one Liberal MP saying it’s doubtful other groups will be as effective.

The funding top-up, bringing the total commitment to $100 million, comes as Ottawa condemns what it calls “inflammatory rhetoric” from Israeli government officials about the forced displacement of those who live in the besieged territory.

“Throughout this conflict

LONDON (AP) — Italian regulators said they told OpenAI that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot has violated European Union’s stringent data privacy rules.

The country’s data protection authority, known as Garante, that it notified San Francisco-based OpenAI of breaches of the EU rules, known as General Data Protection Regulation.

The watchdog started investigating ChatGPT last year, when it that can produce text, images and sound in response to users’ questions.

Based on the results of its “fact-finding activity,”

ROME (AP) — returned to Italy on Tuesday amid great fanfare and headed straight to a private meeting with Premier Giorgia Meloni.

“Grandissimo,” Meloni said when Sinner walked into her office in the Chigi Palace.

“I want to show you something,” Meloni then said, before turning on a replay of match point from in Sunday’s final, during which the Italian rallied from two sets down.

“It’s nice to experience it after the fact,” Sinner said.

Sinner and Meloni posed

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The first United Arab Emirates ambassador to Damascus in nearly 13 years took up his post on Tuesday as Syria has been reintegrating into mainstream .

Syrian state media said the country’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad received Ambassador Hassan Ahmad al-Shihi’s credentials.

The UAE embassy was and a charge d’affaires has been in charge of the diplomatic mission since then. Al-Shihi arrived in Damascus on Monday, reported the pro-government daily Al-Watan.

Syrian President Bashar

Designated hitter Justin Turner has agreed to a one-year deal with the Toronto Blue Jays, according to reports by Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic and Jon Morosi of MLB Network .

Turner, 39, declined his $13.4-million option for 2024 with the Boston Red Sox after signing a two-year, $22-million deal

UPS slid before the opening bell Tuesday as the package delivery company announced that it’s eliminating approximately 12,000 jobs and looking at strategic options for its Coyote truck load brokerage business.

Last year union members at UPS voted to approve a tentative contract agreement, putting a final seal on contentious labor negotiations that of businesses and households nationwide.

On a conference call Tuesday morning, CEO Carol Tome said that by reducing the company’s headcount UPS will realize $1 billion in cost savings.

“We are

After more than a decade worth of traffic headaches along Eglinton Avenue, the last portion of long-term lane restrictions for construction of the new Eglinton Crosstown LRT have finally been lifted.

Lanes at the Yonge and Eglinton intersection have now been restored. It was the final spot where surface-level construction still had lanes reduced with concrete barriers and fencing in place until early this year.

That infrastructure has now been removed from the roadway and fresh paving has also taken place.

EUREKA, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pledging to fast-track more than half a dozen projects by the end of his term to remove or bypass dams that have blocked salmon from returning to the state’s chilly mountain streams and acting as the keystone of a complex ecosystem that sustains both economies and spiritual beliefs for tribes.

Newsom — now in his second term and seen as a potential Democratic presidential candidate beyond 2024 — has worked hard to stake a claim as the nation