ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s leading soccer club Basaksehir announced Thursday it has ended its contract with Israeli player Eden Karzev following a disciplinary probe of his social media post calling for the release of by the Hamas militant group.

The club’s decision came days after and questioned for allegedly inciting hatred after he expressed solidarity with the hostages after scoring an equalizer during a top-division game.

The Antalyaspor winger returned to a cheering crowd in Israel on Monday from the Turkish coastal city of Antalya where he played

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is planning to visit four African countries as the Biden administration tries to keep its eyes on all corners of the world while being consumed by crises in Ukraine, the Mideast and the Red Sea.

The State Department announced on Thursday that Blinken will go to Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Angola starting Sunday for talks focused on regional security, conflict prevention, democracy promotion and trade. Nigeria is West Africa’s regional heavyweight and plays a major role in security issues

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia will set up temporary facilities for handling migrant arrivals at the border with Croatia, citing a surge in arrivals, the government announced Thursday.

Authorities will put up a fence, two accommodation containers, tents and sanitary facilities at the former border crossing in Obrezje, state-owned STA news agency reported.

The official border checkpoint with Croatia was removed last year when Slovenia’s eastern neighbor joined Europe’s free-travel Schengen area. But some border control has been reintroduced because of

TORONTO — TD Bank Group says it expects to earn about $141 million in equity net income in its first quarter of 2024 from its holdings in Charles Schwab as U.S. banks report earnings.

Last year, TD reported $285 million in net income in its first quarter from its investment in Schwab.

TD says adjusted net income should work out to about $230 million, for about a 30 per cent drop from last year’s $328

Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw said Thursday that plans to cut more than $12 million out of the proposed police budget would create an “unacceptable risk” to public safety amid increased emergency calls that officers are already struggling to keep pace with.

The Toronto Police Service has put forward what Demkiw called a “modest” 1.7 per cent ($20 million) increase to the police budget, amounting to a total of $1.186 billion.

But in her first proposed budget, Mayor Olivia

MONTREAL — A Montreal billionaire accused of paying underage girls for sex is in poor health and must be compelled to testify before a class-action lawsuit against him is authorized, the lawyer behind the case argued Thursday.

Jeff Orenstein has asked the Quebec Superior Court for permission to question Robert Miller as soon as possible because he said he worries the 80-year-old will be dead by the time the case goes to trial.

“It’s very clear that it’s now or never, he has a

Embrace the cold with the start of DJ Skate Nights at Evergreen Brick Works or dream of summer at the Toronto International Boat Show. There is one significant TTC subway closure to keep in mind this weekend (see below).

Here are the events happening over the next two days:

Toronto International Boat Show

The Toronto International Boat Show is back for its 66th annual event. The show takes over the Enercare Centre beginning Friday afternoon until Jan. 28.

It features 500 exhibitors, the industry’s

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces on Thursday conducted a fifth strike against Iranian-backed Houthi rebel military sites in Yemen as President Joe Biden acknowledged that had yet to stop the militants’ attacks on vessels in the Red Sea that have disrupted global shipping.

The latest strikes destroyed two Houthi anti-ship missiles that “were aimed into the southern Red Sea and prepared to launch,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement posted to X, formerly known as Twitter. They were conducted by

MONTREAL — Officials in Quebec say they’ve tracked down and killed one of two escaped wild boars that have been on the loose since at least September.

The Wildlife Department says a team located the female boar in an abandoned farm building in the Yamachiche area, about 110 kilometres northeast of Montreal.

The government has been searching for the two boars ever since they were first spotted in the area on Sept. 17, and had asked the public to help track them down.

Boars in the wild are considered