For Seattle-area shoppers watching the systematic dismemberment of Bartell Drugs and its bankrupt parent Rite Aid, the math has been pretty discouraging.

A CNN investigation into a deadly incident near an aid distribution site in southern Gaza on Sunday points to the Israeli military opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to make their way to the fenced enclosure to get food.

Contraceptives that could help prevent millions of unwanted pregnancies in some of the world’s poorest countries are stuck in warehouses because of U.S. aid cuts and could be destroyed, two aid industry sources and one former government official said.

Aid organizations have been in talks about taking control of the contraceptives and HIV prevention medication, but those negotiations have stalled amid shifting directives from the government, a Post examination found.

The distribution of aid from a controversial new US- and Israel-backed organization into Gaza was paused for 24 hours on Wednesday after Palestinians en route to a distribution site came under fire for three straight days,

Fire departments in southern Manitoba are answering the call to help northern communities, including Flin Flon, Lynn Lake and Pimicikamak Cree Nation, save their homes and lands.

Thank-you notes from customers are taped to the front window at one local store. The show of appreciation brought an assistant manager to tears.

Doctors in the Gaza Strip are donating their own blood to save their patients after scores of Palestinians were gunned down while trying to get food aid, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday.