Israel continues strikes on Iran, including key nuclear site

BBC News has the story.

Israel's military says it is "still striking" different parts of Iran, with more than 150 targets hit in the past 24 hours.

 

In Tehran, missiles and air defence systems were among the targets, she adds, while a nuclear site in Isfahan was also hit. 

 

Iranian state media reports 60 people were killed in one strike in Tehran, 20 of whom were children.

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country will strike "every site and every target of the ayatollah regime" in Iran.

 

At least two people have been killed in Israel after an Iranian missile, as part of retaliatory strikes, destroyed several homes in Rishon LeZion outside Tel Aviv.

Death toll rises as Iran launches attacks on Israel

9 News Australia has the story.

Iran and Israel are exchanging missiles targeted at major cities in both countries.

US border officials say additional checks of Canada-bound vehicles are here to stay

Global News has the story.

U.S. border officials told Global News that outbound searches of vehicles heading north into Canada are now the norm and will be happening indefinitely.

Global News was given a behind-the-scenes tour of operations at the Blaine border crossing on Thursday and attended more than five hours of presentations from the port director, agriculture specialist and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services.

U.S. officials say that while the majority of Canadians heading north are bringing back the usual gas and groceries, on May 1, they stepped up vehicle searches for drug smuggling and human trafficking.

Global's Angela Jung reports.

Air India crash: Investigators recover black box as families wait for answers

Global News has the story.

Indian authorities have recovered the crucial flight recorder from Air India Flight 171, which crashed on Thursday in Ahmedabad. 

India’s civil aviation minister said Friday the black box recovery marks a crucial step forward in the investigation.

The crash killed 241 people on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and another 78 people were killed when the plane hit a medical school dorm. 

Nathaniel Dove has more on what the black box could tell us about the crash.

Sole survivor of Air India crash speaks out: “I don’t know how I survived”

Global News has the story.

Ramesh Viswashkumar, the sole survivor of Air India’s Flight 171 – which fatally crashed into a building in Ahmedabad on Thursday – has spoken out, sharing his harrowing experience escaping the wreckage of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.

 

“I don’t [know] how I survived,” Viswashkumar told a reporter from his hospital bed Friday. “It was in front of my eyes that the air hostess and others [died]," he added.

 

Viswashkumar said the portion of the plane he was in landed on the ground of the medical college hostel the aircraft hit. He said the side of the plane he was on had a “little space” which he was able to escape from, further noting that if anyone on the other side of the plan had survived, they would not have been able to escape.

 

The crash killed 241 people on board, including a Canadian dentist from Mississauga, Ont.

Air India flight crashes with over 240 on board Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Global News has the story.

An Air India flight headed to London’s Gatwick Airport with 242 passengers on board crashed into a hostel associated with a medical college in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday. The crash took place five minutes after takeoff. Officials said there were no survivors but reports are emerging of a lone survivor. 

 

On board the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner included 168 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian.

  

Footage captured parts of the plane's body, luggage and debris scattered around the impacted building – as well as smoldering vehicles nearby. The tail of the plane was left embedded into the dining room at B.J. Medical College and Civil Hospital.

Canada's new house speaker elected, asks for "a little grace period"

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Canadian members of Parliament elected Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia as the House of Commons Speaker as their first order of business following the return of Parliament Monday.

 

Scarpaleggia was dragged to the front of the House of Commons by Prime Minister Mark Carney and interim Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer as part of the tradition when a new Speaker is named.

 

Scarpaleggia was up against five other Liberal colleagues, after Conservative MPs John Nater and Chris d’Entremont, the latter who served as former deputy Speaker in the last Parliament, withdrew their names from consideration.

 

“I would remind members that we are at the beginning of a mandate in the selfish hope that you will afford me a little grace period,” Scarpaleggia, an MP from the Montreal area, said. “I have few words because well, we all have things we want to accomplish and we’ve been away.”