The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/24 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/24 at 07:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Nurekhorane. A deadly explosion in Moscow has killed two police officers and a bystander. It's the second bombing in the same neighborhood this week. That blast killed a high-ranking Russian general days earlier. The CBC's John Northcott has more from London. This latest incident happening in a mixed residential area with apartment

blocks and industrial buildings. Early this morning, police officers approached a man they deemed to be suspicious near some parked cars, not far from a police station. A bomb went off, killing three people. There's no official word, but Russian telegram news channels are quoted as saying one of the dead was the bomber. What isn't known at this time is whether the police officers were the intended targets or whether they may have interrupted an operation that might ultimately have been meant for someone else. This latest explosion happening very close to a car bomb explosion on Monday that killed a senior Russian military commander, so close, in fact, that some witnesses to today's explosion heard both.

Monday's attack killed Russian Lieutenant General Fenil Salverup, the third Russian general killed in the last 12 months. Russian authorities have pointed the finger of blame at Ukrainian intelligence services for the attacks. John Northcott, CBC News, London. Australia's state of New South Wales has passed tougher gun laws. They come 10 days after 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.

The new law bans firearms that allow multiple shots without reloading as well as limit the number of individual gun licenses a person can own. Chris Minns is the Premier of New South Wales. We know it's our responsibility to do everything we can to keep the people of New South Wales safe and that means further change in the new year. We've given a commitment to that. We're currently looking at other areas of the law

that are urgently required to confront hate speech. New laws allowing police to restrict protests for up to three months after a terror attack were also passed. Several groups say they will be filing a constitutional challenge to those laws. The Quebec government says it will not be giving out a second round of previously promised grants. Non-profit organizations who rely on grants accuse the province of bailing on its obligations. As Sarah Levitt reports, charitable agencies say they are already struggling to help those in need. Now, that was pretty extremely surprising.

Philippe Dengier says he was shocked when he learned the Quebec government wasn't going to follow through with its contract with his organization. The director of Montreal's Center for International Studies and Cooperation says the decision is disheartening. The government decided it would not be providing the second installment of grant funding to nine organizations, NGOs involved in causes like humanitarian aid. The only other government that we know has done something like that is, or the Trump administration in the U.S.

Dengier says for his center, it's the matter of about $300,000, all for a project helping indigenous women in Guatemala. The government explained in a statement it's a question of budget restraints and only nine of 28 organizations are affected. The organizations hope the government hears their pleas and reverses the decision in the new year. Sarah Levitt's CBC News, Montreal. Global Affairs Canada says it strongly condemns Israel's decision

to approve new settlements in the occupied West Bank. 19 settlements were announced yesterday, while overnight there was another attack on a Palestinian home in the south of the territory. Police arrested five Israeli settlers. Officials say they smashed a door and a window, fired tear gas into the home, and killed livestock. Two people are dead after a fire and explosion

at a nursing home in Philadelphia. Another 20 are in hospital. Video taken at the scene shows flames shooting out side of the building. Willie Tye lives nearby. I was sitting at home watching basketball game. I thought the airplane or something fell on my house. I heard a loud kaboon. And my wife said, whoa, you hear that? I said, yeah, I heard it, huh? So I went in the back of my house. Something didn't fall on my patio. And the kitchen explode back there. A gas leak is the suspected cause. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Newark Horeen.

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