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Changes come as Justin Trudeau's Liberals face drop in public support amid housing crisis, rising cost of living.

Court agrees to hear an appeal against law limiting its powers passed this week, but hearing won't be until September.

More than 50 pilot whales from a pod of almost 100, died after stranding themselves on a beach in Western Australia.

JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken a hit in the polls over a judicial law his hard-right coalition has championed, deepening a crisis that has shaken Israelis, seeped into the military, bruised the economy and dismayed Washington. Surveys published late on Tuesday by two main Israeli news broadcasters showed that if an election was held now, the number of seats held by Netanyahu’s governing coalition in the 120-seat Knesset would fall from 64 to 52 or 53.

Ministries next to the presidential palace have also been blocked off, according to Reuters news agency.

The West African bloc is to discuss strengthening a regional standby force to tackle insecurity and threats of coups.

Blinken, who is in Tonga to dedicate a new embassy, is the first US Secretary of State to visit the Pacific nation.