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Canada expelled Indian diplomats
Canada accused the Indian government yesterday of homicide and extortion intended to silence critics of India living in Canada. Canada also expelled Sanjay Kumar Verma, India’s top diplomat, and five others, saying they were part of a vast criminal network.
India reciprocated, expelling six Canadian diplomats, including the embassy’s second-highest-ranking diplomat.
The tit-for-tat actions escalated a bitter dispute that began last year with the assassination of a prominent Sikh cleric, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in Surrey, British Columbia. The Canadian government accused India of orchestrating the killing. India maintains that the allegations are politically motivated.
Context: Canada is home to the largest Sikh community outside India, a religious minority that lives mostly in the state of Punjab, in northwestern India. India has said that some Sikhs in Canada are actively involved in a secessionist movement that seeks to carve out a Sikh homeland, known as Khalistan.
Deadly Israeli strikes hit a central hospital complex
Strikes in central Gaza overnight killed or injured dozens of Palestinians, health officials and the U.N. said yesterday.
An Israeli strike killed at least four and injured about 70 others living at a tent camp in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency reported. Israel said it was targeting a Hamas command center, which could not be independently verified. Gazans sheltering there described flames jumping from tent to tent, shrieks of agony and bodies so charred they were unrecognizable. One said it was like living a “recurring nightmare.”
A separate attack hit a school compound in central Gaza where families were sheltering in the city of Nuseirat, according to local officials, who said that at least eight bodies had been recovered. The main U.N. agency aiding Palestinians in Gaza said the facility was to have been used as a site for polio vaccinations.
Human shields: Israeli soldiers and intelligence agents have regularly forced Palestinians captured during the war to conduct life-threatening reconnaissance missions, a Times investigation found. Using captives for this purpose is illegal under Israeli and international law.
How Harris and Trump differ on a tax break for parents
With just over three weeks to go, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump both campaigned yesterday in Pennsylvania, considered the most consequential state of the race. The Harris campaign has settled on its closing message, that she is the candidate of change.
Policy: Harris and Trump both have child tax-credit plans, but their approaches are very different.
Trump sees the program mostly as a tax cut. His policy denies the full benefit to the poorest quarter of children because their parents earn too little and owe no income tax. Harris would expand the tax cuts and add a large anti-poverty plan, sending checks to millions of parents with low pay or no jobs. That would turn a tax cut into an income guarantee, in a landmark expansion of the safety net.
More on the U.S. election
Americans head to the polls in 21 days.
Harris agreed to an interview with Fox News. It’s her first formal interview with the conservative outlet and will air Wednesday at 6 p.m. Eastern.
Eleven percent of female voters nationally switched their vote from Trump to Harris after she rose to the top of the Democratic ticket, according to a new survey.
Bill Clinton has spent the past two days campaigning for Harris in a low-key swing through Georgia.
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