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After a bombing leveled the Iranian consular annex in Damascus, social media users claimed the nearby Canadian embassy was evacuated because it knew about the strike beforehand. This is false; the embassy suspended operations in Syria in 2012 -- and Global Affairs Canada told AFP there were no diplomats present at the time of the strike , which Iran has blamed on Israel .
The federal government is offering advice to Canadians in Taiwan, where a major earthquake killed at least nine people.
A Canadian father is shell shocked after learning his 24-year-old daughter was killed in Scotland and her boyfriend has been charged with murder. According to Scottish police, Claire Leveque was killed in the Sandness area of the Shetland Islands, a remote archipelago.
Mansour Shoumnan was living in Gaza with his family before the war as a Palestinian-Canadian, his family fear he has been detained or killed by the IDF.
Mansour Shouman was last heard from last Sunday around 4 p.m., Zaheera Soomar said.