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Canadian News

CBC News
Four federal leaders square off in the first of two debates - More

CBC News
Carney faces jabs from all sides at French-language debate

CBC News
U.S. tourism hot spots mourn Canadian travel cancellations

CBC News
Air Canada flight from Las Vegas to Toronto makes emergency landing

Canadian Commentary

Richard Shimooka | The Hub
Switching from the American to the European defence market sounds good, but

International News

NBC News
Sen. Chris Van Hollen meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia

NBC News
Appeals court rejects Trump request in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case

Air Force Times
WWI Museum resurrects Great War participants in new high-tech exhibit

The Associated Press
Trump says he’s in ‘no rush’ to end tariffs

The Daily Beast
Lisa Murkowski admits She Lives in Fear Under Trump: ‘We’re All Afraid’

NBC News
Florida State University; Two dead, sheriff’s deputy’s son in custody/a> - More - More

NBC News
American doctor receives email from DHS telling her to leave the country immediately

The Daily Beast
Kristi Noem Joins Harvard War With Threat to Foreign Students

NBC News
SCOTUS to hear arguments on whether Trump can implement plan banning birthright citizenship

The Daily Beast
Biden Drops Ice Cream and Confuses Countries in Secret Harvard Speech

BBC News
Man deported to El Salvador will never live in US, says White House

CBS News
U.K. touts successful test of new radio wave weapon to take down "swarms of drones"

BBC News
UK bans EU cheese and meat to stop FMD spreading

CBS News
RMS Titanic victims' pocket watch, letter and ticket among items going on sale in U.K.

France 24
Marco Rubio to hold Ukraine talks with Macron in Paris - More

BBC News
Four dead in cable car crash south of Naples

Agence France-Presse
Russia drone strike kills at least three in Ukraine’s Dnipro

BBC News
Retired Lt. Gen. Vadim Shamarin jailed for seven years over bribes

France 24
Bulgarian mortar shells in Darfur’s desert

France 24
Autopsies reveal Gaza medics shot in head and chest

France 24
Iran 'not far' from nuclear bomb, IAEA chief warns

CBC News
The U.S.-China trade war is escalating

BBC News
China curbing rare earth exports in a blow to the US

BBC News
Colombia declares health emergency after dozens die of yellow fever

BBC News
Smugglers' paradise: How US guns flow to gang-ravaged Haiti

The Associated Press
Much of Puerto Rico still without power after island-wide blackout

The Associated Press
Today in History: 09 May

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Book Reviews

Agence France-Presse
Book claims Vatican knew of abuse allegations against Abbé Pierre since the 1950s