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Canadian News

CBC News
Elections Canada announces record turnout on 1st day of advance voting

The Guardian
Dramatic rise in fake political content on social media as Canada prepares to vote

The Canadian Press
Canada in robot trucking vanguard, with one driverless eighteen-wheeler

CBC News
In Italy, King Charles offers 'a surprisingly explicit show of support' for Canada

CBC News
Poilievre dodges questions about repealing national handgun ban

Canadian Commentary

Lisa Kerr | The Globe and Mail
Separating rhetoric from reality in the Conservative crime platform

Alexander Panetta | CBC News
An American constitutional crisis brews in a Central American prison

Mark Gollom | CBC News
Trump is demanding universities change policies or face defunding. Would Poilievre do the same?

Shannon Proudfoot | The Globe and Mail
In Niagara Falls, Mark Carney stares down Hurricane Trump

Michael Coren | The Globe and Mail
As a priest, here’s what I’d say to Donald Trump on Easter

Andrew Richter | National Post
Iran's nuclear ambitions could soon lead it straight into war

Aisha Ahmad | The Conversation
How could Canada deter an invasion?

International News

CBS News
Arlington grave of Jewish soldier gets headstone with Star of David

ABC News
Naval Academy cancels speech by podcaster Ryan Holiday - More

BBC News
DHL suspends high value US deliveries over tariffs

The Associated Press
Some Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump are now embraced as heroes and candidates for office

Irish Star
Donald Trump celebrates Easter with Truth Social message

The Associated Press
Countries shore up their digital defenses

The Associated Press
15 years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill, lawsuits stall and restoration is incomplete

NPR News
The Justice Department is about to make its case for a Google breakup

The Associated Press
A prince and knight fall in love and the Supreme Court is asked to intervene

BBC News
VE day event planned for coastal WW2 battery

BBC News
RAF Typhoons intercept Russian aircraft near NATO airspace

BBC News
One WW2 Spitfire engine's 'fascinating story

BBC News
King and Queen attend Easter Sunday church service

BBC News
Pope wishes worshippers Happy Easter - More

The Observer
Orbán’s stance on Ukraine pushes Hungary to brink in EU relations

The Observer
How KGB’s fake westerners infiltrated the Prague Spring

BBC News
Santorini: Could an almighty eruption destroy a dreamy Greek island?

The Associated Press
JD Vance meets Pope Francis on Easter Sunday - More

The Associated Press
Belarus hurls dozens of independent journalists into harsh prisons

BBC News
Australian captured while fighting for Ukraine charged as mercenary

BBC News
Attacks continue despite Putin's 'Easter truce' pledge - More

Reuters News Agency
Tunisian court hands prison sentences of up to 66 years in mass trial of regime opponents

BBC News
DR Congo bans ex-president's party over alleged rebel links

BBC News
'Professional failures' led to killing of Gaza medics, IDF inquiry reveals

The Guardian
TikTok trend for ‘Dubai chocolate’ causes international shortage of pistachios - More

Agence France-Presse
Réunion Island hospital calls for reinforcements amid chikungunya virus outbreak

BBC News
A death every three minutes: Why India's roads are among the world's deadliest

CBC News
Japan sees an unprecedented travel boom

BBC News
Gunmen shoot 12 dead at Ecuador cockfight

BBC News
El Salvador offers Venezuela prisoner swap involving US deportees

The Associated Press
Today in History: 07 May

Mo Rocco | CBS News
The birth of the American Revolution

This Day in Aviation
07 May

International Commentary

Rob Schmitz | NPR News
How to dismantle democracy: Lessons aspiring autocrats may take from Viktor Orbán

Carole Cadwalladr | The Observer
It’s not too late to stop Trump and the tech broligarchy from controlling our lives

Stephen Marche | The Guardian
The America I loved is gone

Anthea Butler | MSNBC News
Why you should pray your Easter Sunday worship isn’t interrupted by I.C.E.

Robin McKie | The Observer
Melting glaciers will harm us all. Yet still we watch, unmoved.

Helen Thomson | The Observer
‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’

Ariel Dorfman | The Guardian
The Nobel Peace Prize is just the start: 16 imagined victories for Donald Trump