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Apr 17, 2026
The historical fiction novel won in a 4-1 vote on the final day of the great Canadian book debate.
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Apr 17, 2026
Sexual assault charges against a self-styled spiritual leader and his wife in the Edmonton area have been stayed.
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Apr 17, 2026
Calls are growing for Keir Starmer to resign after it was revealed that Peter Mandelson, who was a close friend to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, failed a security vetting process but was appointed as the U.K's ambassador to the U. S. anyway.
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Apr 17, 2026
Alberta has mandated a goal to restore the Montana-Alberta intertie to full capacity, whenever reasonable, potentially providing some relief to a trade irritant cited by U.S. President Donald Trump's top trade representative last year.
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Apr 17, 2026
Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is planning to depart at the end of next month. Lyons's boss Markwayne Mullin at the Department of Homeland Security says he hopes that the Trump administration can carry out deportations "in a more quiet way," after several deaths and a drumbeat of negative media coverage.
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Apr 17, 2026
The Liberal government's groceries benefit and GST top-up announced in January will begin landing in Canadians' bank accounts in June.
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Apr 17, 2026
S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq all climbed shortly after open, as stocks run toward the finish of a third straight week of big gains. Brent crude oil, the international standard, dropped to $89.13 US a barrel — still higher than the $70 before the Iran war, but lower than it has been in recent weeks.
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Apr 17, 2026
S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq all climbed in morning trading, as stocks run toward the finish of a third straight week of big gains. Brent crude oil, the international standard, dropped to about $86 US a barrel — still higher than the $70 before the Iran war, but lower than it has been in recent weeks.
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Apr 17, 2026
Forge FC midfielder Kyle Bekker gathered recently with teammates to inform them about his recent absence from the Canadian Premier League club. "I had surgery four weeks ago [this past] Monday to remove a tumour after being diagnosed with testicular cancer," Bekker revealed Thursday to CBC Sports.
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Apr 17, 2026
The provincial government has purchased a pre-owned private jet for $28.9 million to be used by Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
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Apr 17, 2026
Toronto police said one person has been arrested for impaired driving after a supercar crashed and was stuck propped up against a wall outside Casa Loma.
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Apr 17, 2026
A B.C. developer who has already risked jail time for failing to come clean about the finances behind her lavish lifestyle now faces a possible bankruptcy order over a $74-million loan she guaranteed in relation to prime property in the heart of Vancouver's Cambie Corridor.
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Apr 17, 2026
Veteran operative Stephen Carter wants to change the small party into a big referendum advertiser. He may change its name, too.
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Apr 17, 2026
Police say something "went wrong" when a youth managed to get a gun into a cell at the Thompson RCMP detachment after a search failed to find it on him. The incident happened in 2024. Cleaning staff found the gun behind a toilet two days later, and ammunition was later found in the toilet bowl.
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Apr 17, 2026
Lee Cronin's The Mummy, a needlessly mean-spirited horror flick that's barely about mummies, may have you asking a million questions. And before you even get to the plot-related ones, the most obvious is: what's with that title?
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Apr 17, 2026
Captain Antoine Forest, who died in a plane crash at New York's LaGuardia airport last month, is being remembered Friday in his hometown of Coteau-du-Lac, Que.
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Apr 17, 2026
Captain Antoine Forest, who died in a plane crash at New York's LaGuardia airport last month, will be remembered later today in his hometown of Coteau-du-Lac, Que.
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Apr 17, 2026
Canada's Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he has significant concerns with the way the provinces are overriding Charter rights by invoking the notwithstanding clause, and he's prepared to establish guardrails around its use as the document turns 44.
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Apr 17, 2026
Several workers for a Canadian-owned Mexican gold mine received no response after making complaints to the company's workplace ethics hotline saying that local management was working with a prominent organized crime group to force out the existing union, according to two former local union members.
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Apr 17, 2026
A long-standing Toronto business has made the difficult decision to close its doors. The Patrician Grill, located on King Street East, was built in the 1950s and has been a family-owned restaurant since 1967. The cozy diner has been serving authentic homemade food to the business crowd, George Brown students and local residents for decades.
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Apr 17, 2026
An unusually large troop of chimpanzees displayed cooperation and social cohesion for decades, until something shifted and they started to turn on each other.
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Apr 17, 2026
Two Hamilton teens are wondering why the city's plan to build one much needed basketball court in Gage Park is going to take 25 years.
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Apr 17, 2026
In Montreal, a young woman in a Spin magazine T-shirt stares furiously at the blank page on her 2011 MacBook. It's a moment from the new movie Mile End Kicks that could have been ripped from director Chandler Levack's own life, when the former critic traded Toronto for Montreal's exploding music scene. Mile End Kicks is one of two movies from Levack opening on Friday.
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Apr 16, 2026
Kristina Whitlock tells The National about the moment she and her neighbours banded together to rescue an abandoned black bear cub in Maple Ridge, B.C.
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Apr 16, 2026
U.S. singer D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of killing a 14-year-old girl whose decomposed body was found last year in an apparently abandoned Tesla that was registered to him and towed from the Hollywood Hills, police said Thursday.
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Apr 16, 2026
Jeremy Hansen sat down with CBC News to share some of his insights, like how he felt during lift-off, the joy the mission brought him, and that one time he accidentally let a water bag explode in the capsule.
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Apr 16, 2026
"No mayor should treat staff in this manner and the mayor owes these staff an unqualified apology," said external investigator Reece Harding in the report about Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson, dated February 2026.
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Apr 16, 2026
Growing its fan base in New York and adding more teams are key parts of the league's drive to get a coveted national U.S. broadcast rights deal.
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Apr 16, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump railed against a federal judge's decision on Thursday that continues to block above-ground construction of a $400-million US White House ballroom, allowing only below-ground work on a bunker and other "national security facilities" at the site.
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Apr 16, 2026
The video played in Corner Brook Supreme Court, a four-plus hour long conversation, was started on Thursday afternoon.
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Apr 16, 2026
It was the fans versus the referees in a tense and at times chaotic Western Hockey League playoff game in Prince George Wednesday night.
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Apr 16, 2026
It was the fans versus the referees in a tense and at times chaotic Western Hockey League playoff game in Prince George, B.C., Wednesday night.
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Apr 16, 2026
Netflix chair Reed Hastings is leaving the streaming service he co-founded 29 years ago as the company regains its footing after it lost its $72-billion US deal for Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Apr 16, 2026
Montreal Metro announcements are getting a bleu-blanc-rouge twist during the Montreal Canadiens' playoff run.
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Apr 16, 2026
The filmmakers behind As Deep as the Grave, the indie film that is using an artificial intelligence-rendered version of Val Kilmer in a prominent role, debuted a first look at the recreated actor Wednesday at CinemaCon in Las Vegas.
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Apr 16, 2026
The former CEO of Alberta Health Services is asking a judge for legal protection and a contempt finding against two podcasters she alleges have run a campaign of harassment and intimidation against her in response to her ongoing legal action.
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Apr 16, 2026
In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at how AI could help protect important ecosystems; get an update on offshore wind in the U.S.; and find out why Parks Canada is connecting with social media influencers.
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Apr 16, 2026
The Saskatchewan Roughriders have kicked receiver Ajou Ajou off the team after the CFL concluded he made 'aggressive and unwelcome physical contact' with multiple women at a Regina restaurant on the day of the Riders' Grey Cup parade last November.
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Apr 16, 2026
An activist based in Surrey, B.C., who was a friend and associate of the assassinated pro-Khalistan advocate Hardeep Singh Nijjar, says he has been warned by police that he could be in serious danger.
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Apr 16, 2026
Virginia police said Thursday that Justin Fairfax, the state's former lieutenant governor, shot and killed his wife Cerina and then fatally shot himself.
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Apr 16, 2026
Virginia police said Thursday that Justin Fairfax, the state's former lieutenant governor, shot and killed his wife Cerina and then fatally shot himself.
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Apr 16, 2026
Montreal's largest school board has lost more than 100 support staff because they refused to remove religious symbols to comply with the province's new secularism law.
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Apr 16, 2026
An Israeli strike destroyed the last bridge over the Litani River into Lebanon's south, according to a senior Lebanese security source, fully severing almost a tenth of Lebanon from the rest of the country, after Israel destroyed other crossings during the war.
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Apr 16, 2026
The New York Islanders are facing questions about a promotion urging hockey fans to donate to a former New York City police sergeant who was recently convicted of manslaughter for hurling a cooler of ice at a man fleeing arrest.
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Apr 16, 2026
More than 60 victims of sexual abuse by clergy from what is now the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth are still waiting to be paid from a settlement that was approved in November 2022. Some are growing frustrated with the delays and what they view as a lack of information.
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Apr 16, 2026
Canadian Real Estate Association has downgraded its housing market forecast following a jump in fixed mortgage rates and weaker than expected housing sales in the first three months of 2026. CREA had been forecasting higher sales, based on the idea that pent-up demand would emerge, especially from first-time buyers.
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Apr 16, 2026
More than 60 victims of sexual abuse by clergy from what is now the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth are still waiting to be paid from a settlement that was approved in November 2022. Some are growing frustrated with the delays and what they view as a lack of information.
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Apr 16, 2026
While war in the Middle East stretches past the six-week mark and fuel prices have more than doubled, costs are starting to be passed onto consumers. One industry seeing the swift impacts of this is about to hit peak season: air travel.
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Apr 16, 2026
A veteran military police officer is suing Ottawa and SIG Sauer after a holstered C-22 allegedly discharged without a trigger pull, ending his career. The case undercuts defence claims of a clean rollout and reopens scrutiny of a pistol platform tied to hundreds of disputed U.S. incidents and prior warnings.
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Apr 16, 2026
After flying 406,771 kilometres around the moon — the farthest any humans have ever been — Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch are ready to share more of their experiences with the public. CBC will have live coverage of today's news conference as they take questions from the media at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, at 2:30 p.m. ET.
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Apr 16, 2026
U.S. court documents reviewed by CBC News provide a rare glimpse into a cross-border pipeline for crime guns. A former trucker from Florida has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after smuggling handguns into Canada that were later recovered at 10 crime scenes in Ontario and Quebec.
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Apr 16, 2026
Striking new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows hospitalization rates for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases more than doubled in 2024, compared to pre-pandemic levels, all while vaccination rates are backsliding.
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Apr 15, 2026
Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with missiles early Thursday, killing a child, injuring several people — including emergency crew members — and damaging buildings, according to the city's mayor.
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Apr 15, 2026
Russia unleashed its deadliest attack so far this year on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities overnight, killing 16 people, including a 12-year-old child, and wounding scores, in drone and missile strikes, officials said on Thursday.y.
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Apr 15, 2026
An Imperial Oil pipeline spilled 843,000 litres of bitumen emulsion northwest of Cold Lake, Alta., last week. In a statement, Imperial Oil apologized for the spill, which has been stopped and contained.
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Apr 15, 2026
April 15, 2026 | Iran threatens to expand its shipping blockade from the Strait of Hormuz to the Red Sea. A jury finds Ticketmaster and Live Nation held an illegal monopoly on ticket sales. And the growing concern over ultrafine particle pollutants.
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Apr 15, 2026
The autonomous taxi operator Waymo appears to be taking steps to break into the Canadian market, eyeing Toronto as a new testing ground for its self-driving fleet. But it may face technological, political and environmental roadblocks — including the harsh reality of Canadian winters — as it seeks to expand north.
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Apr 15, 2026
After performing during the first weekend of Coachella, Ukrainian-Canadian performer DJ Rezz has cancelled her second weekend set at the California music festival, citing issues with her health.
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Apr 15, 2026
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said she spoke with her Lebanese counterpart on Tuesday to express condolences on the killing of a Canadian citizen in the country last week, but declined to sanction Israel, which his family blames for the death.
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Apr 15, 2026
With the busy travel season approaching, a data breach at Booking.com is leading to warnings about phishing scams known as "reservation hijacking."
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Apr 15, 2026
A relatively low supply of lobsters and increased demand with the removal of international trade barriers are pointing to better prices, the executive director of the Maritime Fishermen's Union told The Canadian Press.
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Apr 15, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues' use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration, calling the orders "scratch-paper musings" that can have a "potentially corrosive" effect.
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Apr 15, 2026
Etsy has announced it's banning the sale of fur items on the site in August. The Fur Institute of Canada warns the move will hit Indigenous artisans hardest, who often rely on the site as a major source of income.
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Apr 15, 2026
A Cree Walking Out ceremony on Parliament Hill on Wednesday morning at sunrise, arranged by Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty, was both a celebration and a learning opportunity for members of Parliament, she said, about the vibrant present and future of Indigenous cultures.
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Apr 15, 2026
Health Canada has approved the first needle-free epinephrine treatment for severe allergic reactions: a nasal spray called Neffy.
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Apr 15, 2026
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said in a news release the officer, Const. Andrew Lawson from the Toronto Police Service, was charged with manslaughter.
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Apr 15, 2026
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said in a news release the officer, Const. Andrew Lawson from the Toronto Police Service, was charged with manslaughter.
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Apr 15, 2026
There's growing concern about a new category of unregulated airborne pollutants, so tiny they can pass through the lungs and into the bloodstream. For The National, CBC's Ashley Fraser explains ultrafine particles (UFPs) and why scientists say they have the potential to cause major health problems.
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Apr 15, 2026
Niagara Falls, Ont., Coun. Mike Strange has been found not guilty of domestic assault, a judge in St. Catharines has decided.
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Apr 15, 2026
In just under two years after CBC Sports first broke the news that the WNBA was coming to Toronto, and less than a month after the league and players agreed on a new collective bargaining, the Tempo are no longer just an idea. Now, they are a team.
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Apr 15, 2026
Andrew Chang explains what's keeping the U.S. and Iran from reaching a peace agreement following six weeks of ongoing war and a recent marathon negotiating session in Pakistan.
Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images
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Apr 15, 2026
A Russian court has fined a local news agency and one of its directors thousands of dollars for a review it posted on the smash hit series Heated Rivalry, which the Russian government considers LGBTQ propaganda.
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Apr 15, 2026
The Artemis II astronauts made many mind-blowing images during their historic lunar mission earlier this month. They have two NASA trainers to thank for equipping them with tried-and-true digital SLR cameras and sharing their photo skills.
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Apr 15, 2026
A Parisian art enthusiast could not believe his luck when he found out Tuesday he'd won a Pablo Picasso painting worth more than $1 million in a raffle.
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Apr 15, 2026
Petty Officer 2nd Class Gregory Applin of Shoal Cove West, N.L., died after he was thrown into frigid water when an inflatable boat hit an unlit buoy.
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Apr 15, 2026
Once promised as a free way for Torontonians and visitors to take part in one of the world's largest sporting events, the city is now looking to charge for tickets to the 2026 FIFA World Cup fan festival.
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Apr 15, 2026
The federal NDP is introducing a motion on Wednesday to ban so-called surveillance pricing, where personal data is used to offer individual customers or groups of people different prices than others. While finding specific examples is difficult, critics argue it's a serious problem.
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Apr 15, 2026
Three years on from the outbreak of war in Sudan in April 2023, the country is in the grip of what the United Nations calls the world's worst displacement crisis, with more than 11 million people forced from their homes.
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Apr 15, 2026
Three years on from the outbreak of war in Sudan in April 2023, the country is in the grip of what the United Nations calls the world's worst displacement crisis, with more than 11 million people forced from their homes.
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Apr 15, 2026
Canada has announced more than $120 million in humanitarian and development assistance to help people in Sudan and its neighbours as the civil war in that country marks its third anniversary.
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Apr 15, 2026
British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves was not backing away from her criticism of the Iran war as "folly," even as she prepared to meet Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other U.S. officials in Washington on Wednesday.
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Apr 15, 2026
British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves was not backing away from her criticism of the Iran war as "folly," even as she prepared to meet Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other U.S. officials in Washington on Wednesday.
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Apr 15, 2026
A student opened fire on two classrooms at a middle school in Turkey on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13 others, the interior minister said, in the country's second such shooting in two days.
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Apr 15, 2026
A student opened fire randomly at two classrooms at a middle school in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, killing four people and wounding 20 others, an official said, in the second such shooting in the country in two days.
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Apr 15, 2026
Israel has often struck alleged Hezbollah militants or officials in their homes without warning, frequently in areas far from the front line when they are with their families, in apartment buildings surrounded by uninvolved neighbours.
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Apr 15, 2026
It has been just four years since Christine Fréchette took office with the Coalition Avenir Québec. On Wednesday afternoon, she was sworn in as the province's 33rd premier. Here's a look at how she got here.
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Apr 15, 2026
It has been just four years since Christine Fréchette took office with the Coalition Avenir Québec. This afternoon, she will be sworn in as the province's 33rd premier. Here's a look at how she got here.
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Apr 15, 2026
At least 250 people, including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals, were missing after a boat capsized in the Andaman Sea recently on the way to Malaysia, according to the United Nations' refugee and migration agencies.
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