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May 3, 2025
Hunger and malnutrition are rising across Gaza as Israel’s blockade leaves mothers with few options
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The little boy is in tears and, understandably, irritable. Diarrhea has plagued him for half of his brief lif...
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May 3, 2025
Man rushed to hospital with serious injuries after stabbing in downtown Toronto
Just after 12:50 p.m., police responded to reports of a stabbing near College Street and Augusta Avenue, officers said.
The Toronto Star
May 3, 2025
Man rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries after stabbing in downtown Toronto
Just after 12:50 p.m., police responded to reports of a stabbing near College Street and Augusta Avenue, officers said.
The Toronto Star
May 3, 2025
Man seriously injured after daylight stabbing in downtown Toronto
A man in his 20s was stabbed near College Street and Augusta Avenue Saturday afternoon. A store clerk helped the victim until paramedics arr...
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May 3, 2025
Manitoba warns of new measles exposure sites south of Winnipeg
WINKLER - Public health officials in Manitoba are warning of new measles exposure sites in two communities south of Winnipeg, including a me...
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May 3, 2025
Olympian charged in Florida with battery on female fellow athlete
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — An Olympic track medalist is charged in Florida with punching a woman, a hurdler who also competed in the Olymp...
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May 3, 2025
A meteor shower will peak over Toronto skies early Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know about the ‘shooting stars’
The annual meteor shower is composed of debris from Halley’s Comet as they burn up on entry to Earth’s atmosphere.
The Toronto Star
May 3, 2025
A meteor shower will peak over Toronto skies early Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know about the ‘shooting stars’
The annual meteor shower is composed of debris from Halley’s Comet as they burn up on entry to Earth’s atmosphere.
The Toronto Star
May 3, 2025
Syria detains Damascus-based leader of prominent Palestinian faction
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria on Saturday detained a prominent Damascus-based Palestinian official whose group was close to the government of ousted p...
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May 3, 2025
Gabon swears in former military chief as president, signalling return to constitutional order
LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema was sworn in as the fourth president of the Republic of Gabon on Saturday, signalling a re...
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May 3, 2025
A Turkish politician at the center of efforts to end 40-year Kurdish conflict dies at 62
ISTANBUL (AP) — Sirri Sureyya Onder, a key figure in Turkey’s latest effort to end the four-decade Kurdish conflict, died Saturday. He was 6...
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May 3, 2025
Man whose son was killed by Cincinnati police now charged in death of deputy
CINCINNATI (AP) — A man who struck and killed a county deputy with his car on Friday is the father of a teenager who was shot and killed by...
The Toronto Star
May 3, 2025
Man charged in deputy’s death was the father of teen shot by Cincinnati police, authorities say
CINCINNATI (AP) — A man who struck and killed a county deputy with his car on Friday is the father of a teenager who was shot and killed by...
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May 3, 2025
Police make arrest in Hamilton downtown mosque stabbing that injured 3 people
A man was arrested on the Mountain by police Friday night, hours after three people were injured in stabbing at Hamilton Downtown Mosque and...
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May 3, 2025
Police make arrest in downtown mosque stabbing that injured 3 people
A man was arrested on the Mountain by police Friday night, hours after three people were injured in stabbing at Hamilton Downtown Mosque and...
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May 3, 2025
Yemen’s internationally recognized prime minister says he is resigning over a political dispute
CAIRO (AP) — The prime minister of Yemen ’s internationally recognized government said Saturday he was resigning and cited political struggl...
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May 3, 2025
Yemen’s internationally recognized prime minister resigns over a political dispute
CAIRO (AP) — The prime minister of Yemen ’s internationally recognized government said Saturday he was resigning due to political struggles,...
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May 3, 2025
Indigenous activists see Trump’s Columbus Day rhetoric as cause for continued advocacy
This week, President Donald Trump announced he won't recognize Indigenous Peoples Day and will bring Columbus Day “back from the ashes” — an...
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May 3, 2025
Witnesses and aid groups report looting in Gaza after two months of Israeli blockade
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Warehouses in northern Gaza have been looted, including by armed groups, as desperation for aid spikes after more th...
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May 3, 2025
Witnesses and aid groups report a surge in looting in desperate Gaza
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Armed groups and others have looted warehouses of supplies in northern Gaza as desperation spikes after more than tw...
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May 3, 2025
Witnesses and aid groups report looting in Gaza after two months of Israel’s blockade
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Armed groups and others have looted warehouses of supplies in northern Gaza as desperation spikes after more than tw...
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May 3, 2025
Police in rural Nova Scotia recover body of missing kayaker from lake
EDEN LAKE - Nova Scotia RCMP say they have recovered the body of a missing youth from a lake in rural Pictou County.
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May 3, 2025
Ajax man charged after girl, 14, forcibly confined and sexually assaulted over multiple days, police say
The suspect, who was known to the victim through a mutual connection, picked her up and drove her to Hamilton, police allege.
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May 3, 2025
Crews in rural Nova Scotia continue search for two young children
LANSDOWNE STATION - Police say the search continues today for two young children who are believed to have wandered away from their home in r...
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May 3, 2025
Trump brands his opponents as ‘communists,’ a label loaded with the baggage of American history
For years, President Donald Trump blamed “communists” for his legal and political troubles. Now, the second Trump administration is deployin...
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May 3, 2025
A community rallied to share flu shot experiences. Then the government stopped the study
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Denver parents got texts during this winter’s brutal flu season with videos sharing why people in their neighborhoods...
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May 3, 2025
A family and a festival: How Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu Day tragedy unfolded
VANCOUVER - In January last year, Cirque du Soleil usher Alexander Lo made his final public post on his Facebook timeline, promoting the cir...
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May 3, 2025
International tourists killed in vehicle crash were among millions drawn to the Yellowstone area
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The deaths of six, and possibly seven, foreign nationals in a fiery van crash in eastern Idaho are a reminder that the...
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May 3, 2025
Justice Department will switch its focus on voting and prioritize Trump’s elections order, memo says
The Justice Department unit that ensures compliance with voting rights laws will switch its focus to investigating voter fraud and ensuring...
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May 3, 2025
Waltz ouster adds to tumult in Trump’s national security team but consolidates power in fewer hands
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's removal of national security adviser Mike Waltz brings further disruption to a national security...
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May 3, 2025
Small-town mayors ‘excited’ Pierre Poilievre targeting seat in rural Alberta
CALGARY - The prospective new riding for federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is home to wheat fields, dinosaur bones and Nickelback...
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May 3, 2025
Alberta’s New Democrats to vote on opting out of federal party membership
EDMONTON - Alberta’s New Democrats are set to vote today on whether or not to allow new members to opt out of joining the federal NDP.
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May 3, 2025
Singapore’s long-ruling party wins another landslide in election boost for new prime minister
SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore's long-ruling People’s Action Party won another landslide in Saturday’s general elections, extending its 66-year...
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May 3, 2025
Singapore’s long-ruling party on track to win another landslide, a sample vote count shows
SINGAPORE (AP) — A sample count of votes released by Singapore’s Election Department indicated that the long-ruling People’s Action Party ha...
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May 3, 2025
Singapore’s long-ruling party on track to win another landslide, sample vote count shows
SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore's long-ruling People’s Action Party is on track to win another landslide in Saturday’s general elections, accordi...
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May 3, 2025
UN envoy condemns intense wave of Israeli airstrikes on Syria
HARASTA, Syria (AP) — The United Nations special envoy for Syria condemned Saturday an intense wave of Israeli airstrikes as Israel said its...
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May 3, 2025
MSF condemns deadly attack on hospital in South Sudan as ‘clear violation of international law’
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — At least seven people have been killed after a hospital in a remote part of South Sudan was targeted in an aerial b...
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May 3, 2025
Attack on hospital run by Doctors Without Borders leaves at least 4 dead in South Sudan
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Doctors Without Borders said Saturday that its facility in a remote part of South Sudan was targeted in an aerial b...
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May 3, 2025
Hospital run by medical charity MSF attacked in a remote part of South Sudan. There are casualties
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The medical charity Doctors without Borders said Saturday that its facility in a remote part of South Sudan was tar...
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May 3, 2025
Serbia’s President Vucic cuts short US visit and returns home after falling ill
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic has cut short a visit to the United States and returned to Serbia after feeling...
The Toronto Star
May 3, 2025
Report: Serbia’s President Vucic cuts short US visit and returns home after falling ill
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic has cut short a visit to the United States and returned to Serbia over an unspec...
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May 3, 2025
A notorious drug gang is in the crosshairs of a French police investigation of prison attacks
PARIS (AP) — Anti-organized crime specialist investigators probing a wave of attacks on prisons and prison staff in France are looking at th...
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May 3, 2025
Thousands of Islamists rally in Bangladesh against proposed changes to women’s rights
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of supporters of an Islamist group rallied in Bangladesh's capital on Saturday to denounce proposed recom...
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May 3, 2025
‘The most honest reflection of the country’: Inside the 905 — the ridings that helped deny Mark Carney a majority
Canada's political polarization is acutely visible in the Greater Toronto Area's suburban and rural ring — a diverse and fast-growing area o...
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May 3, 2025
Early closures to hit stretch of 11 stations on TTC’s Line 1 next week
Planned track work will shut down late night service between Sheppard-Yonge and College stations.
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May 3, 2025
How Toronto’s art scene grew from ‘barren ground’ to cultural powerhouse in the 1960s
Harry Malcolmson, now in his 90s, traces Toronto’s shift from conservatism to artistic hub in his book, “Scene: How the 1960s Transformed Ca...
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May 3, 2025
Marco Rubio criticized Germany. The foreign ministry hit back
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's foreign ministry hit back at U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio after he criticized the decision to classify the Al...
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May 3, 2025
Newfoundland and Labrador Liberals to choose new leader – and premier
ST. JOHN'S - Newfoundland and Labrador's Liberals will select a new leader on Saturday after Premier Andrew Furey shocked the province in Fe...
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May 3, 2025
Newfoundland and Labrador Liberals to choose new leader – and premier
ST. JOHN'S - Newfoundland and Labrador's Liberals will select a new leader today to replace outgoing Premier Andrew Furey.
The Toronto Star
May 3, 2025