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Shock, fear grip Lebanon as Israeli attacks expand beyond Hezbollah strongholds
Mustafa Taha didn’t pick up the first call, or the second, from the foreign number that kept ringing his mobile phone Tuesday evening. It was almost time to break the daylong Ramadan fast, and he was too hungry and distracted to have a conversation...
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War spreads as Israel sends troops into Lebanon to push back Hezbollah
Israeli ground troops crossed into southern Lebanon on Tuesday, marking yet another escalation in a region- wide war that also saw the U. S. and Israel continue to pound targets in Iran. Iran countered Tuesday by hitting the U. S. embassy in Riyadh...
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Trump outlines goals of war in Iran, predicting weeks- long operation
President Donald Trump said Monday that the U. S. war with Iran is planned to last “four to five weeks” but could go “far longer,” while Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth did not rule out deploying ground troops. In their first public appearances since...
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WAR IN IRAN
■ U. S. and Israel intensify attacks after assassinating Supreme Leader Khamenei ■ Trump vows to avenge American troops killed in counteroffensive ■ Conflict swells as Tehran fires retaliatory strikes across Persian Gulf
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Trump’s tariffs have changed the global economy. Just not the way he planned
U.S. President Donald Trump returned to power promising to shatter the global economic order and restore his country’s industrial greatness. His tool of choice: tariffs. On March 4 last year, Mr. Trump hit Canada and Mexico with socalled “fentanyl...
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U. S. and Iran conclude nuclear talks with no deal as military threat looms
Iran and the United States held hours of indirect negotiations Thursday over Tehran’s nuclear program but walked away without a deal, leaving the danger of another Mideast war on the table as the U. S. has gathered a massive fleet of aircraft and...
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A CONFLICT’S COST
Zelensky strikes defiant tone on fourth anniversary of Russian invasion, asserting Putin ‘ has not broken Ukrainians’
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GLORY AND HEARTBREAK
Globe reporters reflect on the highs and lows of Milan Cortina as a sprawling and spectacular Olympics draws to a close
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What Alabama – yes, Alabama – can teach Canada about productivity
What Alabama – yes, Alabama – can teach Canada about productivity
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Canada’s women come up short, but the effort was heroic
It is ridiculous to suggest that one team of professionals could or would rope- a- dope another for an entire year. It’s not that it’s not doable. It’s that it would require an impossible level of foresight. How could one club know that the other team...
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IN A TIGHT CORNER
Team Canada survives its toughest Olympic test yet, beating Czechia 4- 3 in OT to advance to semi- finals
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GOLDEN AGAIN
Skaters Weidemann, Blondin and Maltais defend their crown – and bring Canada its third gold – in what they expect to be their last race together
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Sticking the landing: Oldham vaults to the top of the big- air podium
Skier claims her second Olympic medal – another gold for Canada Canadian freestyle skier Megan Oldham earned double redemption on a snowy Monday evening in Livigno, winning her second Olympic medal, this time in big air – and this time gold. Not only...
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Canada’s gold- medal drought, and an Olympic career, end on the moguls
After a near- perfect run, ski star Kingsbury leaves Italy on a high Canada needed that gold. So did Mikaël Kingsbury. Mr. Kingsbury, the world’s greatest freestyle skier, broke Canada’s Olympic gold- medal drought on Sunday after beating Japan’s...
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‘We’ve all lost somebody’
The tight-knit community is now struggling to understand what happened and what they can do for one another to move forward It began so quietly. So quietly, that even the closest neighbour to the house on Fellers Avenue didn’t know what terror was...
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Eight lives lost in British Columbia: Their names and stories
Abudding scientist. An aspiring artist. A keen hockey player. Tumbler Ridge, B. C., a remote mining community of 2,400 people tucked against the foothills of the Rockies, is mourning in the aftermath of a mass shooting at the town’s secondary school on...
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TRAGEDY IN TUMBLER RIDGE
◼️ Close- knit community, nation left reeling after attack at secondary school ◼️ Five students, aged 12 and 13, and educator among dead, RCMP say ◼️ Police identify shooter, report mother and stepbrother also killed
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At least 10 dead in B. C. mass shooting
Seven people killed in attack at Tumbler Ridge high school; suspect, two others at residence linked to incident also dead, RCMP say At least seven people were killed in a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B. C., on Tuesday, RCMP said. The suspected...
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NEW HEIGHTS
Megan Oldham shakes off a bumpy landing to capture bronze in freeski slopestyle, and bring Canada its second medal
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TALONS OUT
A dominant defence carries Seahawks to 29- 13 victory over Patriots, and their second Super Bowl title
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2026 WINTER OLYMPICS
Milan Cortina Games kick off with a celebration for the ages
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TORONTO POLICE CHARGED IN ORGANIZED CRIME PROBE
■ Investigation began after alleged plot to kill superintendent at correctional facility ■ Allegations include sharing information with gang members, theft and drug trafficking ■ Officers all suspended as mayor, others demand systemic changes within...
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Lacing up for her fifth Olympics, Captain Clutch keeps the fire burning
For women’s hockey legend Poulin, U. S. rivalry is as strong as ever There’s a phrase Marie- Philip Poulin dropped into conversation recently when asked about all the hockey she has played over the years. “La vie va vite.” Life goes by quickly. They...
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A TOWN IN MOURNING
Tributes across Canada and the hockey community have embraced a small Alberta town, where three junior hockey players died in a car crash trying to cross a divided highway to get to morning practice. Although most of the Southern Alberta Mustangs are...
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UNITED FRONT
Former PMs Chrétien and Harper urge Canadians to stand together, diversify trade away from U. S. to confront Trump threat
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GETTING THE SHOW ROLLING
Olivia Dean earns best new artist, while Kendrick Lamar sets a rap music record at the Grammy Awards. For full coverage, visit
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CATHERINE O’HARA
Star of two of Canada’s greatest television comedy exports died on Friday after brief illness In a 2013 issue of Vanity Fair, Canada’s Catherine O’hara took part in the magazine’s Proust Questionnaire. Asked which trait she most deplored about...
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Thrust into the Olympic spotlight, a tiny town hopes to keep its character
Historic Bormio has little desire to become Italy’s next glam destination On the morning of Sunday, Jan. 17, the square in front of the medieval Church of St. Anthony turned into a barnyard. Donkeys, horses, geese, chickens and dogs were all making a...
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‘ COMMON GROUND’
Alberta and B. C. premiers find consensus on plans for Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in talks with PM
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After the storm: Torontonians dig out from a record- breaking snowfall
Residents, crews get to work as blizzard brings city to near- standstill In Toronto’s west end, eager kids carrying toboggans took over the “dog bowl,” a steep pit in Trinity Bellwoods Park usually reserved for four- legged fun seekers. Nearby,...
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Second killing in Minneapolis brings tensions to a boil
As White House pushes baseless claims, protesters say shooting has hardened their resolve For nearly two months, Minnesota has been the target of the largest operation of U. S. President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, with 3,000 federal agents...
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The battle for America is being waged in Minnesota
As ICE raids separate families, people across the political spectrum try to figure out what comes next Trinity Lutheran church is a small, rural congregation in Sibley County, Minn., a district southwest of Minneapolis that voted more than two-thirds...
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A CAUTIOUS STEP FORWARD
Negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and U. S. to hold first trilateral talks after Zelensky, Trump tout positive meeting on peace terms
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Trump drops tariff threat, citing ‘ framework’ deal on Greenland
Details remain scarce, but NATO says agreement focuses on united effort to ensure Arctic security Leaders across Europe breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday after Donald Trump said he would drop his threat to impose new tariffs on countries that...
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Rules- based world order is over, PM warns in blunt Davos speech
Carney takes aim at U. S. disruption, economic coercion while calling on smaller countries to unite Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that middle powers must stop pretending the rules- based international order is still functioning, and instead...
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U. S. President ties Greenland threats to Nobel snub in exchange with Norwegian leader
U. S. President Donald Trump linked his aggressive stance on Greenland to last year’s decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, telling Norway’s Prime Minister that he no longer felt “an obligation to think purely of Peace,” in a text message...
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