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  1. Canada's top general is up for a senior NATO post. Will Trump get in her way?

    A woman speaks on a podium.

    Canada's Gen. Jennie Carignan faces Germany's Gen. Carsten Breuer on Saturday in a secret-ballot contest to chair NATO's Military Committee. A victory would make Carignan the first woman to hold the post and return Canada to the chair after nearly two decades, amid Ottawa's push for deeper ties with Europe.

  2. Philippines school shooting leaves 2 students, gunman dead

    Four people are shown from behind in protective vests walking toward a building described as a high school.

    Three students were killed in a school shooting in the southern Philippines on Friday, including a 16-year-old suspected gunman who turned the gun on himself, provincial officials said.

  3. Russians begin voting in parliamentary election set to cement Kremlin's power

    A woman drops a ballot in a ballot box while a person in military uniform watches.

    Russians on Friday began three days of voting in the country's first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually no opposition and is all but certain to secure the Kremlin's political dominance.

  4. UN mission finds 'grounds to believe' U.S. committed war crimes in strikes on Iranian school, sports centre

    A young child is shown running on a dirt road in front of a long banner depicting the faces of people, with rubble in the background.

    A United Nations fact-finding mission on Iran said on Thursday it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school ‌and sports facility in Iran in February and that these constituted war crimes.

  5. 'Blood is on our hands': Haitian honour student's death sparks outcry over ICE ankle monitors

    A high school student smiles as he holds up certificates and a medal.

    Pierre Damas Bel fled Haiti and came to the U.S. with a dream of becoming a neurosurgeon. But after U.S. immigration authorities fitted the 20-year-old university student with an ankle monitor, he felt he was "treated like an animal" — and died weeks later when he walked into highway traffic.