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OTTAWA, (Reuters) – New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney today called a snap election for April 28, saying he needed a strong mandate to deal with the threat posed by U.S.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Iraq plans to raise oil production capacity to more than 6 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2029, the state news agency reported Iraq’s oil ministry as saying today.

TEL AVIV/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli protesters took to the streets for a sixth day today amid reports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet is preparing a no confidence motion on the attorney general in its latest move against officials deemed hostile to the government.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis left Rome’s Gemelli hospital today following a five-week stay to be treated for pneumonia, making his first public appearance since February 14 by waving to well-wishers from a balcony moments before he was discharged.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) –  Federal agents who usually hunt down child abusers are now cracking down on immigrants who live in the U.S.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis killed Hamas political leader Salah al-Bardaweel yesterday, Hamas officials said, as residents reported an escalation in the Israeli military campaign that began on Tuesday.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Bayer BAYGn.DE was ordered by a jury in the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Billionaire Elon Musk took his campaign to cut the U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Powerful Wall Street law firm Paul Weiss faced heavy criticism yesterday over a deal it struck with the White House to escape an executive order imperiling its business, even as some lawyers said the firm faced few other options.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Voice of America journalists and their unions sued the Trump administration yesterday, saying that the shutdown of U.S.-funded

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Columbia University has agreed to changes demanded by the Trump administration as a precondition for restoring $400 million in federal funding that was pulled this month over allegations the school tolerated antisemitism on campus.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The global travel industry was scrambling on Saturday to reroute passengers and fix battered airline schedules after a huge fire at an electrical substation serving London’s Heathrow Airport forced closure of Europe’s busiest air hub.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Heathrow Airport was shut today after a huge fire at a nearby substation knocked out its power, stranding passengers around the world and angering airlines who questioned how such crucial infrastructure could fail.

CAIRO/GAZA,  (Reuters) – At least 91 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in airstrikes across Gaza yesterday after Israel resumed bombing and ground operations, the enclave’s health ministry said, effectively ditching a two-month-old ceasefire.

(Reuters) – Britain’s Heathrow Airport said today it will be closed until midnight after experiencing a significant power outage due to a fire at a nearby electrical substation supplying the airport.

(Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration’s response to a judicial request for more details on timing of deportation flights carrying hundreds of Venezuelan migrants was “woefully insufficient,” a judge said yesterday, accusing officials of evading their responsibilities under an order he issued.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has denied a New York Times report that his close ally, billionaire Elon Musk, was due to be briefed by the Pentagon on Friday about the U.S.

(Reuters) – Pop singer Mariah Carey defeated a lawsuit claiming she illegally copied elements of her holiday megahit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” from a country song of the same name.

NIAMEY,  (Reuters) – Niger expelled three Chinese oil executives in a dispute over disparities between the salaries of expatriate staff and lower-paid local workers, Oil Minister Sahabi Oumarou said.

PARIS, (Reuters) – A French scientist has been denied entry into the United States, apparently because the scientist had expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy, the French Education Ministry said on Thursday.