The Canadian general election is around the corner after a campaign dominated by the US-Canada relationship, including repeated remarks by the US president about making Canada the 51st state. The BBC has asked voters across the country what it means to be Canadian – and what makes the country different from the US.
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Getty Images Pope Francis waves to well wishers after his mass in Tacloban in 2015 Lashed by an off-season typhoon, Pope Francis stepped out on a rain-soaked makeshift stage in front of hundreds of thousands of weeping pilgrims in the central Philippines. Organisers had warned him to cancel the 2015 open air mass in Tacloban … Read more
A team of Democratic lawmakers have met with two foreign students who are currently in immigration detention in Louisiana as the White House seeks to deport them. The group visited two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facilities where former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk, a graduate student at Tufts University in … Read more
Yolande Knell BBC Middle East correspondent, Jerusalem Reuters Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says more than 51,200 Palestinians have been killed At al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Alam Hirzallah resigns himself to a grim task: registering the deaths of the wife and two children of his grieving cousin. His family brought the bodies here on an … Read more
A US court has ordered the Trump administration to restore funding for the Voice of America and other government-backed news outlets, saying the effort to dismantle it violated the law and Constitution. Over 1,300 VOA employees – including about 1,000 journalists – were put on leave following President Donald Trump’s order, that accused the broadcaster … Read more
Lebo Diseko Global religion reporter, BBC News AFP If the sole predictor of who would become the next Pope was where the Catholic Church is growing fastest, then it is almost certain he would hail from Africa. The continent’s Catholic population is expanding more rapidly than anywhere else, representing more than half of the global … Read more
Adrienne Murray Business reporter Reporting fromLolland, Denmark Femern The completed tunnel will slash travel times between Hamburg and Copenhagen A record-breaking tunnel is being built under the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Germany, which will slash travel times and improve Scandinavia’s links with the rest of Europe. Running for 18km (11 miles), the Fehmarnbelt will … Read more
PA Media Pope Francis meets former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at Dublin Castle in 2018 Pope Francis’s visit to Ireland in 2018 came at a time when relationships with the Catholic Church were “quite difficult”, former Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has said. It was to be the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 … Read more
BBC Abby Wu, who’s had more than 100 operations, is one of China’s first cosmetic surgery influencers Abby Wu was just 14 when she had cosmetic surgery for the first time. After receiving hormone treatment for an illness, Abby’s weight increased from 42kg (6 stone 8lbs) to 62kg (9 stone 11lbs) in two months. The … Read more