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Lebanon-Israel ceasefire plans in doubt following Hezbollah's rejection

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem rejects the outcome of talks, describing direct negotiations with Israel as 'shameful' for Lebanon. Plan is als

A US-backed proposal to halt fighting between Israel and Lebanon has been met with immediate uncertainty, with Lebanese officials saying its implementation depends on Hezbollah’s approval and lacks a clear enforcement mechanism. It followed two days of US-brokered direct talks between Lebanese and Israeli representatives, the fourth round of such negotiations to be held in Washington. The talks produced a declaration calling for the implementation of a ceasefire and the creation of pilot zones in south Lebanon where the Lebanese Armed Forces would assume exclusive control, excluding all non-state actors. But a senior official close to Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told Middle East Eye that the text “has no implementation mechanism” and that the entire process now hinges on Hezbollah’s response.

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Christian Pastor Claims Marijuana Makes Men 'Spiritually Gay'

A pastor sparked backlash after claiming marijuana makes men 'gay spiritually' and urging Christian men to embrace tobacco and nicotine.

Christian pastor Joel Webbon has sparked backlash after claiming in a video posted on X that smoking marijuana makes men “spiritually gay”, urging Christian men to embrace tobacco and nicotine as a route back to “masculinity”. In the clip, Webbon links cannabis use to gender stereotypes and uses “gay” as a pejorative. He says marijuana “makes you less masculine, more feminine, soft, gay, at least spiritually gay”, before arguing it leaves men unfocused and unambitious. “Marijuana causes you not to focus, not to lock in, not to be ambitious. It makes you cloudy, fuzzy, lazy, unambitious.” Webbon also dismisses public health messaging around smoking, describing anti-smoking efforts as a conspiracy.

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Budapest Mayor Cleared as Prosecutors Drop Pride Case

Prosecutors dropped Hungary Pride charges against Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony after an EU court ruling against Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ law

Hungarian authorities have dropped charges against Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony over organising the city’s 2025 Pride march, citing a landmark European Court of Justice ruling against Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ laws, according to a statement from prosecutors issued on 4 June. The event went ahead in June 2025 despite warnings of potential legal repercussions from Viktor Orbán’s government, which passed a law banning public events involving the LGBTQ+ community. Karácsony said at the march: “Neither freedom nor love can be banned in Budapest.”

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A new GLAAD poll suggests many Americans are far more concerned about the rising cost of living than political attacks on trans rights.

A new poll released by GLAAD on 1 June suggests that many Americans are far more concerned about the rising cost of living than political attacks on transgender people, despite efforts by some Republican politicians to make trans rights a major issue ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. According to the survey of more than 5,000 US adults, just 8% of voters identified transgender issues as a top concern. By comparison, 44% said inflation and the rising cost of living were their number-one priority.

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Trump walks out of NBC interview after ‘heated and volatile exchange’ with reporter

CTV News U.S. political analyst Eric Ham says the NBC reporter was challenging Trump at the time he walked out of the interview.

Trump walks out of NBC interview after ‘heated and volatile exchange’ with reporter CTV News U.S. political analyst Eric Ham says the NBC reporter was challenging Trump at the time he walked out of the interview.

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‘I’m out of words’: Major earthquake in Philippines leaves Canadian community devastated

An offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 hit the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least 35 and injuring dozens more. Filipin

An offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 hit the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least 35 and injuring dozens more. One of the hardest hit cities was General Santos City, with a population of over 700,000 people. Most of Joy Love Silla’s family lives in the city, including her husband and two kids. She was horrified when she saw the footage coming out of her hometown.

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‘Fortress North America’: What’s Doug Ford doing in Washington? Here’s what we know

Doug Ford is halfway through a two-day trip to Washington, D.C. to talk trade, with no events open to the media Monday and limited visibilit

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is halfway through a two-day trip to Washington, D.C. to talk trade, with no events open to the media Monday and limited visibility as to exactly what he’s up to beyond a few social media posts. The Premier posted a photo of himself with Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., Mark Wiseman, on the rooftop of the Canadian embassy with the U.S. Capitol building in the background, along with Ontario Trade Minister Vic Fedeli. The post said he “kicked off” the D.C. trip speaking to Wiseman about “how we can work together to make the case for a tariff-free trade in North America.”

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Meet the woman hoping to become first deafblind person to summit Everest and the U of T researcher helping her | CBC News

Karolina Pakėnaitė, who is from the United Kingdom, is training to become the first deafblind person to summit Mount Everest. Leon Lu, an as

When Karolina Pakėnaitė trekked to the Mount Everest base camp three years ago, she met a group of climbers who were aiming to become the first deaf climbers to summit its peak.  Pakėnaitė, who is deafblind because she has Usher syndrome — a genetic condition that causes hearing and vision loss — realized that no deafblind person had ever summited the mountain.  “I started to ask myself, what if? I never imagined myself summiting Everest, but that question never left me to this day,” she told CBC Radio’s Metro Morning Wednesday.   “That question changed everything.”

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"Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System"

"The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal

"The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research." "The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.

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Residential school survivors testify in front of international tribunal | CBC News

A panel of residential school survivors provided witness testimony on Tuesday to the Permanent Peoples Tribunal, an international independen

WARNING: This story contains details of experiences at residential schools.

Roberta Hill remembers being sent to the Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School in Brantford, Ont., when she was six years old. Although she attended with five of her siblings, including her youngest sister, they were separated upon arrival. "I never saw her again for years after," Hill said. "She was my favourite little sister. So that was the start of the separation and the trauma."

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Three Canadian off-duty officers arrested over 'serious' allegations

The officers were vacationing in Barcelona, Spain, and not on official duties, Toronto Police Service said.

Three Canadian off-duty police officers have been arrested over an alleged assault of a sex worker during their vacation in Barcelona, Spanish authorities said. One of the officers was suspended upon returning to Canada, the Toronto Police Service said. The other two officers will also be suspended when they return, police said. "The allegations are serious," Toronto's police deparment wrote in an emailed statement to the BBC. Toronto police did not release the officers' names and said they would not comment further while the cases were before the courts.

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Far-right Israeli minister condemned for taunting handcuffed Gaza flotilla activists

France and Italy are among the countries that have criticised a video showing Itamar Ben-Gvir taunting dozens of activists detained at an Is

There has been international condemnation of Israel's treatment of pro-Palestinian activists who were on board a Gaza-bound aid flotilla intercepted by Israeli naval forces. The US, the UK, France, Italy and Canada were among the countries which expressed outrage after far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted a video showing himself taunting activists kneeling with their hands tied behind their backs. His actions also drew rare criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said they were "not in line with Israel's values".

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Carney says Alberta referendum 'dangerous bluff' and likens to Brexit

The western province will hold a vote in October on whether Alberta should remain in Canada or move ahead with holding a binding separation

Prime Minister Mark Carney has called the upcoming Alberta referendum on separation from Canada a "dangerous bluff", comparing it to the Brexit vote that saw the UK leave the European Union. Carney, who led the Bank of England during Brexit, said that 10 years on from the referendum the UK was "trying to undo what people didn't think they were voting for, but what they ended up having". He also cautioned against voting in favour of a separation vote as a way to strengthen Alberta's negotiating position with Ottawa, saying it may bring unintended consequences. Albertans will decide 19 October whether they want to remain part of Canada or hold a binding vote on separation at a later date.

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Schools see sharp rise in suspensions for homophobic and transphobic abuse

Schools in England have seen a sharp rise in suspensions for homophobic, transphobic, racist and ableist abuse in the last five years

Schools in England have seen a sharp rise in suspensions for homophobic, transphobic, racist and ableist abuse in the last five years, specialists have said. Department for Education data documenting the reasons for suspensions show that schools logged more than 13,000 instances of homophobic or transphobic abuse between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The figure includes 12,977 suspensions and 88 permanent exclusions.

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Exceptionally early heat wave shatters records and brings deaths in Europe

A spring heat wave is scorching parts of Western Europe, breaking temperature records and triggering government warnings.

The United Kingdom smashed a century-old temperature record for the second time in 24 hours on Tuesday as a spring heat wave scorches parts of Western Europe, triggering government warnings about risks to life. Several drownings were reported in Britain and France as people tried to cool down. A temperature of 35.1 degrees Celsius (95.2 degrees Fahrenheit) was recorded at London’s Kew Gardens, Britain’s Met Office weather service said, breaking the 34.8 C (94.6 F) record set a day earlier at Kew. The provisional readings smashed the long-standing record of 32.8 C (91.4 F) set in 1922 and matched in 1944.

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Uganda closes its border with Congo, where suspected cases of a rare Ebola type are surging

Uganda has ordered the closure of its border with Congo, where suspected Ebola cases are surging. A local Ugandan task force gave the order

Uganda on Wednesday ordered the closure of its border with Congo, where suspected cases of a rare type of Ebola are surging, and as cases have been confirmed at home after Ugandan health workers were exposed to the disease from Congolese patients. The measure, which goes against the guidance by the World Health Organization, underscores growing fears of contagion in East Africa from Bundibugyo, a rare type of the Ebola virus that is behind this outbreak and that has no approved medicines or vaccines.

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