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Five people, including two teenagers and a 12-year-old, died Friday after being electrocuted at a water park pool in northwest Turkey, according to local media reports. The three children were caught up in an electrical current in the pool in the town of Akyazi, in Sakarya province, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Source

The mayor of a northern Manitoba town and the chief of a nearby First Nation are asking the provincial and federal governments to immediately fund repairs of a rail line that they say is “critical” to their community’s survival. Source

OXFORD, N.J. -- A New Jersey woman has been reunited with her special necklace thanks to a group of hardworking sanitation workers. Samantha LaRochelle was taken to St. Luke's Hospital in Phillipsburg on Saturday after falling unconscious, NJ.com reported. Source

CHARLOTTETOWN — An 18-year-old hockey player from P.E.I. who punched a referee twice in the face, cutting his lip, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. Cole Trevor Crane was being escorted off the ice after a fight in the last minute of play in a game at an arena outside Charlottetown on March 26. Source

NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman’s visit to North Korea coinciding with the release of Otto Warmbier was supposedly no coincidence after all. Rodman shockingly took credit for the release of North Korean detainee Otto Warmbier during an interview with Good Morning America on Friday. Source

WAWA, Ont. -- The giant honking Canada Goose in Wawa, Ont., that has quietly greeted countless travellers for more than five decades is set to fly its concrete roost ahead of the formal arrival of a replacement on Canada Day. Source

EDMONTON -- A member of the Canadian Armed Forces in Alberta has been charged with child luring as well as with making and distributing child pornography. Police say child luring allegations were first discovered by U.S. Source

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- At least 40 people were killed and nearly 100 wounded Friday in four separate bomb and gun attacks in three major Pakistani cities, officials said. A suicide bomber was involved in the first car bombing near the office of the provincial police chief in the southwestern city of Quetta that killed at least 12 people and wounded 20. Source

OTTAWA -- The commander of the Royal Canadian Navy is defending the Trudeau government's plan to spend billions of dollars on upgrading Canada's submarine fleet. Vice-Admiral Ron Lloyd tells The Canadian Press that having a submarine is the best way to spot others that may be approaching or have even entered Canadian waters or those of NATO allies. Source

Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyberattacks on the West, a Reuters investigation has found. Source