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A Winnipeg Second World War veteran may be the last Canadian soldier to earn France’s highest national order. During the Second World War, James Magill left his job at CP Rail to join the Royal Canadian Air Force bomber command stationed in England. Source

GAZA, Palestinian Territory -- Thousands of Palestinians joined the fourth weekly protest on Gaza's border with Israel on Friday, some burning tires or flying kites with flaming rags dangling from their tails. Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops firing from across the border fence, health officials said. Source

HAVANA -- Miguel Diaz-Canel has been the presumptive next president of Cuba since 2013, when Raul Castro named the laconic former provincial official to the important post of first vice-president and lauded him as "neither a novice nor an improviser," high praise in a system dedicated to continuity over all. Source

Former USA Gymnastics women's national team coordinator Marta Karolyi and her husband Bela have told NBC they were unaware of the abusive behaviour by a former national team doctor now serving decades in prison. Marta Karolyi led the national team for 15 years before retiring after the 2016 Rio Olympics. Source

Thousands of Palestinians joined the fourth weekly protest on Gaza's border with Israel on Friday, some burning tires or flying kites with flaming rags dangling from their tails. Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops firing from across the border fence, health officials said. Source

PHILADELPHIA -- As Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 plunged, passenger Hollie Mackey was torn between trying to save a woman whose upper body was being sucked out of a broken window and protecting the child beside her from a similar fate. Source

Thousands of students across the United States will mark the 19th anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School by walking out of classes on Friday, in a show of unity intended to put pressure on politicians to enact tighter gun restrictions. Source

Canada's inflation rate hit 2.3 per cent in the year up to March, the highest level since October 2014 as gas prices and just about everything else got more expensive. Statistics Canada reported Friday that seven of the eight components the data agency tracks rose in March. Source

It may have only been about 30 centimetres tall with a plump figure and a slow waddle, but a buck-toothed beaver delivered quite the scare when it tried to gnaw its way into a home in Nanaimo, B.C. Source

MADRID -- The Basque militant group ETA on Friday offered an unprecedented apology for the pain caused during its more than four decades of armed campaign for independence from Spain and France, and vowed not to return to violence. Source