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1. On Ukraine's front lines, female soldiers testing Canadian-designed body armour

   

   Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines of Russia's war are testing new body armour designed by a Canadian company to fit women so that they no longer have to wear ill-fitting ballistic plates made for men.

2. Lurkers in the deep: How Canada's new submarines will be used in peace and potential war

   

   The Canadian government has often spoken about the need for submarines to patrol Canada's vast coastline. But the role and range of of its new submarines go far beyond merely patrolling the three coasts of the country.

3. Hunger and hostility cited by migrants as reason for return to Morocco from Spain's Ceuta

   

   Ceuta migration influx has resulted in tens of thousands of migrants who originally travelled into the Spanish territory to return to North Africa; Spain to put up containment fence.

4. Bombing near upscale Moscow restaurant kills 3 people, wounds at least 21

   

   Russian state media, citing local authorities, reported an unidentified woman carrying a homemade bomb tried to get into an upscale restaurant in central Moscow but was stopped by a security guard.

5. Nirmal Purja, 'inspirational' Nepali climber, among 10 killed in avalanche during Pakistan expedition

   

   Purja, 43, and nine others had been missing since Thursday after being struck by an avalanche on Broad Peak, the world's 12th-highest ​mountain, in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region.