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Canada's top general is up for a senior NATO post. Will Trump get in her way?
Canada's Gen. Jennie Carignan faces Germany's Gen. Carsten Breuer on Saturday in a secret-ballot contest to chair NATO's Military Committee. A victory would make Carignan the first woman to hold the post and return Canada to the chair after nearly two decades, amid Ottawa's push for deeper ties with Europe.
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Germany's far-right AfD party copied Trump's playbook and won. It now hopes to use it to govern
From creating a deportation task force to revising history lessons in schools, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which won a resounding victory in the state of Saxony-Anhlat last week and could soon hold power, wants to implement policies that echo some of those enacted by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Philippines school shooting leaves 2 students, gunman dead
Three students were killed in a school shooting in the southern Philippines on Friday, including a 16-year-old suspected gunman who turned the gun on himself, provincial officials said.
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Russians begin voting in parliamentary election set to cement Kremlin's power
Russians on Friday began three days of voting in the country's first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually no opposition and is all but certain to secure the Kremlin's political dominance.
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UN mission finds 'grounds to believe' U.S. committed war crimes in strikes on Iranian school, sports centre
A United Nations fact-finding mission on Iran said on Thursday it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school and sports facility in Iran in February and that these constituted war crimes.