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Hudson's Bay has entered creditor protection, struggling with debt.

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  • Business

Canada's Hudson's Bay has survived 355 years. Now the store is in crisis

The department store chain, founded in 1670, can't pay its debts and says the pandemic, inflation and now trade tensions have hurt its financial future.

March 10, 2025
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  • Alina Selyukh
You think they were dancing to Kylie Minogue back in 1978?

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  • Arts & Life

The soundtrack to King Charles' life features music from Kylie Minogue

King Charles III has admitted he is not impervious to a generational earworm like Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" after sharing a playlist that represents the soundtrack of his life.

March 10, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
Fire and rescue services attend after a collision between oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate and the cargo vessel MV Solong off the coast of the Humber Estuary on Monday.

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  • World

U.S. tanker is leaking fuel in the North Sea after a collision with a container ship

Jet fuel is spilling into the North Sea after a U.S.-flagged fuel tanker collided with a cargo ship off the eastern coast of England. Thirty-seven people have been brought to shore.

March 10, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Fatima Al-Kassab
Mark Carney addresses supporters after winning the Liberal Party election on Sunday. He is expected to be sworn in this week.

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  • World

5 things to know about Mark Carney, Canada's next prime minister

Mark Carney is a newcomer to elected politics with decades of experience in finance. After his landslide victory, he pledged to continue tariffs on the U.S. "until the Americans show us respect."

March 10, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Kari Lake, U.S. President Donald Trump's choice to lead Voice of America, is shown speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on Feb. 21, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

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  • Media

A bane for tyrants abroad, U.S.-funded networks fear fate under Kari Lake

U.S.-funded international networks reach more than 420 million people in more than 100 countries each week. Some network leaders fear that Kari Lake intends to cancel all funding for them.

March 10, 2025
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By:
  • David Folkenflik
A man fills up a cistern on the back of a truck with water at the Southern Gaza Desalination plant, which stopped working earlier after Israel cut off electricity supply to the Gaza Strip on Sunday. The plant will have to work on generators now in an area where fuel is in very short supply.

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  • Middle East

Hamas is offering a truce with Israel for five to ten years, a U.S. official says

President Trump's hostage affairs envoy, Adam Boehler, says a new Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal could happen "within weeks," as he defends his direct talks with Hamas.

March 10, 2025
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  • Daniel Estrin
Mark Carney speaks during his Liberal leadership campaign launch in Edmonton, Jan. 16, 2025.

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  • World

Mark Carney to be Canada's next prime minister

Carney, 59, will succeed Justin Trudeau, who announced in January that he would step down amid low approval ratings following a decade in office.

March 10, 2025
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  • Rebecca Rosman and
  • Jackie Northam
People queue in long lines in departure hall C at Rhine-Main Airport, Frankfurt, Germany on Sunday, a day ahead of a planned strike across Germany amid new contract negotiations.

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  • Europe

Surprise strike at Germany's Hamburg Airport affects more than 40,000 passengers

The walkout, which reportedly took place with only about a half-hour advance notice, came before a broader series of preannounced strikes across 13 airports in Germany on Monday.

March 10, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
In 2012, playwright Athol Fugard, who was then 80, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2012/08/02/157732975/playwright-fugard-bucked-south-africas-racist-ideas"target="_blank"   >said,</a> "I have a greater sense of adventure at this moment in my life than I ever had in the past." Fugard is pictured above in February 1985.

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  • Obituaries

Playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, dies at 92

The celebrated South African playwright was known for Blood Knot, The Road to Mecca and "Master Harold"...and the Boys. He said his job was to make "leaps out of my reality and into other realities."

March 10, 2025
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  • Jeff Lunden
Syrian fighters and civilians carry the coffin of a member of the Syrian security forces during his funeral in Hama province on March 9.

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  • World

More than 1,300 Syrians killed in 72 hours amid clashes and acts of revenge

A human rights group characterized the killings as executions and massacres, carried out in revenge against the Alawite community, which made up Assad's longtime base of support.

March 09, 2025
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  • Juliana Kim
In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a ceremony meeting a group of officials, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 8, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

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  • World

Trump rebuffed by Iran's leader after sending letter calling for nuclear negotiation

Iran's UN mission says its open to limited talks over "militarization" of its nuclear program

March 09, 2025
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  • Luke Garrett
A priest holds a photograph of Pope Francis during the nightly rosary prayer service in St Peter's Square on Thursday, March 6 in Vatican City.

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  • World

Pope Francis pens prayer thanking hospital staff, as he shows 'mild improvement'

The Holy See Press Office said the pontiff has shown "a good response to the therapies." He was hospitalized on Feb. 14 for a case of bronchitis.

March 09, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez
Nuns pray for Pope Francis on Saturday in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, where the pontiff is hospitalized.

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  • Religion

Vatican says hospitalized Pope Francis is showing 'gradual, slight improvement'

The 88-year-old pontiff is responding well to the treatment for double pneumonia and has shown a "gradual, slight improvement" in recent days, the Vatican said Saturday.

March 08, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Police enter an immigration detention centre in Bangkok on Jan. 22.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Thailand's deportation of Uyghurs to China has echoes of 10 years ago

Thailand's recent deportations of Uyghurs to China have eerie parallels with a large deportation in 2015, in which the country bowed to Beijing, writes historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

March 08, 2025
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By:
  • Jeffrey Wasserstrom
A woman gestures in front of her demolished house in Otodo-Gbame waterfront in Lagos, Nigeria. Saturday, March 18, 2017. Slums and shantytowns are often targeted in rampant demolitions across Africa's most populous country

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  • Africa

A Lagos community, destroyed in one day

At least 9,000 people have been forcefully evicted from a riverside community in Nigeria's most populous city, Lagos. Like many waterfront communities across the city, it has faced multiple threats and been targeted by luxury real estate developers.

March 07, 2025
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  • Emmanuel Akinwotu and
  • Jewel Bright
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