TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli killed the leader of Hamas’ military wing who was one of the last surviving architects of the attacks that triggered in late 2023, the Israeli military said Saturday. Hamas confirmed the death.

Izz al-Din al-Haddad was killed on Friday, Israel’s army said, describing him as one of the senior Hamas military commanders who directed the planning and execution of the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, which

MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens’ quest for the Stanley Cup has been giving the city’s light-rail network a boost.

The Bonaventure station of the REM — Réseau express métropolitain — connects to the Habs’ home arena, the Bell Centre.

Julien Hurel is the vice-president for the REM project at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, the province’s public pension fund manager and owner of the light rail.

Hurel says transit officials have a

OTTAWA — Lukas Troni graduated from the University of British Columbia in April 2025. He was putting his geography and environment degree to good use in a job at a Canadian environmental organization when a surprise rejection letter from the federal government forced him to stop working.

After graduation, Troni applied for a postgraduate work permit, or PGWP, which allows international students who completed their studies at an approved Canadian school to work for a period of time in Canada.

He was able to work while awaiting a decision on the

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A shark fatally mauled a diver off an Australian tourist island on Saturday, police said.

The 38-year-old man had been spearfishing with a friend when he was attacked on a coral reef off Rottnest Island near Australia’s southwest coast, Western Australia Police Sergeant Michael Wear said.

The victim was near a dive boat when he was bitten on the legs, Wear said. He was then taken by that boat one kilometer (1,100 yards) to

LONDON (AP) — Police patrolled the streets of London as tens of thousands of protesters descended on the U.K. capital on Saturday for two rival demonstrations, and tens of thousands more soccer fans congregated for the final of England’s major domestic cup competition at Wembley Stadium.

Armored vehicles, police horses, dogs, drones and helicopters were deployed along with at least 4,000 officers as the Metropolitan Police aims to avoid clashes. Hundreds more are on standby.

Police tried to make sure there was

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on a two-day trip to Beijing next week, the Kremlin said Saturday.

The announcement comes less than 24 hours after U.S. President Donald Trump finished his own state visit to China, where he also met Xi to discuss trade and the U.S. and Israel’s .

In a statement, the Kremlin said that Putin’s trip, planned for May 19-20, had been scheduled to coincide with the 2

PEA RIDGE, Ark. (AP) — Walmart and Amazon are racing to online order deliveries in rural areas of the U.S., a rich source of untapped sales that major retailers long wrote off as too sparsely inhabited, too remote or too impoverished to serve profitably.

has a running start in the contest to build a loyal customer base in rural America. Roughly 90% of U.S. residents live within 10 miles of a Walmart store, and 45% of the company’s

VICTORIA — Mike James doesn’t know yet whether his first grandchild will be a boy or girl, but he hopes they will have a chance to see threatened southern mountain caribou during a future visit to his family’s cabin near Quesnel Lake.

The snowshoe-like hoofs of southern mountain caribou, also called deep snow caribou, allow them to feed on lichens that grow in high-altitude parts of old-growth forest.

The habitat range of the caribou lies mainly in eastern B.C. stretching from the