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1. Canadian Prime Minister and opposition leader join hands in poignant moment at mass shooting vigil

   Mark Carney named each of the six people killed at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and said the mother and brother of the shooter who were killed also ‘deserve to be mourned’

2. US won’t be ‘caretakers’ of West’s ‘managed decline’, Rubio warns in Munich speech - latest

   US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told security summit that the US wants ‘allies who can defend themselves’

3. Gisele Pelicot ‘overwhelmed’ after personal letter of support from Queen

   The Queen commended the French rape survivors ‘extraordinary dignity and courage’

4. Sweden and Canada in furious curling row after cheating allegations: ‘You can f*** off’

   Canada’s Marc Kennedy told Sweden’s Oskar Eriksson to ‘f*** off’ after his team were accused of double-touching the stone in their 8-6 win

5. ‘Dehydrated’ Lidl worker sacked for drinking 17p bottle of water

   Julian Oxborough worked at the supermarket for more than a decade and subsequently had his claim for unfair dismissal rejected by a tribunal

6. ‘My ketamine addiction got me locked up in Japan – it isn’t the innocent party drug people think it is’

   Izabel Rose said her five-month detention abroad was ‘traumatic’ but helped her overcome a dangerous ketamine addiction. She told Nicole Wootton-Cane she doesn’t want others to make the same mistakes she did

7. ‘Police got my son’s ethnicity wrong twice – I blame them for why he’s still missing seven years later’

   ‘I used to have to go down to the police station every single day about my son, crying.’ Parents open up to Tara Cobham about trauma of not feeling listened to by police

8. Rubio expresses desire to maintain trans-Atlantic relations despite increasing rift

   U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday emphasized the United States’ desire to preserve the trans-Atlantic alliance, declaring that it “will always be a child of Europe” at a conference where a rift with Washington’s European allies opened up a year ago

9. KO artists Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois to clash in world heavyweight title fight

   Wardley defends the WBO belt against his fellow Briton, who aims to bounce back from a second loss to Oleksandr Usyk

10. Starmer has grasped what his predecessors would not – that Britain is better off in Europe than with the US

    The prime minister has shown that the UK needs to stand with the friends it needs - not an American ally that doesn’t need Britain, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley from Kyiv