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  1. Putin acknowledges 'a lot of issues' in U.S.-Russia relations at summit with Biden

    APTOPIX Switzerland Biden Putin

    With deep disagreements likely and expectations of solving them low, U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin sat down in a lakeside Geneva villa on Wednesday for their first summit since Biden took office.

  2. Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Wednesday

    Iain Rankin and Dr. Robert Strang

    Canada has passed yet another vaccine milestone with more than 30 million doses administered.

  3. Israel says it carried out airstrikes on Hamas compounds after incendiary balloons launched from Gaza

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    Israel mounted airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the first since the end of 11 days of cross-border fighting last month, in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian territory.

  4. 'The Kuzbass is now just one big hole': Siberian coal town residents on their failed effort to come to Canada

    Coal Dust

    In 2019, residents of Kiselyovsk, Russia, a city surrounded by vast, open-pit coal mines, made a video asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to allow them to come to Canada as environmental refugees. Two years later, they've lost hope that Canada or their own government can remedy what they say are unbearable living conditions.

  5. Biden brings old hostilities and new grievances to meeting with Putin

    RUSSIA-USA/AMBASSADOR

    Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have decades of political experience and share a preference for aviator sunglasses, but don’t expect the highly anticipated summit between the two presidents in Geneva on Wednesday to thaw frozen U.S.-Russian relations, writes Susan Ormiston.