Global News Highlights from AP

October 19, 2026

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that four service members were killed, and dozens more seriously injured in a fire at a military base in Alberta, describing it as one of the worst peacetime tragedies for Canada's military on domestic soil.

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French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday voiced the public's "anger" and "shame" over rioting and looting during nationwide protests against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools. At least 2,400 people were arrested.

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Heidi Levine, the The Washington Post photographer badly injured in an attack by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, said she's increasingly angry that Israel's military seems to protect settlers more than the Palestinians they threaten. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed recent settler violence on a small number of troublemakers.

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And Japan is set to launch a spacecraft on the world's first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped moons orbiting Mars.