The Tuesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, June 28:

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SUICIDE BOMBERS TARGET ISTANBUL AIRPORT, KILLILNG AT LEAST 28: Several suicide bombers have hit Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, killing at least 28 people and wounding some 60 others, Istanbul’s governor and other officials said Tuesday. Turkey’s NTV television quoted Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin as saying three suicide bombers carried out the attack. Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag earlier said that according to preliminary information, “a terrorist at the international terminal entrance first opened fire with a Kalashnikov and then blew himself up.” Another official said attackers detonated explosives at the entrance of the international terminal after police fired at them.

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CANADA TO LIFT MEXICAN VISA REQUIREMENT: Canada will lift its controversial visa requirement for Mexican visitors before the end of the year, while Mexico has agreed to end long-standing restrictions on Canadian beef imports, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday. Although both changes are still months away, Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto expressed satisfaction that the two main irritants in their bilateral relationship would be removed, paving the way for deeper co-operation. The visa requirement will be lifted by Dec. 1, while the beef ban ends in October.

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TRUMP TAKES AIM AT NAFTA: Donald Trump has delivered his most explicit threat to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement just as the continent’s three leaders gather to discuss closer co-operation. If elected president, the presumptive Republican nominee says he’d inform Mexico and Canada that he immediately wants to renegotiate the agreement. If they refuse to make significant concessions in that negotiation, he says he’d submit notice of the U.S. intention to withdraw from the deal. In a speech, he said: “They’re so used to having their own way. Not with Trump.” The warning came in an anti-globalization speech that solidifies Trump’s position as the most protectionist Republican presidential candidate in generations.

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EXTRADITION APPROVED FOR MAN IN AMANDA TODD CASE: The mother of British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd says she feels numb but happy that a Dutch court has approved the extradition of a man implicated in her daughter’s suicide following relentless cyberbullying. Carol Todd said learning that Aydin Coban will be sent to face charges in Canada transported her back to October 2012, when her 15-year-old daughter took her own life after Coban allegedly posted nude photos of her online. The Dutch justice minister must now sign off on the court’s approval, though Coban won’t be extradited until after a separate criminal trial in the Netherlands on 72 charges of sexual assault and extortion. In Canada, Coban faces five charges connected to 15-year-old Todd from Port Coquitlam, B.C., including extortion, possession of child pornography and attempting to lure a child online.

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JURORS SAY 4 NATIVE YOUTH DEATHS UNDETERMINED; 3 ACCIDENTAL: Inquest jurors examining the deaths of seven aboriginal youths in Thunder Bay, Ont., have decided that three of them died accidentally. The other four deaths — including three found to have drowned — were ruled to be of undetermined cause. That means jurors could not decide how they got into the rivers where their bodies were found. The inquest then began hearing a slew of jury recommendations aimed at preventing a recurrence. Among them, jurors called for more funding for aboriginal education. Jethro Anderson, 15, Curran Strang, 18, Robyn Harper, 19, Paul Panacheese, 21, Reggie Bushie, 15, Kyle Morrisseau, 17 and Jordan Wabasse, also 15, all died between 2000 and 2011. The youths had all been sent to Thunder Bay from their remote northern Ontario reserves to attend high school.

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STUDY: CHILDREN WERE HEALTHY BEFORE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS: A study suggests indigenous children from Saskatchewan and Manitoba were healthy when they were sent to residential schools. Paul Hackett, a researcher at the University of Saskatchewan, says he and two others analyzed the body mass index of more than 1,700 children entering the schools between 1919 and the 1950s. The researchers found 80 per cent of the children were at a healthy weight — better than the average Canadian child today. Hackett says the results suggest the residential school experience set the stage for health problems plaguing indigenous people today. He says the study also undercuts the government’s justification for performing nutritional experiments on residential school students due to their poor health. The findings were published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health.

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CONRAD BLACK SETTLES TAX LIENS DISPUTE: Conrad Black says he has reached a settlement with the Canada Revenue Agency after it placed liens on his Toronto home due to claims that he owes $15 million in unpaid taxes. “It has been resolved to the shared satisfaction of the parties involved, and I will have no further comment on it,” the former media baron said in an email Tuesday. Black had originally asked for an emergency hearing with the Federal Court, arguing that the tax liens, which were placed on his mansion last month, were stalling the sale of his property. He withdrew that request late Monday.

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IKEA CANADA RECALLING CHESTS OF DRAWERS: Ikea has issued a Canadian recall notice for millions of chests of drawers that can tip over — a safety hazard that has been linked to the deaths of six children in the United States over several years as well as dozens of injuries. The Swedish furniture multinational says it will repair or pay a refund for chests of drawers that don’t meet North American safety standards. It also urges customers to stop using the affected chests of drawers and put them out of the reach of children until the furniture can be secured to a wall. Customers who cannot secure the furniture to a wall are advised to bring the pieces back to any Ikea location for a refund. Ikea Canada’s move is part of a recall of 29 million chests and dressers across the United States and Canada. The company says there has been no serious incident reported in Canada.

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REPORT SAYS QUEBEC LOST 600K RESIDENTS TO OTHER PROVINCES SINCE 1971: A new report by a right-of-centre think-tank says Quebec has suffered a net loss of almost 600,000 residents to other provinces since 1971 — the highest out-migration total in the country. The Fraser Institute report studied interprovincial migration between 1971 and 2015 and concluded Quebec is the only province in Canada to have suffered a net loss every year in that period. Since 2003, however, Ontario has had a total of more than 40,000 additional people leave the province when compared with those leaving Quebec. Most of them have gone to Alberta and British Columbia. Quebec’s migration losses were disproportionately among young people starting off their careers.

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TORONTO CAPYBARA CAPTURED AFTER ESCAPE FROM ZOO: The second of two large rodents that broke out of a Toronto zoo and captured the city’s attention has been rounded up. A spokeswoman with the city’s Parks, Forestry and Recreation department says the second capybara is back at the High Park Zoo a little more than two weeks after its partner was caught. Megan Price says the animal was found in a trap in an area of High Park at about 7 a.m. Tuesday. She says the capybara is being kept in an indoor enclosure until it gets a clean bill of health from a vet. The two capybaras, one male and one female, escaped from the High Park Zoo in late May and triggered a significant search. The six-month-old creatures, dubbed Bonnie and Clyde by zoo staff, had taken off while they were being introduced to their enclosure for the first time as part of an exchange with another zoo.

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