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1. Fentanyl ingredients entering Canada via Vancouver en route to cartel-run drug labs, U.S. DEA boss says

   

   Chemicals used to make fentanyl are streaming into the Port of Vancouver on their way to drug labs run by Mexican cartels on Canadian soil, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration told senators in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

2. Is there a Diet Coke shortage? What to know about India's 'candemic'

   

   A scarcity of aluminum cans due the war in Iran means there's a Diet Coke shortage in India, where the drink only comes in cans. As a result, people there are hoarding the beverages and throwing parties to celebrate their favourite drink.

3. The Canadian inspiration for Britain's surging right-wing Reform party

   

   The ascendant Reform UK leader says Preston Manning, the wonkish Canadian populist pioneer, is his inspiration.

4. Doctors Without Borders forced to evacuate hospital in Haiti's capital as gang violence ramps up

   

   After a gruelling 24 hours of treating gunshot wound patients and sheltering hundreds of residents, all while trying to avoid stray bullets, Doctors Without Borders has shut down its hospital in one of Port-au-Prince's poorest neighbourhoods.

5. French woman with hantavirus has severe form of disease, is in 'final stage of supportive care'

   

   A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said Tuesday.