OTTAWA -- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to annex Canada "is a real thing," local media reported.

According to a CBC News report, Trudeau told business leaders at the Canada-U.S. Economic Summit in Toronto that it would be motivated by the access to Canada's critical minerals. (Canada-US-Tariff)

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UNITED NATIONS -- With hostilities subsiding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)'s occupied Goma City in North Kivu province, UN humanitarians said on Friday violence in South Kivu province is increasing and triggering mass displacement of people.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said a bombing in South Kivu injured three civilians and damaged power infrastructure in the town of Nyabibwe, about 60 km north of the provincial capital of Bukavu. (UN-DRC)

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BEIRUT -- Two people were killed and 10 others injured on Friday by Syrian sniper and artillery attacks in eastern Lebanon's Hermel, as clashes between Syrian militants and Lebanese tribes continued along the border, Lebanese media reported.

Lebanese news website Elnashra reported that most of the Lebanese casualties were from the Jaafar tribe, and that the injured have been transferred to hospitals in Hermel for treatment. (Iran-Bus-Deaths)

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CAIRO -- Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty has ramped up diplomatic efforts with Arab counterparts to reject any measures aimed at the displacement of Palestinians, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

Abdelatty held phone discussions with foreign ministers from 11 Arab countries, including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Iraq, following directives from Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, according to the statement. (Egypt-Arab Countries-Rejecting Palestinian Relocation) Enditem

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