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4/30/202610 min

Iran’s soccer brass intercepted at Toronto airport and sent home ahead of FIFA summit. 

Elections Alberta says its List of Electors may have been used and possibly distrubuted inappropriately. 

Canada's real gross domestic product up 0.2% in February. 

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak says Prime Minister Mark Canrey and all the provincial Premiers have agreed to a First Ministers’ Meeting dedicated to First Nations issues. 

Prime Minister Mark Carney names former environment minister Jonathan Wilkinson as next EU envoy. 

New court filing contradicts official account of shooting at White House press gala. 

New York Mayor Mamdani encourages King Charles to return Koh-i-Noor Diamond.

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    [upbeat music] This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Peter Cowan in St. John's. The soccer world is focused on Vancouver this morning, where the game's top decision-makers are meeting ahead of the World Cup. But there's one notable absence, the head of the Iranian Football Federation. He made it all the way to the Toronto airport only to be sent back. Iran is accusing Canadian border agents of unacceptable behavior and misconduct. The CBC's Cameron Macintosh has more.

  4. Cameron Macintosh1:03

    Mehdi Taj is head of the Iranian Football Federation, but also served in and has ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which the Canadian government calls a terrorist organization. Non-state Iranian media is reporting Canada granted him a temporary residence permit to attend the FIFA Congress in Vancouver. But on Tuesday night, he was denied entry to Canada after landing in Toronto. Foreign Affairs

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