--Second NewsWatch--

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(Wildfires-BC) (Audio: 024)

The mayor of Fort Nelson B-C is warning wildfire evacuees against returning home early.

Rob Fraser says it is not safe in Fort Nelson right now, despite officials working hard to be able to let residents come back before next Tuesday.

He says people trying to return early could create highway lineups that slow down health-care workers who need to get through.

Some 47-hundred Fort Nelson residents were forced from their homes by wildfire in northeastern B-C on May 10th. (2)

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(Israel-Palestinians)

Egypt says it has agreed to send United Nations humanitarian aid trucks through Israel's main crossing into Gaza.

However, it remains unclear if they will be able to enter the territory as fighting continues in the southern city of Rafah.

Israel's operation in Rafah is facing mounting international condemnation, but American officials describe it, at least for now, as limited and targeted.

The C-I-A chief met in Paris with Israeli and Qatari officials, trying to revive negotiations for a cease-fire and a hostage release. (2)

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(Overdose-Crisis)

Toronto Public Health has declined to comment after federal Addictions Minister Ya'ara (yah-AH'-ra) Saks said the city's drug decriminalization proposal didn't include age restrictions or limits on possession amounts.

Saks also said Friday that, earlier this month, Toronto Public Health said it was not open to changing that part of its proposal.

Saks announced the federal government's rejection of Toronto's decriminalization proposal last week, a move Ontario Premier Doug Ford publically lauded. (2)

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(NL-Osborne-Retires)

After 28-years of service, Newfoundland and Labrador's Health Minister Tom Osborne is retiring from political life.

Osborne, the longest-serving elected member of the province's House of Assembly, told reporters yesterday that he will wrap up his career this July.

He was first elected as a Progressive Conservative in 1996, but crossed the floor in a dispute with then-premier Danny Williams, first sitting as an Independent and then joining the Liberal Party. (2)

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(US-Trump-Classified-Documents) (Audio: 006)

Prosecutors in the classified documents case against Donald Trump are pushing to curtail potentially threatening comments by the former U-S president.

Earlier this week, Trump claimed that the F-B-I agents who searched his Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022 were -- quote -- "authorized to shoot me" and were "locked & loaded ready to take me out and put my family in danger."

It is those kinds of public statements that federal lawyers say "pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents" participating in the prosecution. (2)

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(ENT-Cannes-Awards)

The 77th Cannes Film Festival will draw to a close today with the presentation of its top award, the Palme d'Or.

All 22 films that premiered in competition at Cannes this year are eligible for the top honour, decided upon by a nine-person jury led by director Greta Gerwig.

There's also an honourary tribute planned for filmmaker George Lucas -- who just turned 80 on May 14th. (2)

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(NewsWatch by Rob Westgate)

The Canadian Press