Prime Minister Mark Carney dismissed the claim, noting that US initiated trade actions against Canada.

Both men have denied having any knowledge of Epstein's crimes and their attorney rejected the lawsuit as "categorically false".

Test results have confirmed his diagnosis as a lung adenocarcinoma that was localised.

Locals describe the MP, who had to have both legs amputated, as a genuinely kind person who fought for the community.

César Jáuregui Moreno is accused of allowing US agents to join a raid on a suspected drugs lab in April.

Brian Stack was crossing a street in Dublin in 1983 when he was shot in the back of the neck and died 18 months later.