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Canada World News API

Get the live top world headlines from Canada with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Canada World News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Canada.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=ca&category=world&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 246728,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "0d1ca0f3117ce131b7f1a01f229df9b5",
            "title": "Why Arab states are terrified of US war with Iran",
            "description": "They see the military build-up and know that bombing and regime change can have consequences, especially geopolitical ones",
            "content": "As an American attack on Iran seems increasingly inevitable, America’s allies in the Persian Gulf — the very nations hosting U.S. bases and bracing anxiously for an Iranian blowback — are terrified of escalation and are lobbying Washington to stop it... [8678 chars]",
            "url": "https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-war-gulf-states/",
            "image": "https://responsiblestatecraft.org/media-library/arab-and-gulf-state-leaders.jpg?id=64969302&width=1200&height=600&coordinates=0%2C319%2C0%2C62",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-27T05:18:59Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2bfced98e7dc2da3c4da730cc7646fc8",
                "name": "Responsible Statecraft",
                "url": "https://responsiblestatecraft.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "56ae5e22f7e4e0a08ed98cad96106bd3",
            "title": "Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards",
            "description": "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously threatened to remove the firm from the department's supply chain.",
            "content": "Anthropic has said it will not back down in a fight with the US Department of Defense (DoD) over how its artificial intelligence (AI) technology is used.\nThe firm's chief executive Dario Amodei said on Thursday that his company would rather not work ... [3732 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg3vlzzkqeo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/7142/live/8c4d2350-136b-11f1-986d-69868da76563.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-27T03:54:27Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "230c63d2737a865fbbd9a3ca8bc41129",
            "title": "Pentagon shoots down US Customs and Border Protection drone with laser system, lawmakers say",
            "description": "The US military used a controversial anti-drone laser system to shoot down a unmanned aircraft operated by US Customs and Border Protection in Texas, according to congressional representatives.",
            "content": "The US military used a controversial anti-drone laser system to shoot down a unmanned aircraft operated by US Customs and Border Protection in Texas, according to congressional representatives.\n“Our heads are exploding over the news that DoD reported... [2079 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/us/pentagon-shoots-down-cbp-drone",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/gettyimages-878567324.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-27T03:31:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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