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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": 243484,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "461b0acc46cbb514c71bf6272cec6ecc",
            "title": "Live updates: New blasts heard in Gulf cities as top official says Iran won’t negotiate with US",
            "description": "There could be more US casualties as part of the military operations against Iran, President Donald Trump acknowledged Sunday. Three American troops have been killed so far, according to the US military. Follow for live updates.",
            "content": "Iran has fired a new barrage of missiles toward Israel on Monday, Israel’s military said.\n“Defense systems are operating to intercept the threat,” said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), adding that preliminary alerts have been sent to mobile phones in... [10506 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/us-israel-iran-attack-03-01-26-intl",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/1-20260301092855135.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-02T05:23:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c77d9aa4d829ae37aa76fa20b5ccf96e",
            "title": "Iran strikes Europe for first time, hits British base in Cyprus",
            "description": "Drone slams RAF Akrotiri hours after Iranian missiles target island, damaging key UK military hub and raising stakes in widening war involving Israel, Iran and Western forces",
            "content": "Iran struck a European country for the first time overnight Monday, with what British officials believe was an Iranian drone hitting a key Royal Air Force base in Cyprus, hours after Tehran had launched two missiles toward the island.\nPowerful explos... [2282 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk4nq00fkbg",
            "image": "https://ynet-pic1.yit.co.il/picserver6/crop_images/2022/06/13/r1g6FpVtc/r1g6FpVtc_1_218_3000_1689_0_large.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-02T02:25:39Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "179cfeb8d2cd0b1b229ae6f2db87e23e",
                "name": "Ynetnews",
                "url": "https://www.ynetnews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2a8daa49257a80fed8b04cc205977420",
            "title": "RAF responding to suspected drone strike at UK base in Cyprus, MoD says",
            "description": "The BBC understands there were no casualties in the suspected strike on RAF Akrotiri.",
            "content": "49 minutes ago\nChris Graham\nA British RAF base in Cyprus was targeted by a \"suspected drone strike\" on Sunday night, the Ministry of Defence has said.\nThe MoD said the armed forces were responding to the attack at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus at around mid... [2214 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2r0q310e3o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/ec37/live/0bb8b690-15d8-11f1-b048-c9424b2cf5fd.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-02T01:18:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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