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Tue, 23 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Key allies watching closely to see how Canada handles sexual misconduct claims against Vance, McDonald
Canada may have the unfortunate distinction of being the first country to face the possibility of trying its top military commander — and possibly its former top general — for sexual misconduct of...

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 04:00:13 EDT
At U.S.-Mexico border, a new U.S. president spurs hope and rush to enter
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has warned asylum seekers against trying to enter the country, but that has not deterred desperate migrants who are flocking the border in the belief his go...

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 21:07:28 EDT
10 people, including police officer, killed in Colorado supermarket shooting
A shooting at a crowded Colorado supermarket that killed 10 people, including the first police officer to arrive, sent terrorized shoppers and workers scrambling for safety and stunned a state that ha...

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:00:47 EDT
Netanyahu tries to inoculate himself against defeat as Israel's voters head to polls in pandemic
As Israel holds its fourth election in two years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads the right-wing Likud party, is currently on trial in three separate cases involving fraud, breach of trus...

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:30:11 EDT
At least 137 people killed in villages near Niger's border with Mali
Gunmen aboard motorcycles have attacked a series of villages near Niger's troubled border with Mali, leaving at least 137 people dead in the deadliest violence to strike the African country in recent ...

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:35:22 EDT
Michael Kovrig's closed trial in China
The trial of Canadian Michael Kovrig, who has been held in China for more than two years on espionage charges, wrapped up in a closed Beijing courtroom on Monday with the verdict to be announced at an...

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:26:37 EDT
Australia floods drive thousands from their homes, with more rain on the way
Hundreds of people have been rescued from floodwaters that have isolated dozens of towns in Australia's most populous state New South Wales and forced thousands to evacuate their homes as record rain ...

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:43:32 EDT
AstraZeneca says U.S. trial data shows 79% efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19
AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine provided strong protection against disease and complete protection against hospitalization and death across all age groups in a late-stage U.S. study, the company announ...

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:49:35 EDT
Trial of Michael Kovrig concludes with verdict to come later, Chinese court says
The Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court held a trial for Canadian Michael Kovrig on Monday and said it will set a date later for the verdict.

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
CRA sending details of bank accounts to IRS that don't have to be reported
The Canada Revenue Agency has been reporting hundreds of thousands of Canadian bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service, despite the fact that they fall below the mandatory reporting level provi...

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 05:00:00 EDT
800-year-old moccasin connects Dene migrants to the American southwest
A strap of bison leather on a distinctly subarctic Dene moccasin in the 13th century suggests early Dene migrants from northwestern America travelled closer to the Apache and Navajo homelands than pre...

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Jews in Russian city scarred by WWII massacre watch Canada's decision on Nazi interpreter
As Canadian immigration officials decide the fate of an interpreter who worked for the Nazis, the Jewish community of a Russian city, decimated by the unit he worked for, is watching.

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 02:39:34 EDT
Miami Beach extends COVID-19 curfew in bid to control rowdy spring break crowds
Miami Beach officials voted on Sunday to extend an 8 p.m. curfew and emergency powers for up to three weeks to help control unruly and mostly maskless crowds that have converged on the party destinati...

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 20:03:10 EDT
'We are not the virus': Hundreds rally against anti-Asian racism in Atlanta
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Saturday in support of the Asian American community after a shooting at three local day spas this week left eight peo...

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 13:13:45 EDT
Turkey exits European treaty designed to protect women from violence
Turkey withdrew early Saturday from a landmark European treaty protecting women from violence that it was the first to sign 10 years ago and that bears the name of its largest city.

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:47:18 EDT
Prince Harry pens message for grieving children who lost parents to COVID-19 pandemic
Britain's Prince Harry has written the foreword for a new book aimed at the children of front-line workers who died in the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing the pain he suffered as a boy after the death of h...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:39:00 EDT
Bolsonaro tells Brazilians to 'stop whining' as COVID-19 death toll rises
Brazil has entered the deadliest phase of the pandemic so far, with the daily death toll exceeding 2,000 on some days this past week. But the government is still downplaying the disaster, and Presiden...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:38:00 EDT
Europe sees a 3rd wave of COVID-19, propelled by variants
European leaders address concerns about the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine by getting the shot amid a third wave of the coronavirus, much of it propelled by variants.

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 19:13:01 EDT
LeBron James out indefinitely after sustaining high right ankle sprain
LeBron James left in the second quarter with a high right ankle sprain that the Lakers said will sideline him indefinitely, as Los Angeles lost 99-94 to the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:53:39 EDT
White House confirms it is sending vaccines to Canada
Canada is about to get a big boost in vaccine doses, with a first cross-border shipment from the United States. The deal is equivalent to more than a one-third boost in total doses administered in Can...



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