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Fri, 9 Apr 2021 07:22:20 EDTPrince Philip's funeral will be held April 17, palace announces
Sat, 10 Apr 2021 19:32:43 EDTAsh-covered St. Vincent braces for more volcanic eruptions
People who ignored an initial warning to evacuate the area closest to a volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent raced to get clear Saturday, a day after it erupted with an explosion tha...
Fri, 9 Apr 2021 21:32:57 EDTStress from police restraint 'more than Mr. Floyd could take,' chief medical officer testifies
Restraint used by police on George Floyd was too much for his underlying heart condition and caused the death of the 46-year-old Black man, the local county's chief medical officer told a Minneapolis ...
Fri, 9 Apr 2021 04:00:00 EDTBrazil poses global health threat as its hospitals buckle under COVID-19, experts warn
With new variants pushing ICUs past their limits, experts are warning that Brazil's soaring COVID-19 infection rates have become a global public health threat.
Fri, 9 Apr 2021 12:50:23 EDTRapper DMX dead at 50 after several days on life support
DMX — the raspy-voiced rapper whose success spanned both decades and genres — has died at the age of 50. A statement from relatives Friday said he died with family by his side.
Fri, 9 Apr 2021 18:15:16 EDTGreta Thunberg to boycott UN climate conference, citing COVID-19 vaccine inequality
Climate activist Greta Thunberg criticized nations she said were unwilling to share vaccines with those that have little access to the drugs.
Sat, 10 Apr 2021 14:01:42 EDTHow Prince Philip, like Prince Albert, was a pillar of support to his Queen and the monarchy
What the death of Prince Philip, known as Queen Elizabeth's "strength and stay," will mean for the Queen and the Royal Family has some historians and experts looking to the past to draw parallels to Q...
Fri, 9 Apr 2021 12:10:17 EDTBoeing tells some 737 Max customers to address possible electrical issue
Airlines pulled dozens of Boeing Max 737s out of service for inspections after the aircraft maker told them about a possible electrical problem, the latest setback for the plane.
Fri, 9 Apr 2021 09:05:42 EDTCoronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Friday
Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam said the spread of more contagious coronavirus variants is driving a strong resurgence of the virus in many parts of the country.
Thu, 8 Apr 2021 21:36:00 EDTHow Canadian designed tugboats helped free the Ever Given from the Suez Canal
Some of the tugboats that helped free the Ever Given, one of the world's largest cargo ships, from the Suez Canal were designed in Vancouver. The architects who designed them explain how powerful thes...
Thu, 8 Apr 2021 15:10:13 EDTGeorge Floyd died of oxygen loss, not pre-existing conditions or overdose, prosecution experts say
George Floyd's pre-existing medical conditions and drugs in his system had nothing to do with his death, two medical experts for the prosecution testified at Derek Chauvin's murder trial Thursday. Ra...
Thu, 8 Apr 2021 04:00:00 EDTJim Crow 2.0 or no big deal: Here's what's in that hotly debated Georgia voting law
Georgia is now the epicentre of a heated U.S. battle over ballot access. But what exactly is in its controversial voting law? Here's a look at a bill that, depending on who you talk to, is either a ne...
Thu, 8 Apr 2021 17:00:12 EDTThe U.K.'s policy on overseas pensions is costing Canadian taxpayers
The U.K. government excludes its pensioners living in Canada from the indexing that would allow their incomes to keep pace with inflation. Pensioners say the policy is discriminatory, the federal gove...
Thu, 8 Apr 2021 19:06:11 EDTNFL veteran Phillip Adams killed 5, then himself
Former NFL player Phillip Adams fatally shot five people including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two grandchildren before later killing himself, authorities said Thursday.
Thu, 8 Apr 2021 14:12:06 EDTBiden announces gun-control actions following spate of mass shootings in U.S.
U.S. President Joe Biden, in his first gun control measures since taking office, announced a half-dozen executive actions Thursday aimed at addressing a proliferation of gun violence across the nation...
Thu, 8 Apr 2021 18:08:31 EDT11 demonstrators slain in Myanmar amid clashes with security forces
At least 11 demonstrators were killed in clashes with security forces in a town in northwest Myanmar after truckloads of troops arrived to quell a protest against the ruling military junta, domestic m...
Thu, 8 Apr 2021 08:45:22 EDTNorthern Ireland leaders urge calm after night of violence
Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm Thursday after Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other. It was the worst m...
Thu, 8 Apr 2021 07:08:47 EDTFrench Open postponed to May 30 amid COVID-19 crisis
This year's French Open has been postponed by a week due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will begin on May 30, the French Tennis Federation (FFT) said on Thursday.
Wed, 7 Apr 2021 14:37:06 EDTJailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny has spinal hernias, losing sensation in hands, lawyer says
A lawyer for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has complained of serious back and leg pain in custody, says prison doctors have determined his client is suffering from two spin...
Wed, 7 Apr 2021 18:18:13 EDTMyanmar's U.K. ambassador locked out of London embassy in apparent 'coup' by his own deputy
Kyaw Zwar Minn, Myanmar's ambassador to the United Kingdom, told Reuters he was locked out of the London embassy on Wednesday, with sources saying his deputy had shut him out of the building and taken...