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Wildfire crews watching for dangerous wind shift in High Level, Alta.
HIGH LEVEL, Alta. - Crews battling an enormous wildfire just outside the small northern Alberta town of High Level are bracing for what could be a dangerous wind shift today. The Chuckegg Creek fire i...
May 26, 2019
Montreal native Auger-Aliassime drops out of French Open
PARIS - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime has pulled out of the French Open because of injury. The 18-year-old Montreal native said he was not at his best physically on Saturday after losing in the Lyon ...
May 26, 2019
Wind Expected to Fuel Wildfire near High Level
GRANDE PRAIRIE -- Sunday could be a critical day in efforts to battle the massive wildfire south of High Level.The fire, which has now grown in size to 1,050 square kms, is still 3km southwest of the ...
May 26, 2019 Photo courtesy Alberta Agriculture and Forestry
Fire in tutoring centre kills 19 students in western India
NEW DELHI - At least 19 teenage students were killed in a fire that broke out Friday in a tutoring centre in the western Indian city of Surat, a top state official said. More than a dozen students wer...
May 26, 2019
Conservatives urge Liberals to expedite promised relief for canola farmers
OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives said Thursday they're hearing from frustrated canola producers who are still waiting for financial relief recently promised by the Liberal government.Canola producer...
May 26, 2019 Canola - The Canadian Press
By George! Princess Charlotte to attend school with brother
LONDON - The first day of school can be stressful but Princess Charlotte will have her older brother there to lean on. Kensington Palace said Friday that 4-year-old Charlotte will join her brother Pri...
May 26, 2019
3-time Grand Slam champion Kerber loses opener in Paris
PARIS - Angelique Kerber won't complete a career Grand Slam this year. Still hampered by a right ankle injury, the three-time Grand Slam winner lost in the first round of the French Open on Sunday as ...
May 26, 2019
Kenyan court upholds laws criminalizing same-sex relations
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya's High Court on Friday upheld sections of the penal code that criminalize same-sex relations, a disappointment for gay rights activists across Africa where dozens of countries h...
May 26, 2019
Some facts and figures about the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944
OTTAWA - Some facts and figures about the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944: TARGET: Allies land on French channel coast along five Normandy beaches stretching about 80 kilometres west from R...
May 26, 2019
Magnitude 8 earthquake strikes Amazon jungle in Peru
LIMA, Peru - A powerful magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck a remote part of the Amazon jungle in Peru early Sunday, collapsing buildings and knocking out power to some areas but causing no reported death...
May 26, 2019