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Medicago reports promising early Phase 1 test results of possible COVID-19 vaccine
QUEBEC - Medicago says it has received promising early test results for its plant-derived vaccine for COVID-19. The Quebec City-based company says interim results of a Phase 1 clinical trial found tha...
Nov 10, 2020
COVID-19 case identified at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Alberta Health Services has confirmed a case of COVID-19 at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute.Contact tracing is underway and close contacts are being instructed to quarantine immediate...
Nov 10, 2020
Three go on trial for deadly 2017 Barcelona terror attacks
MADRID - Three people went on trial Tuesday in Spain for their alleged roles in terror attacks around Barcelona that killed 16 people and injured 140 others in 2017. The three - Driss Oukabir, Mohamed...
Nov 10, 2020
Vatican faults many for McCarrick's rise but spares pope
ROME - A Vatican investigation into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has found that a series of bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed reports that he slept with seminarians, and determine...
Nov 10, 2020
COVID-19 results in changes to Remembrance Day ceremonies
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Remembrance Day is going to look a little different in Lethbridge this year.Due to COVID-19, there will be no large ceremony like in years past, with crows of residence gathering toge...
Nov 10, 2020
Possible changes coming to Lethbridge digitally
LETHBRIDGE, AB- At Monday's (November 9) Community Issues Committee, it was noted some potential changes may be coming to the city's virtual infrastructure.The presentation to councillors of the Digit...
Nov 10, 2020
EU files antitrust charges against Amazon over use of data
LONDON - European Union regulators have filed antitrust charges against Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of using data to gain an unfair advantage over merchants using its platform. The EU's exec...
Nov 10, 2020
COVID may have reversed decline in Canadian trust in scientists, survey says
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic may have boosted failing public trust in science and scientists, a new survey has found. "I think it's fantastic that we see the decline in skepticism about science ...
Nov 10, 2020
Mali's former president Amadou Toumani Toure dies at 72
BAMAKO, Mali - Mali's former president Amadou Toumani Toure has died at the age of 72. Senegalese President Macky Sall on Tuesday confirmed the death of the former leader on Twitter. Mali's government...
Nov 10, 2020
Erekat, longtime spokesman for the Palestinians, dies at 65
JERUSALEM - Saeb Erekat, a veteran peace negotiator and prominent international spokesman for the Palestinians for more than three decades, died on Tuesday, weeks after being infected by the coronavir...
Nov 10, 2020