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Exclusion of mental illness in assisted dying-bill slammed by psychiatrists
OTTAWA - The federal bill revising the rules on medically assisted death in Canada has raised the ire of the Canadian Psychiatric Association over the proposed law's explicit rejection of mental illne...
Nov 22, 2020
Man killed in shark attack in Western Australia state
SYDNEY, Australia - A man died Sunday after being attacked by a shark in Western Australia state, the eighth fatality in the country this year. Police were called to Cable Beach, a popular tourist spo...
Nov 22, 2020
Nigerian soldiers had live ammo during deadly protest
LAGOS, Nigeria - The Nigerian Army has admitted for the first time that soldiers were given live bullets when they went to disperse a large crowd at the Lekki Toll Plaza in Lagos, where several peacef...
Nov 22, 2020
Polls open in Burkina Faso for election marred by violence
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - Voters went to the polls Sunday in Burkina Faso for a presidential and legislative election that have been marred by ongoing extremist violence in this landlocked West Afri...
Nov 22, 2020
UK leader to end England's coronavirus lockdown on Dec. 2
LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to end an England-wide lockdown as scheduled on Dec. 2 and will announce a return to regional restrictions as statistics show that coronavirus infec...
Nov 22, 2020
Äzerbaijanis who fled war look to return home, if it exists
BAKU, Azerbaijan - As Azerbaijan regains control of land it lost to Armenian forces a quarter-century ago, civilians who fled the fighting decades ago wonder if they can go back home now - and if ther...
Nov 22, 2020
Angst around French language boils over in Quebec, as politicians warn of 'decline'
MONTREAL - Perennial anxieties around the state of the French language in Quebec have boiled over in the past week, with politicians seizing on a Liberal legislator's initial brush-off of the issue as...
Nov 22, 2020
Canada's first Indigenous-led coast guard auxiliary patrols B.C.'s rugged coast
VICTORIA - The winds were gusting at 110 kilometres per hour and huge waves were ripping boats from their moorings in Bella Bella, B.C., as a report came in of an overturned vessel with at least one p...
Nov 22, 2020
Report: Serge Ibaka leaves Toronto Raptors, joins Los Angeles Clippers as free agent
Free agent centre Serge Ibaka has reportedly signed a deal with the Los Angeles Clippers. Ibaka signed a two-year contract worth $19 million with a player option in the second season, according to rep...
Nov 21, 2020
Fred Sasakamoose, one of NHL's first Indigenous players, "presumed" COVID-19 positive
Fred Sasakamoose, one of the first Indigenous athletes to play in the National Hockey League, has been hospitalized over a presumed positive COVID-19 test. Sasakamoose's condition was first revealed t...
Nov 21, 2020