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Recycle your old electronics in Lethbridge this weekend at Ecycle Drive
LETHBRIDGE, AB - If you have any old electronics laying around the house or your office, you can drop them off at a few locations around Lethbridge to be recycled for free."Ecycle Drive diverts tens o...
Jan 10, 2020 (Supplied by Ecycle Drive)
Food drive to support Lethbridge family with five-year-old afflicted with cancer
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The people of Lethbridge will come together on Saturday, January 11th to help out a local family in need.Five-year-old Jennifer Ortega was diagnosed with a large cancerous tumour on h...
Jan 10, 2020 The Ortega family. (Supplied by LCO International)
Iraqi PM tells US to decide mechanism for troop withdrawal
BAGHDAD - Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi has told the U.S. secretary of state to send a delegation to Iraq tasked with formulating the mechanism for the withdrawal of U.S troops from Iraq, acco...
Jan 10, 2020
Iranian leader calls missile attack a 'slap' at US bases
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran struck back at the United States early Wednesday for killing its most powerful military commander, firing a barrage of ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases that house Ame...
Jan 10, 2020
Students from Canadian universities, families among plane crash victims in Iran
Newlyweds, a toddler and university students returning to their studies were among 138 people travelling to Canada who died Wednesday morning when a Ukrainian passenger plane crashed shortly...
Jan 10, 2020
Canada told to back crash allegations and a new $5 bill; In The News for Jan. 10
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 10: What we are watching i...
Jan 10, 2020
Car bomb kills 3, wounds 6 at checkpoint in Somali capital
NAIROBI, Kenya - A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint in Somalia's capital Wednesday morning, killing three people and wounding six others, a local official said. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremis...
Jan 10, 2020
Australian PM's leadership criticized during wildfire crisis
CANBERRA, Australia - As his country burned, Australia's prime minister was cursed and jeered out of a town, called an "idiot," a "moron" and worse, and skewered at home and abroad for his dismissive ...
Jan 10, 2020
Canadians unharmed in Iraq and out-of-this world cookies; In The News for Jan. 8
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 8: What we are watching in...
Jan 10, 2020
New poll suggests Tories know what they want in a new leader but not whom to pick
OTTAWA - A new poll finds Conservative voters are far more sure about what they want in a new leader for their party than they are about who should fill that job. A Leger Marketing survey suggest...
Jan 10, 2020