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Iran has asked for technical help on black boxes in downed plane
Iran needs technical assistance from France and the United States to analyze data from the Ukrainian jetliner that was accidentally shot down, says a preliminary report r...
Jan 21, 2020
St. John's still digging out and James Dean back to life; In The News for Jan. 21
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. 21 ... What we are wa...
Jan 21, 2020
Meng extradition case back in court for second day on double criminality test
VANCOUVER - The second day of a court hearing gets underway today in Vancouver over a request from the United States to extradite an executive of the Chinese telecom giant Huawei o...
Jan 21, 2020
Fire at Czech asylum for mentally ill kills 8 patients
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - A fire swept through a Czech asylum for the mentally ill on Sunday, killing eight male patients, officials said. Prokop Volenik, spokesman for the regional rescue service, sai...
Jan 21, 2020
New federal climate think tank looking for a pathway to zero emissions
OTTAWA - A new climate change think tank funded by the federal government says Canadians should expect to face the harsh realities of a changing climate even under the most aggressive global effo...
Jan 21, 2020
Evacuations in Cologne before World War II bomb defusing
BERLIN - A train station, an opera house, a TV station and several apartments were to be evacuated in the western German city of Cologne on Tuesday as as experts prepared to defuse an unexploded Ameri...
Jan 21, 2020
Liberal priorities for minority Parliament, NAFTA ratification, assault rifle ban
WINNIPEG - Ratifying the new North American Free Trade Agreement will be a top priority for the Trudeau government when Parliament resumes next week. Legislation to ban military-style assault rifles w...
Jan 21, 2020
State of emergency in St. John's, N.L., reaches Day 5 after massive blizzard
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - It's now Day 5 of the state of emergency in the St. John's, N.L., as cleanup continues from Friday's massive blizzard that dumped 76 centimetres of snow in the area. Defence Mi...
Jan 21, 2020
Prison service trying to better understand the needs of black offenders
OTTAWA - Canada's prison service is working to better understand the needs of black offenders, a community whose overrepresentation in federal custody is second only to Indige...
Jan 21, 2020
Chinese sentences ex-boss of Interpol to 13 years for bribes
BEIJING - China has sentenced the former president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, to 13 years and six months in prison on charges of accepting more than $2 million in bribes. Meng was elected president of...
Jan 21, 2020