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Community groups receive first round of anti-racism grants
EDMONTON — Thrity-three organizations across Alberta are receiving funds for the first time through the province’s Anti-racism Community Grants More than $2 million was committed to groups...
Jan 28, 2019
Trump doubts negotiators will strike budget deal he'd accept
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said the odds congressional negotiators will craft a deal to end his border wall standoff with Congress are “less than 50-50.” As hundreds of thousands ...
Jan 28, 2019
UN rights envoy comes to Turkey to study Khashoggi killing
ISTANBUL - A U.N. human rights expert has arrived in Turkey for a weeklong visit over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard and her team of experts on ext...
Jan 28, 2019
French police investigate theft of Banksy art at Bataclan
PARIS - A French judicial official says police are investigating the theft of an artwork by the British artist Banksy that was painted as a tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attacks at the Bat...
Jan 28, 2019
UK leader under new pressure to secure EU Brexit concessions
LONDON - Pro-Brexit British lawmakers were mounting a campaign Monday to rescue Prime Minister Theresa May’s rejected European Union divorce deal in a parliamentary showdown, as major retailers ...
Jan 28, 2019
Singapore says American leaked 14,200 HIV records
Singapore’s health ministry accused an American on Monday of stealing and leaking the records of 14,200 people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, before January 2013. It said Mikhy K...
Jan 28, 2019
Danes erect fence on German border to stop swine fever
COPENHAGEN - Denmark has begun erecting a 70-kilometre (43.4-mile) fence along the German border to keep out wild boars in an attempt to prevent the spread of African swine fever, which could jeopardi...
Jan 28, 2019
Duterte sees bombed church, tells army to crush Abu Sayyaf
MANILA, Philippines - President Rodrigo Duterte and his top security officials on Monday visited a Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines where suspected Islamic militants set off bombs that k...
Jan 28, 2019
Searchers probe deep mud from Brazil dam breach; 65 dead
BRUMADINHO, Brazil - Brazilian firefighters and Israeli rescue workers poked sticks into treacherous mud Monday looking for bodies as pressure mounted on the mining company responsible for a dam that ...
Jan 28, 2019
No more coal investments for Export Development Canada, new policy says
OTTAWA - Canada’s export-development bank is getting entirely out of the coal game but will continue to fund the oil-and-gas sector as the world transitions towards cleaner sources of energy. Ex...
Jan 28, 2019