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Iran newspapers, minister criticize US arrest of newscaster
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iran kept up its criticism Thursday of the FBI’s apparent arrest of an American anchorwoman from Iran’s state-run English-language TV channel, with its foreig...
Jan 17, 2019
Spain: Technical setbacks slow search for boy in deep hole
MADRID - Spanish rescuers on the fourth day of a frantic race to reach a 2-year-old boy trapped in a borehole clung to hope of finding the toddler alive despite massive setbacks in getting to the bott...
Jan 17, 2019
Trump says US will develop space-based missile defence
WASHINGTON - Moving to protect the U.S. from advanced missile threats from China and Russia, President Donald Trump on Thursday laid out plans for a new array of space-based sensors and other high-tec...
Jan 17, 2019
Montreal Impact sign Argentine striker Maxi Urruti to new three-year deal
MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact have signed Argentine striker Maximiliano Urruti to a new three-year contract, with an option year for 2022. The Impact acquired the 27-year-old Urruti from FC Dallas in...
Jan 17, 2019
Freeland condemns killers of Canadian mining executive found dead in Africa
HALIFAX - Canadian officials are condemning the killers of a Halifax mining executive praised as a much-loved family man and highly talented geologist with a knack for spotting producing mines. Kirk W...
Jan 17, 2019
Trump grounds Pelosi after she imperils his big speech
WASHINGTON - She imperiled his State of the Union address. He denied her a plane to visit troops abroad. The shutdown battle between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is playing ou...
Jan 17, 2019
AP Exclusive: UN health chief orders probe into misconduct
LONDON - The head of the World Health Organization has ordered an internal investigation into allegations the U.N. health agency is rife with racism, sexism and corruption, after a series of anonymous...
Jan 17, 2019
Angry rhetoric blamed for vandalism at UCP MLA's office
ST. PAUL, Alta. – An Alberta United Conservative member is cleaning up after rocks were thrown through the windows of his constituency office in an act he says was partly to blame on inflamed ND...
Jan 17, 2019
Journalist in Ghana who exposed soccer corruption shot dead
ACCRA, Ghana - An investigative journalist in Ghana who helped expose a high-ranking official at world soccer body FIFA as corrupt was shot dead by gunmen on a motorbike as he drove home alone at nigh...
Jan 17, 2019
Police thought Dennis Oland might flee after his father's murder, trial told
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Police believed that Dennis Oland, the prime suspect in the murder of his father, Richard, was a flight risk and that is why they tried to rush evidence through the RCMP crime lab. ...
Jan 17, 2019