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Homes, women workers and mental health: three ways politics mattered this week
OTTAWA - Is it a price or is it a tax? When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau inadvertently used the Conservatives’ favoured word “tax” to describe this week’s new measures on gree...
Oct 08, 2016
German police blow up explosives stashed in raided apartment
BERLIN - German investigators found several hundred grams of “highly volatile” explosives in an apartment they raided Saturday in the eastern city of Chemnitz as they sought a Syrian man s...
Oct 08, 2016
11 suspected Islamist militants killed in Bangladesh raids
NEW DELHI - Security forces in Bangladesh killed at least 11 suspected militants in three separate raids Saturday in an ongoing crackdown against Islamic extremism in the South Asian nation, a top gov...
Oct 08, 2016
Islamist PJD party wins new mandate in Moroccan elections
RABAT, Morocco - The moderate Islamist Party of Justice and Development has won Morocco’s national elections, according to official results released Saturday, despite frustration with its handli...
Oct 08, 2016
No winning ticket for Friday night's $10 million Lotto Max jackpot
TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $10 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for next Friday’s draw will be approximately $16 million. The Canadian Press
Oct 08, 2016
Ha Na Jang shoots 62, takes 6-shot lead in LPGA Taiwan; Henderson sits fourth
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Ha Na Jang shot a 10-under 62 in calmer conditions Saturday at rainy Miramar to take a six-stroke lead in the Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship. Chasing her third victory of the year, th...
Oct 08, 2016
Billy Bush under fire along with Trump for lewd comments
LOS ANGELES - First it was Ryan Lochte lying about being robbed in Rio, and now it’s Donald Trump’s startlingly lewd videotaped comments. For the second time in less than two months, TV pe...
Oct 08, 2016
Hurricane's blow was less than feared; 'We are blessed'
CHARLESTON, S.C. - A weakening Hurricane Matthew lashed Georgia and the Carolinas on Saturday in what appeared to be the last leg of its march up the East Coast, leaving in its wake millions of Americ...
Oct 08, 2016
2 bombers blow themselves up after police stop in Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up after refusing to surrender to police during an operation in the outskirts of the capital Ankara Saturday, a senior official said. No one else w...
Oct 07, 2016
Transcript of Trump statement on comments from 2005
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s statement regarding his comments in a 2005 recording released Friday, as transcribed from the video by The Associated Press: I’ve never said ...
Oct 07, 2016