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New Brunswick government reinstates French immersion in first grade
FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government is reinstating French immersion in Grade 1, starting in September 2017. The change was a Liberal campaign promise in 2014. “We are delivering on our pr...
Sep 30, 2016
World leaders and his family eulogize Israel's Shimon Peres
JERUSALEM - Former Israeli President Shimon Peres was buried Friday after a funeral attended by scores of world leaders and dignitaries. He died earlier this week aged 93, after suffering a stroke. Pe...
Sep 30, 2016
Obama: Peres won his wars but understood the need for peace
JERUSALEM - President Barack Obama hailed Shimon Peres Friday as a man who showed the world that justice and hope are at the heart of the Zionist ideal and saw “all people as deserving of dignit...
Sep 30, 2016
3 Chinese fishermen dead after clash with SKorea coast guard
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Three Chinese fishermen likely died from smoke inhalation after a fire erupted when South Korean coast guard officers threw “flashbang” grenades into their boat...
Sep 30, 2016
South Korea picks new site for US missile defence system
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - A private golf course in South Korea’s southeast has been chosen as the new site for an advanced U.S. missile defence system to be deployed by the end of next year to...
Sep 30, 2016
Canada has been truly dominant during six-plus years of perfection
TORONTO - Five players from the last Canadian team to lose in the best-on-best format have retired. Another spent last season playing in Germany. Indeed, it’s been a while since Team Canada drop...
Sep 30, 2016
Samsung working with Health Canada to address potential risk from washers
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Samsung says it is working with Health Canada to address potential safety issues with certain top-loading, high-efficiency washing machines that can vibrate to the point where they...
Sep 30, 2016
Saudi Arabian border guard killed by shell fired from Yemen
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Authorities say a Saudi border guard has been killed by a shell fired from Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is battling Shiite rebels. Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki said in a statement Fr...
Sep 30, 2016
1 killed, 2 wounded in bomb attack in southeast Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s state-run news agency says Kurdish rebels have detonated a roadside bomb in southeastern Turkey as a military vehicle was passing by, killing a village guard and woundi...
Sep 30, 2016
Thailand confirms SE Asia's first Zika-linked birth defects
BANGKOK - Authorities in Thailand have confirmed that two cases of babies with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, were caused by the Zika virus, the first such cases found in Southeast Asia. Dr....
Sep 30, 2016