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Countries worldwide hit new records for virus cases, deaths
Ambulances filled with breathless patients lined up in Brazil as nations around the world set new records Thursday for COVID-19 deaths and new coronavirus infections. The disease surged even in some c...
Apr 09, 2021
Myanmar junta limits internet, seizes satellite TV dishes
YANGON, Myanmar - An information blackout under Myanmar's military junta worsened Thursday as fiber broadband service, the last legal way for ordinary people to access the internet, became intermitten...
Apr 09, 2021
Events in the long life of Britain's Prince Philip
LONDON - 1921: Prince Philip is born on the Greek island of Corfu, the only son of Prince Andrew, younger brother of the king of Greece. His mother is Princess Alice of Battenberg. 1922: The family re...
Apr 09, 2021
Britain mourns Prince Philip; leaders honour service to Queen
LONDON - Britain mourned the death of Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, on Friday as the BBC interrupted scheduled programming to broadcast the national anthem, "God Save the Queen." T...
Apr 09, 2021
Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, dies aged 99
LONDON - Prince Philip, the irascible and tough-minded husband of Queen Elizabeth II who spent more than seven decades supporting his wife in a role that both defined and constricted his life, has die...
Apr 09, 2021
Japan imposes new virus measures in Tokyo ahead of Olympics
TOKYO - Japan announced Friday that it will raise the coronavirus alert level in Tokyo to allow tougher measures to curb the rapid spread of a more contagious variant ahead of the Summer Olympics. Jap...
Apr 09, 2021
Japan imposes new virus measures in Tokyo ahead of Olympics
TOKYO - Japan announced Friday that it will raise the coronavirus alert level in Tokyo to allow tougher measures to curb the rapid spread of a more contagious variant ahead of the Summer Olympics. Jap...
Apr 09, 2021
Liberals, NDP gather for online conventions; volcano watch: In The News for April 9
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 April 9 ...What we are watching in Canada ...T...
Apr 09, 2021
Alberta must retract Forest Act before it becomes law: Treaty 8 grand chief
EDMONTON - The Alberta government must pull back its new Forest Act before it becomes law next month, says the grand chief of the province's northern First Nations. "We expect the province to suspend ...
Apr 09, 2021
US-Russian trio blast off on mission to space station
MOSCOW - A Russian-U.S. trio of space travellers launched successfully Friday, heading for the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyot...
Apr 09, 2021