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Condo developers offer free wine, avocado toast to woo buyers in slowing market
VANCOUVER - It wasn't that long ago that prospective homebuyers in Vancouver would line up for hours to get into condo presale events or face off in heated bidding wars for a chance to ...
Jun 09, 2019
'It's not about popularity': Trudeau, Macron meet in Paris amid lagging polls
PARIS - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday defended their shared efforts to ease the worries of their citizens, denounced those seeking to capitalize on such ...
Jun 09, 2019
Spike Lee calls for Hollywood to 'shut it down' in Georgia
LOS ANGELES - Director Spike Lee is calling for Hollywood production companies to leave Georgia over a law that would ban abortions as early as six weeks, upon detection of a fetal heartbeat. Most stu...
Jun 09, 2019
6 dead in storms and floods in southeastern China
BEIJING - Six people have died and one is missing after heavy rains and flooding in southeastern China, the official Xinhua News Agency said Sunday. Xinhua said that 88,000 people have been evacuated ...
Jun 09, 2019
Pope laments current "culture of insults," church propaganda
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has lamented what he calls today's "culture of insults" in the world. In his homily during Pentecost Mass Sunday in St. Peter's Square, Francis also decried that "the more ...
Jun 09, 2019
G-20 finance officials pledge to protect global growth
FUKUOKA, Japan - Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 major economies wrapped up a meeting in Japan on Sunday with a pledge to use all the policies they can to protect global...
Jun 09, 2019
Huge extradition law protest fills Hong Kong streets
HONG KONG - A sea of protesters was marching through central Hong Kong on Sunday in a major demonstration against government-sponsored legislation that would allow people to be extradited to mainland ...
Jun 09, 2019
US-Mexico deal offers few new solutions, political victory
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's deal to avert his threatened tariffs on Mexico includes few new solutions to swiftly stem the surge of Central American migrants flowing over America's southern b...
Jun 09, 2019
Inuit plan says climate change can't be separated from social issues
INUVIK, N.W.T. - Climate change affects all parts of life in the North and any plan to deal with it must be just as wide-ranging, says a strategy document released Friday by Canada's Inuit. "This...
Jun 09, 2019
'Dr. John,' funky New Orleans 'night-tripper' musician, dies
NEW ORLEANS - Dr. John, the New Orleans singer and piano player who blended black and white musical styles with a hoodoo-infused stage persona and gravelly bayou drawl, died Thursday, his family said....
Jun 08, 2019