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Iraqi officials: At least 8 shot dead in southern Iraq
BAGHDAD - At least eight anti-government protesters were shot dead and 52 were wounded in clashes with followers of a radical Shiite cleric in southern Iraq on Wednesday, Iraqi medical officials and a...
Feb 07, 2020
Almost $150 million in vaunted oceans-protection funding not spent
OTTAWA - Almost $150 million allocated to help protect Canada's oceans has gone unspent by the Trudeau government over the past two years. The Liberals have touted their $1.5-billion oceans protection...
Feb 07, 2020
Oscar Predictions: Can 'Parasite' upset '1917'?
NEW YORK - Ahead of Sunday's 92nd Academy Awards, Associated Press Film Writer Jake Coyle shares his predictions for a ceremony with a lot of locks but the potential for a few surprises. BEST PICTURE ...
Feb 07, 2020
Sen. Mitt Romney breaks with GOP, votes to convict Trump
WASHINGTON - Republican Mitt Romney, establishment to the core, took the Senate's most brazenly rebellious stance Wednesday in voting to force President Donald Trump from office, a move highlighting h...
Feb 07, 2020
Airliner skids, breaks open in Istanbul; 3 dead, 179 injured
ISTANBUL - A Turkish airliner skidded off a runway, crashed into a ditch and broke apart while landing in bad weather in Istanbul Wednesday, killing three people and injuring dozens more. Passengers h...
Feb 07, 2020
Snakebit! Bullmastiff heals, heads to Westminster Dog Show
NEW YORK - Whatever got a piece of gentle Titus in the North Carolina brush, it was trouble. Co-owner Cassandra Carpenter reckons it was a pygmy rattlesnake. Veterinarian Jess Hunter figures it could'...
Feb 07, 2020
Manslaughter charges in hit-and-run accident that killed 2
MOORE, Okla. - A man accused of striking and killing two suburban Oklahoma City high school cross-country runners who were running on a sidewalk was charged Friday with manslaughter in the deaths. Max...
Feb 07, 2020
Second ride-hailing service approved for Vancouver Island, unknown if coming to Nanaimo
NANAIMO - Being able to catch a ride in something other than a taxi in Nanaimo is closer to being a reality.The Passenger Transportation Board announced on Friday, Feb. 7 it approved the company Kabu ...
Feb 07, 2020 Kabu has been approved by the Passenger Transportation Board for operation on Vancouver Island, however it is not known if it plans to green-light cars in Nanaimo (Alex Rawnsley/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Fire keeping investigators away from train derailment in rural Saskatchewan
GUERNSEY, Sask. - The Transportation Safety Board says a fire continues to burn at the site of a train derailment in Saskatchewan and investigators can't access the site. It says one investigator...
Feb 07, 2020
Alberta uninterested in federal 'handout' if Teck mine rejected: Nixon
CALGARY - Alberta's environment minister says the province is not interested in any federal handout if Ottawa rejects the proposed Frontier oilsands mine. A Reuters report, citing unidentified sources...
Feb 07, 2020