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Polls open across province for 42nd General Election
NANAIMO - Polls are open across the province for general voting.Following seven days of advance polling where turnout in the three mid-Island ridings was above 2017 tallies, Saturday is the final oppo...
Oct 24, 2020
Correction: Britain-UAE-Assault Allegations story
LONDON - In a story first published Oct. 18, 2020, about allegations against the tolerance minister of the United Arab Emirates, The Associated Press reported on a statement by Britain's Metropolitan ...
Oct 24, 2020
Guinean president wins a 3rd term, electoral commission says
CONAKRY, Guinea - Guinea's President Alpha Conde has won a third term with 59.49% of the vote, the National Independent Electoral Commission declared Saturday. Some people went to the streets to prote...
Oct 24, 2020
TV reporter goes missing in southern Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - A reporter working for Pakistan's leading Geo News television has gone missing in the southern port city of Karachi, family and colleagues said Saturday. Geo bureau chief in Karachi, Fahim...
Oct 24, 2020
Fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh goes on despite US mediation
Rocket and artillery barrage hit residential areas Saturday hours after the United States hosted top diplomats from Armenia and Azerbaijan for talks on settling their decades-long conflict over Nagorn...
Oct 24, 2020
Egypt's parliamentary vote likely to tighten leader's grip
CAIRO - Egyptians began voting Saturday in the first stage of a parliamentary election, a vote that is highly likely to produce a toothless House of Representatives packed with supporters of President...
Oct 24, 2020
American voters living in Canada increasingly being counted in presidential race
OTTAWA - Soon Jenny Wiebe will drive from her Fredericton home to the Maine town where she was born, to retrieve the mail-in ballot her parents are holding for her. The 55-year-old dual Canadian-U. S....
Oct 24, 2020
B.C. voters head to polling stations in snap election called during pandemic
Voters in British Columbia cast ballots today in an election campaign that was largely defined by the COVID-19 pandemic. NDP Leader John Horgan called the snap election one year before the fixed votin...
Oct 24, 2020
Poland's President Duda tests positive for coronavirus
WARSAW, Poland - Poland's President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for coronavirus, his spokesman said on Saturday. The spokesman, Blazej Spychalski, said on Twitter that the 48-year-old conservativ...
Oct 24, 2020
Correction: California Wildfires story
SAN FRANCISCO - In a story October 23, 2020, about possible California power cuts, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Pacific Gas & Electric will cut power to some 1 million people. Th...
Oct 24, 2020