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Screen Actors Guild Awards might not offer Oscars preview

Scarlett Johansson and Nicole Kidman will have two chances to win Sunday night at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards, while the night's top movie winner may offer a forecast of the Academy Awards. Am...

Jan 19, 2020

Canada to give $25,000 to families of each Canadian who died on Flight PS752

OTTAWA - Families of the Canadian victims on the Ukrainian passenger jet shot down over Iran last week will receive $25,000 each to help with immediate costs they have for travel or funerals, Prime Mi...

Jan 19, 2020

Fire kills 8 at asylum for mentally ill in Czech Republic

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - A fire official says eight people have been killed in a fire at an asylum for the mentally ill in the Czech Republic. Prokop Volenik, spokesman for the regional rescue service...

Jan 19, 2020

Ukrainian president rejects prime minister's resignation

KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy rejected his prime minister's offer to resign and asked him to stay on the job Friday after he was caught on tape saying Zelenskiy - a former si...

Jan 19, 2020

Royal rift: UK monarchy will look smaller when dust settles

LONDON - Prince Charles, the future king, has long been seen as a potential modernizer who wants a more modest monarchy in line with other European royal households - and the streamlining process has ...

Jan 19, 2020

World's biggest yearly human migration begins again in China

BEIJING - As the Lunar New Year approaches, Chinese travellers flocked to train stations and airports Friday to take part in a nationwide ritual: the world's biggest annual human migration. Around 3 b...

Jan 18, 2020

Trump campaign tries robust outreach to expand his appeal

WASHINGTON - Selfies on a "Women for Trump" bus tour through Iowa. Volunteer training at a "Black Voices for Trump" organizing session in Philadelphia. A vice-presidential headliner at a "Latinos for ...

Jan 18, 2020

China reports 2nd death from virus behind pneumonia outbreak

BEIJING - A second person has died from a new coronavirus that has caused an outbreak of pneumonia in central China, health authorities said. A 69-year-old man surnamed Xiong fell ill with the respira...

Jan 18, 2020

Mexico readies for Central American migrants at south border

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico - Border security forces in southern Mexico were preparing Friday for the expected arrival of hundreds of Central Americans travelling through Guatemala and vowed to prevent a r...

Jan 18, 2020

Iran's top leader strikes defiant tone amid month of turmoil

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's supreme leader lashed out at Western countries as he led Friday prayers in Tehran for the first time in eight years, dismissing "American clowns" who he said pretend to support t...

Jan 18, 2020