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Pompeo meeting with Merkel cancelled over 'pressing issues'
BERLIN - The U.S. State Department says a planned meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chancellor Angela Merkel has been cancelled. Pompeo was due to meet Merkel and German Foreign ...
May 07, 2019
Maximum Security owner weighs options after disqualification
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Maximum Security co-owner Gary West criticized race stewards' disqualification of his horse's Kentucky Derby victory as "egregious" and said he was pondering his next step, including...
May 07, 2019
Pope urges migrant-skeptic Bulgarians to open hearts, homes
SOFIA, Bulgaria - Pope Francis urged Bulgarians on Sunday to open their hearts and homes to migrants, arguing that a country like Bulgaria, which is losing so much of its population to emigration, sho...
May 07, 2019
Kim oversees missile firing drills, tells troops to be alert
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean state media on Sunday showed leader Kim Jong Un observing live-fire drills of long-range multiple rocket launchers and what appeared to be a new short-range ba...
May 07, 2019
In the news today, May 7
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, May 7 --- UN REPORT HAS MESSAGE FOR CANADA: CO-AUTHOR A UN report that concludes a million species are threatened with extinction and that "fundamental,...
May 07, 2019
Inside the Met Gala: Feathers, bling and ideas about 'camp'
NEW YORK - The cocktail bar was shutting down, and guests were being encouraged to commence the elegant trek to dinner through the majestic halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But Joan Collins ha...
May 07, 2019
Exam question on climate change draws anger, memes from Quebec students
MONTREAL - Quebec high school students are criticizing a question on a government-administered French exam that asked them if society can adapt to the effects of cli...
May 07, 2019
MPs are no Einstein when it comes to misattributing famous quotes
OTTAWA - Canadian parliamentarians love to quote Albert Einstein's definition of insanity. No one more so than Liberal Sean Casey, who's cited the famous quotation purportedly from the accla...
May 07, 2019
Canada welcomes any U.S. help on dispute with China, says rural minister
OTTAWA - A Nova Scotia cabinet minister says the federal government would welcome any help the United States could offer in helping Canada in its ongoing dispute with China. Rural Economic Development...
May 07, 2019
Hearings begin today on Quebec's secularism bill as cracks appear in Liberal caucus
Renowned philosopher Charles Taylor will be among the first to speak during legislative hearings into Quebec's secularism bill that begin today in Quebec City. The Coalition Avenir Quebec governm...
May 07, 2019
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