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Virginia Beach shines light on victims, not mass shooter
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The victims of America's latest mass shooting had been dead for less than a day when police and city officials released a detailed presentation with their names, photos, job titl...
Jun 04, 2019
5 injured in Venice as cruise ship slams into tourist boat
VENICE, Italy - A towering, out-of-control cruise ship rammed into a dock and a tourist riverboat on a busy Venice canal on Sunday morning, injuring five people, officials said. The collision sparked ...
Jun 04, 2019
Pentagon tells White House to stop politicizing military
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - The Pentagon has told the White House to stop politicizing the military, amid a furor over a Trump administration order to have the Navy ship named for the late U.S. Sen. J...
Jun 04, 2019
China issues US travel alert warning of official harassment
BEIJING - China issued a travel warning for the U.S. on Tuesday, saying Chinese visitors have been interrogated, interviewed and subjected to other forms of what it called harassment by U.S. law enfor...
Jun 04, 2019
Trump baby blimp flies in London as protests greet president
LONDON - As British Prime Minister Theresa May meets President Donald Trump on Tuesday, thousands of protesters plan to tell the U.S. leader he should have stayed at home. Trade unions, women's groups...
Jun 04, 2019
German government wobbles after Social Democrat leader quits
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Sunday to continue with her government after the leader of the centre-left Social Democrats, a junior partner in the coalition, resigned following a seri...
Jun 04, 2019
In the news today, June 4
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, June 4 --- WOMEN STILL FACING HATRED, RACISM: TRUDEAU Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the rights of women are backsliding and gender equality is under att...
Jun 04, 2019
Employers face long delays for temporary foreign workers as demand spikes
OTTAWA - Some employers looking to hire temporary foreign workers are experiencing significant delays due to an increase in demand this year for migrant workers in Canada. The federal government says ...
Jun 04, 2019
I took on the Nazis: Canadian vet recalls helping lead D-Day invasion
TORONTO - On June 6, 1944, Jim Parks of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles was among about 14,000 Canadians who landed in Normandy, part of an Allied invasion that marked the beginning of the end of the S...
Jun 04, 2019
Senate report reveals nearly 400 troubled nursing homes
WASHINGTON - The federal government for years has kept under wraps the names of hundreds of nursing homes around the country found by inspectors to have serious ongoing health, safety or sanitary prob...
Jun 03, 2019
