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Report: Talk show host Larry King in hospital with COVID-19
LOS ANGELES - Former CNN talk show host Larry King has been hospitalized with COVID-19 for more than a week, the news channel reported Saturday. Citing an unidentified person close to the family, CNN ...
Jan 04, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Snowbird politicians who break their own rules should pay the price
KAMLOOPS - I WAS SO HOPING we could start off the new year with at least a few happy stories that have nothing to do with COVID-19.However, that wish didn't account for the stupidity of our politician...
Jan 04, 2021
Iran says it begins 20% uranium enrichment amid US tensions
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said on Monday it has begun enriching uranium up to 20% at an underground nuclear facility, a short, technical step to weapons-grade levels of 90% amid escalating tensions with the...
Jan 04, 2021
Republicans condemn 'scheme' to undo election for Trump
WASHINGTON - The unprecedented Republican effort to overturn the presidential election has been condemned by an outpouring of current and former GOP officials warning the effort to sow doubt in Joe Bi...
Jan 04, 2021
Extraordinary warning to Trump by 10 former Pentagon chiefs
WASHINGTON - In an extraordinary rebuke of President Donald Trump, all 10 living former secretaries of defence are cautioning against any move to involve the military in pursuing claims of election fr...
Jan 04, 2021
Hope fades in Norway landslide that left 7 dead; 3 missing
COPENHAGEN - Norwegian officials insisted Monday that there was "still hope" in finding survivors in air pockets five days after a landslide killed at least seven people as it carried away homes in a ...
Jan 04, 2021
UK judge to rule on US extradition bid for Julian Assange
LONDON - A British judge will decide Monday whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States to face espionage charges over the site's publication of classified American...
Jan 04, 2021
UK ramps up inoculations with Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
LONDON - Britain on Monday took another giant step in the fight against COVID-19, ramping up its immunization program by giving the first shots in the world from the vaccine created by Oxford Universi...
Jan 04, 2021
Semifinal day at the world juniors sees Canada meet Russia while U.S. plays Finland
Team Canada is set to meet Team Russia at the first of two semifinal games at the world junior men's hockey championship in Edmonton today. The winner will play in Tuesday night's gold-medal game agai...
Jan 04, 2021
COVID-19 pandemic an opportunity to reform Quebec's devastated long-term care homes
MONTREAL - The COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec was marked by images from long-term care homes: isolated seniors peering out from windows, bodies in zippered bags on stretchers exiting imposing brick build...
Jan 04, 2021
