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A new COVID-19 challenge: Mutations rise along with cases
The race against the virus that causes COVID-19 has taken a new turn: Mutations are rapidly popping up, and the longer it takes to vaccinate people, the more likely it is that a variant that can elude...
Jan 19, 2021
Turkey slaps advertising ban on Twitter, Pinterest
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey on Tuesday slapped advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest over their non-compliance with a controversial new law that requires social media platforms to appoint l...
Jan 19, 2021
Spain's rising cases give pandemic hospital a second chance
MADRID - As soon as the lifeless body is silently pushed away on a stretcher, a cleaning battalion moves into the intensive care box. In a matter of minutes, the bed where the 72-year-old woman fought...
Jan 19, 2021
Canadian fashion mogul seeking bail on U.S. charges of sex trafficking, racketeering
WINNIPEG - Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard plans to seek bail in a Winnipeg courtroom today following his arrest last month on charges in the United States of sex trafficking and racketeering. Nyg...
Jan 19, 2021
Poll finds strong support for COVID-19 curfews despite doubts about effectiveness
OTTAWA - Almost two-thirds of Canadians would support a nightly curfew if necessary to curb the spread of COVID-19 - even though they're not convinced it would be effective, a new poll suggests. Sixty...
Jan 19, 2021
Tory MP Derek Sloan says he'll fight efforts to expel him from party ranks
OTTAWA - Ontario Conservative MP Derek Sloan says he'll fight efforts by his party's leader to boot him from caucus. Sloan says a decision by leader Erin O'Toole that he should be tossed out over a do...
Jan 19, 2021
Annamie Paul charts new course for Green party — through crowded waters
OTTAWA - Annamie Paul has spent most of the past 10 months holed up in her apartment, just like you. But the Green leader's stationary status belies the quick pivot her team is making as they seek to ...
Jan 19, 2021
Workers trapped week in China mine ask for pickles, porridge
BEIJING - Workers trapped for more than a week in a Chinese gold mine asked for pickles and porridge to be dropped to them while they wait to be rescued, state media reported Tuesday. The website of t...
Jan 18, 2021
Group: Billions in aid needed to help Afghan kids in 2021
KABUL - Some 10 million children in war-ravaged Afghanistan are at risk of not having enough food to eat in 2021, a humanitarian organization said Tuesday, and called for billions in new funds for aid...
Jan 18, 2021
Biden has set sky-high expectations. Can he meet them?
WASHINGTON - Back when the election was tightening and just a week away, Joe Biden went big. He flew to Warm Springs, the Georgia town whose thermal waters once brought Franklin Delano Roosevelt comfo...
Jan 18, 2021
