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Shanghai police say suspect detained in games tycoon's death
BEIJING - Police in Shanghai say they have detained a suspect in the death by possible poisoning of the billionaire founder of a Chinese video game company that makes films based on the popular scienc...
Dec 29, 2020
'If not now, then when?' COVID-19 spurs some Canadians to make big changes
TORONTO - The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of Canadians across the country, causing many to lose their jobs or businesses, or to adapt to a new life spent mostly at home. Some are leaning i...
Dec 29, 2020
Magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes Croatia; 1 death reported
ZAGREB, Croatia - A strong earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, causing major damage to homes and other buildings in a town southeast of the capital. Authorities said a girl was killed and at le...
Dec 29, 2020
Famed French designer Pierre Cardin dies at 98
PARIS - France's Academy of Fine Arts says Pierre Cardin, the French designer whose Space Age style was among the iconic looks of 20th-century fashion, has died at 98. A licensing maverick, Cardin's n...
Dec 29, 2020
PSG confirms firing of coach Thomas Tuchel
Paris Saint-Germain fired coach Thomas Tuchel on Tuesday, paving the way for the expected hiring of Mauricio Pochettino. The confirmation of Tuchel's dismissal came after days of reports that the Germ...
Dec 29, 2020
Poll suggests low levels of satisfaction over Prairie premiers handling of pandemic
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests the premiers of Canada's three Prairie provinces are lagging counterparts from the rest of the country when it comes to how local residents feel they are managing the COVI...
Dec 29, 2020
A pandemic, economic questions and leadership rumblings in Manitoba politics
WINNIPEG - The COVID-19 pandemic will shape Manitoba politics in many ways in 2021. There will be an ongoing attempt to control outbreaks of the novel coronavirus and to keep hospitals from being over...
Dec 29, 2020
Nashville bomber left hints of trouble, but motive elusive
NASHVILLE - In the days before he detonated a bomb in downtown Nashville on Christmas, Anthony Quinn Warner changed his life in ways that suggest he never intended to survive the blast that killed him...
Dec 28, 2020
Mitchell makes layup with 7 seconds left, Jazz beat Thunder
OKLAHOMA CITY - Donovan Mitchell hit a go-ahead layup with 7 seconds left and finished with 20 points, lifting the Utah Jazz over the Oklahoma City Thunder 110-109 on Monday night. Bogan Bogdanovich s...
Dec 28, 2020
Amid pandemic, Pacific islands work to offset food shortages
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Coronavirus infections have barely touched many of the remote islands of the Pacific, but the pandemic's fallout has been enormous, disrupting the supply chain that brings crucial...
Dec 28, 2020
