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U.S. wildfire smoke blankets B.C., wafts east to Alberta, affecting air quality
VANCOUVER - Environment Canada says air quality advisories posted across most of British Columbia since last week should spread east across Alberta due to wildfire smoke from ...
Sep 14, 2020

Warsaw mayor mocked for pressuring DJ to change music
WARSAW, Poland - Warsaw's mayor has come under criticism after a video emerged of him demanding that DJs at a night club change their music, seeming to leverage his influence by stating "it's my city....
Sep 14, 2020

Israeli gets 3 life sentences for deadly 2015 arson attack
JERUSALEM - An Israeli court on Monday handed down three life sentences to a Jewish extremist convicted in a 2015 arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents. The Lod District Court...
Sep 14, 2020

Cabinet retreat and New Brunswick election: In The News for Sept. 14
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Sept. 14. What we are watching in Canada ... O...
Sep 14, 2020

Trudeau cabinet meets to discuss rebuilding amid rising number of COVID-19 cases
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will convene his cabinet ministers for two days of closed-door meetings starting Monday as a rising number of new COVID-19 cases threatens to pull the Liberals' ...
Sep 14, 2020

Ex-sailor's film shows Mayflower II's colorful 1957 voyage
LONDON - The sea voyage that changed Peter Padfield's life more than six decades ago started with an act of chance. In 1956, Padfield was third officer aboard a British cruise liner in Sri Lanka when ...
Sep 14, 2020

Margaret Atwood honoured with Dayton Literary Peace Prize
CINCINNATI - Margaret Atwood, whose sweeping body of work includes "The Handmaid's Tale," a depiction of a nightmarish totalitarian future for the United States, is this year's winner of a lifetime ac...
Sep 14, 2020

Jason Wu puts on a fashion week show before a tiny audience
NEW YORK - Jason Wu did what few designers dare during New York Fashion Week: He put on a live show Sunday with a tiny audience present in the middle of a pandemic. Why? "I think the world needs beaut...
Sep 14, 2020

ROTHENBURGER: Task force on economy delivers variety of recycled ideas
KAMLOOPS - THE MAYOR'S TASK FORCE on Economic Recovery has released an 18-page report on what the city should do about the pandemic, and it's an eclectic mix of practical advice for businesses, recycl...
Sep 14, 2020

German govt: Labs confirm Navalny was poisoned with Novichok
BERLIN - The German government says specialist labs in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. A German militar...
Sep 14, 2020

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