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UN office hails Myanmar journalists' release, with a caveat
GENEVA - The U.N. human rights office is praising the release of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from prison in Myanmar, but says a "very dire situation" remains for freedom of expression ...
May 07, 2019
Climate change missing as US defends Arctic policy
ROVANIEMI, Finland - The Arctic is melting, but don't ask U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to talk about climate change. Nor even to agree on a text that mentions it. For the Trump administration, ...
May 07, 2019
Jean Vanier, Catholic hero to developmentally disabled, dies
PARIS - Jean Vanier, whose charity work helped improve conditions for the developmentally disabled in Canada and multiple other countries over the past half-century, has died at 90. A charity he found...
May 07, 2019
Jean Vanier, Catholic hero to developmentally disabled, dies
PARIS - Jean Vanier, whose charity work helped improve conditions for the developmentally disabled in Canada and multiple other countries over the past half-century, has died at 90. A charity he found...
May 07, 2019
Monday night Kamloops Ball Hockey Lague
KAMLOOPS - Nordiques 5 - 3 Tirecraft StudsThe Nordiques edged out a win over their fierce rival, the Studs. Brad Colli netted a hattrick and added a helper. Cam Hendry scored once and had two assists ...
May 07, 2019 Image credit: Kamloops Ball Hockey
Canada welcomes any U.S. help on dispute with China, says rural minister
OTTAWA - A Nova Scotia cabinet minister says the federal government would welcome any help the United States could offer in helping Canada in its ongoing dispute with China. "I would say that it would...
May 07, 2019
B.C. Green win sends message to established parties that climate issue a winner
NANAIMO, B.C. - British Columbia voters sent a message that Canadians are deeply concerned about the environment and climate issues will be at the forefront in October's federal election campaign, jub...
May 07, 2019
Let's make a Brexit deal, UK PM May tells Labour opposition
LONDON - Britain's Conservative government and opposition Labour Party have a duty to strike a compromise Brexit agreement to end months of political deadlock over Britain's exit from the European Uni...
May 07, 2019
Police find body in Cyprus lake, tie rape to serial killings
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Police in Cyprus recovered a second suitcase containing human remains Sunday from a contaminated lake where a military officer who confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls ...
May 07, 2019
Israel steps up strikes as Gaza rocket attacks intensify
JERUSALEM - Gaza militants fired hundreds of rockets into southern Israel on Sunday, killing at least four Israelis and bringing life to a standstill across the region in the bloodiest fighting since ...
May 07, 2019
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