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Pelosi departs Taiwan after visit that fueled US-China rift
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi departed Taiwan on Wednesday after meeting with the president and other officials in a visit that heightened tensions with China. Pelosi and five ...
Aug 3, 2022
Friends of Japanese journalist demand his release in Myanmar
TOKYO (AP) - Friends of Toru Kubota, a Japanese journalist detained in military-ruled Myanmar while covering a protest, called for his immediate release Wednesday and an online petition has collected ...
Aug 3, 2022
Rising sextortion cases, Conservative leadership debate : In The News for Aug. 3
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 Aug. 3 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Aug 3, 2022
Ontario woman who was known as 'napalm girl' helping Ukrainians settle in Canada
Tears streamed down Kim Phuc Phan Thi's face as she stood at the entrance to a plane set to carry Ukrainian newcomers from Poland to Canada last month. The aircraft was emblazoned with a famous black ...
Aug 3, 2022
'A wake-up call': Online crimes see stark increase during COVID-19 pandemic
WINNIPEG - New statistics show that police-reported extortion cases in Canada rose by nearly 300 per cent in the last decade, as the crime swelled online during the COVID-19 pandemic. "These concernin...
Aug 3, 2022
Foreign Minister Joly to meet German counterpart in Montreal amid Russia tensions
MONTREAL - Canada's foreign affairs minister is to hold a public event in Montreal today with her German counterpart, following Canada's controversial decision to send parts of a Russian natural gas p...
Aug 3, 2022
Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers loses state Senate bid
PHOENIX (AP) - Republican Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers has lost his bid for a state Senate seat after refusing former President Donald Trump's pleas to help overturn the 2020 election results an...
Aug 3, 2022
Trump loyalist wins GOP nod to oversee Arizona elections
PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona lawmaker who embraces election conspiracies and was endorsed by former President Donald Trump has won the Republican primary for the top elections post in the presidential ba...
Aug 3, 2022
Atlanta's image challenged by facts of 1906 race massacre
ATLANTA (AP) - Everyone who moves through downtown Atlanta today passes places where innocent Black men and women were pulled from trolleys, shot in their workplaces, chased through the streets and be...
Aug 2, 2022
Jonathan Nez, Buu Nygren advance in Navajo presidential race
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - Voters on the vast Navajo Nation have advanced tribal presidential candidates Jonathan Nez and Buu Nygren to the general election in November. Voters narrowed the list of 15 ca...
Aug 2, 2022
