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Police looking for man who may have jumped from Overlanders Bridge
KAMLOOPS - A search of the river last night by police and fire crews has failed to turn up any sign of a possible person jumping off the Overlanders Bridge. In a news release, Staff Sergeant Michel Gr...
May 29, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Romania ruling party boss gets 3 1/2 years in prison for graft
BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania's most powerful politician was sentenced Monday to 3 1/2 years in prison for official misconduct in a graft case. The jail time for Liviu Dragnea, party leader of the ruli...
May 29, 2019
Farage claims pro-Brexit momentum after divisive UK vote
LONDON - British euroskeptic Nigel Farage said Monday that his new Brexit Party's victory in the European election should spur Britain to leave the European Union even without a divorce deal - a call ...
May 29, 2019
North Korea calls Bolton 'war monger' over missile comment
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea on Monday called U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton a "war monger" and "human defect" after he described its recent tests of short-range missiles as a v...
May 29, 2019
Baghdad court sentences fourth French IS member to death
BAGHDAD - The French former members of the Islamic State group were brought into the courtroom in Baghdad one after the other on Monday and made to sit inside a wooden cage in the middle. As they spok...
May 29, 2019
Trump in Japan: Pomp and tense circumstance
TOKYO - All the pomp and pageantry in the world couldn't paper over the tensions between President Donald Trump and Japan's Shinzo Abe on two of their most pressing issues: North Korea and trade. The ...
May 29, 2019
New auto giant? Fiat Chrysler wants to merge with Renault
PARIS - Fiat Chrysler proposed on Monday to merge with France's Renault to create the world's third-biggest automaker, worth $40 billion, and combine forces in the race to make electric and autonomous...
May 29, 2019
In the news today, May 29
Five stories in the news for Wednesday, May 29 --- O'REGAN TO VISIT MERCURY-DAMAGED GRASSY NARROWS Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O'Regan is being urged to ensure a long-awaited visit to an ...
May 29, 2019
B.C. man who scaled Everest says climb is not for 'faint of heart'
VANCOUVER - When Chris Dare stood on the roof of the world he had tears behind his goggles. The British Columbia man has climbed mountains on seven continents in less than 10 ...
May 29, 2019
B.C. post-secondary schools at risk of money laundering: minister
VICTORIA - Post-secondary institutions in British Columbia were warned Tuesday to be on the look out for possible student money launderers in the province's ongoing fight against illegal cash. Advance...
May 29, 2019
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