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Spain: ex-king says feeling "phenomenal" after heart surgery
MADRID - Spain's former monarch Juan Carlos I says he's feeling "phenomenal" with "new plumbing" after a successful triple bypass heart surgery. "It feels like a truck ran me over, but now it's about ...
Aug 31, 2019
School days: UK's Princess Charlotte to start next week
LONDON - Britain's Princess Charlotte will soon be starting school, and she'll have her older brother to help her get used to a new place. Kensington Palace said Thursday that the 4-year-old princess ...
Aug 31, 2019
Myanmar court sends filmmaker to prison for army remarks
YANGON, Myanmar - A court in Myanmar has found a prominent filmmaker guilty of defaming the military with his postings on Facebook and sentenced him to a year in prison. The lawyer defending Min Htin ...
Aug 31, 2019
Fierce Category 4 Dorian menaces Bahamas en route to Florida
MIAMI - Hurricane Dorian has gained fearsome new muscle as an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm, bearing down on the northwestern Bahamas early Saturday en route to Florida's east coast. Millions...
Aug 31, 2019
Police brace for confrontations as Hong Kong protesters mass
HONG KONG - Large crowds of protesters were gathering and marching in central Hong Kong on Saturday as police readied for possible confrontations near the Chinese government's main office and elsewher...
Aug 31, 2019
Yemen President urges end of UAE strikes, fears secession
SANAA, Yemen - Yemen's president urged Saudi Arabia on Thursday to rein in the United Arab Emirates after warplanes from his former ally staged airstrikes on Yemeni government troops, killing and woun...
Aug 31, 2019
Taliban launch 'massive attack' on Afghan city of Kunduz
KABUL - The Taliban have launched a new large-scale attack on one of Afghanistan's main cities, Kunduz, and taken hospital patients as hostages, the government said Saturday, even as the insurgent gro...
Aug 31, 2019
Liberals commit $1.5M to help universities tackle on-campus sexual violence
TORONTO - The Liberal government is committing up to $1.5 million to help colleges and universities get better at dealing with sexual violence on campus. Maryam Monsef, the minister for wome...
Aug 31, 2019
RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan stable after prison stabbing
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sirhan Sirhan, imprisoned for more than 50 years for the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was hospitalized Friday after being stabbed by a fellow inmate at a San Dieg...
Aug 30, 2019
North Korea berates Pompeo, says hopes for talks fading
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - A senior North Korean diplomat on Saturday berated U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his comments describing North Korean behaviour as "rogue" and said Pyongyang's h...
Aug 30, 2019
