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Ikea France on trial over claims it spied on staff, clients
VERSAILLES, France - Ikea's French subsidiary and several of its former executives went on trial Monday over accusations that they illegally spied on employees and customers. Trade unions reported the...
Mar 22, 2021
Week in Review — Week of March 15, 2021
Welcome to Week in Review. This week, public vaccinations begin as Interior Health opens the first public vaccination clinic in the city. Best bus buddies - a BC Transit driver, and a Kamloops boy's s...
Mar 22, 2021
Truck carrying migrants overturns in Croatia, killing 4
ZAGREB, Croatia - A freight truck overturned in Croatia early Monday, killing four migrants who were hiding inside and injuring a number of others, police said. The crash happened on a highway near th...
Mar 22, 2021
Senate staffers fear new harassment policy being blocked by senators
OTTAWA - Some Senate staffers are concerned that a new policy meant to protect them from workplace harassment is being blocked in the upper house by a handful of senators. But Sen. Marilou McPhedran, ...
Mar 22, 2021
Turkish lira plummets after Erdogan fires central bank chief
ANKARA, Turkey - The Turkish currency plummeted against the U.S. dollar on Monday after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fired his third central bank head in less than two years, raising concerns about ...
Mar 22, 2021
Saudi Arabia offers cease-fire plan to Yemen rebels
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia announced a plan Monday to offer Yemen's Houthi rebels a cease-fire in the country's yearslong war and allow a major airport to reopen in its capital, the ki...
Mar 22, 2021
Former deputy NORAD commander leaving military after having affair while in U.S.
OTTAWA - A senior military officer who had an affair while deputy commander of North America's early-warning system is leaving the military. Lt.-Gen. Christopher Coates announced his pending departure...
Mar 22, 2021
Acclaimed Polish poet Adam Zagajewski dies at age 75
WARSAW, Poland - Adam Zagajewski, one of Poland's greatest poets who wrote a poem that came to symbolize the world's sense of shock and loss after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, has died i...
Mar 22, 2021
UK judge says newspaper can delay statement on Meghan case
LONDON - A British newspaper doesn't have to run a front-page statement about the Duchess of Sussex's legal victory until it has had the chance to challenge the order, a judge ruled Monday. The former...
Mar 22, 2021
EU targets 11 Myanmar officials over coup, crackdown
BRUSSELS - The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on 11 officials in Myanmar, mostly top military officers, accused of involvement in last month's coup and the violent crackdown on peaceful pr...
Mar 22, 2021
