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Germany looks set to extend lockdown measures again
BERLIN - German authorities are expected to extend lockdown measures again on Monday and possibly tighten some restrictions as they face a steady rise in new coronavirus infections. Chancellor Angela ...
Mar 22, 2021
Dozens of towns isolated by flooding in Australian state
CANBERRA, Australia - Hundreds of people have been rescued from floodwaters that have isolated dozens of towns in Australia's most populous state New South Wales and forced thousands to evacuate their...
Mar 22, 2021
Israeli election seen as referendum on divisive Netanyahu
JERUSALEM - Israelis vote Tuesday in their fourth parliamentary election in just two years. Once again, the race boils down to a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu, who has ser...
Mar 22, 2021
Clashes in English city of Bristol leaves 20 police injured
LONDON - A protest in the west England city of Bristol against new policing legislation descended into violence that left at least 20 officers injured, two of them seriously, police said Monday. The p...
Mar 22, 2021
On federal death row, inmates talk about Biden, executions
CHICAGO - On federal death row, prisoners fling notes on a string under each other's cell doors and converse through interconnected air ducts. A top issue these days: whether President Joe Biden will ...
Mar 22, 2021
Republic of Congo candidate Kolelas dies of COVID-19
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of the Congo - Republic of Congo's top presidential opposition candidate Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, who was hospitalized with COVID-19 complications on election day, has died, a ...
Mar 22, 2021
AstraZeneca: US data shows vaccine effective for all ages
LONDON - AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine provided strong protection against disease and complete protection against hospitalization and death across all age groups in a late-stage U.S. study, the compa...
Mar 22, 2021
2nd Canadian goes on trial in China on spying charges
BEIJING - A second Canadian citizen held for more than two years on spying charges in apparent retaliation for Canada's arrest of a senior executive of the telecoms giant Huawei went on trial in Beiji...
Mar 22, 2021
Colten Boushie's family to respond to watchdog report that found discrimination
REGINA - First Nations leaders and relatives of a young Indigenous man shot and killed on a Saskatchewan farm are expected to address findings today from a watchdog's review that concluded RCMP racial...
Mar 22, 2021
'It's going to come down to one block': Building an igloo for Nunavut arts festival
IQALUIT - Solomon Awa thinks he's probably built about 150 igloos, or igluit in Inuktitut, over his lifetime, starting when he was 15. Now in his 60s, Awa is considered a master igloo builder in Nunav...
Mar 22, 2021
