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In the news today, May 27
Four stories in the news for Monday, May 27 --- INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO GRILL TECH GIANTS Tech giants will be in the hot seat this week as politicians from Canada and 10 other countr...
May 27, 2019
Romania ruling party boss gets 3 1/2 years in prison for graft
BUCHAREST, Romania - A Romanian court has sentenced the country's most powerful politician to 3 1/2 years in prison for official misconduct in a graft case. Monday's sentencing of Social Democratic Pa...
May 27, 2019
UK Brexit Party scores big as Conservatives, Labour falter
LONDON - Veteran euroskeptic Nigel Farage said Britain should get set to leave the European Union without a divorce deal, after an election across the bloc saw his Brexit Party and pro-EU forces carve...
May 27, 2019
Raptors fans spill onto the streets ahead of potentially historic game
Cars honked, exhilarated fans chanted and long lines formed outside bars and restaurants on the streets of Toronto well into the night Saturday after the Toronto Raptors defeated the Milwaukee Bu...
May 27, 2019
Newfoundland Growlers give local hockey fans an inaugural season to cheer for
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - It's not the Stanley Cup playoffs, but for hockey broadcaster Chris Ballard, the upcoming ECHL's Kelly Cup final could be even more exciting. The 32-year-old St. John's, N.L.,&...
May 27, 2019
Raptors fans spill onto the streets ahead of potentially historic game
Cars honked, exhilarated fans chanted and long lines formed outside bars and restaurants on the streets of Toronto well into the night Saturday after the Toronto Raptors defeated the Milwaukee Bu...
May 27, 2019
Trump breaks with Abe, says not bothered by NK missile tests
TOKYO - President Donald Trump said Monday he is not "personally" bothered by recent short-range missile tests that North Korea conducted this month, breaking with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ...
May 27, 2019
Officials: Taliban attacks kill 10 Afghan troops, 4 police
KABUL - A roadside bombing claimed by the Taliban killed 10 Afghan soldiers in the country's west while insurgent attacks on security checkpoints in northern Afghanistan killed four policemen, local o...
May 27, 2019
Green wave: Europe wakes up to climate concerns after vote
BERLIN - Green parties in Germany, France, Britain and elsewhere were celebrating big gains in elections for the bloc's 751-seat European Parliament amid growing voter concerns over climate change, ex...
May 27, 2019
Baghdad court sentences another French IS member to death
BAGHDAD - A Baghdad court on Monday sentenced another former French fighter with the Islamic State group to death - the fourth Frenchman to get the capital punishment so far in Iraq - and postponed th...
May 27, 2019
