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Ethiopia to replace Tigray region leadership as forces clash
NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethiopia moved Saturday to replace the leadership of the country's defiant northern Tigray region, where deadly clashes between regional and federal government forces are fueling fear...
Nov 07, 2020
Harris becomes first Black woman, South Asian elected VP
Kamala Harris made history Saturday as the first Black woman elected as vice-president of the United States, shattering barriers that have kept men - almost all of them white - entrenched at the highe...
Nov 07, 2020
Medvedev beats Raonic to reach first Paris Masters final
PARIS - Daniil Medvedev reached the Paris Masters final for the first time after beating Canada's Milos Raonic 6-4, 7-6 (4) in a contest between big servers on Saturday. The third-seeded Russian secur...
Nov 07, 2020
'It just seems uneasy': Portland riots at Vancouver Whitecaps' front door
PORTLAND, Ore. - There's an eerie view outside the Portland hotel that the Vancouver Whitecaps call home. "It's kind of like Gotham City. Everything is boarded up," forward Tosaint Ricketts said...
Nov 07, 2020
'It just seems uneasy': Portland riots at Vancouver Whitecaps' front door
PORTLAND, Ore. - There's an eerie view outside the Portland hotel that the Vancouver Whitecaps call home. "It's kind of like Gotham City. Everything is boarded up," forward Tosaint Ricketts said...
Nov 07, 2020
Surging infections in Manitoba a COVID-19 cautionary tale: experts
WINNIPEG - Manitoba was a beacon of hope when the first wave of COVID-19 hit Canada. The province had some of the lowest infection rates in the country and went weeks in the summer with no new cases. ...
Nov 07, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Trump’s blessed defeat, Noble Creek and food store poppies
IT'S A SAFE BET Donald Trump has never heard of Kamloops. If he had, he'd probably mispronounce it, then make fun of it.But we know him. I can't think of a single way in which the U.S. election has an...
Nov 07, 2020
Lebanon's leader challenges US sanctions against son-in-law
BEIRUT - Lebanon's leader on Saturday asked the United States to offer evidence to back up new sanctions against the former Lebanese foreign minister, who is an important political ally of the Iran-ba...
Nov 07, 2020
Police question children for supporting teacher's beheading
LE PECQ, France - Police in France questioned four 10-year-olds who voiced support for the beheading of a schoolteacher and who said they would kill their own teacher if he lampooned Islam's prophet, ...
Nov 07, 2020
Increasingly normal: Guns seen outside vote-counting centres
The most turbulent and norm-breaking presidential election of a lifetime has led to an extraordinary spectacle in the United States over the past three days: armed protesters gathering nightly outside...
Nov 07, 2020
