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Armenian PM sees no way to settle conflict through diplomacy
YEREVAN, Armenia - Armenia's prime minister said Wednesday that Azerbaijan's aggressive stance in the 25-day fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh leaves no room for diplomacy, and urged citizens to sign up ...
Oct 21, 2020
Coronavirus spreads in Nagorno-Karabakh amid heavy fighting
People who are sick with the coronavirus pack into chilly basements alongside the healthy to hide from artillery fire. The local health minister who tested positive keeps working, despite a fever and ...
Oct 21, 2020
Macron says beheaded teacher was victim of stupidity, hate
PARIS - President Emmanuel Macron promised Wednesday that France will not renounce freedoms taught by a schoolteacher beheaded by a radical Islamist last week after showing caricatures of the prophet ...
Oct 21, 2020
Protesters in Colombia decry government pandemic response
BOGOTA - Protesters filled a historic square in Colombia's capital Wednesday to demonstrate against the government's handling of a wide range of issues including the economic fallout of the pandemic a...
Oct 21, 2020
Police: 43 bank hostages freed in ex-Soviet republic Georgia
TBILISI, Georgia - Police in the ex-Soviet nation of Georgia said 43 people were freed after an armed assailant took them hostage in a bank Wednesday, an announcement that came shortly after local med...
Oct 21, 2020
Brazil's Bolsonaro rejects coronavirus vaccine from China
SAO PAULO - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday rejected the announced purchase of 46 million doses of a potential vaccine against the coronavirus being developed by a Chinese company and ...
Oct 21, 2020
Premier self-isolating after minister's positive COVID-19 test
Premier Jason Kenney is among those self-isolating after a government minister tested positive for COVID-19.Municipal Affairs Minister Tracy Allard learned of her positive test Wednesday afternoon. Sh...
Oct 21, 2020
ASCA collecting feedback on how the return to school is going
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Alberta School Councils' Association (ASCA) is asking parents and guardians how the return to school is going so far.A survey will help gauge how parents and guardians are findi...
Oct 21, 2020
Dodgers, Rays draw record-low TV World Series audience
ARLINGTON, Texas - The Los Angeles Dodgers' victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 drew a record-low audience of television viewers for a World Series game. Los Angeles' 8-3 win received a 5.1 rati...
Oct 21, 2020
85 years of Kinsmen, Kinettes in Medicine Hat
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Since 1936, the Medicine Hat Kinsmen Club has been an active member of the community, building no shortage of facilities in the city from the creation of Kin Coulee in the 1950s to ...
Oct 21, 2020