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Harsh weather kills 70 more people in Pakistan, Afghanistan
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - Severe winter weather has claimed more lives as avalanches triggered by heavy snowfall killed 55 people in Pakistan-administered Kashmir while 15 died in neighbouring Afghanis...
Jan 14, 2020
Volkswagen hits record sales in bid to top auto industry
FRANKFURT - Volkswagen announced Tuesday record sales for last year that could determine whether it keeps its crown as the world's largest automaker. The automaker based in Wolfsburg, Germany, deliver...
Jan 14, 2020
Canadians investigators in Iran and royals in Canada; In The News for Jan. 14
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 14 ... What we are watchin...
Jan 14, 2020
Promised 25 per cent wireless rate cut is on top of recent reductions: Bains
OTTAWA - The federal government is making clear that cuts to wireless rates it expects from mobile service providers must go above and beyond any price reductions already seen since 2016. Industry Min...
Jan 14, 2020
Canadian investigators to visit site of airplane crash near Iranian capital
OTTAWA - Canadian investigators are getting their first chance to visit the crash site outside of Tehran today, as part of an international team looking into the sequence of events that ended wit...
Jan 14, 2020
Trump support for Iran protesters could fuel anti-US forces
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's embrace of anti-government protesters in Iran is another departure from his predecessors, who feared such overt support could backfire and inadvertently help hard...
Jan 13, 2020
Iraqis worry US-Iran tensions are eclipsing their protests
BAGHDAD - Young Iraqis who drove mass protests demanding sweeping political reforms are worried that the conflict between the U.S. and Iran, which is playing out in part on Iraqi soil, is killing thei...
Jan 13, 2020
Democratic debate allows one more jab before Iowa caucuses
DES MOINES, Iowa - An unusually heated clash of rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination could be the hallmark of Tuesday night's televised debate in Iowa. Just six candidates are gathering i...
Jan 13, 2020
Trump's Milwaukee rally kicks off election year in Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE - President Donald Trump heads to battleground Wisconsin on Tuesday to rally supporters just down the street from where Democrats will meet in six months to nominate his opponent, a campaign...
Jan 13, 2020
US officials cite deterrence to defend lethal drone strike
WASHINGTON - For all of the Trump administration's insistence that the threat of an "imminent" attack led to the American drone strike on Iran's top general, U.S. officials behind the scenes say the s...
Jan 13, 2020