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20 dead, more wounded after gunman attacks Texas shoppers
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A gunman armed with a rifle opened fire in an El Paso shopping area packed with as many as 3,000 people during the busy back-to-school season, leaving 20 dead and more than two d...
Aug 04, 2019
Scientist says tropical fish documented by diver signal warming Atlantic waters
HALIFAX - A marine biologist is taking notice of stunning images of tropical fish photographed by an amateur diver in the warming waters off Nova Scotia's southern shore. Boris Worm of Dalho...
Aug 04, 2019
Sudanese protesters sign power-sharing deal with military
CAIRO - Sudan's pro-democracy movement signed a power-sharing agreement with the ruling military council on Sunday aimed at paving the way for a transition to civilian rule following the overthrow of ...
Aug 04, 2019
One dead in fiery collision on Hwy. 3
TABER, AB - A 19-year-old is dead following a fiery collision on Highway 3 on Saturday near Taber.Mounties say the teen was the lone occupant of the passenger vehicle which collided with a transport t...
Aug 04, 2019 Collision site - Photo credit to Chris Chacon, Global Lethbridge
One dead in fiery collision on Hwy. 3
TABER, AB - A 19-year-old is dead following a fiery collision on Highway 3 on Saturday near Taber.Mounties say the teen was the lone occupant of the passenger vehicle which collided with a transport t...
Aug 04, 2019 Collision site - Photo credit to Chris Chacon, Global Lethbridge
Freeland lands meeting with Chinese counterpart to talk about detainees
OTTAWA - The diplomatic tensions between Canada and China took what Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland styled Friday as a positive step after she finally landed a face-to-face m...
Aug 04, 2019
2 mass shootings in less than 24 hours shock US
Two mass shootings at crowded public places in Texas and Ohio in less than 24 hours claimed at least 29 lives and left scores injured, a shocking carnage even in a country accustomed to gun violence. ...
Aug 04, 2019
'Nowhere to go.' Iqaluit homeless stay in shacks, old boats amid housing crisis
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nushupiq Kilabuk wakes up every day in a shack on the shores Frobisher Bay in Iqaluit with only a lantern and a camping stove to keep him warm - but he says he's one of the luc...
Aug 04, 2019
Rapper A$AP Rocky heading back to US as verdict looms
STOCKHOLM - Rapper A$AP Rocky and two other American suspects were temporarily freed from a Swedish jail and planning to head back to the U.S. on Friday as judges mull a verdict in the assault case ag...
Aug 04, 2019
Mount Polley mine disaster five years later; emotions, accountability unresolved
VICTORIA - People are swimming and fishing in Quesnel Lake five years after the largest environmental mining disaster in Canadian history, but residents of Likely, B.C., are still struggling with...
Aug 04, 2019