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A Tour for the ages getting its first South American winner
PARIS - A Tour de France for the ages is getting a champion of an unusually young age: 22-year-old Egan Bernal, set to become South America's first winner of cycling's greatest race when he rides to t...
Jul 28, 2019
Venezuelan Cruz-Diez, pioneer in kinetic art, dies in Paris
CARACAS, Venezuela - Carlos Cruz-Diez, a leading Venezuelan artist and a pioneering figure in the style known as kinetic art, has died in Paris at age 95. Cruz-Diez's official website said Sunday the ...
Jul 28, 2019
AP Interview: Indonesia's Widodo to push unpopular reforms
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian President Joko Widodo said in an interview Friday that he will push ahead with sweeping and potentially unpopular economic reforms, including a more business-friendly l...
Jul 28, 2019
'Yes the bridges are cut': Kanesatake Grand Chief refuses talks with Oka mayor
MONTREAL - A war of words between a First Nations grand chief and a small-town Quebec mayor instigated hours of meetings Friday with federal and provincial officials, but the underlying conflict ...
Jul 28, 2019
Supreme Court of Canada says military's no-juries justice system constitutional
OTTAWA - Military members accused of serious offences under military law do not have a constitutional right to jury trials, the Supreme Court ruled Friday. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms guar...
Jul 28, 2019
Swedish court documents give details on A$AP Rocky case
HELSINKI - Swedish authorities have released court documents in the assault case in which American rapper A$AP Rocky and two other men are charged, with prosecutors saying that the victim was punched ...
Jul 28, 2019
Cosby appeal to focus on other women's testimony, Quaaludes
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Prosecutors set to defend Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction in appeals court next month say the accusations from other women are no coincidence, but "the culmination of a decade...
Jul 28, 2019
Cardinal Ortega, former archbishop of Havana, dies at 82
HAVANA - Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, a sugar worker's son who oversaw the first papal visit to Cuba, helped lower barriers to believers in the communist country and played a role in mediati...
Jul 28, 2019
Canadian swimmer Sydney Pickrem picks up second bronze at world championships
GWANGJU, Korea, Republic Of - Canadian swimmer Sydney Pickrem captured her second bronze medal at the 2019 world aquatics championships, tying a record for the country. The Canadian/U.S. dual citizen ...
Jul 28, 2019
World powers meet Iran in Vienna to salvage nuclear deal
VIENNA - Representatives from Europe, China and Russia, nations that are still committed to the Iran nuclear deal, were meeting Sunday with Iran's representative in Vienna to discuss how to salvage th...
Jul 28, 2019