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Veggie burgers are still burgers, EU lawmakers rule
BRUSSELS - Plant-based products that do not contain meat can continue to be labeled "sausages" or "burgers," European lawmakers said Friday, when they rejected a proposal back by the meat industry to ...
Oct 23, 2020
Trial of Russian in alleged bitcoin fraud to wrap in Paris
PARIS - French prosecutors requested on Friday a 10-year jail term and a fine of 750,000 euros ($888,634) against Alexander Vinnik, who is accused of being behind a 135 million-euro ($160 million) fra...
Oct 23, 2020
Dispute over Ohio drop box limit ends as advocates drop suit
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The fight over Ohio's limit on ballot drop boxes ended Friday after a coalition of voting rights groups opted to drop their lawsuit, leaving in place an election chief's order that wa...
Oct 23, 2020
Province to lift oil production limits
Monthly oil production limits in Alberta will come to an end as of December, the provincial government says.In a release, the province says that only 16 per cent of Alberta's crude oil production rema...
Oct 23, 2020
Montreal archdiocese says priest found guilty of sexual assault has been defrocked
MONTREAL - The Montreal archdiocese says a priest sentenced in 2019 for abusing two boys has been formally stripped of his priesthood. Archbishop Christian Lepine had defrocked Brian Boucher last year...
Oct 23, 2020
Canadian Milos Raonic drops out before European Open quarterfinal with injury
ANTWERP, Belgium - Canada's Milos Raonic has withdrawn from the European Open because of an abdominal strain.The No. 5 seed, from Thornhill, Ont., was scheduled to face No. 4 seed Grigor Dimitrov of B...
Oct 23, 2020
Dancing through quarantine and Harlem - in a bubble
NEW YORK - Living and breathing dance is par for the course at the Dance Theater of Harlem. It's just never looked like this. A group including 15 dancers, a choreographer, the artistic director and a...
Oct 23, 2020
NBC's Welker sharp in first turn as debate moderator
NEW YORK - Moderator Kristen Welker - with the help of an offstage mute button - helped give Americans the substantive, crackling debate over leadership that had been missing so far during the 2020 pr...
Oct 23, 2020
Animals, people rescue each other in heartfelt docuseries
LOS ANGELES - In a new docuseries, a child who uses a walker meets a dog with its own version of wheels. Inmates find solace in training canines for adoption, and pigs strut their stuff in a "body pos...
Oct 23, 2020
Analysis: Debate is brief interlude of normalcy in 2020 race
WASHINGTON - The second and final presidential debate, it turns out, was actually a debate - a brief interlude of normalcy in an otherwise highly abnormal year, and a reprieve for voters turned off by...
Oct 23, 2020