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Julia Letlow wins northeast Louisiana-based US House seat
BATON ROUGE, La. - Republican Julia Letlow easily won a Saturday special election for the northeast Louisiana-based U.S. House seat that her husband, Luke, couldn't fill because of his death from comp...
Mar 21, 2021
Japan PM vows no virus rebound as emergency measures end
TOKYO - Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged Sunday to do his utmost to prevent a resurgence of the coronavirus ahead of the Olympic torch relay and his upcoming visit to Washington. Suga was...
Mar 21, 2021
China urges unhurried public to get vaccinated against COVID
BEIJING - In China, the problem doesn't seem to be a shortage of vaccine. Rather, with the COVID-19 outbreak largely under control at home, not enough people want to get the shot. Chinese health offic...
Mar 21, 2021
Turkish police detain politician staging parliament sit-in
ISTANBUL - Turkish police on Sunday detained a prominent pro-Kurdish party politician who was staging a days-long protest in parliament. Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, from the Peoples' Democratic Party, or...
Mar 21, 2021
Fleeing coup, Myanmar police refugees in India seek asylum
MIZORAM, India - Myanmar police officers who fled to India after they said they defied orders to shoot people protesting their country's military coup are urging India's government not to send them ba...
Mar 21, 2021
Japan PM vows no virus rebound as emergency measures end
TOKYO - Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged Sunday to do his utmost to prevent a resurgence of the coronavirus ahead of the Olympic torch relay and his upcoming visit to Washington. Suga was...
Mar 21, 2021
Republic of Congo polls open; candidate sick with COVID-19
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of the Congo - Republic of Congo pressed ahead Sunday with an election in which President Denis Sassou N'Guesso is widely expected to extend his 36 years in power, while the lead...
Mar 21, 2021
Survey suggests one in two people of colour have experienced online racism in Canada
VANCOUVER - Noor Fadel says most people assume that the night she was attacked by a racist man on a SkyTrain in Vancouver in 2017 was the worst night of her life. In fact, the nights that followed wer...
Mar 21, 2021
B.C.'s northern spotted owl breeding facility welcomes disabled California relative
LANGLEY, BRITISH COLUMBIA, B.C. - A northern spotted owl found injured near San Francisco has arrived at a British Columbia breeding facility where the adult male is expected to find a mate and potent...
Mar 21, 2021
Oil giant Saudi Aramco sees 2020 profits drop to $49 billion
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia's state-backed oil giant Aramco announced Sunday that its profits fell sharply in 2020 to $49 billion, a big drop that came as the coronavirus pandemic roile...
Mar 21, 2021