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Rogers Communications signs deal to buy Shaw Communications in deal valued at $26B
TORONTO - Rogers Communications Inc. has signed a deal to buy Shaw Communications Inc. in a deal valued at $26 billion, including debt. Under the plan, Rogers will pay $40.50 in cash for all of Shaw's...
Mar 15, 2021

Reading of the Oscar nominations begins
NEW YORK - The reading of the nominations for next month's Academy Awards has begun. Priyanka Chopra Jonas and husband Nick Jonas are announcing the nominees during a presentation that's streaming liv...
Mar 15, 2021

Vatican excludes gay union blessing as God 'can't bless sin'
ROME - The Vatican decreed Monday that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions since God "cannot bless sin." The Vatican's orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is...
Mar 15, 2021

Attacks on Chinese-run factories in Myanmar vex Beijing
BEIJING - Attacks on Chinese-run factories in Myanmar's biggest city drew demands Monday from Beijing for protection for their property and employees, while many in Myanmar expressed outrage over Chin...
Mar 15, 2021

2 key US Cabinet members visit Japan for China-focused talks
TOKYO - Shared worry about China's growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region will take centre stage when President Joe Biden's defence chief and secretary of state visit Japan for their first in-pe...
Mar 15, 2021

Biden, Harris and others to promote relief plan's benefits
WASHINGTON - Let the sales push begin. President Joe Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris and their spouses are opening an ambitious, cross-country tour this week to highlight the benefits of his $1.9 ...
Mar 15, 2021

Chicago parish fiercely backs priest after sex abuse claims
CHICAGO - When her teenage son was murdered outside a church in 2006, Pam Bosley contacted ministers around Chicago, hoping someone would help make sense of it. Only one wrote back. Michael Pfleger, a...
Mar 15, 2021

Group reports health facilities looted in Ethiopia's Tigray
KAMPALA, Uganda - Health facilities in Ethiopia's embattled region of Tigray have been "looted, vandalized and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on health care," the humanitarian group D...
Mar 15, 2021

Myanmar junta orders martial law in 6 Yangon townships
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's ruling junta has declared martial law in six townships in the country's largest city, as security forces killed dozens of protesters over the weekend in an increasingly let...
Mar 15, 2021

Voting starts in coronavirus-affected Dutch election
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Polling stations opened across the Netherlands early Monday in a general election that has been spread over three days to allow people to vote safely during the coronavirus pa...
Mar 15, 2021