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Police make arrest, Canadian 'shocked' after fiance's murder in New Zealand
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand police have charged a man with murder after a tourist was killed in a seemingly random attack on a van that sparked a large manhunt after the victim's Canadi...
Aug 18, 2019
Andrew Scheer calls on Liberal MPs to further probe SNC-Lavalin affair
OTTAWA - Federal ethics commissioner Mario Dion says he's willing to testify about his scathing report on Trudeau's handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair - if he's invited to do so by the ...
Aug 18, 2019
Police seek to question man in NYC rice cooker bomb scare
NEW YORK - Three abandoned devices that looked like pressure cookers caused an evacuation of a major New York City subway station and closed off an intersection in another part of town Friday morning ...
Aug 18, 2019
Gibraltar rejects US pressure to hold Iranian oil tanker
MADRID - Authorities in Gibraltar say they are rejecting the United States' renewed request that the British overseas territory not release an Iranian supertanker. The vessel has been detained for ove...
Aug 18, 2019
French police suicide rate climbs, French govt is flummoxed
PARIS - Three riot police officers, a police commander, a police academy teacher - all are among eight French police officers who have killed themselves recently. That makes 64 so far this year - and ...
Aug 18, 2019
Portland 'ground zero' for protests between right, left-wing
PORTLAND, Ore. - Hundreds of far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators swarmed downtown Portland, Oregon, on Saturday for a long-hyped rally that attracted President Donald Trump's a...
Aug 18, 2019
Leaked UK memos warn of food, drug shortages in Brexit chaos
LONDON - Leaked British government documents have warned of disruptions across the country in the event that the U.K. leaves the European Union without a trade deal on Oct. 31. British Prime Minister ...
Aug 18, 2019
Tens of thousands flood Hong Kong park for latest rally
HONG KONG - Heavy rain fell on tens of thousands of umbrella-toting protesters Sunday as they marched from a packed park and filled a major road in Hong Kong, where mass pro-democracy demonstrations h...
Aug 18, 2019
Tlaib declines to visit West Bank, citing Israeli conditions
JERUSALEM - Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Friday she would not visit her grandmother in the occupied West Bank, despite being granted an Israeli permit on humanitarian grounds, saying Israel's "o...
Aug 18, 2019
Afghan officials: Suicide attack in wedding hall kills 63
KABUL - The death toll from a suicide bombing at a wedding in Afghanistan's capital is at least 63, including women and children, officials said Sunday, as Kabul reeled from its deadliest attack this ...
Aug 17, 2019