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76th Venice Film Festival to embrace Netflix productions
ROME - The 76th Venice Film Festival will feature three Netflix productions alongside Hollywood titles, embracing the streaming giant after the Cannes Film Festival excluded it for a second year in a ...
Jul 27, 2019
Europe melts under Sahara heat wave, smashes heat records
PARIS - Even ice cream, Italian gelato or Popsicles couldn't help this time. Temperature records that had stood for decades or even just hours fell minute by minute Thursday afternoon and Europeans an...
Jul 27, 2019
Italy detains 2 Americans, 19, in slaying of policeman
ROME - Italian police said Saturday that two 19-year-old American tourists have confessed to fatally stabbing an Italian paramilitary policeman who was investigating the theft of a bag with a cellphon...
Jul 27, 2019
Behind-the-scenes work on skills policy detailed in election-tinged documents
OTTAWA - Top civil servants have been told that their departments don't know what the jobs of the future will look like and that employers' demands for skills will change more and more frequently in t...
Jul 27, 2019
Hong Kong police fire tear gas after protesters defy ban
HONG KONG - Police in Hong Kong fired tear gas Saturday at protesters who defied authorities' warnings not to march in a neighbourhood where six days earlier a mob apparently targeting demonstrators b...
Jul 27, 2019
In the news today, July 25
Five stories in the news for Thursday, July 25 --- FATHER OF SUSPECT IN 3 DEATHS SAYS SON IS IN PAIN The father of a suspect in the deaths of three people in northern British Columbia says h...
Jul 27, 2019
No minorities, one woman sought latest Supreme Court seat: panel chair
OTTAWA - More women, Indigenous and minority judges could find themselves on the Supreme Court if the government took a longer view of filling spots instead of scrambling to fill vacancies, says forme...
Jul 27, 2019
Rapper A$AP Rocky charged with assault over fight in Sweden
STOCKHOLM - A Swedish prosecutor on Thursday charged rapper A$AP Rocky with assault over a fight in Stockholm last month, in a case that has drawn the attention of fellow recording artists as well as ...
Jul 27, 2019
50 Cent: 'Power' being overlooked by Emmys is racial
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - 50 Cent said he thinks "Power" being overlooked by the Emmys over the years was racial despite the success of popular Starz series that has a prominently black cast. "I like to...
Jul 26, 2019
Calgary Cavalry bounce withering Whitecaps from Canadian Championships
VANCOUVER - Calgary's Cavalry FC may be a Cinderella story but the fairy tale isn't over yet. The Canadian Premier League squad pulled off an upset Wednesday night, beating Major League Soccer's&...
Jul 26, 2019