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In the news today, July 24
Five stories in the news for Wednesday, July 24 --- TWO MISSING TEENS NOW SUSPECTS IN THREE B.C. DEATHS A nationwide manhunt was on Tuesday for two teenagers labelled by police as ...
Jul 24, 2019
Canada urged to help special court for Central African Republic survive
OTTAWA - Canada is being urged to help plug a US$1-million funding shortfall that would allow the Special Criminal Court for war-ravaged Central African Republic to keep operating. That request c...
Jul 24, 2019
Secret spy file on Pierre Trudeau was almost spared from destruction: memo
OTTAWA - A secret spy-service file on Pierre Trudeau came close to eluding destruction 30 years ago, newly disclosed memos reveal. However, a late October 1988 recommendation&...
Jul 24, 2019
N.W.T. premier urges investment in Arctic ports as sea ice recedes
Climate change has hurt the northern economy in ways few southern Canadians can appreciate, says Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod, but he also wants to make sure his territory benefi...
Jul 24, 2019
Jody Wilson Raybould's book on reconciliation to be released Sept. 20
VANCOUVER - A book by former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould will be released on Sept. 20, according to her publisher. The book, which is titled From Where I Stand...
Jul 24, 2019
Yukiya Amano, head of UN agency overseeing Iran deal, dies
VIENNA - Yukiya Amano, the Japanese diplomat who led the International Atomic Energy Agency for a decade and was extensively involved in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program and the cleanup of the...
Jul 24, 2019
Syrian activists say airstrikes kill 27 in rebel-held town
BEIRUT - Multiple airstrikes hit a busy market in a rebel-controlled town in northwestern Syria on Monday, killing at least 27 people and turning several buildings into piles of rubble, according to o...
Jul 24, 2019
Japanese Canadians call on B.C. to go beyond mere apology for historic racism
VANCOUVER - Japanese Canadians across the country are meeting to discuss how an apology by the British Columbia government could be backed by meaningful action for those who were placed in i...
Jul 24, 2019
Did Facebook data help Trump? 'Great Hack' explores scandal
NEW YORK - The new documentary "The Great Hack" captures how Facebook's cavalier handling of user data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal posed a threat to democracy. But it doesn't prove the filmmake...
Jul 23, 2019
Israeli crews demolish Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem
JERUSALEM - Israeli work crews on Monday began demolishing dozens of Palestinian homes on the outskirts of an east Jerusalem neighbourhood, in one of the largest operations of its kind in years. The d...
Jul 23, 2019