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P.A. forging ahead with bid process for delayed World Cup of Softball
Despite delays, restructuring, and changes caused by the pandemic, Prince Albert will continue their push to be the hosts of the Senior Men's World Cup of Softball. Felix Casavant, one of the co-chair...
Mar 28, 2021
Myanmar pageant contender calls for urgent international aid
BANGKOK - A pageant contestant from Myanmar has used her moment in the spotlight to appeal for urgent international help for her country as security forces suppressing protests against last month's co...
Mar 28, 2021
New York lawmakers agree to legalize recreational marijuana
Lawmakers reached an agreement late Saturday to legalize recreational marijuana sales in New York. At least 14 other states already allow residents to buy marijuana for recreational and not just medic...
Mar 28, 2021
The need for speed: How Canada approved five vaccines for COVID-19 in under a year
OTTAWA - In the last four years, Health Canada has approved more than 1,500 new or updated pharmaceuticals. Ten of them are vaccines. Five of those are for COVID-19. Dr. Supriya Sharma, the chief medi...
Mar 28, 2021
Death toll from Egypt building collapse climbs to 18
CAIRO - The death toll from the collapse of a nine-story apartment building in Cairo has climbed to 18, Egyptian state media reported. The building collapsed early Saturday. State newspaper Al-Ahram s...
Mar 28, 2021
2 tugboats speed to Egypt's Suez Canal as shippers avoid it
SUEZ, Egypt - Two additional tugboats sped Sunday to Egypt's Suez Canal to aid efforts to free a skyscraper-sized container ship wedged for days across the crucial waterway, even as major shippers inc...
Mar 28, 2021
Myanmar protests continue a day after more than 100 killed
YANGON, Myanmar - Protesters in Myanmar returned to the streets Sunday to press their demands for a return to democracy, just a day after security forces killed more than 100 people in the bloodiest d...
Mar 28, 2021
Establishing motive central focus in fatal library attack in North Vancouver: police
VANCOUVER - Police are working to determine the motive of a series of stabbings that left a woman dead and six others injured inside and around a public library in North Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday. ...
Mar 28, 2021
B.C. mining laws raise questions as province looks to implement UN declaration
VANCOUVER - The relationships between Indigenous nations and British Columbia's mining sector are set to change as the province works to match its laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Right...
Mar 28, 2021
Suicide bomber targets Mass in Indonesia, several hurt
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a packed Roman Catholic cathedral on Indonesia's Sulawesi island during a Palm Sunday Mass, wounding at least nine people, police said. A ...
Mar 27, 2021