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Turkish, Saudi leaders speak by phone ahead of G20 summit
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Saudi Arabia's King Salman by phone ahead of the G-20 virtual summit hosted by the kingdom, the president's office said Saturday. The...
Nov 21, 2020
India says Pakistani shelling kills soldier in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India - An Indian soldier was killed and another wounded by Pakistani shelling along the highly militarized frontier dividing Kashmir between the two nuclear-armed rivals, the Indian army sa...
Nov 21, 2020
Biden could announce Cabinet picks as soon as next week
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden is moving quickly to fill out his administration and could name top leaders for his Cabinet as early as next week. Biden told reporters on Thursday that he's alr...
Nov 21, 2020
The show goes on at Madrid´s opera house despite pandemic
MADRID - No one performing onstage in Spain's Teatro Real opera house is masked, and that alone looks odd these days amid a pandemic. And that's even before the second act scene in Antonn Dvork's "Rus...
Nov 21, 2020
Former NHLer Fred Sasakamoose battling COVID-19
Multiple reports on social media indicate Fred Sasakamoose, the first Canadian Indigenous-born athlete to play in the National Hockey League has been admitted to hospital due to COVID-19.A post from t...
Nov 20, 2020
Trudeau's efforts to bring rivals onside falters in face of new COVID-19 modelling
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's effort to try and bring rivals onside to help communicate the dramatic implications of rising COVID-19 infections appears to have faltered. While Trudeau stood...
Nov 20, 2020
Justice Dept. plans 3 more executions in lame-duck period
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has scheduled three more federal executions during the lame-duck period before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, including two just days before his inaugurati...
Nov 20, 2020
SHA identifies COVID-19 cases at three separate P.A. schools
The Saskatchewan Health Authority has identified three separate COVID-19 cases at three individual schools: Carlton Comprehensive Public High School, Riverside Public School and Ecole Vickers Public S...
Nov 20, 2020
Sask. Hockey Association preparing for possibility of more temporary restrictions
Sports may soon be getting more restrictions due to COVID-19 and the Saskatchewan Hockey Association is preparing for that.SHA general manager Kelly McClintock said the province, through Sask. Sport, ...
Nov 20, 2020
NDP calls for changes in long-term care homes
The Saskatchewan NDP is calling for changes to the provincial government's COVID-19 response in long-term care homes.In a release Friday, Leader Ryan Meili and Matt Love, the party's critic for senior...
Nov 20, 2020