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Police: Albanian man with knife wounds 5 at mosque in Tirana
TIRANA, Albania - An Albanian man with a knife attacked five people Monday at a mosque in the capital of Tirana, according to police. A police statement said Rudolf Nikolli, 34, entered the Dine Hoxha...
Apr 19, 2021
Alberta's Boser set to face off against the Sledgehammer on June UFC card
Alberta heavyweight Tanner (The Bulldozer) Boser will face Sweden's Ilir (The Sledgehammer) Latifi on a June 5 UFC Fight Night card. The 29-year-old from Bonnyville, who now calls Edmonton home, is co...
Apr 19, 2021
Foxconn, Wisconsin reach new deal on scaled back facility
MADISON, Wis. - Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, has reached a new deal with reduced tax breaks for its scaled back manufacturing facility in southeast Wisconsin...
Apr 19, 2021
Evacuations, damage as raging wildfire spreads in Cape Town
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - People were evacuated from Cape Town neighbourhoods Monday as a huge wildfire sweeping across the slopes of the city's famed Table Mountain was fanned by high winds and threa...
Apr 19, 2021
Patrick Marleau set to break Gordie Howe's record for most NHL games played
LAS VEGAS - Patrick Marleau is poised to make history tonight.The 41-year-old native of Aneroid, Sask., will surpass Gordie Howe's record for most games played in NHL history when the San Jose Sharks ...
Apr 19, 2021
NASA's Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another plane...
Apr 19, 2021
1 dead, 100,000 displaced as typhoon blows near Philippines
MANILA, Philippines - An approaching typhoon has left at least one person dead, another missing and prompted the evacuation of more than 100,000 people as a precaution in the eastern and central Phili...
Apr 19, 2021
Residents evacuated as mountain fire spreads in Cape Town
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Residents are being evacuated from Cape Town neighbourhoods Monday as a wildfire spreading on the slopes of the city's famed Table Mountain was fanned by strong winds overnig...
Apr 19, 2021
Australia-New Zealand travel bubble opens with joy, tears
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - As the passengers walked a little dazed through the airport gates, they were embraced one after another by family members who rushed forward and dissolved into tears. Elation...
Apr 19, 2021
Bitter experience helps French ICUs crest latest virus wave
ROUEN, France - Slowly suffocating in a French intensive care ward, Patrick Aricique feared he would die from his diseased lungs that felt "completely burned from the inside, burned like the cathedral...
Apr 19, 2021