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Syrian restaurant owners filing complaint about hate messages, Toronto cops say
TORONTO - A Toronto family who said it was forced to close their popular Syrian restaurant after receiving a series of hate messages and death threats has filed a complaint with ci...
Oct 11, 2019

Lacombe’s 2019 Fall Community Clean Up
LACOMBE- The City's annual fall Community Clean Up Campaign - a special refuse pickup that provides residents with an opportunity to dispose of household and yard refuse that one would not normally pl...
Oct 11, 2019

For 1st time, Biden declares Trump must be impeached
ROCHESTER, N.H. - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday for the first time that President Donald Trump must be impeached for abusing the powers of his office to help his own reele...
Oct 11, 2019

Nobel author Tokarczuk's hometown gives free rides for books
WARSAW, Poland - A Polish city is offering free public transport rides to bookworms - provided they're carrying works by the country's new Nobel literature prize laureate. City transport authorities i...
Oct 11, 2019

Unemployment rate down after country adds 54,000 jobs in September, StatCan says
OTTAWA - Canada's unemployment rate nudged down to a near four-decade low last month as the economy added more jobs than analysts expected - dropping an economic figure into a tight electoral race, an...
Oct 11, 2019

Two women testify at Edmonton trial of man accused of hitting them with van
EDMONTON - A pedestrian who was struck by a speeding U-Haul van in downtown Edmonton says she woke up in hospital unable to understand language. Kim O'Hara has testified in court that was able to...
Oct 11, 2019

Jailed Tunisian presidential candidate Karoui leaves prison
TUNIS, Tunisia - Presidential candidate and media mogul Nabil Karoui left a prison Wednesday where he has been jailed since August, just four days before Tunisia's presidential runoff vote and as offi...
Oct 11, 2019

2 dead in attack targeting German synagogue on Yom Kippur
HALLE, Germany - A heavily armed assailant ranting about Jews tried to force his way into a synagogue in Germany on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, then shot two people to death nearby in an attack...
Oct 11, 2019

Turkey begins offensive against Kurdish fighters in Syria
AKCAKALE, Turkey - Turkey launched airstrikes, fired artillery and began a ground offensive against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria on Wednesday after U.S. troops pulled back from the area, paving ...
Oct 11, 2019

Rape accusations against Lauer ensnare NBC management
NEW YORK - Two years after Matt Lauer was abruptly fired by NBC News for sexual misconduct, more questions are emerging about the former "Today" show host's behaviour and whether bosses looked the oth...
Oct 11, 2019