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Prime Minister marks start of Thanksgiving holiday by meeting Afghan refugee family
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marked the beginning of the Thanksgiving holiday by meeting a family of Afghan refugees who recently arrived in the country. Obaidullah Rahimi began working at t...
Oct 09, 2021
Prime Minister marks start of Thanksgiving holiday by meeting Afghan refugee family
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marked the beginning of the Thanksgiving holiday by meeting a family of Afghan refugees who recently arrived in the country. Obaidullah Rahimi began working at t...
Oct 09, 2021
Kurz to quit as Austrian chancellor amid corruption probe
BERLIN (AP) - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Saturday that he plans to step down in an effort to defuse a government crisis triggered by prosecutors' announcement that he is a target of a cor...
Oct 09, 2021
Ruling party narrowly loses Czech vote; PM Babis may be out
PRAGUE (AP) - Prime Minister Andrej Babis' centrist party on Saturday narrowly lost the Czech Republic's parliamentary election, a surprise development that could mean the end of the populist billiona...
Oct 09, 2021
Banisadr, Iran's first president after 1979 revolution, dies
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first president after the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the na...
Oct 09, 2021
US Open champ Raducanu upset at Indian Wells; Murray wins
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. - Emma Raducanu came down to earth in her first tournament since her surprising U.S. Open victory, losing in straight sets to Aliaksandra Sasnovich at the BNP Paribas Open on Frid...
Oct 09, 2021
More charges laid after second search warrant in Ponoka
RCMP have arrested a second person and laid additional charges after multiple search warrants in Ponoka.On Sept. 28, RCMP said that it was on the 25th of that month they'd executed a search warrant at...
Oct 08, 2021
Masterful Webb pitches Giants past Dodgers in playoff opener
SAN FRANCISCO - Logan Webb struck out 10 pitching masterfully in his postseason debut, Buster Posey hit a two-run homer that held up, and the 107-win San Francisco Giants blanked the defending World S...
Oct 08, 2021
Red Deer Mounties lay impaired driving charges
Impaired driving charges have been laid after an incident nearby two Red Deer schools.RCMP say it was just after 10 a.m. on Oct. 5 when members responded to a complaint regarding a black Ford Mustang ...
Oct 08, 2021
Rebels doubled up by Tigers to snap two-game win streak
It was a low-scoring and tight affair after 40 minutes of play Friday night, but ultimately the Red Deer Rebels came up short against the visiting Medicine Hat Tigers.Red Deer, now 2-2-0-0, were comin...
Oct 08, 2021