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A$AP Rocky pleads not guilty as Sweden assault trial opens
HELSINKI - American rapper A$AP Rocky pleaded not guilty as he went on trial for assault Tuesday in Sweden, where he has spent nearly a month in jail and his legal troubles that started with a street ...
Jul 30, 2019
Lebanon music festival cancels show after Christian pressure
BEIRUT - A multi-day international music festival in Lebanon said Tuesday that it's cancelled a planned concert by a popular Mideast rock band whose lead singer is openly gay, apparently caving to pre...
Jul 30, 2019
A star is born at the Tour: 22-year-old champion Egan Bernal
PARIS - The skies over Paris were yellow, ignited by a glorious golden sunset. The partying fans' shirts were yellow, Colombians making themselves at home on the Champs-Elysees. But the yellow that co...
Jul 30, 2019
Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan pioneer of kinetic art, dies in Paris
CARACAS, Venezuela - Carlos Cruz-Diez, a leading Venezuelan artist who won international acclaim for his work with colour and the style known as kinetic art, has died in Paris. He was 95. "Your love, ...
Jul 30, 2019
Global Citizen Festival to feature H.E.R, others
NEW YORK - Queen and Adam Lambert, Pharrell Williams and Alicia Keys are some of the headliners at the 2019 Global Citizens Festival. Organizers on Tuesday also announced OneRepublic, H.E.R and Carole...
Jul 30, 2019
New arena up for discussion today in Calgary
CALGARY- City councillors will debate the tentative deal to build a new home for the Calgary Flames today.The deal would see the city and Flames owner Calgary Sports and Entertainment equally split th...
Jul 30, 2019 Calgary City Hall
Feds spent $17.7 million on advertising in lead up to election moratorium
OTTAWA - Newly released figures show the federal government set aside nearly $17.7 million on public awareness campaigns between April and June just ahead of a mandatory blackout on government adverti...
Jul 30, 2019
2 dead, 2 wounded in shooting at Walmart in Mississippi
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. - Officials say two people are dead and a police officer and a suspect were shot at a Walmart in the northern Mississippi city of Southaven, a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. WREG-TV re...
Jul 30, 2019
Wildfires consume large sections of Alberta forest
EDMONTON- Alberta officials say wildfires this year have burned an area larger than Banff National Park and displaced about 15,000 people.Alberta Wildfire says fires that burned between March and June...
Jul 30, 2019 High Level wildfire
Final arguments set in trial for death of child found near Edmonton church
EDMONTON- Final arguments have been set for September in the murder trial of a woman accused in the death of a toddler who's body was found outside a church.Tasha-Lee Doreen Mack and the child's fathe...
Jul 30, 2019 Tasha-Lee Doreen Mack