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Calgary Flames sign Russian defenceman Nikita Nesterov to one-year contract
CALGARY - The Calgary Flames and Russian defenceman Nikita Nesterov have agreed to a one-year contract. The deal is worth US$700,000, the NHL club said Friday in a statement. The 27-year-old from Chel...
Oct 23, 2020
Hitler speeches sell at Munich auction despite objections
BERLIN - Handwritten speech notes by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler sold at auction in Munich on Friday despite concerns from Jewish groups they could encourage neo-Nazis. The Hermann Historica auction ho...
Oct 23, 2020
AP Explains: Why are UK and EU still arguing over Brexit?
LONDON - It's more than four years since Britain voted to leave the European Union, and almost a year since Prime Minister Boris Johnson won an election by vowing to "get Brexit done." Spoiler alert: ...
Oct 23, 2020
Red Deer RCMP seek to identify person captured on camera before downtown apartment fire
Red Deer RCMP is asking for the public's help in identifying a woman captured on video from inside the Potter's Hands Billiards Building before it burned down this summer.As Mounties continue to inves...
Oct 23, 2020
Some hospitals in crisis as US nears high for COVID-19 cases
BOISE, Idaho - The United States is approaching a record for the number of new daily coronavirus cases in the latest ominous sign about the disease's grip on the nation, as states from Connecticut to ...
Oct 23, 2020
US wades in cautiously to Armenia-Azerbaijan peace effort
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration waded cautiously Friday into international efforts to halt fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which are engaged in their worst conflict in more than 25 year...
Oct 23, 2020
Poles vent fury at court's further restrictions on abortions
WARSAW, Poland - Throngs of protesters vented anger Friday across Poland over a top court ruling that declared abortions of fetuses with congenital defects unconstitutional, effectively narrowing one ...
Oct 23, 2020
Dutch hospital airlifts patients to Germany amid virus surge
ALMERE, Netherlands - A bright yellow helicopter rose into a blue sky Friday carrying a COVID-19 patient from the Netherlands to a German intensive care unit, the first such international airlift sinc...
Oct 23, 2020
Croatia accused of brutality, sexual abuse against migrants
SARAJEVO, Bosnia - Danish aid workers stationed in the Balkans say dozens of migrants have alleged they were brutalized by Croatian law-enforcement officers when they tried to cross into the European ...
Oct 23, 2020
In hard-hit Peru, worry mounts over both COVID-19 and dengue
PUCALLPA, Peru - Two of Lidia Choque's close family members had already gotten sick with the new coronavirus when the mosquitos arrived. The 53-year-old woman lives in a wooden house near the airport ...
Oct 23, 2020