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Deal reached on bipartisan $8.3B bill to battle coronavirus
WASHINGTON - Capitol Hill negotiators have reached agreement on an $8.3 billion measure to battle the coronavirus outbreak that's spreading and threatening a major shock to the economy and disruptions...
Mar 04, 2020
Condolyzers share fraud prevention tips for condo boards
March is Fraud Prevention Month and the Condolyzers in Red Deer are sharing the following tips for both professionally and self-managed corporations to help avoid falling victim to fraud.Is the manage...
Mar 04, 2020
Marilyn Gladu visits Red Deer on Conservative leadership campaign tour
Marilyn Gladu is one of the Conservative members of parliament running to become the leader of her party. The MP of Sarnia-Lambton in Ontario since 2015 made a stop in Red Deer on Tuesday to talk with...
Mar 04, 2020 (Supplied photo)
Mother of Lacombe murder victim furious both accused are out on bail
The mother of a young man murdered in Lacombe last year says she's lost her faith in Canada's justice system.Carrie Cocke of Ponoka says with both people charged in her son's death now walking free af...
Mar 04, 2020 Jeffery Kraft, 20, of Ponoka, died on Dec. 15, 2019 after suffering a gunshot wound during an altercation in Lacombe.
Clashes erupt on Greece-Turkey border as migrants seek entry
KASTANIES, Greece - Greek authorities fired tear gas and stun grenades Wednesday morning to repulse a push by migrants to cross its land border from Turkey, as pressure continued along its frontier af...
Mar 04, 2020
US strikes Taliban forces, in first hit since peace deal
KABUL - The U.S. conducted Wednesday its first airstrike against Taliban forces in Afghanistan since signing an ambitious peace deal with the militant group. U.S. military spokesman Col. Sonny Leggett...
Mar 04, 2020
Syrian, Turkish armies engage in new deadly clashes in Idlib
ANKARA, Turkey - Two more Turkish soldiers were killed Wednesday in a Syrian government attack in Syria's northwest, the country's Defence Ministry said, as steady clashes between the two national arm...
Mar 04, 2020
Israel's re-do election returns it to political limbo, again
JERUSALEM - Israel looked set to slide back into political deadlock on Wednesday as the final votes were being tallied from the third election in less than a year, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya...
Mar 04, 2020
Japan opens part of last town off-limits since nuclear leaks
TOKYO - Japan's government on Wednesday opened part of the last town that had been off-limits due to radiation since the Fukushima nuclear disaster nine years ago, in a symbolic move showing the regio...
Mar 04, 2020
States scramble to prepare ahead of food stamps rule change
CHICAGO - Having food stamps offers Richard Butler a stability he's rarely known in his 25 years. He was in state custody at age 2, spent his teen years at a Chicago boys' home and jail for burglary, ...
Mar 04, 2020