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Hospital fire kills 9 COVID-19 patients at ICU in Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey - A fire broke out Saturday at an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients in southern Turkey after an oxygen cylinder exploded, killing nine people, the health minister said. The...
Dec 19, 2020
Epstein-linked modeling agent charged with rape of minors
PARIS - A modeling agent associated with disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein has been charged in France with sexual harassment and the rape of minors over 15 years old. Jean-Luc Brunel was arrest...
Dec 19, 2020
Asia Today: Sydney beach suburbs in lockdown as cases rise
SYDNEY, Australia - Sydney's northern beaches will enter a lockdown similar to the one imposed during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March as a cluster of cases in the area increased to 41. Fro...
Dec 19, 2020
Biden transition team criticizes co-operation from Pentagon
WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden's transition team expressed frustration Friday with the level of co-operation they're getting from political appointees at the Department of Defence, sayin...
Dec 19, 2020
Rockets hit US base in Afghanistan, no casualties reported
KABUL - Five rockets were fired at a major U.S. base in Afghanistan on Saturday, but there were no casualties, NATO and provincial officials said. The rockets hit Bagram Airfield, said Wahida Shahkar,...
Dec 19, 2020
Singh strives to carve out space for NDP as Tories, Liberals target his turf
OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh is being squeezed. Crowded on one side by spend-happy Liberals, on another by socially conscious Greens and, most recently, by Conservatives homing in on working-class voters, t...
Dec 19, 2020
A year of COVID-19 has reversed a decade of progress helping world's poor: Gould
OTTAWA - International Development Minister Karina Gould isn't running any victory laps despite ending 2020 by doing what so few of her political predecessors could - wrestling a sizable increase in C...
Dec 19, 2020
Carole James, former B.C. finance minister, says she was driven to give back
VICTORIA - Carole James says she was still deciding whether to run in British Columbia's provincial election earlier this year when a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease gave her the answer. It was last ...
Dec 19, 2020
India’s virus cases cross 10 million as new infections dip
NEW DELHI - India's confirmed coronavirus cases have crossed 10 million with new infections dipping to their lowest levels in three months, as the country prepares for a massive COVID-19 vaccination i...
Dec 18, 2020
Lowry scores 25 points, but Raptors lose to Heat in 1st game at temporary Tampa home
TAMPA, Fla. - One of the first things Nick Nurse noticed when he walked onto the floor of Amalie Arena was the Toronto Raptors' 2019 NBA championship banner hanging from the rafters. "It certainly giv...
Dec 18, 2020