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Canada a bright light in a horrible year for refugee resettlement: UN refugee agency
OTTAWA - The year 2020 will go down as the worst for refugee resettlement in recent history, says the UN refugee agency's Canadian representative. With nearly 168 countries implementing border and tra...
Dec 14, 2020
Stocks open higher on Wall Street as vaccine rolls out in US
NEW YORK - Stocks are opening broadly higher Monday as the weekend rollout of the first batches of COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by U.S. regulators helped brighten the outlook for fighting the pande...
Dec 14, 2020
Series of gaps allowed massive Desjardins data breach, privacy watchdog says
OTTAWA - The federal privacy watchdog says a series of technological and administrative gaps caused a high-profile data breach at Desjardins - the largest in the Canadian financial services sector.In ...
Dec 14, 2020
Indonesia police: Top terror suspect mastermind of attacks
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian authorities said Monday that a top terror suspect arrested last week was the architect of a series of deadly attacks and sectarian conflicts in the world's most populou...
Dec 14, 2020
Justin Bieber, UK health workers team up for charity song
LONDON - Justin Bieber has teamed up with a choir of London medical staff to record a special charity Christmas single. The choir, made up of nurses, doctors and other health care staff working in the...
Dec 14, 2020
Leigh Centurions chosen to replace the Toronto Wolfpack in Super League
The Leigh Centurions have been chosen to replace the Toronto Wolfpack in Super League.Leigh was the unanimous choice among the six teams applying from the second-tier Betfred Championship to take the ...
Dec 14, 2020
Qualification still needed but now Canada knows what awaits at 2023 Rugby World Cup
Pick your poison. Canada will face either New Zealand or England in group play if it secures one of the two direct qualifying spots from the Americas for the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France. At Monday'...
Dec 14, 2020
Families marry off daughters to ease finances amid COVID-19
KOIDU, Sierra Leone - The man first caught a glimpse of Marie Kamara as she ran with her friends past his house near the village primary school. Soon after, he proposed to the fifth-grader. "I'm going...
Dec 14, 2020
Asia Today: South Korea to open more virus testing sites
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea was opening dozens of free COVID-19 testing sites in the greater Seoul area, as the country registered additional 718 new cases Monday amid a surge in infection...
Dec 14, 2020
Early in-person voting begins in Georgia Senate runoffs
ATLANTA - What could be the main event in Georgia's twin U.S. Senate runoffs - early in-person voting - begins Monday. More than half of the record 5 million votes in the Nov. 3 general election were ...
Dec 14, 2020