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Battery fires: The potential danger hiding in your kitchen junk drawer
After putting up Christmas decorations this year, Damien Morris had some extra batteries left over and did what many people do - tossed them in a drawer for future use. The loose batteries sparked a f...
Nov 25, 2018
In South Sudan, a new approach in ending child soldiers' use
JUBA, South Sudan - After coming face to face with “unpredictable” gun-waving children almost 25 years ago, the Canadian former commander of the failed UN peacekeeping mission during the R...
Nov 25, 2018
Professor fights ban amid debate on academic freedom at B.C. university
VANCOUVER - A professor who has taken a stand against the publication of research in journals that aren’t peer reviewed says he has been suspended from the campus of the university where he work...
Nov 25, 2018
Ecumenical Patriarch blesses Romania cathedral, 1000s attend
BUCHAREST, Romania - Tens of thousands of Romanians gathered Sunday for the blessing of a grandiose Orthodox cathedral consecrated to mark 100 years since modern-day Romania was created in the afterma...
Nov 25, 2018
After dispute with Russia, Ukraine to impose martial law
KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine’s parliament voted Monday to impose martial law in parts of the country to fight what its president called “growing aggression” from Moscow after a weekend na...
Nov 25, 2018
Russian warplanes strike rebels after alleged gas attack
DAMASCUS, Syria - Russian warplanes attacked rebel-held areas in northern Syria for the first time in weeks on Sunday, as Syrian officials said more than 100 people were treated at hospitals for a sus...
Nov 25, 2018
Key points in the EU-UK Brexit agreement
BRUSSELS - The European Union has formally approved a divorce agreement with Britain, the first country ever to leave the 28-nation bloc. The deal consists of a legally binding withdrawal agreement th...
Nov 25, 2018
Incoming Mexico gov't: No deal to host US asylum-seekers
MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s incoming government denied a report Saturday that it plans to allow asylum-seekers to wait in the country while their claims move through U.S. immigration courts, one of s...
Nov 25, 2018
Taiwanese reject legalizing same-sex unions in referendum
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Voters in Taiwan passed a referendum asking that marriage be restricted to one man and one woman, a setback to LGBT couples hoping their island will be the first place in Asia to let ...
Nov 25, 2018
Indian police map area of island where US man was killed
NEW DELHI - Police said they have mapped the area of a remote Indian island where tribespeople were seen burying the body of an American adventurer and Christian missionary after allegedly killing him...
Nov 25, 2018