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Indonesian president urges tolerance in annual speech
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia’s president urged his country to embrace its founding spirit of tolerance in an annual national address just days after choosing a divisive cleric as his running m...
Aug 16, 2018
Videos show workers on Florida bridge before collapse
MIAMI - New videos show construction workers labouring on a pedestrian bridge in Florida shortly before it collapses, killing six people. The time-lapse video released Wednesday by Florida Internation...
Aug 16, 2018
Progress slow for USA Gymnastics in wake of Nassar scandal
BOSTON - Simone Biles is not here to save gymnastics. Or at least USA Gymnastics. The reigning Olympic champion understands how bumpy of a ride it has been for her sport’s national governing bod...
Aug 16, 2018
70 years after Babe Ruth's death, fans still flock to grave
HAWTHORNE, N.Y. - Amid the serene graves at Gate of Heaven Cemetery sits the one where visitors leave baseballs and bats instead of bouquets, tributes to a baseball superstar who still outshines other...
Aug 16, 2018
Baloney Meter: is flow of asylum seekers at Canada-U.S. border a 'crisis'?
OTTAWA - “I think any time you have a government that allows 30,000 people over the course of a short period of time to come into Canada illegally, the impact that that has, that is a crisis....
Aug 16, 2018
Hundreds attend visitation for fallen police constables in Fredericton
FREDERICTON - Hundreds of mourners lined up in downtown Fredericton on Thursday for an emotional public visitation for two city police constables killed in the line of duty. Constables Robb Costello a...
Aug 16, 2018
Ugandan pop star, a government critic, faces military court
KAMPALA, Uganda - A pop singer and prominent critic of Uganda’s government was charged with unlawful possession of firearms in a military court on Thursday for his alleged role in clashes in whi...
Aug 16, 2018
Mali's president wins runoff vote with more than 67 per cent
BAMAKO, Mali - Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won a second five-year term in the turbulent West African nation with more than 67 per cent of the vote in a runoff election, the Ministry ...
Aug 16, 2018
Australian filmmaker goes on trial in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - One of Australia’s most famous movie directors testified Thursday in Cambodia at the trial of a filmmaking countryman facing a possible prison term of five to 10 years for...
Aug 16, 2018
CARTOON 08-16-2018
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 08-16-2018
Aug 16, 2018