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For Venezuela's 1 per cent, a lavish wedding amid crisis
ACARIGUA, Venezuela - It was the sort of celebration that’s become rare in troubled Venezuela: a lavish destination wedding of two young entrepreneurs at a dude ranch on the country’s vast...
Mar 25, 2019
Canadian reliever John Axford signs new minor-league deal with Blue Jays
MONTREAL - The Toronto Blue Jays have re-signed Canadian reliever John Axford to a minor-league deal. The native of Simcoe, Ont., was released from a minor-league deal on Saturday after being diagnose...
Mar 25, 2019
Canadian man accused of spying in China gets visit by consular officials
OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada says consular officials in China paid a visit Monday to detained former diplomat Michael Kovrig. It is the fifth time Kovrig has received a consular visit since he was d...
Mar 25, 2019
EU military wants to partner with Canada in Mali as it races for exit
OTTAWA - As Canada’s military mission races to leave Mali and the United Nations pleads for it to stay, the European Union is making a fresh appeal to the Canadian Forces to partner with it in t...
Mar 25, 2019
Canada Revenue Agency tax services back online after 'hardware' problems
OTTAWA - The websites Canadians use to file their taxes online were offline for most of Monday as a result of what the Canada Revenue Agency called a “computer hardware issue.” The agency ...
Mar 25, 2019
UCP candidate in Calgary resigns, blames threat of ‘smear’ campaign
CALGARY – Another United Conservative Party candidate is pulling out of the Alberta election, saying someone outside the party is threatening to release her past social media comments about Musl...
Mar 25, 2019
Benatar, Etheridge added to Tanglewood summer lineup
LENOX, Mass. - Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Melissa Etheridge and Richard Thompson have been added to Tanglewood’s 2019 Popular Artist summer series. The summer home of the Boston Symphony Or...
Mar 25, 2019
Mix-up: British Airways plane lands in Scotland, not Germany
LONDON - The flight on Monday seemed to go perfectly well, until passengers realized that their plane had landed in both the wrong city and the wrong country. The British Airways flight from London Ci...
Mar 25, 2019
UK lawmakers seize Brexit agenda in bid to break deadlock
LONDON - British lawmakers seized a measure of control over the stalled Brexit process from Prime Minister Theresa May’s foundering government Monday, setting up a series of votes that could dra...
Mar 25, 2019
UN makes urgent appeal to help victims of Mozambique cyclone
BEIRA, Mozambique - The United Nations is making an emergency appeal for $282 million for the next three months to help Mozambique start recovering from the devastation of Cyclone Idai. The U.N. fundi...
Mar 25, 2019