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Calgary police charge Kelowna woman in $1.2 million fraud case
CALGARY- Police have arrested a woman who is accused of bilking four companies out of $1.2 million. They believe the suspect wrote 185 cheques to herself from the companies, where she had worked for n...
May 9, 2018
Farhadi calls on Iran to allow barred director to Cannes
CANNES, France - Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has called on the Iranian government to allow his countryman and fellow director Jafar Panahi to attend the Cannes Film Festival. Panahi has been barr...
May 9, 2018
Lawyer: Ex-Mafia boss charged in 1993 slaying 'no angel'
BOSTON - Former New England Mafia boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme has been “no angel” but played no role in the 1993 killing of a nightclub owner, the aging’s mobst...
May 9, 2018
Freed detainees head home for big welcome, featuring Trump
WASHINGTON - Freed after more than a year in prison, three Americans flew homeward from North Korea late Wednesday toward a big middle-of-the-night celebration featuring President Donald Trump - the l...
May 9, 2018
Video shows black Airbnb guests, police joking about call
LOS ANGELES - New video released by police Tuesday shows officers joking with three black people considering suing over what they say was an excessive response to a racially motivated 911 call in Sout...
May 9, 2018
Nuclear deal's opponents seek tougher stance on Iran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran’s other rivals have long wanted to scuttle the nuclear deal, which they see as undermining the strategy they say the world should be t...
May 9, 2018
Kim breaks with his flight-phobic father, travels by plane
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Unlike his dictator father, who famously shunned air travel, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un jetted off to the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian this week, becoming the f...
May 9, 2018
5 police, inmate dead in Indonesia prison riot; hostage held
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A riot at a police detention centre near Indonesia’s capital left five officers and a prisoner dead and another officer held hostage Wednesday. The Islamic State group said ...
May 9, 2018
CIA nominee says torture doesn't work as interrogation tool
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s CIA nominee said Wednesday at her confirmation hearing that she doesn’t believe torture works as an interrogation technique and that her “strong...
May 9, 2018
Pruitt security chief cites weapons glitch for missed flight
WASHINGTON - On a trip to Morocco last year, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and his staff missed a connecting flight and spent more than 24 hours in Paris because his secur...
May 9, 2018