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Russian shopping mall fire kills 64; no alarms reported
MOSCOW - Witnesses say fire alarms were silent and many doors were locked when a blaze at a Russian shopping mall packed with children and their parents on the first weekend of the school recess kille...
Mar 26, 2018
AP Interview: UN food agency boss warns of migrant crisis
CANBERRA, Australia - The head of the United Nations food agency warned Monday that the relocation of Islamic State group members from the Middle East to Africa could trigger a massive new European mi...
Mar 26, 2018
Watch it, Facebook: new EU data rules may have broad impact
LONDON - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is promising to do a better job protecting user data following reports that a political consultant misused the personal information of millions of the companyR...
Mar 26, 2018
Israeli police question Netanyahu again in telecom case
JERUSALEM - Israeli police on Monday questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as his wife and son, in a corruption case involving the country’s telecom giant, one of a slew of scand...
Mar 26, 2018
Videos raise questions over Saudi missile intercept claims
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - As with nearly every ballistic missile launched by Yemen’s Shiite rebels targeting Saudi Arabia, the kingdom overnight said it intercepted all seven fired - but onl...
Mar 26, 2018
Witness in Mueller probe aided UAE agenda in Congress
WASHINGTON - A top fundraiser for President Donald Trump received millions of dollars from a political adviser to the United Arab Emirates last April, just weeks before he began handing out a series o...
Mar 26, 2018
In the news today, March 26
Four stories in the news for Monday, March 26 --- FEDS READY TO RUSH DEMOCRATIC REFORM BILLS After more than two years riding the brakes on a raft of promised reforms to election laws, the Trudeau gov...
Mar 26, 2018
Trudeau apologizes to Tsilhqot'in for hanging of chiefs in 1864 'Chilcotin War'
OTTAWA - For generations of Tsilhqot’in youth, the first story they learn is of the historic betrayal by the British colonial government that led to the hanging of six of the nation’s lead...
Mar 26, 2018
Liberals prepare big push on bills to reform how elections fought, conducted
OTTAWA - After more than two years riding the brakes on a raft of promised reforms to election laws, the Trudeau government is preparing to put the pedal to the metal to get them in place in time for ...
Mar 26, 2018
Half Alberta's boreal forest could disappear due to fires and climate change
EDMONTON - A study shows half of Alberta’s boreal forest could disappear in just over 80 years due to wildfires and climate change. The research, published Monday in the journal Ecosphere, gives...
Mar 26, 2018