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Romania: Royal family reports ex-king's grandson to police
BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania’s royal house has filed a complaint with Swiss police alleging that the estranged grandson of the ailing ex-King Michael I tried to force his way into his grandfathe...
Nov 08, 2017
House, Senate negotiators agree on $700 billion for Pentagon
WASHINGTON - House and Senate negotiators have agreed on an annual defence policy bill that authorizes $700 billion for the Pentagon in the 2018 fiscal year, a dramatic increase over the amount Presid...
Nov 08, 2017
Canada's first HIV-positive restaurant opens in Toronto to counter stigmas
TORONTO - While working as a sexual health educator in Calgary several years ago, artist and activist Mikiki would often gently correct clients who said they had never met a gay person. Actually, you ...
Nov 08, 2017
Angelina Jolie expected to give keynote address at Vancouver peacekeeping summit
OTTAWA - Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie is expected to lend her star power to next week’s peacekeeping summit in Vancouver. A draft program for the two-day meeting leaked to The Ca...
Nov 08, 2017
N.B. woman sues minister and church for damages after box-cutter assault
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A New Brunswick woman who claims that her former Anglican minister and lover tried to kill her is suing him and the church for damages. Cynthia Mae Moore claims she had an extramari...
Nov 08, 2017
Family of B.C. murder suspect says Oscar Arfmann fought mental illness
VANCOUVER - A family member of an Alberta man charged with the first-degree murder of a British Columbia police officer say the accused had been struggling since losing his wife almost five years ago....
Nov 08, 2017
Local members on Canada Task Force 2 bringing back invaluable experience
A trio of City of Red Deer employees are better equipped to do their jobs at home after travelling down south for a very unique opportunity. The three currently serve as members on Canada Task Force 2...
Nov 08, 2017
Dozens of men say Sri Lankan forces raped and tortured them
LONDON - One of the men tortured in Sri Lanka said he was held for 21 days in a small dank room where he was raped 12 times, burned with cigarettes, beaten with iron rods and hung upside-down. Another...
Nov 08, 2017
East Coast offers homeless insights as West Coast struggles
NEW YORK - It’s before dawn when two outreach workers find a homeless man known as Juice near a train station in Harlem. A nurse will be visiting to discuss his heart problems, they tell him. A ...
Nov 08, 2017
US showpiece at world's fair leaves a legacy of unpaid bills
NEW YORK - It was built to showcase the United States of America to the world, an airy, eye-catching pavilion with a facade of live plants and a walkway built with pieces of New York’s famous Co...
Nov 08, 2017