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Red Cross: $6 million for Ebola fight stolen through fraud
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Fraud by Red Cross workers and others wasted at least $6 million meant to fight the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the organization confirmed Saturday. The revelations ...
Nov 04, 2017
"Mission Impossible" to shoot at famed Norway tourist site
COPENHAGEN - Technical equipment to shoot “Mission: Impossible 6” is being helicoptered in to southern Norway’s most famous tourist attraction - which means the site is being tempora...
Nov 04, 2017
Lebanese premier resigns, plunging nation into uncertainty
BEIRUT - Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri resigned from his post in a televised address from the Saudi capital Saturday, accusing Hezbollah of taking the country hostage, in a surprise move that pl...
Nov 04, 2017
Newcomers, the North and Stephen Harper: how federal politics mattered this week
OTTAWA - The Parliament Hill hoopla this week was all about horoscopes and Halloween costumes, with an undertone of Bill Morneau controversy for good measure. The new Governor General, former astronau...
Nov 04, 2017
Anti-marijuana activists target ads for 'Weedmaps' app in Montreal
MONTREAL - Ben Anson says he was outraged to see a large-scale billboard advertising Weedmaps, an app that lists local marijuana providers, crop up in a spot near several schools in Montreal earlier t...
Nov 04, 2017
Consider workplace safety in legalized marijuana rules, groups urge
VANCOUVER - New rules for legalized marijuana need to consider the impact on workplaces and clarify the rights of both employers and employees, say some business groups. Ottawa has set July 1 as the d...
Nov 04, 2017
Stampede on Indian river bank kills 3 during Hindu ritual
PATNA, India - Police in India say at least three people have been killed and another six injured when a stampede broke out during a Hindu religious ritual on a crowded bank of the Ganges River. Polic...
Nov 04, 2017
No prison for Bergdahl in sentencing for walking off post
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - For the first time in eight years, Bowe Bergdahl doesn’t face confinement, or the threat of it, after a judge spared the soldier from a prison sentence for endangering his com...
Nov 04, 2017
On eve of Asia trip, Trump pays visit to Pearl Harbor
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - President Donald Trump paid a solemn visit to the memorial at Pearl Harbor, a sacred journey for a commander-in-chief about to depart on an Asia trip that will...
Nov 04, 2017
Cop charged with stealing from victim in death investigation
WINTER PARK, Fla. - A Florida police sergeant has been arrested for allegedly stealing from a dead person. Winter Park Police spokeswoman Pam Marcum said Sgt. Frank Cowart was accused of taking person...
Nov 04, 2017