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UK rejects demand to replace officials after deadly fire
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government on Saturday rejected demands that she appoint commissioners to run the local council blamed for mishandling the response to the London hi...
Jul 01, 2017
Rapper arrested on unrelated charge after Arkansas shooting
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A rapper whose concert in Little Rock was the site of a shooting that left 28 people injured was arrested early Sunday on unrelated assault charges while outside an Alabama club wh...
Jul 01, 2017
World leaders, ordinary Germans bid farewell to Helmut Kohl
SPEYER, Germany - Germany bid farewell Saturday to Helmut Kohl, the former chancellor who steered his country toward reunification in 1990 and whose tireless efforts to ensure peace and stability in E...
Jul 01, 2017
Soggy grounds and sticky heat don't stop revellers at Canada 150 bash
OTTAWA - Paper Maple Leaf flags soaked by an early morning downpour quickly turned into makeshift fans to ward off sticky afternoon warmth Saturday as thousands of people squelched and squished their ...
Jul 01, 2017
Ukraine: Russian security services were behind cyberattack
MOSCOW - Ukraine accused the Russian security services Saturday of planning and launching a cyberattack that locked up computers around the world earlier this week. The Ukrainian security agency, know...
Jul 01, 2017
Canada 150 began at Cape Spear as Newfoundland boat cruise sang and celebrated
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A boatload of 75 early risers headed out on the North Atlantic off Newfoundland to be among the first to welcome Canada Day as dawn broke over the country’s eastern edge...
Jul 01, 2017
Pope removes German cardinal as sex abuse crisis catches up
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis sacked the head of the Vatican office that handles sex abuse cases Saturday, just days after he released another top Vatican cardinal to return home to stand trial for alle...
Jul 01, 2017
Montreal's first Canada Day parade met with laughter, founder recalls
MONTREAL - Among the tens of thousands of flag-waving revellers expected to line the streets for Montreal’s Canada Day parade, there will be one man who remembers the year he almost marched alon...
Jul 01, 2017
2 civilians, 2 rebels killed in Kashmir fighting
SRINAGAR, India - A woman and a young man were killed and several other people injured during anti-India protests and clashes in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday following a counterinsurgency ope...
Jul 01, 2017
CARTOON 07-01-2017
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 07-01-2017
Jul 01, 2017