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Genoa makes special airport waiver for famed pesto sauce
ROME - The Italian port city of Genoa has taken pride in its famed pesto sauce to new heights by granting special airport waivers for those who can’t get enough of the basil and pine nut pasta s...
Jun 22, 2017
N.B. languages commissioner calls for government officials to be bilingual
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s official languages commissioner says more senior provincial officials need to be able to speak both English and French. In her fourth annual report, released Thursd...
Jun 22, 2017
Guallame Duchenne: The Smile Doctor’s Experiements
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Duchenne Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne was a French neurologist in the 1800s. He was a trailblazer in learning how nerves used electricity ...
Jun 22, 2017
Trump's tease of possible Comey tapes fits familiar pattern
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump said he had a secret. He dangled it on Twitter. He parried reporters’ questions about it. He milked the moment, drawing out the drama for weeks. That big tease played o...
Jun 22, 2017
Trump to speak to Poles at site that honours nation's heroism
WARSAW, Poland - U.S. President Donald Trump has chosen to deliver a speech during his upcoming visit to Poland at the site of a memorial to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Germans, a Polish offi...
Jun 22, 2017
Indonesia arrests 41 suspected militants since May attack
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian police announced Thursday they have arrested 41 suspected militants following last month’s twin suicide bombings in the capital that killed three policemen. Nine ...
Jun 22, 2017
Portugal brings 2nd wildfire under control after 64 died
LISBON, Portugal - Official reports into Portugal’s deadliest natural disaster in decades have described freak conditions that drove the wildfire that killed 64 people, while Portuguese authorit...
Jun 22, 2017
In Yemen's secret prisons, UAE tortures and US interrogates
MUKALLA, Yemen - Hundreds of men swept up in the hunt for al-Qaida militants have disappeared into a secret network of prisons in southern Yemen where abuse is routine and torture extreme - including ...
Jun 22, 2017
Indian troops kills 3 rebels, protester in disputed Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India - Government forces killed three suspected Kashmiri rebels in fighting in the disputed region Thursday and fatally shot a rock-throwing protester during an ensuing rally demanding an e...
Jun 22, 2017
France presents new security bill amid extremist threats
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron’s new government presented a security bill Thursday to beef up police powers amid extremist threats to Europe. Macron insists the bill discussed at a Cab...
Jun 22, 2017