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NBA player Kanter heading to US after detained in Romania
Oklahoma City Thunder centre Enes Kanter is returning to the United States after being detained in a Romanian airport. Romanian Border Police spokesman Fabian Badila confirmed to The Associated Press ...
May 20, 2017
Saturday's Games
Saturday’s Games NHL Playoffs Third Round Nashville 3 Anaheim 1 (Predators lead series 3-2) — World Hockey Championship Semifinals at Cologne, Germany Canada 4 Russia 2 Sweden 4 Finland 1 ...
May 20, 2017
Peru organizes 2019 Pan Am Games in wake of deadly flooding
Construction for the 2019 Pan American Games is way behind schedule. But that’s a secondary problem. The quadrennial event in Lima, Peru, has no sponsors, no marketing and is relying on a $1.2 b...
May 20, 2017
Sens try to find their way against Crosby: 'He'll twist you and he's just gone'
OTTAWA - Guy Boucher was there to witness Sidney Crosby’s greatness in person before the future Penguins captain began terrorizing the NHL. The now-Ottawa Senators head coach was an assistant fo...
May 20, 2017
Maud Lewis painting found in thrift store sells for $45,000 in auction
A painting recently discovered at an Ontario thrift store by renowned folk artist Maud Lewis sold in auction for almost three times its estimated price. The online auction ended Friday night and the p...
May 20, 2017
Trudeau stands by inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women
EDMONTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested Saturday that it should be no surprise that the inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women has run into some snags. “There were always ...
May 20, 2017
Tanker that ran aground in western Quebec safely freed: Fisheries and Oceans
MONTREAL - A tanker that ran aground east of Cornwall, Ont. on Friday has been freed. The coast guard says the ship was successfully repositioned and towed to a safe position on Saturday under the sup...
May 20, 2017
Schnabel to make Vincent van Gogh film with Dafoe
CANNES, France - Julian Schnabel will direct a film about Vincent van Gogh starring Willem Dafoe as the Dutch post-impressionist master. The film, titled “At Eternity’s Gate,” was an...
May 20, 2017
Deadly Times Square attack highlights NYC pedestrian safety
NEW YORK - Fears of a terrorist attack prompted officials to ring many of the pedestrian plazas of Times Square with squat steel posts capable of stopping a speeding vehicle. But those barriers only c...
May 20, 2017
Iran strikes back at US with more reciprocal sanctions
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has sanctioned nine more U.S.-linked businesses, organizations and people over America’s sanctions over its ballistic missile program. Iran’s Foreign Ministry published...
May 20, 2017