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Former US prisoner now leading Iraq's Interior ministry
BAGHDAD - Just over 10 years ago, Qasim al-Araji was being arrested a second time by American forces in Iraq. The charges were serious: smuggling arms used to attack U.S. troops and involvement in an ...
May 08, 2017
Veteran Toronto FC defender Drew Moor back training after heart scare
Toronto FC defender Drew Moor was back on the field Monday, albeit working out on his own. Life is returning to normal for the 33-year-old Texan whose soccer career was briefly put on hold due to a ca...
May 08, 2017
Westray tragedy to be marked, 25 years later: 'Pure greed that took lives'
NEW GLASGOW, N.S. - When the Westray coal mine opened in northern Nova Scotia in 1991, Glenn Martin was lucky enough to land a well-paying job underground that was supposed to last 15 years. However, ...
May 08, 2017
Medical student's murder trial: Witness describes loud bang, bloody man
HALIFAX - An eyewitness said he heard a loud bang, and saw a bloody man sitting on a chair in the Halifax apartment of a medical student on trial for murder. Pookiel McCabe told a Nova Scotia Supreme ...
May 08, 2017
H.J. Cody administrators to share school redesign ideas with provincial colleagues
Successful school redesign at H.J. Cody School in Sylvan Lake has earned administrators a special invite. Chinook's Edge School Division describes school redesign as 'ensuring students take ownership ...
May 08, 2017
Woman faces trial in death of girl who was locked in a box
PHOENIX - Members of a Phoenix family awoke nearly six years ago to a disturbing discovery in their home: A 10-year-old girl who lived there was dead inside a padlocked plastic storage box. Authoritie...
May 08, 2017
North Korea claims plot reveals US state-sponsored terrorism
TOKYO - After arresting two American university instructors and laying out what it says was an elaborate, CIA-backed plot to assassinate Kim Jong Un, North Korea is claiming to be the victim of state-...
May 08, 2017
France's new head of state works on being presidential
PARIS - France’s newly elected president has started taking on his new role, working on the attitude expected of a statesman - a new world for a man with little political experience who long rem...
May 08, 2017
Life sentence for young man convicted in New Year's Day 2013 murder in Red Deer
A life sentence has been handed down for a young man convicted in a New Year’s Day 2013 murder in Red Deer. The body of 25-year-old Lloyd Robert Sarson was found in a vehicle in an Eastview alle...
May 08, 2017
AP Exclusive: China lawyer's family says US helped them flee
BEIJING - Stuck in a Bangkok jail with a deportation order against her, Chen Guiqiu waited with dread over what seemed certain to come next. A Thai immigration official showed her surveillance video o...
May 08, 2017