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Veterans connect with students online in lead-up to pandemic-era Remembrance Day
Gulf War veteran Bob Crane has been busy in the weeks leading up to Remembrance Day, adjusting his classroom presentations to an array of online platforms. Crane, a retired Army major who volunteers a...
Nov 08, 2020
Americans pivot from red-hot Trump to Biden's seasoned cool
WASHINGTON - In a crystallizing moment at the last presidential debate, Donald Trump and Joe Biden fielded a question about people of colour who live alongside chemical plants and oil refineries that ...
Nov 08, 2020
Iran's president calls on Biden to return to nuclear deal
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's president called on President-elect Joe Biden to "compensate for past mistakes" and return the U.S. to Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a state-run news agency repor...
Nov 08, 2020
Queen Elizabeth II wears mask at tribute to Unknown Warrior
LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II donned a face mask in public for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic when attending a brief ceremony at Westminster Abbey last week to mark the centenary of the ...
Nov 08, 2020
Azerbaijani leader: Forces seize key Nagorno-Karabakh city
MOSCOW - Azerbaijani forces have taken control of the strategically key city of Shushi in Nagorno-Karabakh where fighting with Armenia has raged for more than a month, the country's president said Sun...
Nov 08, 2020
Federal guidance for border agency surveillance and sources drafted but never issued
OTTAWA - A newly released memo shows Canada's border agency signed off on rules to guide its most intrusive intelligence operations months ago, but the federal government has yet to issue the minister...
Nov 08, 2020
COVID-19 latest bump in Canada's long road to Second World War remembrance
OTTAWA - Annie McNamara was in a hostel in Piccadilly Circus when the news came that Nazi Germany had been defeated. She vividly remembers that excitement that swept through the streets of London on M...
Nov 08, 2020
Ethiopian leader defends military conflict in defiant Tigray
NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethiopia's prime minister has sought to defend a major military action against the country's defiant Tigray region Sunday, and urged citizens not to target the ethnic Tigrayan people ...
Nov 08, 2020
UK does a U-turn, backs soccer star's child hunger campaign
LONDON - The British government has made another abrupt about-face and now says it will provide free meals to disadvantaged children in England over the upcoming holidays following a hugely popular ch...
Nov 08, 2020
Trump considers how to keep up fight, find a graceful exit
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump never admits defeat. But he faces a stark choice now that Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House: Concede graciously for the sake of the nation or don't - and g...
Nov 08, 2020