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Community vigil planned for slain 11-year-old Riya Rajkumar
BRAMPTON, Ont. - The city in which an 11-year-old girl allegedly died at the hands of her father last week is holding a vigil in her honour tonight. City councillors in Brampton, Ont. will host a...
Feb 19, 2019
Chanel: Iconic couturier Karl Lagerfeld has died
PARIS - Chanel's iconic couturier, Karl Lagerfeld, whose accomplished designs as well as trademark white ponytail, high starched collars and dark enigmatic glasses dominated high fashion for the past ...
Feb 19, 2019
Vancouver Granville community leaders voice support for MP Jody Wilson-Raybould
VANCOUVER - When Jody Wilson-Raybould was demoted in cabinet, a rabbi in her Vancouver Granville riding reached out to her with a message from the Bible. It quoted Joseph, who said afte...
Feb 19, 2019
Iran points to Pakistan after deadly attack on Guard
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's parliament speaker said Sunday that an attack that killed 27 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard was "planned and carried out from inside Pakistan," which he said should ...
Feb 19, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders says he's running for president in 2020
WASHINGTON - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 presidential campaign reshaped Democratic politics, announced Tuesday that he is running for president in 2020. "Our campaign is not only...
Feb 19, 2019
Iran pressures Europe to do more to save the nuclear deal
MUNICH - Europeans need to do more than talk if they want to preserve a deal meant to keep Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon after the unilateral withdrawal of the United States, Iran's foreign m...
Feb 19, 2019
'Taking their last breath': IS hides among Syrian civilians
BAGHOUZ, Syria - From a self-proclaimed caliphate that once spread across much of Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State group has been knocked back to a speck of land on the countries' shared border. In t...
Feb 19, 2019
Aurora shooter's permit was revoked but gun wasn't seized
AURORA, Ill. - An initial background check failed to detect a felony conviction that should have barred the man who killed five co-workers and wounded six other people at a suburban Chicago manufactur...
Feb 19, 2019
Honda to shut plant in Britain, imperiling 3,500 jobs
TOKYO - Japanese carmaker Honda plans to close its car factory in western England in 2021, a fresh blow to the British economy as it faces its March 29 exit from the European Union. The company announ...
Feb 19, 2019
Parole hearing for Calgary man who strangled wife, buried body in basement
BOWDEN, Alta. - A man who strangled his wife and concealed her body in a wall of their home after enduring what he described as years of domestic abuse is scheduled for his first parole hearing t...
Feb 19, 2019