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'I would not go' to China says B.C. resident concerned about coronavirus
VANCOUVER - A woman who has regularly visited China from her home in Delta, B.C., says she would not travel there over concerns about a new coronavirus that is spreading ...
Jan 26, 2020
Alberta landowners urge farmers to cut power to wells with unpaid debts
A group of Alberta landowners is asking farmers and ranchers to fight back against unpaid debts and unreclaimed oil and gas wells by closing valves and cutting power to energy company sites. "The...
Jan 26, 2020
Mass coronavirus quarantines seen in China won't happen in Canada: authorities
TORONTO - Canadians have no need to worry about the prospect of mass quarantines, even in the likely event the coronavirus is discovered here, public health authorities said on Friday. They said scary...
Jan 26, 2020
Social controls, SARS experience help China close off cities
BEIJING - Cutting off access to entire cities with millions of residents to stop a new virus outbreak is a step few countries other than China would consider, but it is made possible by the ruling Com...
Jan 26, 2020
Despite renewed strikes, France pushes on with pension plan
PARIS - Women workers danced in protest and striking Eiffel Tower employees shuttered France's most famed monument Friday - but the government pushed ahead anyway with a troubled bill redesigning the ...
Jan 26, 2020
Legal chaos in Poland deepens, posing major challenge for EU
WARSAW, Poland - Legal chaos has deepened dramatically in Poland, with the government and the country's high court judges clashing over who administers justice - a rift that some experts say is an ass...
Jan 26, 2020
Erdogan urges international pressure on Libya's Hifter
ISTANBUL - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday urged international pressure to force the head of Libya's eastern-based forces to abide by a tentative truce and said Turkey was determined ...
Jan 26, 2020
Now on Trump's team, Dershowitz says, 'I haven't changed'
WASHINGTON - Alan Dershowitz was in line at Mar-a-Lago's lavish Christmas Eve buffet last month when President Donald Trump stopped to chat. The retired Harvard law professor had already been asked by...
Jan 26, 2020
Trump, a late convert to cause, attends anti-abortion rally
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump vowed to stand with anti-abortion activists Friday as he became the first sitting president to speak at the March for Life, an annual gathering that is one of the m...
Jan 26, 2020
Trump vs. Bloomberg: Fortunes collide in pricey knife fight
NEW YORK - They are circling each other like wary boxers, with taunts on Twitter, snarky asides and belittling descriptions. They rose to prominence in Manhattan on parallel tracks, amassed wealth rea...
Jan 26, 2020