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Strong cyclone lashes India, forces 1.2 million from homes
KOLKATA, India - Cyclone Fani tore through India's eastern coast on Friday as a grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and winds gusting up to 205 kilometres (127 miles) per hour and affecting weath...
May 05, 2019
Cyprus police chief fired over serial killer case
NICOSIA, Cyprus - The president of Cyprus fired the small island nation's police chief Friday, saying botched missing person investigations might have allowed a self-confessed serial killer to claim m...
May 05, 2019
1 year later, Hawaii lava evacuees grapple with huge losses
PAHOA, Hawaii - A year after a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island rained lava and gases in one of its largest and most destructive eruptions in recorded history, people who lost their homes and farms in t...
May 05, 2019
Rugby Canada fires sevens coach Damian McGrath, names Henry Paul interim coach
A sevens season that started in turmoil will end in uncertainty and a search for a new coach after Rugby Canada fired Damian McGrath on Friday. The Canadian men currently stand 12th in the HSBC World ...
May 05, 2019
Baloney Meter: is climate change increasing the cost of insurance in Canada?
OTTAWA - "We can see that climate change is causing an increase to the cost of insurance in this country." - Karen McCrimmon, parliamentary secretary to Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, May 1, 20...
May 05, 2019
Kelly Clarkson had appendix removed after hosting awards
LOS ANGELES - Kelly Clarkson had her appendix removed soon after hosting the Billboard Music Awards. The 37-year-old tweeted she "may or may not have broken down in tears after the show from pain." Sh...
May 05, 2019
Green party targets use of tax money for political attack billboards
VANCOUVER - Green party Leader Andrew Weaver is calling for a ban on the use of taxpayer money for political attack ads after the B.C. Liberals bought billboards blaming Premier John Horgan ...
May 05, 2019
Cyprus serial killer suspect accused of raping other woman
NICOSIA, Cyprus - A Cyprus police investigator says a man who has confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls on the island is being investigated on additional charges of raping a foreign woman...
May 05, 2019
Maximum Security owner: Derby disqualification 'egregious'
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Maximum Security co-owner Gary West criticized race stewards' disqualification of his horse's Kentucky Derby victory as "egregious" and said he was pondering his next step, including...
May 05, 2019
Let's make a Brexit deal, UK PM May tells Labour opposition
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May says her Conservative government and the opposition Labour Party have a duty to strike a compromise Brexit agreement to end months of political deadlock ove...
May 05, 2019