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Japanese-Canadian baseball team, internment highlighted in new Heritage Minute
VANCOUVER - A new Heritage Minute is sharing the story of a pioneering baseball team in British Columbia and the government policy that tore them apart. Composed of Japanese Canadian players,&nbs...
Feb 20, 2019
Japanese-Canadian baseball team, internment highlighted in new Heritage Minute
VANCOUVER - A new Heritage Minute is sharing the story of a pioneering baseball team in British Columbia and the government policy that tore them apart. Composed of Japanese Canadian players,&nbs...
Feb 20, 2019
Egypt executes 9 over 2015 assassination of top prosecutor
CAIRO - Egypt on Wednesday executed nine suspected Muslim Brotherhood members convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of the country's top prosecutor, security officials said. The nine were...
Feb 20, 2019
3 UK Conservative lawmakers defect to new independent group
LONDON - Cracks in Britain's political party system yawned wider Wednesday, as three pro-European lawmakers quit the governing Conservatives to join a newly formed centrist group of independent legisl...
Feb 20, 2019
Electoral reform: All eyes turn to tiny P.E.I. as issue put to voters
CHARLOTTETOWN - Tiny Prince Edward Island has a chance to send a big message to the rest of the country about electoral reform when voters are asked to consider proportional representation in a refere...
Feb 20, 2019
Sex abuse survivors to meet with Vatican summit organizers
VATICAN CITY - The organizers of Pope Francis' summit on preventing clergy sex abuse will meet this week with a dozen abuse victims who have descended on Rome to protest the Catholic Church's response...
Feb 20, 2019
Tense standoff spells endgame for IS militants in Syria
BAGHOUZ, Syria - The collection of tents was largely silent on a sunny winter Monday afternoon. Few people were visible, but the few out and about were calm: Two men in long robes and pants walked slo...
Feb 20, 2019
China accuses US of trying to block its tech development
BEIJING - China's government on Monday accused the United States of trying to block the country's industrial development by alleging that Chinese mobile network gear poses a cybersecurity threat to co...
Feb 20, 2019
Israeli leaders' Nazi comments derail European summit
JERUSALEM - Poland on Monday withdrew from a European summit in Jerusalem, derailing the meeting and embarrassing its Israeli hosts, to protest claims by Israel's acting foreign minister that Poles co...
Feb 20, 2019
Brex-split: 7 lawmakers quit Labour over EU, anti-Semitism
LONDON - Seven British lawmakers quit the main opposition Labour Party on Monday over its approach to Brexit and anti-Semitism - the biggest shake-up in years for one of Britain's major political part...
Feb 20, 2019