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Bank of Canada set to release updated outlook for economy, inflation
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada will release its updated outlook for the country's pandemic-plagued economy. The central bank in July said it believed the country had been spared from a worst-case scenari...
Oct 28, 2020
Civil, respectful but still tough: Canada-U.S. trade under a Biden presidency
OTTAWA - Canada coped with nearly four years of Donald Trump rewriting or shredding the international trade rule book. But Canadian hope of a rosy return to rules-based bonhomie with its top trading p...
Oct 28, 2020
Fitting finale: Dodgers win title, lose Turner to COVID-19
ARLINGTON, Texas - No dogpile, no champagne and a mask on nearly every face - the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated their first World Series title since 1988 in a manner no one could have imagined prior ...
Oct 27, 2020
Trump to appeal to Nevada voters from neighbouring Arizona
LAS VEGAS - President Donald Trump will make a crunch-time appeal to voters in Nevada. But he'll do so from Arizona. The president is under pressure Wednesday to prevent a repeat of a September rally ...
Oct 27, 2020
'We need you': GOP hunts for new voters in Trump territory
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - President Donald Trump's campaign has a bold theory for how he will win reelection: It can tap a universe of millions of supporters who did not vote for him in 2016 but will do so...
Oct 27, 2020
Strong typhoon leaves 1 dead, 12 missing as it nears Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam - Typhoon Molave roared closer to Vietnam with destructive force Wednesday, leaving one villager dead and causing two boats with 12 fishermen to sink as the country braced for the most ...
Oct 27, 2020
Pompeo brings anti-China roadshow to Indian Ocean islands
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday brought the Trump administration's anti-China campaign to Indian Ocean islands considered particularly at risk for what American o...
Oct 27, 2020
UN watchdog: Iran building at underground nuclear facility
BERLIN - Inspectors from the U.N.'s atomic watchdog have confirmed Iran has started building an underground centrifuge assembly plant after its previous one exploded in what Tehran called a sabotage a...
Oct 27, 2020
3 social media CEOs face grilling by GOP senators on bias
WASHINGTON - The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are facing a grilling by Republican senators making unfounded allegations that the tech giants show anti-conservative bias. The Senate Commerce Co...
Oct 27, 2020
Qatar apologizes, investigates forced airport examinations
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Qatar apologized Wednesday after authorities forcibly examined female passengers from a Qatar Airways flight to Australia to try to identify who might have given birth to...
Oct 27, 2020