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Iran's president rejects resignation of his foreign minister
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's president rejected the resignation of his foreign minister on Wednesday, throwing his full support behind the diplomat who negotiated the country's nuclear deal with world powers...
Feb 27, 2019
Singh cements leadership with B.C. byelection win but NDP loses Outremont
OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh tightened his shaky grip on the reins of the NDP Monday by winning a do-or-die federal byelection in British Columbia. But the challenge he now faces in reviving ...
Feb 27, 2019
My moose is bigger than your moose: Norwegian politician to visit Saskatchewan
REGINA - The deputy mayor of a Norwegian municipality with a sculpture that set off a mighty moose match with a Saskatchewan prairie city is to arrive for a visit later this week. Part of he...
Feb 27, 2019
Wilson-Raybould warns she still can't tell full SNC-Lavalin story
OTTAWA - Jody Wilson-Raybould finally gets the chance today to "speak her truth" about the SNC-Lavalin affair, breaking a three-week silence that has fuelled a controversy based, so far, strictly...
Feb 27, 2019
Billionaire list shows $1T hit from '18 market meltdown
BANGKOK - A rich list by wealth compiler Hurun Report shows the market meltdowns in 2018 obliterated $1 trillion in wealth, with more than 212 of China's richest individuals losing their dollar billio...
Feb 27, 2019
China drafts rules on biotech after gene-editing scandal
BEIJING - China has unveiled draft regulations on gene editing and other potentially risky biomedical technologies after a Chinese scientist's claim of helping to create gene-edited babies roiled the ...
Feb 27, 2019
R. Kelly insiders may have helped R&B star with sexual abuse
CHICAGO - R. Kelly's confidants may have helped the R&B star target underage girls for sexual abuse. That's according to an attorney for two of Kelly's accusers. Chicago prosecutors say the people...
Feb 27, 2019
Australian Cardinal Pell to spend his first night in prison
MELBOURNE, Australia - The most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex abuse will face his first night in prison Wednesday while he waits two weeks to learn his sentence for molesting two ...
Feb 27, 2019
Vietnam vows 'maximum level' security for Trump-Kim summit
HANOI, Vietnam - With North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on an armoured train barrelling through China toward Vietnam's capital, and U.S. President Donald Trump en route to Hanoi, Vietnamese officials sc...
Feb 27, 2019
Police say Indian mortar shells kills 6 civilians in Kashmir
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani police say mortar shells fired by Indian troops from across the frontier in the Himalayan region of Kashmir have struck homes, killing six civilians and wounding sev...
Feb 27, 2019