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Number of kids alone at border hits all-time high in March
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government picked up nearly 19,000 children travelling alone across the Mexican border in March, authorities said Thursday, the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major t...
Apr 08, 2021
Prince Albert National Park report decline in Sturgeon River plains bison herd
The Prince Albert National Park (PANP) is reporting population numbers of the Sturgeon River plains bison herd have dropped by many hundred since a recent peak around 13 years ago. However, it could p...
Apr 08, 2021
Lawyer: Russian opposition leader Navalny has spinal hernias
MOSCOW - A lawyer for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has complained of serious back and leg pain in custody, said Wednesday that doctors have found him to be suffering from t...
Apr 08, 2021
On Holocaust Day, Netanyahu issues warning about Iran
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday urged the world not to revive the troubled international nuclear deal with Iran as he opened Israel's annual memorial day for the 6 million J...
Apr 08, 2021
Myanmar security forces attack town that resisted with arms
YANGON, Myanmar - Security forces on Wednesday stormed a town in northwestern Myanmar where some residents had used homemade hunting rifles to resist the military's February seizure of power, killing ...
Apr 08, 2021
Kim says North Korea facing its 'worst-ever situation'
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has acknowledged his country was facing the "worst-ever situation" as he addressed thousands of grassroots members of his ruling party durin...
Apr 08, 2021
Taiwan will fight 'to the very last day' if China attacks
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's foreign minister on Wednesday said the island will defend itself "to the very last day" if attacked by China. Joseph Wu said China's attempts at conciliation while engaging i...
Apr 08, 2021
March of the Living honours medical workers battling COVID-19
JERUSALEM - Like so many mothers, Raul Artal's insisted that her son was going to be a doctor. But there was a history - and heroism - behind her ambitions for him. A determined Jewish doctor in a con...
Apr 08, 2021
New film follows 2 zombie moviemakers with Down syndrome
Two best friends with Down syndrome who caused a sensation four years ago when they created their own gory zombie movie are back, this time in a documentary championed by a Hollywood luminary. "Sam &a...
Apr 08, 2021
Corey Conners, Mackenzie Hughes, Mike Weir set to represent Canada at Masters
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Three Canadians will tee it up in the first men's golf major of the year today. Corey Conners of Listowel, Ont.; Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ont.; and Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., ...
Apr 08, 2021