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Filmmaker Ava DuVernay shares her favourite classic films
LOS ANGELES - To say filmmaker Ava DuVernay is a busy woman is an understatement, but when Turner Classic Movies called and asked her to curate the channel's "The Essentials" series, she knew she had ...
Apr 25, 2019
Canada banning oil, gas and mining from marine protected areas
OTTAWA - The oil and gas industry has worn out its welcome in Canadian marine conservation areas. Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson today is announcing a total ban on oil and gas work, as wel...
Apr 25, 2019
In camp of diehard IS supporters, some women express regrets
AL-HOL CAMP, Syria - The women say it was misguided religious faith, naivete, a search for something to believe in or youthful rebellion. Whatever it was, it led them to travel across the world to joi...
Apr 25, 2019
Sri Lanka, like world, again sees scourge of suicide attacks
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The Easter attacks in Sri Lanka are a bloody echo of decades past in the South Asian island nation, when militants inspired by attacks in the Lebanese civil war helped develop the...
Apr 25, 2019
Militants blamed in Sri Lanka attacks had incendiary leader
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The purported leader of an Islamic extremist group blamed for an Easter attack in Sri Lanka that killed over 320 people began posting videos online three years ago calling for non...
Apr 25, 2019
All not in favour of Trump's Buckingham Palace dinner date
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump finally has a date on the calendar for a state dinner at Buckingham Palace - a visit more than two years in the making. The mere announcement of his June visit as t...
Apr 25, 2019
Missing indigenous women spotlighted as bill signed
OLYMPIA, Wash. - A growing number of missing and murdered Native American women are the focus of a Washington bill signed into law Wednesday amid concerns the victims' cases are slipping between juris...
Apr 25, 2019
Pentagon watchdog clears acting chief Shanahan of wrongdoing
WASHINGTON - A U.S. official says the Pentagon's watchdog agency has cleared Acting Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan of wrongdoing in connection with allegations that he had used his official positi...
Apr 25, 2019
Columbus coach Tortorella drives Blue Jackets into showdown with Bruins
COLUMBUS, Ohio - John Tortorella was being battered on social media a month or so ago by doubters who thought his act had gotten stale in Columbus. The 60-year-old Tortorella, the argument went, was h...
Apr 25, 2019
Tsilqhot'in wildfire report calls for Indigenous-rooted training, infrastructure
VANCOUVER - The leader of a First Nation nearly encircled by blazes during one of the worst wildfires seasons in British Columbia's history says building firefighting capacity is urgent as another sea...
Apr 25, 2019