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Amazon buys Mideast's Souq.com after $800M counteroffer
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Amazon purchased the Middle East’s biggest online retailer Souq.com on Tuesday for an undisclosed amount, a day after a state-backed firm disclosed an $800 million ...
Mar 28, 2017
Liberals agree to settle class action lawsuit over student loan privacy breach
OTTAWA - The federal government will pay at least $17.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed after a major privacy breach involving about 583,000 student loan recipients. Firms involved in t...
Dec 22, 2017
Staff report rejects proposed site for potential Halifax CFL stadium
HALIFAX - A report prepared for Halifax Regional Council recommends the rejection of a proposed CFL stadium in the city's Shannon Park neighbourhood, but also says a one-time payment of $20-million co...
Dec 06, 2019
Re-elected Liberals would still run big deficits, despite new taxes
OTTAWA - The Liberals are promising that a re-elected Justin Trudeau government would impose new taxes on the wealthy, large international corporations, foreign housing speculators and tech giants to ...
Sep 29, 2019
Feral dog packs kill 6 Indian children, terrifying villagers
LUCKNOW, India - Roaming packs of feral dogs have killed six children in the last week in north India, terrifying villagers who have begun keeping their children home from school and killing any dogs ...
May 07, 2018
Wall Street feuds with Warren, much to her apparent delight
NEW YORK - Senator Elizabeth Warren's fight with Wall Street escalated when billionaire investor Leon Cooperman called the presidential candidate's proposal to put a new tax on the nation's wealthiest...
Nov 14, 2019
Fire that spread to 140 buildings under control in Japan
TOKYO - A huge fire that spread to about 140 buildings in a small city on Japan’s western coast was brought under control Thursday night after authorities called in extra firefighters to fight t...
Dec 22, 2016
The Soviet's Tsar Bomba: The King Of Bombs
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Tsar Bomba The Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb-codenamed Ivan-is known in the west as Tsar Bomba: the King of Bombs. It is the most powerful explosive ever cr...
Aug 16, 2018
Saskatchewan Polytechnic Indigenous courses
Sask Polytech launches two new Indigenous courses during National Indigenous History Month Situated on Treaty 4 and Treaty 6 territories, and Homeland of the Métis people, Saskatchewan Polytech...
Jun 30, 2020
Justice minister expected to reveal plans for victim surcharge this week
OTTAWA - The Liberals are moving towards changing the controversial mandatory victim surcharge brought in by the previous Conservative government, with the federal justice minister expected to introdu...
Oct 16, 2016