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Greece, France to sign $2.8 billion fighter jet deal
ATHENS, Greece - Greece signed a 2.3 billion-euro ($2.8 billion) deal with France on Monday to purchase 18 Rafale fighter jets, as tensions remain high with neighbour Turkey. Florence Parly, the Frenc...
Jan 25, 2021
Austria stops man trying to smuggle in 74 chameleons
BERLIN - Austrian authorities stopped a man at Vienna airport as he tried to smuggle 74 protected chameleons from Africa into the country. They said in a statement Friday that a 56-year-old man, who w...
Jan 25, 2021
Guns and drug seizures on the rise in P.A in 2020; police make gains addressing property crime
There were some definite highs and lows for the Prince Albert Police Service last year, in terms of various crime related trends. One of the more noticeable spikes came with incidents related to arson...
Jan 25, 2021
All Catholic and public division school buses cancelled Monday
All buses are cancelled today, morning and afternoon, with First Student for the Catholic School Division.The extreme cold also forced the cancellation of all Saskatchewan Rivers Public School Divisio...
Jan 25, 2021
Chelsea fires coach Frank Lampard halfway through 2nd season
LONDON - Frank Lampard was fired by Chelsea on Monday halfway through his second season in charge of the London club after being unable to replicate his success as the club's record scorer in his firs...
Jan 25, 2021
9 workers found dead in China mine explosion; toll now 10
BEIJING - Chinese rescuers have found the bodies of nine workers killed in explosions at a gold mine, raising the death toll to 10, officials said Monday. Eleven others were rescued a day earlier afte...
Jan 25, 2021
AP source: Lawmakers threatened ahead of impeachment trial
WASHINGTON - Federal law enforcement officials are examining a number of threats aimed at members of Congress as the second trial of former President Donald Trump nears, including ominous chatter abou...
Jan 25, 2021
House sending Trump impeachment to Senate, GOP opposes trial
WASHINGTON - As the House prepares to bring the impeachment charge against Donald Trump to the Senate for trial, a growing number of Republican senators say they are opposed to the proceeding, dimming...
Jan 25, 2021
Group: Pakistani Baloch dissident buried amid high security
QUETTA, Pakistan - A Pakistani dissident and woman rights activist who died in exile in Canada last month was brought home and laid to rest in her home village in the southwestern Baluchistan province...
Jan 25, 2021
Asia Today: Australia OKs Pfizer vaccine, to begin in Feb.
SYDNEY, Australia - Australia's medical regulator has approved use of its first coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for inoculations to begin next month. The Therapeutic Goods Administration on Monday...
Jan 25, 2021
