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For US-China trade talks, hopes are high, expectations low
WASHINGTON - U.S. and Chinese negotiators start two days of high-level talks Wednesday aimed at settling a six-month trade war that has weakened both sides, shaken financial markets and clouded the ou...
Jan 30, 2019
Trump says 'wall' must be part of lawmakers' border deal
WASHINGTON - Capitol Hill negotiators are hopeful of an agreement as they officially kick off talks on a homeland security spending bill stalled over funding for President Donald Trump's proposed wall...
Jan 30, 2019
New Brunswick expected to announce decision on hosting Francophonie Games
FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government is expected to announce its decision today on whether the province will host the 2021 Francophonie Games. Last month, the Tory government of Premier Bla...
Jan 30, 2019
A new Canadian city flirts with the dream: heated downtown sidewalks
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A winter-weary city councillor in St. John's, N.L., is hoping to resurrect an idea that has been tried, tested and mostly abandoned in other Canadian cities: heated sidewalks. Sandy...
Jan 30, 2019
Underwater search for plane to begin in Channel this weekend
LONDON - The man leading a private search of the missing plane carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala said on Monday there was a "very good chance" of finding the aircraft. David Mearns, an Am...
Jan 30, 2019
Two cranes brought in to Vancouver port for crane recovery effort
VANCOUVER - It's going to take two large floating cranes to try to lift another crane that collapsed over a container vessel at the Port of Vancouver early Monday. Louanne Wong, director of communicat...
Jan 30, 2019
Nanaimo byelection tests strength of NDP's minority government in B.C.
NANAIMO, B.C. - Voters in Nanaimo cast ballots today in a byelection that could leave British Columbia's legislature deadlocked and Premier John Horgan's minority New Democrat government on shaky grou...
Jan 30, 2019
Duterte sees bombed church, tells army to crush Abu Sayyaf
MANILA, Philippines - President Rodrigo Duterte and his top security officials on Monday visited a Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines where suspected Islamic militants set off bombs that k...
Jan 30, 2019
Trump doubts negotiators will strike budget deal he'd accept
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said the odds congressional negotiators will craft a deal to end his border wall standoff with Congress are "less than 50-50." As hundreds of thousands of furloughe...
Jan 30, 2019
UK leader under new pressure to secure EU Brexit concessions
LONDON - Pro-Brexit British lawmakers were mounting a campaign Monday to rescue Prime Minister Theresa May's rejected European Union divorce deal in a parliamentary showdown, as major retailers warned...
Jan 30, 2019
