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Restaurants near virus hot spots weigh safety-vs-profit with locals-only dining
Some southern Ontario restaurants are making the tough financial choice to bar out-of-town customers from indoor dining as COVID-19 cases surge in nearby hot spots. Ramshackle Industries, which ...
Oct 18, 2020
Afghans say preventing next war as vital as ending this one
KABUL - At a Kabul museum honouring Afghanistan's war victims, talking to visitors reveals just how many layers and generations of pain and grief have piled up during four decades of unrelenting confl...
Oct 18, 2020
Car bombing in western Afghanistan kills 13, wounds 120
KABUL - A suicide car bombing on Sunday killed at least 13 people and wounded around 120 others in Afghanistan's western Ghor province, officials said. The head of a hospital in Ghor, Mohammad Omer La...
Oct 18, 2020
Uganda's 'taxi divas' rise from COVID-19's economic gloom
KAMPALA, Uganda - The women grappled with each other inside the vehicle. The driver jerked to ease the grip around her neck, then turned to elbow her attacker in the back seat. She flung the door open...
Oct 18, 2020
Guinea votes to see if president can extend decade in power
CONAKRY, Guinea - Guinean President Alpha Conde is seeking to extend his decade in power in Sunday's election, after the country's constitution was changed earlier this year to allow the 82-year-old l...
Oct 18, 2020
B.C.'s snap election means 700k ballots will be counted manually, delaying results
VANCOUVER - British Columbia residents won't learn the results of next Saturday's snap election for at least two weeks after polls close thanks to the need to count hundreds of thousands of mail-in ba...
Oct 18, 2020
Sask. Wildlife Federation encouraging drivers to be more alert
The Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation (SWF) is reminding drivers to stay alert on the highway.According to SWF director of communications and marketing Chelsea Walters, the fall season is mating season...
Oct 18, 2020
US, Israeli envoys fly to Bahrain to advance nascent ties
JERUSALEM - A joint American-Israeli delegation headed Sunday for Bahrain, where officials will be signing a number of bilateral agreements following an announcement last month to normalize relations....
Oct 18, 2020
Armenia, Azerbaijan report violations of new cease-fire
YEREVAN, Armenia - Despite a second attempt at a cease-fire, Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations Sunday of violating the new truce in their destructive conflict over the separatist region of Nag...
Oct 18, 2020
Turkish Cypriots pick leader as stakes soar in Mediterranean
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Turkish Cypriots began voting Sunday in a leadership runoff to choose between an incumbent who pledges a course less bound by Turkey's dictates and a challenger who favours even clos...
Oct 18, 2020
