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'There is death all over': Cyclone Idai toll rises above 300
CHIMANIMANI, Zimbabwe - Mozambique began three days of national mourning on Wednesday for more than 200 victims of Cyclone Idai, while the death toll in neighbouring Zimbabwe rose to more than 100 fro...
Mar 22, 2019
AP Exclusive: Guaido's Citgo snubs US execs in Caracas jail
BOGOTA - When the Trump administration paved the way for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido to name a new board to run the U.S. affiliate of Venezuela's state oil company, it was a rare glimmer ...
Mar 22, 2019
Judge to sentence driver who caused Humboldt Broncos crash today
It's been nearly one year since the fatal Humboldt Broncos crash, and today semi-truck driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu is expected to learn his fate. Judge Inez Cardinal is set to deliver her sentencing a...
Mar 22, 2019 Jaskirat Singh Sidhu is expected to be sentenced Friday morning in Melfort. (file photo/Canadian Press)
New Zealand police: Mosque gunman had planned a 3rd attack
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - A father and son who fled the civil war in Syria for "the safest country in the world" were buried before hundreds of mourners Wednesday, the first funerals for victims of ...
Mar 22, 2019
UN judges increase sentence for Bosnian ex-leader to life
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, one of the chief architects of the slaughter and devastation of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, was sentenced to life imprisonment Wednes...
Mar 22, 2019
Europe fines Google $1.7 billion in antitrust case
BRUSSELS - Europe's antitrust regulators slapped Google with a big fine Wednesday for the third time in less than two years, ordering the tech giant to pay 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for freezi...
Mar 22, 2019
North Korea abruptly withdraws staff from liaison office
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea abruptly withdrew its staff from a liaison office with South Korea on Friday, a development that is likely to put a damper on ties between the countries and fur...
Mar 22, 2019
Statistics Canada reports pace of inflation ticked higher in February
OTTAWA - The annual pace of inflation edged higher in February as gains in most sectors offset lower gasoline prices. Statistics Canada says the consumer price index in February climbed 1.5 ...
Mar 22, 2019
Adam Sidlow a near-constant in the trenches for the Toronto Wolfpack
Adam Sidlow has been a near-constant for the Toronto Wolfpack since the transatlantic rugby league team first took the field in 2017. But the big forward suffered a minor hamstring tear duri...
Mar 22, 2019
Cleanup underway after fire at Texas petrochemicals facility
HOUSTON - Crews on Wednesday extinguished a fire that had burned for days at a Houston-area petrochemicals storage facility and led to concerns about air quality among some residents and environmental...
Mar 22, 2019
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