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High-speed Spanish passenger train hits car on track; 2 dead
MADRID - Two people were killed when a high-speed passenger train with more than 150 people on board hit a car on the tracks in northwest Spain on Tuesday. Emergency services said the locomotive derai...
Jun 02, 2020
Country Thunder cancels 2020 festival in Craven due to COVID-19 crisis
After weeks of waiting and holding out hope, organizers of Country Thunder Saskatchewan have cancelled the 2020 event.In a statement on its website, Country Thunder Music Festivals announced Tuesday i...
Jun 02, 2020
Six ladies of Langenburg share wisdom in 100-year club
An exclusive club of six ladies in the small town of Langenburg can boast more than 610 years of collective wisdom between its members.The only qualification to join the Wise Women Wisdom Club is to r...
Jun 02, 2020
Landlord says scorched property was ready for new owners
A Prince Albert landlord says he has no doubt a fire that consumed a garage and two vehicles in Prince Albert's west flat neighbourhood was deliberately set, but he does not know why.Al Beaton has bee...
Jun 02, 2020
Police: Video shows man killed in Kentucky fired a gun
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Video shows that a popular barbecue shack operator fatally shot while police and National Guard soldiers were enforcing a curfew in Louisville fired a gun as officers approached his ...
Jun 02, 2020
Embracing religious themes, Trump visits John Paul II shrine
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump toured a Catholic shrine on Tuesday in his second straight religious-themed appearance as the nation grappled with widespread unrest over the death of George Floyd ...
Jun 02, 2020
Food truck season underway in Prince Albert
A local food truck was able to roll back onto the streets last weekend after a delayed start to the season.The Baby Got Bannock food truck was parked at the curb near Kinsmen Park for the first time t...
Jun 02, 2020
House of Commons can manage virtual voting securely if MPs want it, Speaker says
OTTAWA - House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota says he is comfortable the technology is in place to safely allow MPs to vote remotely during the hybrid Parliament sittings. Rota tells the procedure an...
Jun 02, 2020
Israeli, Chinese policies 'concern' Canada, undermine freedom, says Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has waded into the foreign policies of Israel and China, expressing concerns over separate but controversial positions that he says undermine peac...
Jun 02, 2020
With Italy at risk, Europe Central Bank could boost stimulus
FRANKFURT - The European Central Bank could soon expand its anti-pandemic stimulus program to more than a trillion euros, giving it more firepower to keep the virus crisis from sliding into a new fina...
Jun 02, 2020
