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200 additional Kenyan police arrive in Haiti to help fight gangs
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A second contingent of 200 police officers from Kenya arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to bolster a U.N.-backed mission led by the East African country to battle violent gangs ...
Jul 16, 2024
TC Energy's US$15B Keystone XL claim thrown out by trade tribunal
CALGARY - A free trade arbitration tribunal has tossed out TC Energy Corp.'s claim that it is owed US$15 billion in damages as a result of U.S. President Joe Biden's cancellation of the Keystone XL pi...
Jul 16, 2024
Third-ranked Canada women to face world's best rugby sides in B.C. at WXV 1
Third-ranked Canada will open the WXV 1 women's rugby competition against No. 4 France on Sept. 29 as part of a triple-header at B.C. Place Stadium. Top-ranked England takes on the seventh-ranked U.S....
Jul 16, 2024
Six people are found dead in a hotel in downtown Bangkok and poisoning is suspected, police say
BANGKOK (AP) - Police in Thailand say the bodies of six people were found Tuesday in a luxury hotel in downtown Bangkok and poisoning is suspected. Thailand's Foreign Ministry said in a short statemen...
Jul 16, 2024
Hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike has killed 17 Palestinians in a Gaza 'safe zone'
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike killed 17 Palestinians on Tuesday in a military-declared "safe zone" outside the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. Officia...
Jul 16, 2024
A rare shooting by multiple attackers in a Shiite mosque in Oman kills 5 and wounds dozens more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A rare shooting by multiple attackers at a Shiite mosque in Oman killed five people and wounded many more including a police officer, authorities said Tuesday. Pakis...
Jul 16, 2024
Inflation falls to 2.7% in June, driven by slower growth in gas prices: StatCan
Canada's annual inflation rate fell to 2.7 per cent in June, with Statistics Canada largely attributing the deceleration to slower year-over-year growth in gasoline prices.The agency reported Tuesday ...
Jul 16, 2024
3 killed and dozens injured in Bangladesh in violent clashes over government jobs quota system
DHAKA, Banglades (AP) - Three people were killed and dozens injured in two separate incidents in Bangladesh as violence continued Tuesday on university campuses in the nation's capital and elsewhere o...
Jul 16, 2024
Industry minister suggests Competition Bureau look at digital wallets
OTTAWA - Industry Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says the issue of competition in the big tech-dominated digital wallet market should be on the Competition Bureau's radar. In a letter to the bure...
Jul 16, 2024
Welsh leader Vaughan Gething says he will resign over campaign donation scandal
LONDON (AP) - The leader of Wales' government, First Minister Vaughan Gething, said Tuesday he will resign after several members of his government quit over a campaign donation scandal. Gething said t...
Jul 16, 2024
