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Biden pressed on emissions goal as climate summit nears
WASHINGTON - When President Joe Biden convenes a virtual climate summit on Thursday, he faces a vexing task: how to put forward a nonbinding but symbolic goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that w...
Apr 19, 2021
Radical Islamist party frees 11 Pakistani police hostages
LAHORE, Pakistan - An outlawed Pakistani Islamist political group freed 11 policemen almost a day after taking them hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid violent clashes with security forces, the...
Apr 19, 2021
EU foreign ministers talk amid uproar over Ukraine, Navalny
BRUSSELS - European Union foreign ministers on Monday were assessing the bloc's strategy toward Russia in the wake of the military buildup on Ukraine's borders and amid the weakening health of impriso...
Apr 19, 2021
AP Source: Tottenham fires manager Jose Mourinho
LONDON - Tottenham has fired manager Jose Mourinho, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Monday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision has no...
Apr 19, 2021
Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny to be moved to a hospital
MOSCOW - The Russian state penitentiary service said Monday a decision has been made to transfer imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike, to a ...
Apr 19, 2021
Huawei CFO's team expected to ask judge for adjournment in final extradition hearings
VANCOUVER - Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou are expected to ask a B.C. Supreme Court judge today to delay the final leg of hearings in her extradition case. The court said in a statement last week that the H...
Apr 19, 2021
Liberals to release federal budget with eye on managing crisis, post-pandemic growth
OTTAWA - The federal government will this afternoon unveil its spending plans to manage the remainder of the COVID-19 crisis and chart an economic course in a post-pandemic Canada. The Liberals' first...
Apr 19, 2021
Judicial recount in Yukon election to occur in Whitehorse today over tie riding
WHITEHORSE - The final seat count in the Yukon election could be determined by the drawing of lots today if a judicial recount confirms a tie in a battleground riding. Elections Yukon applied to the Y...
Apr 19, 2021
Federal government expecting 1M vaccine doses this week after Moderna delays delivery
OTTAWA - Canada will have to wait a little longer for a promised influx of COVID-19 vaccines. The federal government says it expects about 1 million shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to arrive this...
Apr 19, 2021
Whitecaps beat Timbers 1-0 in Cascadia Cup opener
SANDY, Utah - Vancouver Whitecaps head coach Marc Dos Santos dedicated the team's season-opening victory to all the fans back in Vancouver who could not be in attendance. The Whitecaps kicked off the ...
Apr 18, 2021
