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Young girls at James Smith escape attack by stray dogs
An incident on the James Smith Cree Nation last week involving two young girls being attacked by a small pack of stray dogs, illustrates how serious the problem has become, according to the band's Dir...
Mar 02, 2019 (Facebook/James Smith Cree Nation community message/ events board)
Russian Nobel winner Alferov dies at 88
MOSCOW - Zhores Alferov, a Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, has died. He was 88. His death was announced Saturday by the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, where Alferov...
Mar 02, 2019
America's newest crew capsule rockets toward space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - America's newest capsule for astronauts rocketed Saturday toward the International Space Station on a high-stakes test flight by SpaceX. The only passenger was a life-size test ...
Mar 02, 2019
Sanders to launch 2020 campaign from Brooklyn hometown
NEW YORK - Sen. Bernie Sanders will return to Brooklyn, the borough where he was born, to launch a presidential campaign that's expected to connect his working-class childhood to his populist politica...
Mar 02, 2019
4 children, 1 adult killed in German house fire
BERLIN - German firefighters say that five people, including four children, have been killed after a blaze ripped through their home in the southern city of Nuremberg. Firefighters told the dpa news a...
Mar 02, 2019
India, Pakistan resume shelling in Kashmir, killing 6
SRINAGAR, India - Indian and Pakistani soldiers again targeted each other's posts and villages along their volatile frontier in disputed Kashmir, killing at least six civilians and wounding six others...
Mar 02, 2019
US-backed Syrian fighters advance on 2 fronts against IS
OUTSIDE BAGHOUZ, Syria - Fighters with the U.S.-backed force battling the Islamic State group in eastern Syria advanced on two fronts Saturday as the extremists used snipers and booby traps to slow th...
Mar 02, 2019
Saudi prosecutors say women's rights activists to face trial
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have referred detained women's rights activists to trial, saying those charged "enjoy all rights preserved by the laws in the kingdom" after t...
Mar 02, 2019
North Korea's Kim leaves Vietnam after summit breakdown
DONG DANG, Vietnam - Smiling and holding up his clasped hands in a victorious pose, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday boarded his private train at the Vietnam-China border for a 60-plus-hour...
Mar 02, 2019
In the news today, Feb. 28
Five stories in the news for Thursday, Feb. 28 --- WILSON-RAYBOULD'S PLACE IN LIBERAL PARTY AT RISK AFTER SNC-LAVALIN TESTIMONY Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's reconsidering Jody Wil...
Mar 02, 2019
