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U.S. takes Canada off priority watch list on intellectual property
OTTAWA - The United States is moving Canada off a priority watch list of countries that it says have failed to enforce intellectual-property rights. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is, how...
Apr 25, 2019
Canadian privacy watchdogs find major shortcomings in Facebook probe
OTTAWA - Facebook's ineffective safeguards allowed unauthorized access to the information of millions of the social-media giant's users - including data later used for&nb...
Apr 25, 2019
US new-home sales climbed 4.5% in March
WASHINGTON - Sales of new U.S. homes increased 4.5% in March, the third straight monthly gain as the housing market appears to be cautiously recovering from a mortgage rate spike last year that caused...
Apr 25, 2019
Prince Harry attends public event as royal baby wait goes on
LONDON - Prince Harry has attended a service commemorating war dead from Australia and New Zealand as he and his wife Meghan await the birth of their first child. Meghan is due to give birth soon, tho...
Apr 25, 2019
Bill Cosby fighting $1M a month legal bill in arbitration
PHILADELPHIA - A fee dispute between actor Bill Cosby and one of the many law firms hired to address his legal problems shows the Los Angeles firm alone was billing Cosby $1 million a month in the run...
Apr 25, 2019
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay shares her favourite classic films
LOS ANGELES - To say filmmaker Ava DuVernay is a busy woman is an understatement, but when Turner Classic Movies called and asked her to curate the channel's "The Essentials" series, she knew she had ...
Apr 25, 2019
Canada banning oil, gas and mining from marine protected areas
OTTAWA - The oil and gas industry has worn out its welcome in Canadian marine conservation areas. Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson today is announcing a total ban on oil and gas work, as wel...
Apr 25, 2019
In camp of diehard IS supporters, some women express regrets
AL-HOL CAMP, Syria - The women say it was misguided religious faith, naivete, a search for something to believe in or youthful rebellion. Whatever it was, it led them to travel across the world to joi...
Apr 25, 2019
Sri Lanka, like world, again sees scourge of suicide attacks
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The Easter attacks in Sri Lanka are a bloody echo of decades past in the South Asian island nation, when militants inspired by attacks in the Lebanese civil war helped develop the...
Apr 25, 2019
Militants blamed in Sri Lanka attacks had incendiary leader
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The purported leader of an Islamic extremist group blamed for an Easter attack in Sri Lanka that killed over 320 people began posting videos online three years ago calling for non...
Apr 25, 2019
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