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Spain: Pro-separatist protesters clash with police
BARCELONA, Spain - Protesters backing Catalonia's secession from Spain clashed with police and blocked major roads and train tracks across the northeastern region on Thursday during a strike called to...
Feb 23, 2019
Vietnam issues traffic ban for Kim's possible arrival route
HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam has announced an unprecedented traffic ban along a possible arrival route of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ahead of his second summit with President Donald Trump in Hanoi ne...
Feb 23, 2019
Trump sets up abortion obstacles, barring clinic referrals
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Friday set up new obstacles for women seeking abortions, barring taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from making abortion referrals. The new policy is cert...
Feb 23, 2019
Nun to Vatican abuse summit: "This storm will not pass by"
VATICAN CITY - A prominent Nigerian nun has blasted the culture of silence in the Catholic Church that has long sought to hide clergy sexual abuse, telling a Vatican summit that transparency and an ad...
Feb 23, 2019
Veteran NHLers Ryan Spooner, Luke Scheen seek fresh starts in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - This hasn't been the NHL season that Ryan Spooner expected. The 27-year-old forward started the year with the New York Rangers then was dealt to the Edmonton Oilers in November, only to be...
Feb 23, 2019
Prime minister decries profiling incident on Hill as 'anti-black racism'
HALIFAX - Justin Trudeau told an audience of African Nova Scotians on Thursday that an incident of apparent racial profiling on Parliament Hill shows that racism, unconscious bias and systemic discrim...
Feb 23, 2019
Funeral today for seven children killed in fast-moving Halifax fire
HALIFAX - Mourners will descend upon a large Halifax hall today for the funeral of seven children who died in a fast-moving house fire. The service for the Barho children will begin at 1:30 p.m. at th...
Feb 23, 2019
Searing testimony heard at Vatican sex abuse summit
VATICAN CITY - The day began with an African woman telling an extraordinary gathering of Catholic leaders that her priestly rapist forced her to have three abortions over a dozen years after he starte...
Feb 23, 2019
In the news today, Feb. 21
Four stories in the news for Thursday, Feb. 21 --- MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING DAUGHTER HAS DIED: POLICE A man accused of killing his daughter on her 11th birthday died in hospital on W...
Feb 23, 2019
Gunfire heard in cities as Nigerians finally go to the polls
DAURA, Nigeria - Gunfire opened Nigeria's delayed election on Saturday as President Muhammadu Buhari seeks a second term in Africa's most populous nation. Police said the blasts in Maiduguri, the capi...
Feb 23, 2019
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