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OGOW means 'to know': Canadian man helping Somalis understand COVID-19
EDMONTON - Before Canadian Khalid Hashi and his team began their work in Somalia, the country of about 15 million people who mostly speak Somali and Arabic only had information about COVID-19 in one l...
Feb 14, 2021
Egypt: Archaeologists unearth ancient beer factory in Abydos
CAIRO - American and Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest known beer factory at one of the most prominent archaeological sites of ancient Egypt, a top antiquities official s...
Feb 14, 2021
Couple separated by pandemic hopes 2021 ‘will be our year’
As a Prince Albert man and his Filipina wife celebrate their first wedding anniversary on Thursday, they'll also be marking nearly a year since the last time they saw each other in person. Juvelyn Gel...
Feb 14, 2021
Commons must decide whether to accept, reject Senate amendments to MAID bill
OTTAWA - A power struggle between the elected House of Commons and the appointed Senate could erupt this week over the emotional issue of medical assistance in dying. Senators have already approved fi...
Feb 14, 2021
Russia moves to extinguish pro-Navalny 'flashlight' protests
MOSCOW - When the team of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny urged people to come out to their residential courtyards and shine their cellphone flashlights in a display of unity, many...
Feb 14, 2021
Burmese in Japan march in protest of military coup
TOKYO - Thousands of people from Myanmar living in Japan marched in downtown Tokyo on Sunday to protest the military coup back home, some holding photos of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and signs dep...
Feb 14, 2021
Powerful Japan quake sets off landslide, minor injuries
TOKYO - Residents in northeastern Japan on Sunday cleaned up clutter and debris in stores and homes after a strong earthquake set off a landslide on a highway, damaged buildings and parts of bullet tr...
Feb 14, 2021
Kosovo votes for new parliament amid pandemic
PRISTINA, Kosovo - Kosovo's voters defied freezing weather to take part in an early parliamentary election Sunday to form a new government amid the coronavirus pandemic, an economic downturn and stall...
Feb 14, 2021
Biden White House seeks to turn page on Trump
WASHINGTON - The end of former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial opens a new chapter for his successor in the White House. But while President Joe Biden and his team are eager to move past th...
Feb 14, 2021
2 impeachment trials, 2 escape hatches for Donald Trump
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's first impeachment trial centred on a phone call Americans never heard with the leader of a country very far away. The trial went on for two weeks of he-said-she-said. There...
Feb 14, 2021
