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Some older Canadians opt to take their chances, winter in Florida despite pandemic
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Now that they're safely back in Florida, Rose and Perry Cohen are looking forward to one of the joys of retirement: an extended lunch with friends. Extended, at least, in the 2020 s...
Dec 13, 2020
Twenty-five years after Rwanda, where is Canada on peacekeeping?
OTTAWA - When now-retired major-general Guy Tousignant handed over command of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda 1995, Canada had been involved in virtually every UN mission over the pr...
Dec 13, 2020
Silent nights: Germany tightens lockdown over festive period
BERLIN - Most stores shut, tight limits on social contacts, no singing in church and a ban on fireworks sales: Germany is ratcheting up its pandemic restrictions in an effort to cut the stubbornly hig...
Dec 13, 2020
Sudan's PM visits Ethiopia, as Tigray refugees top 50,000
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Sunday arrived in Ethiopia, his office said, amid a growing refugee crisis that has seen more than 50,000 Ethiopians flee conflict in the Tigray region into n...
Dec 13, 2020
Officials: Bomb and gun attacks in Afghan capital kill 3
KABUL - Separate bomb and gun attacks on Sunday left at least three dead in Afghanistan's capital, local police said, a day after a barrage of mortar shells shook the city. A sticky bomb attached to a...
Dec 13, 2020
Trucks with first COVID-19 vaccine in US get ready to roll
The first trucks carrying a COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use in the United States were set to pull out of a Michigan manufacturing plant Sunday, with the shots that are critical to stopping the nat...
Dec 13, 2020
Hunter Biden subpoena seeks info on Burisma, other entities
WASHINGTON - A subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma, according to a person familiar with a ...
Dec 13, 2020
Tempers flare as Trump supporters rally in Washington
WASHINGTON - Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump returned to Washington for weekend rallies to back his desperate efforts to subvert the election that he lost to Joe Biden. Sporadic figh...
Dec 13, 2020
Analysis: Short work by high court of Trump's `big one'
WASHINGTON - It didn't take the Supreme Court long to make short work of what President Donald Trump called "the big one." And as the court on Friday rejected a Texas-based lawsuit to overturn the ele...
Dec 13, 2020
Chinese capsule with moon rocks begins return to Earth
BEIJING - A Chinese space capsule bringing back the first moon rocks in more than four decades has begun its return to Earth. The Chang'e 5 lunar probe left the moon's orbit on Sunday morning by activ...
Dec 13, 2020
