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Still in the saddle: Australian racing goes on amid pandemic
SYDNEY, Australia - It's arguably more popular in Australia than any other country, so it's no surprise that horse racing is continuing - minus the spectators - despite the increasing travel and other...
Mar 19, 2020
Flame arrival faces calls for Tokyo Olympics be delayed
TOKYO - The Olympic flame is set to arrive in Japan from Greece even as the opening of the Tokyo Games in four months is in doubt with more voices calling for the event to be postponed or cancelled be...
Mar 19, 2020
Flame arrival faces calls for Tokyo Olympics be delayed
TOKYO - The Olympic flame is set to arrive in Japan from Greece even as the opening of the Tokyo Games in four months is in doubt with more voices calling for the event to be postponed or cancelled be...
Mar 19, 2020
Brazil's Bolsonaro strives to regain leadership amid virus
RIO DE JANEIRO - After questioning the seriousness of COVID-19, defying his own health ministry's recommendations and denouncing a "certain hysteria," Brazil's president is now projecting himself as l...
Mar 19, 2020
Major League Rugby shuts down season due to COVID-19, says it will return in 2021
TORONTO - Major League Rugby has called off the remainder of the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Commissioner George Killebrew calls it the correct decision given the health and safety risks...
Mar 19, 2020
Guns and ammo recovered by police on St. Patrick's day
Luck had very little to do with a weapons bust in Prince Albert on Tuesday.The investigation was carried out by members of the Integrated Crime Reduction Team (ICRT) and concluded in the 900 Block of ...
Mar 19, 2020 A layout of the weapons seized by police on Tuesday, March 17. (Submitted photo/ Prince Albert Police Service)
Cruise ship with COVID-19 cases and Canadians on board docks in France
MARSEILLE, France - A trans-Atlantic cruise ship carrying several COVID-19 cases among its passengers and with dozens of Canadians aboard has docked in the French Mediterranean port city of Marseille....
Mar 19, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 8:45 a.m. British Columbia's Municipal Affairs Ministry has cancelled three municipal byelections and a referendum in fou...
Mar 19, 2020
US pauses Afghanistan deployments, isolates arrivals there
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military says it is pausing the movement of any new troops into Afghanistan and is quarantining 1,500 troops and civilians who recently arrived in order to protect them from the ...
Mar 19, 2020
Canada, U.S. working out details of cross-border non-essential travel ban
OTTAWA - Closure of the world's longest undefended border will begin in earnest today as Canada and the United States work out the details of banning non-essential travel between the two countries. Pr...
Mar 19, 2020
