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French court hits Swiss bank UBS with $4.2 billion fine
PARIS - A French court ordered Swiss bank UBS to pay more than 3.7 billion euros ($4.2 billion) in fines for helping wealthy French clients evade tax authorities, wrapping up one of France's biggest-e...
Feb 20, 2019
Fouled waters reveal lasting legacy of US mining industry
RIMINI, Mont. - Every day many millions of gallons of water loaded with arsenic, lead and other toxic metals flow from some of the most contaminated mining sites in the U.S. and into surrounding lakes...
Feb 20, 2019
Final Crown witnesses to take stand in Oland trial as prosecutors near end
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Crown prosecutors are expected to conclude their case against Dennis Oland this week in Saint John, N.B. They will have one of their final witnesses on the stand today - John Ainswo...
Feb 20, 2019
Japanese-Canadian baseball team, internment highlighted in new Heritage Minute
VANCOUVER - A new Heritage Minute is sharing the story of a pioneering baseball team in British Columbia and the government policy that tore them apart. Composed of Japanese Canadian players,&nbs...
Feb 20, 2019
Japanese-Canadian baseball team, internment highlighted in new Heritage Minute
VANCOUVER - A new Heritage Minute is sharing the story of a pioneering baseball team in British Columbia and the government policy that tore them apart. Composed of Japanese Canadian players,&nbs...
Feb 20, 2019
Egypt executes 9 over 2015 assassination of top prosecutor
CAIRO - Egypt on Wednesday executed nine suspected Muslim Brotherhood members convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of the country's top prosecutor, security officials said. The nine were...
Feb 20, 2019
3 UK Conservative lawmakers defect to new independent group
LONDON - Cracks in Britain's political party system yawned wider Wednesday, as three pro-European lawmakers quit the governing Conservatives to join a newly formed centrist group of independent legisl...
Feb 20, 2019
Electoral reform: All eyes turn to tiny P.E.I. as issue put to voters
CHARLOTTETOWN - Tiny Prince Edward Island has a chance to send a big message to the rest of the country about electoral reform when voters are asked to consider proportional representation in a refere...
Feb 20, 2019
Sex abuse survivors to meet with Vatican summit organizers
VATICAN CITY - The organizers of Pope Francis' summit on preventing clergy sex abuse will meet this week with a dozen abuse victims who have descended on Rome to protest the Catholic Church's response...
Feb 20, 2019
Tense standoff spells endgame for IS militants in Syria
BAGHOUZ, Syria - The collection of tents was largely silent on a sunny winter Monday afternoon. Few people were visible, but the few out and about were calm: Two men in long robes and pants walked slo...
Feb 20, 2019
