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Quebec taxi drivers clog streets to protest government's industry overhaul
MONTREAL - Quebec's transport minister is defending his plan to overhaul the province's taxi industry as drivers across the province strike in protest. Thousands of angry taxi drivers clogge...
Mar 25, 2019
Actor Michael Madsen accused of driving under the influence
MALIBU, Calif. - Police have arrested actor Michael Madsen after they say he was stopped while driving under the influence. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says Madsen was driving a Land R...
Mar 25, 2019
For Venezuela's 1 per cent, a lavish wedding amid crisis
ACARIGUA, Venezuela - It was the sort of celebration that's become rare in troubled Venezuela: a lavish destination wedding of two young entrepreneurs at a dude ranch on the country's vast tropical pl...
Mar 25, 2019
Canadian man charged with spying in China gets visit by consular officials
OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada says consular officials in China visited today with detained former diplomat Michael Kovrig today. It is the fifth time Kovrig has received a consula...
Mar 25, 2019
Calgary UCP candidate quits race citing threats
CALGARY- Another United Conservative Party candidate is pulling out of the Alberta election, saying someone outside the party is threatening to release her past social media comments about Muslim refu...
Mar 25, 2019 Eva Kiryakos/ Facebook
EU military wants to partner with Canada in Mali as it races for exit
OTTAWA - As Canada's military mission races to leave Mali and the United Nations pleads for it to stay, the European Union is making a fresh appeal to the Canadian Forces to partner with it in t...
Mar 25, 2019
Canada Revenue Agency apologizes as online services go down
OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency says its online systems have gone down and it isn't saying when they will be back. The agency is apologizing in a tweet for the cut in services this morning, sa...
Mar 25, 2019
Extremists attack Somalia govt office, minister among 5 dead
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Gunmen set off a suicide car bombing and then stormed a government building in Somalia's capital Saturday, killing at least five people including the country's deputy labour minis...
Mar 25, 2019
UK leader meets Cabinet as she fights to stay in power
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May was under intense pressure Monday to resign as the price of breaking the country's Brexit impasse and winning support for her unloved EU divorce deal. May w...
Mar 25, 2019
'It will get worse': Perilous times for kids hit by cyclone
BEIRA, Mozambique - Her name is Chuva, which in Portuguese means rain. For four days that was all she saw as she clung to her rooftop in the cyclone's aftermath and prayed to be saved. Maria Chuva cla...
Mar 25, 2019