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Court update: Jail time in drug case, murder trial delayed, trial set in Whitecourt armed robbery
Alberta Justice says one of the two people charge in a drug bust connected to High Level and Grande Prairie has pleaded guilty to a charge of possession for the purpose of trafficking.Jersey Rennie wa...
May 7, 2021
Elmworth community rallies to raise $46,000 for neighbour following cancer diagnosis
Elmworth residents have rallied for one of their own. A recent online auction and fundraiser has netted over $46,000 for a local man and his family as he deals with a recent cancer diagnosis.The onlin...
May 7, 2021
Pressure rises for India lockdown; surge breaks more records
NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced growing pressure Friday to impose a strict nationwide lockdown, despite the economic pain it will exact, as a startling surge in coronavirus cases...
May 7, 2021
Carbon emissions from energy dropped 10% in the EU last year
BRUSSELS - Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion dropped 10% in the European Union last year amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to estimates from the EU's statistical office. Euro...
May 7, 2021
US citizen in Thailand charged with murdering Thai wife
BANGKOK - Police in Thailand said Friday they have charged a U.S. citizen from the state of Colorado with murdering his pregnant Thai wife. Jason Matthew Balzer, 32, was interrogated Friday in the nor...
May 7, 2021
Tokyo Olympic head says Bach visit to Japan could be 'tough'
TOKYO - The president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Friday that a visit to Japan this month by IOC President Thomas Bach seemed unlikely with a state of emergency order being extended...
May 7, 2021
Red meat politics: GOP turns culture war into a food fight
DES MOINES, Iowa - Conservatives last week gobbled up a false news story claiming President Joe Biden planned to ration red meat. Colorado Rep. Rep. Lauren Boebert suggested Biden "stay out of my kitc...
May 7, 2021
Tokyo Olympic head says Bach visit to Japan could be 'tough'
TOKYO - The president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Friday that a visit to Japan this month by IOC President Thomas Bach seemed unlikely with a state of emergency order being extended...
May 7, 2021
China discounts possibility of harm from falling rocket
BEIJING - China says the upper stage of its Long March 5B rocket that launched the core module of its space station will mostly burn up on re-entry, posing little threat to people and property on the ...
May 7, 2021
Packed trains, drinking: Japanese impatient over virus steps
TOKYO - Trains packed with commuters returning to work after a weeklong national holiday. Frustrated young people drinking in the streets because bars are closed. Protests planned over a possible visi...
May 7, 2021