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Outsiders consider possibility of chaos in North Korea
TOKYO - North Korea's collapse has been predicted - wrongly- for decades. Some said it would happen after fighting ended in the Korean War in 1953. Others thought it would be during a 1990s famine or ...
Apr 30, 2020
About 50 bodies found in trucks outside NY funeral home
NEW YORK - Police were called to a Brooklyn neighbourhood Wednesday after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby com...
Apr 30, 2020
UK admits it could miss 100,000 daily virus tests target
LONDON - The British government has acknowledged that it may miss its self-imposed goal of conducting 100,000 tests for coronavirus a day by the end of Thursday. But officials insisted that the U.K. i...
Apr 30, 2020
Fauci warns states against 'tempting' a coronavirus rebound
WASHINGTON - The nation's top infectious disease expert said Thursday that new cases of the coronavirus are a certainty as states begin to roll back restrictions. States need to proceed carefully as t...
Apr 30, 2020
US jobless claims soar past 30 million; Europe reeling also
NEW YORK - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits because of the coronavirus has soared past 30 million, worsening a crisis unmatched since the 1930s and turning up the pressure on p...
Apr 30, 2020
Montreal hospital to test disinfection robot that uses ultraviolet rays
MONTREAL - The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre says it will soon conduct the first Canadian test of a robot that uses ultraviolet light to disinfect. The Montreal instit...
Apr 30, 2020
Whitecap Resources posts $2.1-billion loss on oil price related asset writedown
CALGARY - Oil producer Whitecap Resources Inc. is reporting a $2.1-billion net loss for the quarter ended March 31 thanks mainly to a $2.9-billion non-cash writedown in the value of its assets due to ...
Apr 30, 2020
This is his quest: An actor serenades the front-line workers
NEW YORK - It's a stunning sound, emerging amid the clanging and the whooping and the banging and the honking at 7 p.m. each night as New Yorkers cheer front-line workers: the velvety, buttery bariton...
Apr 30, 2020
Turtle Recall: Derby dashed, turtles go in slow, steady race
Losing the Kentucky Derby has left race fans shell-shocked. The first Saturday in May has yielded to the legs of a bunch of slowpokes: Seattle Slow headlines a field of turtles - yes, turtles - that w...
Apr 30, 2020
Ice jam that caused flooding in Fort McMurray melting
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - An ice jam on the Athabasca River is nearly half the size it was earlier this week when it caused major flooding in Fort McMurray and forced 13,000 people from their homes. The ...
Apr 30, 2020