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Hinchcliffe gets Indy 500 ride, 3 total races with Andretti
INDIANAPOLIS - Michael Andretti's driver lineup is locked and loaded for May. He already had two race winners, two of Indyar's rising stars and his own son, Marco, geared up. Now he's added 2016 India...
Feb 21, 2020

Lawyer for Quebec couple urges court to act against ultra-Orthodox schools
MONTREAL - Ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools operating north of Montreal are illegal and their religious curriculum for boys is so onerous the students have little time to study anything el...
Feb 21, 2020

Quebec protesters maintain rail blockade a day after court ordered it taken down
ST-LAMBERT, Que. - About two dozen protesters remain at a blockade south of Montreal in defiance of an injunction delivered Thursday ordering them to leave the site and stop disrupting rail traffic. P...
Feb 21, 2020

“Blind Hockey Battle of Alberta” goes Saturday in Red Deer
A local man's vision for a blind hockey game in Red Deer will come true this Saturday.Dustin Butterfield started a blind hockey team, the Central Alberta Bullseye, with other blind and visually impair...
Feb 21, 2020

China’s top diplomat assures Southeast Asia on epidemic
VIENTIANE, Laos - China's top diplomat assured his Southeast Asian counterparts on Wednesday that the situation in a central Chinese province where the outbreak of a new virus began has "been brought ...
Feb 21, 2020

Symbolic Aleppo flight comes as civilians suffer in Syria
ALEPPO, Syria - A Syrian passenger jet landed in Aleppo on Wednesday from Damascus as domestic flights resumed between Syria's two largest cities for the first time since 2012, while the government co...
Feb 21, 2020

Cross-border S Korean drama overcomes political risks
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - For the South Korean crew behind the latest hit drama "Crash Landing on You," recreating the life in North Korea was a painstakingly meticulous process with big political r...
Feb 21, 2020

Survivor: German shooter emptied magazine, calmly walked out
HANAU, Germany - Piter Minnemann and his friends were eating when they heard shots fired outside the door of the snack bar in Hanau where they had gathered. Minnemann, 18, recalled that he had just go...
Feb 21, 2020

Gut-Behrami ends 2-year wait for win in a World Cup downhill
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland - In ski-crazy Switzerland, Lara Gut-Behrami's first World Cup victory in more than two years was quickly labeled "a resurrection" by broadcasters. The former teenage prodig...
Feb 21, 2020

China revokes 3 Wall Street Journal reporters' credentials
BEIJING - China revoked the press credentials of three reporters for The Wall Street Journal over a headline for an opinion column the government said Wednesday was racist. The expulsions come after t...
Feb 21, 2020