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CN Rail laying off approximately 450 workers amid blockades
MONTREAL - CN Rail is laying off about 450 workers in its operations in Eastern Canada after cancelling more than 400 trains in the past week over a rail blockade protesting an LNG pipeline in British...
Feb 19, 2020
In the spirit of Whitney: Houston Hologram tour set to begin
BURBANK, Calif. - Whitney Houston is about to appear on the concert stage again. Eight years after her death, a holographic Houston will embark on a European tour that starts in England on Feb. 25 and...
Feb 19, 2020
Tribute to be held in Edmonton to remember Iranian plane crash victims
EDMONTON - A tribute is being held Saturday in Edmonton to remember the Canadians who were killed when a Ukrainian passenger plane crashed minutes after takeoff from Tehran.Reza Akbari, president of t...
Feb 19, 2020
Devices found in missiles, Yemen drones link Iran to attacks
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A small instrument inside the drones that targeted the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry and those in the arsenal of Yemen's Houthi rebels match components recovered i...
Feb 19, 2020
Syria's Aleppo airport resumes flights amid fighting nearby
ALEPPO, Syria - A Syrian passenger jet landed in Aleppo on Wednesday from Damascus, marking the resumption of domestic flights between Syria's two largest cities for the first time since 2012, while t...
Feb 19, 2020
Virologist: Tokyo Olympics probably couldn't be held now
TOKYO - A respected Japanese virologist on Wednesday said if the Tokyo Olympics were tomorrow, the games probably couldn't be held because of the fast-spreading virus from Wuhan, China. "We need to fi...
Feb 19, 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 19, 2020
US home construction dips 3.6% in January
WASHINGTON - Construction of new homes edged back slightly in January after a December surge that had pushed home construction to the highest level in 13 years. The Commerce Department reported Wednes...
Feb 19, 2020
China revokes 3 Wall Street Journal reporters' credentials
BEIJING - China on Wednesday said it has revoked the press credentials of three reporters for the U.S. newspaper Wall Street Journal over a headline for an opinion column deemed racist by the governme...
Feb 19, 2020
Hereditary chiefs say they'll meet with ministers if RCMP get out
VANCOUVER - A small, mobile RCMP detachment in a remote area of British Columbia has become a bargaining chip in proposed talks that many hope could put an end to blockades that have disrupt...
Feb 19, 2020