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Fire in slum kills 9 in southeastern Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh - A devastating blaze raced through a crammed slum in southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, killing at least nine people and injuring several others, a fire official said. The fire brok...
Feb 19, 2019
Canadian Eugenie Bouchard drops second-round match against Simona Halep
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Canada's Eugenie Bouchard is out of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. The 24-year-old native of Westmount, Que., lost 7-6 (4), 6-4 to No. 3 seed Simona Halep of R...
Feb 19, 2019
Multiple deaths in Halifax house fire: 'Our entire municipality is heartbroken'
HALIFAX - Multiple people were killed in an early-morning fire Tuesday that witnesses said quickly engulfed a home in a Halifax suburb. Police and fire officials would not discuss the number of d...
Feb 19, 2019
Community vigil planned for slain 11-year-old Riya Rajkumar
BRAMPTON, Ont. - The city in which an 11-year-old girl allegedly died at the hands of her father last week is holding a vigil in her honour tonight. City councillors in Brampton, Ont. will host a...
Feb 19, 2019
Chanel: Iconic couturier Karl Lagerfeld has died
PARIS - Chanel's iconic couturier, Karl Lagerfeld, whose accomplished designs as well as trademark white ponytail, high starched collars and dark enigmatic glasses dominated high fashion for the past ...
Feb 19, 2019
Vancouver Granville community leaders voice support for MP Jody Wilson-Raybould
VANCOUVER - When Jody Wilson-Raybould was demoted in cabinet, a rabbi in her Vancouver Granville riding reached out to her with a message from the Bible. It quoted Joseph, who said afte...
Feb 19, 2019
Iran points to Pakistan after deadly attack on Guard
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's parliament speaker said Sunday that an attack that killed 27 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard was "planned and carried out from inside Pakistan," which he said should ...
Feb 19, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders says he's running for president in 2020
WASHINGTON - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 presidential campaign reshaped Democratic politics, announced Tuesday that he is running for president in 2020. "Our campaign is not only...
Feb 19, 2019
Iran pressures Europe to do more to save the nuclear deal
MUNICH - Europeans need to do more than talk if they want to preserve a deal meant to keep Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon after the unilateral withdrawal of the United States, Iran's foreign m...
Feb 19, 2019
'Taking their last breath': IS hides among Syrian civilians
BAGHOUZ, Syria - From a self-proclaimed caliphate that once spread across much of Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State group has been knocked back to a speck of land on the countries' shared border. In t...
Feb 19, 2019