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Mi'kmaq fisherman intends to fight federal charges alleging illegal lobster catch
HALIFAX - A fisherman from a Mi'kmaq community in Cape Breton says he intends to plead not guilty to charges of illegal fishing after his lobster traps were seized last year by federal fisheries offic...
Oct 26, 2020
AP FACT CHECK: Trump and his familiar falsehoods
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says Mexico is paying for the wall (it isn't), health care choice for veterans came from him (it didn't) and his tax cut stands as the biggest in American history (...
Oct 26, 2020
Low expectations in Mexico as US election approaches
MEXICO CITY - A week before U.S. elections, expectations and attention are unusually low in a foreign country that may have more at stake than any other. Many Mexicans would be glad to see a more neig...
Oct 26, 2020
Japan rejects nuclear ban treaty; survivors to keep pushing
TOKYO - Japan said Monday it will not sign a U.N. treaty that bans nuclear weapons and does not welcome its entry into force next year, rejecting the wishes of atomic bomb survivors in Japan who are u...
Oct 26, 2020
2/3rds of Chilean voters back rewriting their constitution
SANTIAGO, Chile - Amid a year of contagion and turmoil, Chileans turned out Sunday to vote overwhelmingly in favour of having a constitutional convention draft a new charter to replace guiding princip...
Oct 26, 2020
French doctor warns his country has 'lost control' of virus
PARIS - A French doctor warned Monday that his country has "lost control of the epidemic," a day after health authorities reported more than 52,000 new coronavirus cases as nations across Europe enact...
Oct 26, 2020
Strikers in Belarus press for authoritarian leader's ouster
KYIV, Ukraine - Factory workers, students and business owners in Belarus on Monday began a strike to demand that authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko resign after more than two months of conti...
Oct 26, 2020
Trump eyes hosting election night party at his DC hotel
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has his eye on hosting an election night party at his own hotel in the nation's capital. Over the weekend, the campaign pushed out fundraising emails in the preside...
Oct 26, 2020
High court won’t extend Wisconsin's absentee ballot deadline
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is siding with Republicans to prevent Wisconsin from counting mailed ballots that are received after Election Day. The justices on Monday refused to reinstate a lower co...
Oct 26, 2020
Canadian Press NewsAlert: B.C. brings in new restrictions as COVID cases rise
VICTORIA - British Columbia's medical health officer is implementing new COVID-19 restrictions as infections rise. Dr. Bonnie Henry says gatherings are now limited to those in an immediate house...
Oct 26, 2020