By Robert Burns The Associated Press On his first visit to the tense but eerily quiet frontier between North and South Korea as U.S. secretary of defence, Jim Mattis conveyed the message he hopes will win the day: Diplomacy is the answer to ending the nuclear crisis with the North, […]
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By Eloge Willy Kaneza The Associated Press BUJUMBURA, Burundi — Burundi has become the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, but officials say the court’s prosecutor will move ahead with an examination of the East African nation’s deadly political turmoil. An ICC spokesman confirmed that the pullout […]
By Dan Elliott The Associated Press DENVER — Scientists say they have more evidence that an increase in earthquakes on the Colorado-New Mexico border since 2001 has been caused by wells that inject wastewater from oil and gas production back underground, similar to human-caused quakes in Oklahoma and other states. […]
The Associated Press UXBRIDGE, Mass. — A female high school student who had the best score at a boys’ golf tournament in Massachusetts has been denied the trophy because she’s a girl. Lunenburg High School student Emily Nash’s score of 75 at the Central Massachusetts Division 3 boys’ golf tournament […]
By Rod McGuirk THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s High Court will rule Friday on whether seven lawmakers including the deputy prime minister and two senior ministers are eligible to sit in Parliament in a case that threatens the conservative government’s slender majority. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said […]
By Paul Elias The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A California sheriff released new details Wednesday in the mysterious case of a young mother who was found battered and bruised but alive along a freeway after she was missing for three weeks. The Shasta County sheriff’s department also released sketches […]
By Joseph Ataman The Associated Press ISTANBUL — For lovers of Turkey’s unofficial national drink, raki, years of tax hikes on their favourite tipple have been hard to swallow. Faced with ever-climbing prices and restrictions on alcohol, many are turning to home-brewed booze and rekindling their love for the country’s […]
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Fisher-Price is voluntarily recalling about 65,000 motorized infant seats because of risk of a fire hazard. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says it has received three dozen reports of Soothing Motions Seats overheating and one report of a fire contained in the motor housing. The […]
The Associated Press VATICAN CITY — The cold-call pope is setting his sights set heavenward by ringing astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Pope Francis’ hookup Thursday marks the second papal phone call to space: Pope Benedict XVI rang the space station in 2011, and peppered its residents with questions […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press All four of my daughters love frozen acai bowls because they feel like you’re eating ice cream for breakfast, except healthier. If you haven’t hopped on the acai bowl craze, allow me to update you. Superfood acai berry puree is blended up with fruit […]
It is with great sadness that the family of Patricia Ruth Del Ben announces her passing on Friday October 20, 2017 at the LaVerendrye Hospital. She leaves behind her sister Grace and husband Merdo Krawchuk; niece Patti (Brad) Anderson and their children Graham and Rachel and niece Julie Krawchuk and […]
