By John-Thor Dahlburg The Associated Press BRUSSELS — The first meeting of the NATO-Russia council in nearly two years failed to bridge differences between Moscow and the alliance, NATO’s chief said Wednesday. The meeting, which ran more than 90 minutes over schedule, was the occasion for a “frank and serious” […]
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By Lauren La Rose The Canadian Press TORONTO—Cara Paiuk and her husband, Alex, sent thank-you cards following their engagement and wedding, but she candidly confesses she’s not a fan of the handwritten missives. “Generally, I hate them. I don’t do them,” says the writer and photographer, who hails from Vancouver […]
The Canadian Press There are a surprising number of uses for the stalks, tops, ribs, fronds and stems of vegetables. Andrea Buckett says they can add delicious flavour to home cooking and the most underused parts of vegetables are the leaves and tops of carrots, radishes, beets and cauliflower. “Typically […]
By Alison Ladman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Breakfast in bed on Mother’s Day is practically mandatory. Which is fine. But that doesn’t mean what you serve needs to be the same old plain pancakes. After all, Mom is special. Her breakfast should be, too. So we created these rye-based pancakes that […]
By Michael Tarm The Associated Press CHICAGO — Jack McCullough awoke a few months into his life sentence for the 1957 slaying of an Illinois schoolgirl as his cellmate plunged a shank fashioned from a toothbrush into his face, eventually dislodging his eye. Multiple inmates had vowed to kill him […]
By Josh Lederman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Vice-President Joe Biden acknowledged “overwhelming frustration” with Israel’s government on Monday and said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration has led Israel in the wrong direction, in an unusually sharp rebuke of America’s closest ally in the Middle East. Biden, in a speech […]
By Cristian Kovadloff And Allen Panchana The Associated Press MANTA, Ecuador — Rescuers are in a race against time to find survivors from a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake as the death toll from Ecuador’s strongest earthquake in decades has risen above 400. On Monday, teams from Ecuador and neighbouring countries fanned […]
The Associated Press BEIJING — China is marking National Security Education Day with a poster warning young female government workers about dating handsome foreigners, who could turn out to have secret agendas. Titled “Dangerous Love,” the 16-panel, comic book-like poster tells the story of an attractive young Chinese civil servant […]
By Bree Fowler THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Calling it an issue of victims’ rights, the Manhattan district attorney urged Congress to pass legislation that would require tech companies to give law enforcement a way to access information on encrypted phones and other devices. Cyrus Vance Jr. said that […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Breakfast in bed is a love language in our home. Anytime there is a special occasion to celebrate ‚Äî a birthday, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, whatever ‚Äî the rest of the family follows an unspoken agreement to meet early in the kitchen to craft […]
By Hyung-Jin Kim The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — South Korea’s president said Monday that there are signs that North Korea is preparing for a fifth nuclear bomb test amid reports of increased activity at the country’s main nuclear test site. In a regular meeting with her top […]
The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A University of California, Berkeley student who came to the U.S. as an Iraqi refugee says he was unfairly removed from a flight at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month because a fellow passenger was alarmed by an innocent conversation he was having […]
