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At least 75 dead as Hong Kong firefighters battle burning towers for a second day
HONG KONG (AP) - Firefighters battled a blaze at a high-rise apartment complex in Hong Kong for the second day on Thursday, as the death toll rose to 75 in one of the deadliest blazes in the city's mo...
Nov 27, 2025
Hong Kong Canadians reeling after deadly highrise inferno
VANCOUVER - Canadians with roots in Hong Kong have been watching in horror at news of the fire that tore through seven highrise towers in the Chinese special administrative region, leaving dozens dead...
Nov 26, 2025
Hong Kong's deadliest high-rise fire in years leaves at least 36 dead, 279 reported missing
HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong's deadliest fire in years blazed through high-rise apartment buildings into the night Wednesday as the city's leader confirmed at least 36 people, including a firefighter, h...
Nov 26, 2025 Firefighters try to extinguisha fire that broke out at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong's New Territories, Wednesday, Nov. 26 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
B.C. coastal First Nations vow oil pipeline to coast 'will never happen'
The president of the Coastal First Nations in British Columbia says an oil pipeline linking Alberta to the province's north coast "will never happen." In a news release issued Wednesday morning, Maril...
Nov 26, 2025 Heiltsuk Nation Chief Marilyn Slett attends a news conference in Vancouver on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Taiwan puts $40 billion toward buying US weapons and building a defense dome
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday announced a special $40 billion budget for arms purchases, including to build an air defense system with high-level detection and int...
Nov 26, 2025 Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te delivers a speech during the inauguration ceremony of M1A2T Abrams Main Battle Tanks in Hsinchu County, Taiwan, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
France's top court upholds Sarkozy's conviction for illegal campaign financing in 2012
PARIS (AP) - France's top court on Wednesday upheld Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction for illegal campaign financing of his reelection bid in 2012 in another blow to France's former president's legacy and ...
Nov 26, 2025
Australia will enforce a social media ban for children under 16 despite a court challenge
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - The Australian government said young children will be banned from social media next month as scheduled despite a rights advocacy group on Wednesday challenging the world-fi...
Nov 26, 2025 A teenage boy uses his phone in Sydney, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
Canadian swimmer Penny Oleksiak suspended for two years over anti-doping rule violation
Canadian swimmer Penny Oleksiak has been given a two-year ban from competition. The International Testing Agency says the 25-year-old has accepted a suspension for an anti-doping rule violation, commi...
Nov 25, 2025 Penny Oleksiak prepares to take her place at the starting blocks for the 100m freestyle at the Canadian Olympic Swim Trials in Toronto on Friday, May 17, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Saskatchewan government says budget on course to record $427M deficit at year's end
This year's Saskatchewan budget is sinking deeper into the red, mainly due to the cost of fighting the summer's wildfires. Finance Minister Jim Reiter, in a midterm update on the budget, says the proj...
Nov 25, 2025 Saskatchewan Minister of Finance Jim Reiter delivers the Saskatchewan Provincial Budget in Regina on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards
Federal, provincial governments raked in more than $5.4B in cannabis tax revenue
Ottawa and the provinces have raked in more than $5.4 billion in cannabis tax revenue since the drug was legalized for recreational use in October 2018. The federal government has collected $1.2 billi...
Nov 25, 2025 A variety of cannabis edibles are displayed at the Ontario Cannabis Store in Toronto on Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
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