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China’s population grew at a slower rate last year despite the abolition of the one-child policy, official data showed Monday, raising fears an ageing society will pile further pressure on an already slowing economy. There were 15.23 million live births in 2018, a drop of two million from the year before, data from the National Bureau of […]
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The United States will keep troops in Iraq in order to “watch” Iran, Donald Trump said on Sunday. Mr Trump said he wanted to maintain a military presence in the country even though he had repeatedly described the original decision to invade Iraq as one of the “greatest mistakes” ever made by the US. “We […]
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Canadian auto industry observers are reacting with shock and disbelief to news that U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation that could result in tariffs of up to 25 per cent on auto sector imports into the United States. David Adams, president of the Global Automakers of Canada, which represents Japanese car manufacturers Honda […]
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Authorities in Iran have cancelled Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s weekly phone calls with her husband and have begun reducing her food rations, after the jailed British-Iranian charity worker announced she was planning a hunger strike. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, writing in a letter released by a human rights charity last week, said she intends to go on a three-day […]
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MONTREAL — Many Canadians will be forced to spend a little more to travel after Air Canada and WestJet Airlines Ltd. said they are increasing fees for passengers to check their bags. The country’s two largest airlines are raising the fee for the first checked bag to $30 from $25, and for the second bag […]
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Heavy snowfalls have left large areas of the Austrian and Bavarian Alps paralysed, with more than 2,000 people trapped in villages and ski resorts cut off from the outside world. Five people have been killed, and another two are missing. The entire Austrian ski resort of Hochkar was evacuated on Monday amid fears of avalanches. “We […]
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VANCOUVER — Federal New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says while he has been encouraged to run for Parliament in the newly vacated British Columbia riding of Burnaby South, he won’t be making an announcement yet. Singh spent Friday in Metro Vancouver, with two planned events in the riding that New Democrat MP Kennedy Stewart vacated […]
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The pounding of the 40mm cannons sends tracer shells skimming over a snow-covered ridge towards the Baltic Sea. “The enemy has conducted an air drop near the town of Kivik that has moved up here to the north, so this is a hostile landing site for reinforcements from the sea,” Captain Johan Ström says, as […]
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If cities immersed under water, melting polar ice caps and general irreparable global destruction aren’t reason enough to combat climate change, consider this: a warmer climate could also decimate the world’s beer supply, and Canada might be one of the hardest countries hit. A study published earlier this week in the scientific journal Nature Plants […]
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Click:女性游戏 OTTAWA — Israel disagrees with Canada’s stance towards the Golan Heights and the effectiveness of the Iran nuclear deal, but the country’s envoy still believes the Trudeau government’s broader Middle East policy is very supportive. Ambassador Nimrod Barkan said Canada-Israel relations are like a long-married couple: they may have disagreements, but they are still […]
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