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'The King Tide': 12-year-old Alix West Lefler is an 'old soul' leading eerie Newfoundland thriller
A small Newfoundland town proves to be an alluring location for the eerie magic-filled thriller The King Tide, starring Alix West Lefler.
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VideoLong lines in front of banks and ATMs as Cubans face another hurdle to their difficult daily routine – the search for cash
Cubans have to grapple with yet another hurdle while navigating an already complicated monetary system in the island - a shortage of cash. Already grappling with persistent blackouts and food scarcities, they now face the daily hurdle of acquiring Cuban pesos. (AP video: Ariel Fernández, Milexsy Durán)
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Quiz: How well do you know RFK Jr.'s policy positions?
Test your knowledge of the policy positions of third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Solo-parenting in a new country — three who did it share their best tips
Moving across the world to set up a new life in Canada often means culture shock, jobs involving hard physical labour and a struggle to learn English.Then add in single parenting.For a variety of reasons, nearly a quarter of the families coming here as refugees are also trying to parent their children solo. According to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, that's roughly 6,000 families in the past five years. Other single-parent newcomers come as immigrants.As part of a CBC Calgary proj
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For some Columbia students, protest encampment is living history lesson
Before students set up a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on a Columbia University lawn last week, some of them took an optional course called "Columbia 1968" about protests against the Vietnam War, a similarly galvanizing moment of campus activism. Frank Guridy, the Columbia history professor who has taught the class since 2017, along with a couple of his students stopped by the encampment at the New York City campus on Thursday to discuss the parallels at a teach-in called "1968: Continuing
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'The world is too messy for bureaucratic hurdles': Canada still bars Afghanistan aid
Ottawa has plans to finally stop blocking Canadian development aid to Afghanistan this year. But by the time its new system is fully up and running, the Taliban will have been in control of the country for about three years. Humanitarian organizations say that's an interminable delay for those who need help, especially since other countries moved more quickly to unblock aid flows. "It's extremely frustrating, if I can put it as nicely as I can," said Asma Faizi, head of the Afghan Women's Organi
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Abbas, international leaders to hold Gaza talks in Riyadh this week
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and several international officials will be in Riyadh this week for talks aimed at pushing for a peace agreement in Gaza to be held on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum meeting, the WEF's president said on Saturday. "We do have the key players now in Riyadh and hopefully the discussions can lead into a process towards reconciliation and peace," Børge Brende said at a news conference in Riyadh, adding that Gaza's humanitarian crisis would be on the agend
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