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Sask. highway conditions worsen as spring snowstorm tapers
Highways conditions are changing minute-by-minute on Friday.An Alaskan snowstorm sweeping through Saskatchewan is expected to start tapering off on Friday as it enters Manitoba, but areas in central and south Saskatchewan were dumped with snow in the last several days, and highway conditions are poor as a result.Early on Friday morning Saskatchewan's Highway Hotline said winter conditions existed and did not recommend travel on several highways.A patch on Highway 11 between Dundurn and Davidson
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Beer spilled, driver charged in Brockville truck rollover
A truck driver has been charged over spilled suds after a tractor-trailer hauling beer kegs tipped over on a Highway 401 ramp in Brockville, Ont., Friday morning.Leeds County Ontario Provincial Police spokesperson Joey Mason told CBC it appears the driver took the exit too fast around 5:45 a.m.The highway's eastbound ramps are closed at North Augusta Road, according to Ontario's Ministry of Transportation.The next closest interchange is on Brockville's Stewart Boulevard.OPP said the 53-year-old
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How the jury is being selected in Trump's hush money trial
Six alternates still need to be chosen before opening arguments in the case against the former president can begin.
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VideoNearly 1 billion people set to vote in 1st phase of India's election
The world's biggest election ever has begun in India. Nearly a billion people are voting in select states in the first phase of a week-long general election. The results won't come until June 4.
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US slaps sanctions on entities that raised funds for West Bank settlers
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on two entities that it said helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for two violent extremists in the West Bank already targeted with U.S. sanctions, the Treasury Department announced in a statement. Washington had previously sanctioned five settlers and two unauthorized outposts in the West Bank in two rounds of sanctions aimed at punishing ill-behaved Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians envisage a future state. One e
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Tyler Greening pleads guilty in vicious Prince of Wales Collegiate attack
Tyler Greening, 18, of Paradise has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for his role in the group beating of a St. John's high school student. (Heather Gillis/CBC)A teenager accused of severely beating a student at a St. John's high school last year pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated assault.Tyler Greening, 18, was among a group of students who attacked the victim with weapons at the entrance of Prince of Wales Collegiate last March.The assault left the victim severely injured.Greening, absent
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VideoJerusalem skyline and Al Aqsa complex during Friday prayers amid increasing regional tensions
Friday prayers took place in Jerusalem and at the Al-Aqsa complex amid increasing tensions in the Middle East region following an apparent Israeli drone attack on Iran. It came days after Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on Israel. (AP video by Shlomo Mor)
