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Bali volcano danger signs unabated week after high alert
IMF chief tells central bankers to not dismiss bitcoin
Mark Carney Governor of the Bank of England, left and Christine Legarde the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund listen to a speaker, during the Bank of England 'Independence 20 years on' conference, which marks two decades of operational independence from the UK government, at Fishmongers Hall in the City of London, Friday Sept. 29, 2017. (John Stillwell/PA via AP)
Mexico official: Warnings over school ignored before quake
Pakistan seeks to ban party backed by US-named terrorist
FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017 file photo, Sheikh Yaqub, center, candidate of the newly-formed Milli Muslim League party, waves to his supporters at an election rally in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistan's interior ministry has asked the country's elections overseeing body to ban from politics a new party backed by Islamist Hafiz Saeed, who carries a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head for alleged involvement in 2008 terror attacks in India. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary,file)
Saints QB Brees says team will kneel, then stand for anthem
Economy takes a breather; return to ‘realistic’ growth seen
File photo of construction of an office tower in downtown Toronto.
White nationalist threatens lawsuit against Ohio colleges
FILE – In this Dec. 6, 2016, file photo, white nationalist Richard Spencer poses between interviews in College Station, Texas. A University of Cincinnati spokesman said Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, that the school was assessing "safety and logistical considerations" in considering Spencer's request to speak there, WCPO-TV reports, after Ohio State University and other colleges rejected similar requests. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Man accused of killing pregnant woman, parents hangs self
Stanley Tucci to read audio for Paolo Coelho-inspired story
FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2017 file photo, Stanley Tucci poses for the photographers during a photo call for the film 'Final Portrait' at the 2017 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. Tucci is leading an audio production inspired in part by Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist.” The audio producer and seller Audible Inc. told The Associated Press on Friday, Sept. 29, that Tucci will be joined by Toby Jones for “The Man On the Mountaintop,” vignettes and words of wisdom that are a “contemporary equivalent” to Coelho’s million selling novel.(AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
Beyonce sings 'Mi Gente' remix in Spanish for relief efforts
FILE - In this June 26, 2016, file photo, Beyonce performs "Freedom" at the BET Awards in Los Angeles. Beyonce released a surprise single Sept. 28, 2017, on which she sings in Spanish, English and French to raise relief money for those affected by hurricanes in the Caribbean and earthquakes in Mexico. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)
Politics Briefing: New leader of the New Democrats could be crowned Sunday
From left to right: Guy Caron, from left to right, Charlie Angus, Jagmeet Singh and Niki Ashton, via satellite from Ottawa, participate in the final federal NDP leadership debate in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday September 1, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Roy Ayers tells Soweto youths: Get serious and get inspired
Zimbabwe kids hunt mice and sell them as tasty snacks
US consumer spending up weak 0.1 per cent in August
In this Tuesday, June 13, 2017, photo, vehicle shopper Mary Jean Jones speaks with Mark Miller Toyota salesman Doug Lund in Salt Lake City. Consumers barely boosted their spending in August, a sign that overall economic activity could be weaker this quarter, according to information released Friday, Sept. 29, 2017, by the Commerce Department. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Richard Pyle, accomplished AP reporter for 50 years, dies
Rwanda critics targeted by government, says rights group
Ontario, Quebec may shower the people with election spending, tax relief: BMO
Bombardier suffers another blow as WTO to probe subsidies in Brazil row
The C Series aircraft is shown in Mirabel, Quebec on September 16, 2013
Trump to travel to 5 countries in Asia in November
In this Sept. 27, 2017 photo, President Donald Trump waves before speaking in Indianapolis. The White House says Trump will travel to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines from Nov. 3 to Nov. 14. The trip will also include a stop in Hawaii. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
UK's growth since Brexit vote lower than previously thought
WTO appoints panel to review Bombardier CSeries subsidies
A Bombardier turboprop passenger plane sits in a hangar at the Bombardier facility in Toronto, Ontario on Wednesday July 25, 2012. Bombardier says SpiceJet has ordered at least 25 of its Q400 turboprop passenger planes, with an option for 25 others. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Vincent Elkaim
Speaking up isn't so easy for Catalans who also feel Spanish
Somalia extremists attack military base, kill 10, says army
Image of Asia: Mercedes driver Hamilton steers out of garage
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain steers his car out from his team garage during the second practice for the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix in Sepang, Malaysia, Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Police: Mom flew to Germany, left 4 kids home alone in Iowa
This photo provided by City of Johnston, Iowa shows Erin Macke. Police have arrested Macke, a suburban Des Moines mother who left her four children home alone while she traveled to Europe. Johnston police have charged Macke, 30, with four counts of child endangerment and one of transferring a firearm to a person under 21. Police said the latter charge was filed because a firearm was within reach of the children in the home. (City of Johnston, Iowa via AP)
Quebec City police warn against fake U.S. $100 bills still circulating in city
Unifor: CAMI talks in Detroit were 'constructive' but GM hasn't responded
Man convicted in fatal shooting near University of Illinois
This undated photo provided by the Champaign County Sheriff's Department shows Robbie M. Patton. Patton, has been convicted in a fatal shooting during a 2016 party near the University of Illinois campus, in Champaign Ill. A jury found Patton guilty Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, of first-degree murder in the killing of 22-year-old George Korchev. Sentencing is Nov. 8. (Champaign County Sheriff's Department via AP)
The Latest: Catalan leader rallies independence backers
Students fix banners on the wall regarding the referendum in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. Thousands of striking university students are marching through Barcelona to protest an intensifying central government crackdown on Sunday's planned independence referendum in Catalonia. Banners reads in Catalan: "Democracy". (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Prison for Connecticut nightclub shooter who wounded 5
Rhetoric heats up over Catalonia independence vote
Trump lashes out at San Juan mayor who begged for more help
In this Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 photo, damaged boats are seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Dorado, Puerto Rico. The aftermath of the powerful storm has resulted in a near-total shutdown of the U.S. territory's economy that could last for weeks and has many people running seriously low on cash and worrying that it will become even harder to survive on this storm-ravaged island. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Alberta NDP blasts Jason Kenney's comments on outing children who join gay-straight alliances
Jason Kenney speaks in Calgary on July 22, 2017.
Escaped dog back home after surviving Hurricane Irma
Charleston pastor worries race relations are worsening
FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2017 file photo, the Rev. Eric Manning, pastor at Emanuel AME, leaves the Federal Court House after the death sentence hearing for Dylann Roof in Charleston, S.C. Manning said on Sept. 28, race relations in the United States may be regressing, pointing to the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August. Manning said he hopes the country can use the same strength, resolve and faith that Charleston used after the church shooting to address racial inequality.(Leroy Burnell/The Post And Courier via AP)
Boko Haram leaves 3 million kids out of school in N. Nigeria
FILE- In this Monday, Dec. 7, 2015 file photo children displaced by Boko Haram during an attack on their villages receive lectures in a school in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Boko Haram's ongoing insurgency in northern Nigeria has forced the closure of more than 57 percent of schools in Borno state, leaving about 3 million children without an education as the school year begins, the United Nations Children's Fund said Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)
Vatican diplomat sought in Canada on child porn charges
In this Nov. 15, 2016 photo, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, the newly-elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks at a news conference at the USCCB's annual fall meeting in Baltimore. DiNardo urged the Vatican to be "forthcoming with more details," on its recalling of one of its diplomats from the United States following a notification in August by the US State Department of a "possible violation of laws relating to child pornography images" by one of its diplomats. On Friday, Sept. 29, 2017 police in Canada issued an arrest warrant for the Vatican diplomat Carlo Capella in a child pornography investigation. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Former Virginia governor weighs in on Confederate monuments
FILE - In this May 8, 2014 file photo, former Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder listens to a question from the media during a news conference at the State Capitol in Richmond. The nation’s first elected black governor says improving education is more important than spending tax money to remove Confederate monuments. Wilder said during an interview on C-SPAN Thursday, Sept. 29, 2017, his election in 1989 showed how Virginia had changed. He said the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in August does not represent the city or the state. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)
What every Canadian investor needs to know today
N.L. premier announces inquiry into delayed, over-budget Muskrat Falls project
Winnipeg foster father charged after baby suffers fatal head injury
The Latest: Iran says ceased trading oil with Kurdish region
China Communist Party expels former star Sun Zhengcai
FILE - In this March 13, 2017, file photo, the then-party secretary of Chongqing, Sun Zhengcai, attends a plenary session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Sun, a Fformer rising Chinese political star Sun Zhengcai has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party and dismissed from public office amid a corruption investigation. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Philippine president criticized for cursing Obama
Mount Vernon's Blue Room to reopen to public
FILE - This Feb. 20, 2011 file photo shows Mount Vernon, the home of America's first president, Gen. George Washington in Mt. Vernon, Va. Vernon estate is reopening its Blue Room to visitors. The estate announced Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 that the room will reopen to visitors on Oct. 7 after undergoing a major restoration. The room is one of six bedrooms on the second floor of the mansion on the banks of the Potomac River in northern Virginia. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Port Authority of NY and NJ sending help to Puerto Rico
Prosecutor seeks role in failed nuclear project rate case
Researcher says sport has far-reaching benefits for injured military members
A surefire cure for your hunger to eat at restaurants
Dozens of LGBT people detained in Azerbaijan capital
Philippines slams 39 countries calling for end to killings
The Latest: Official says 4 killed in Afghan suicide bombing
Trump promotes 'giant, beautiful, massive' tax plan
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Sept. 29: The Penguins’ White House … Plus other letters to the editor
After the Penguins accepted Donald Trump’s invitation to bring the Stanley Cup to the White House, team captain Sidney Crosby called it ‘a great honour for us to be invited there.’
Morning Update: U.S. plays hardball in NAFTA talks; Netflix deal raises questions
Mexico's Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, (left to right) Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer attend a news conference on the NAFTA negotiations in Ottawa on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017.
Myanmar Rohingya hatred has roots in Buddhist nationalism
FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, file photo, newly arrived Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, walk with their belongings towards the nearest refugee camp at Teknaf, Bangladesh. The prejudice and hostility that Rohingya Muslims face stretches beyond Myanmar’s notoriously brutal security forces into a general population receptive to an often virulent form of Buddhist nationalism that has seen a resurgence since the end of military rule. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)
Pro-Brexit party picks leader, rejects anti-Islam candidate
Henry Bolton, who has been elected as the new party leader of Britain's UK Independence Party speaks during the UKIP National Conference in Torquay England Friday Sept. 29, 2017. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)
10 Things to Know for Today
Green Bay Packers' Jordy Nelson (87) celebrates his touchdown catch with Aaron Rodgers (12) during the second half of an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)
Mona Lisa unveiled? Nude sketch may have link to masterpiece
In this photo provided by the Conde museum, Chateau de Chantilly, and dated Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, chief curator of heritage, Bruno Mottin, left, examines a charcoal sketch through a microscope, depicting a nude woman while Mathieu Deldicque, curator at Conde museum, looks on, at the Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France in Paris, France. There's something vaguely familiar about this charcoal sketch of a woman's face and nude torso _ could it be an unclothed precursor to the Mona Lisa? (Domaine de Chantilly via AP)
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SpaceX: Rocket for moon, Mars and NY-to-Shanghai in 39 mins
This artist's rendering made available by Elon Musk on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017 shows SpaceX's new mega-rocket design at the International Space Station. With the 350-foot-tall spacecraft, Musk announced that his private space company aims to launch two cargo missions to Mars in 2022. (SpaceX via AP)
Poland: Official running roads resigns amid high death rate
FILE - In this file photo taken June 1, 2007, a police officer is pictured at the scene of a car accident in downtown Warsaw, Poland. Poland’s deputy infrastructure minister Jerzy Szmit says he has stepped down, Friday, Sept. 29, 2017, and his resignation has been accepted by the prime minister. The resignation comes on the heels of a report that said Poland’s road death toll is among Europe’s highest, with more than 3,000 people killed last year. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)
Inflation stagnates in eurozone, won't change ECB plans
An excursion boat passes a bridge in front of the skyline of the banking district on the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
UN: 63 presumed dead in shipwreck involving Rohingya Muslims
A Rohingya Muslim man, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, walks through a stream after collecting aid near Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. More than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when deadly attacks by a Rohingya insurgent group on police posts prompted Myanmar's military to launch "clearance operations" in Rakhine state. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Ryanair bows to UK regulator demand on passenger rights
FILE - In this Wednesday, May 13, 2015 file photo, passengers disembark a Ryanair plane, at the Marseille Provence airport, in Marignane, southern France. Budget airline Ryanair is reducing its fleet and cancelling thousands of more flights as it struggles to overcome a pilot scheduling crisis. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, FIle)
Canada’s universities don’t care whether grads get jobs. It’s time to change that
Experts offer tips for university students and grads to start the savings process in incremental steps.
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Pluralism is a path to lasting peace and prosperity
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Buffalo Bills players kneel during the American national anthem.
Streetwise newsletter: Scotiabank customers see ‘zombie’ accounts; regulators ban short-term binary options
Some Bank of Nova Scotia customers began seeing “zombie” accounts on their online statements as a technical glitch caused an undisclosed number of deactivated credit cards to reappear.
The Latest: France's Macron says Brexit not really divorce
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, sits with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, center, and Bulgarian Prime Minister Bokyo Borisov during an informal dinner ahead of an EU Digital Summit in Tallinn, Estonia on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. The European Union will be looking beyond the impending breakup with Britain at how to build a common future at 27 during their two-day summit meeting starting late Thursday. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool)
Water may have leaked at Fukushima due to gauge errors
California starts tackling huge affordable housing shortage
FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 18, 2017 file photo, builders work on an apartment complex in Sacramento, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown will sign on Friday, Sept. 28, 2017, a package of bills aimed at tackling California's affordable housing crisis. Lawmakers and advocates cheer the package as the most significant housing policy to come out of Sacramento in years. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
Moscow police keep opposition chief Navalny away from rally
FILE - In this Friday, July 7, 2017 file photo, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny arrives at his office in Moscow, Russia. Police on Friday Sept. 29, 2017 detained Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ahead of a rally he was planning to lead in Nizhny Novgorod. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
European Investment Bank head not up for German finance job
European Investment Bank head Werner Hoyer makes statements during a meeting with journalists in Athens, Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. Hoyer, whose name has come up as a possible candidate to be Germany's next finance minister, says he will be staying on at the helm of the EIB for the next six years. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Afghan official: 2 people killed by roadside bombs
A police man stands guard at his vehicle at the site of a suicide attack outside a Shiite mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Shiite mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, killing four people and wounding 20 others, authorities said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)
Uber's CEO will meet with UK transport authorities
Greece opens Russian cybercrime suspect's extradition case
A Russian man identified as Alexander Vinnik, left, is escorted by police officers to the courthouse at the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. The Russian cybercrime suspect Alexander Vinnik, is wanted in the United States in a $4 billion bitcoin fraud case as Russia wants to extradite him as well on separate fraud charges. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
EU moves ahead faster on new future than on Brexit talks
British Prime Minister Theresa May, right, walks past European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker as they attend an informal dinner ahead of an EU Digital Summit in Tallinn, Estonia on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. The European Union will be looking beyond the impending breakup with Britain at how to build a common future at 27 during their two-day summit meeting starting late Thursday. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool)
Telescope project still faces fight from Hawaiian opponents
Turkey: warrants issued for 117 officers over failed coup
VW to take $2.9 billion charge over diesel retrofit costs
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Jury selection complete for Lac-Megantic trial; to start Monday in Sherbrooke, Que
Smoke rises from railway cars that were carrying crude oil after derailing in downtown Lac-Mégantic, Que., Saturday, July 6, 2013. A half-dozen people have so far been selected to sit as jurors for the criminal case of the 2013 Lac-Megantic train derailment that killed 47 people and destroyed part of the town. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Canadian Space Agency and its partners developing plans for lunar space station
Gilles Leclerc, the director-general of space exploration at the Canadian Space Agency, is shown in Longueuil, Que., on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Peter Rakobowchuk
Judge convicts RCMP in N.B. massacre, saying force left officers 'ill-prepared'
The monument honouring RCMP Constables Fabrice Gevaudan, Dave Ross and Doug Larche, gunned down in 2014, is seen in Moncton, N.B. on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. The verdict is expected in the RCMP's trial on violating four charges of the Canada Labour Code related to the shooting incident. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Protesters at Harvard greet DeVos speech on school choice
FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2017, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at George Mason University Arlington, Va., campus. DeVos is scheduled to speak on Thursday, Sept. 28, at Harvard University. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Slain woman's rural hometown seeks healing after trial
FILE - This Sept. 23, 2017, file photo shows Zachary Adams in the courtroom for the penalty phase in Savannah, Tenn. A Hardin County jury found Adams guilty of all charges including felony first-degree murder, especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape of Holly Bobo. (Kenneth Cummings /The Jackson Sun via AP, Pool, File)
Trump's health secretary resigns in travel flap
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, left, is given a band-aid after a flu vaccination from Sharon Walsh-Bonadies, RN., right, during a news conference recommending everyone age six months an older be vaccinated against influenza each year, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
At high court and others, Trump reverses legal course
FILE- This April 4, 2017, file photo, shows the Supreme Court Building in Washington. President Donald Trump’s administration is making some legal about-faces at the Supreme Court and in lower courts. The Trump administration has found itself in court defending a variety of new policies. But it’s also dealing with lawsuits that were in progress before the president took office _ and asserting positions different from those of the Obama administration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Double rock falls at famed Yosemite don't deter climbers
Emergency personnel prepare to care for an elderly man, center background, who was injured after a new rock fall on El Capitan occurred Thursday afternoon, Sept. 28, 2017, in Yosemite National Park, Calif. The fall came a day after tons of rock crashed down from El Capitan, killing a tourist who had been on a hiking and climbing trip and injuring a British woman with him. (Eric Paul Zamora/The Fresno Bee via AP)
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The Latest: Officials say 22 dead, 32 hurt in India stampede
Members of the National Disaster Response Force team arrive at the pedestrian bridge where a stampede took place at the Elphinstone station, in Mumbai, India, Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. The stampede broke out on a crowded pedestrian bridge connecting two railway stations in Mumbai during the Friday morning rush, killing a number of people police said. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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