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Inmates riot, set fires at prison in Indonesia's Aceh
Fire fighters use a hose to extinguish a room in a prison resulting from a riot in Aceh province, Indonesia, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. Aceh province correctional official Edy Hardoyo said the riot began Thursday when three inmates refused to be transferred to another prison. (AP Photo/Heri Juanda)
Fatal crash earlier this week was Australian plane's second
Streetwise newsletter: Looking to 2017 for clues to this year's potential deals, TD, RBC online-trading glitches put clients out of commission
Some Toronto-Dominion Bank customers are having problems using its WebBroker internet brokerage service and taking to social media with their complaints.
Afghan police: Kabul suicide attack death toll soars to 20
This image made from AP video shows ambulances and security forces near the scene of an explosion in Kabul, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. Afghanistan's Interior Ministry spokesman says a suicide bomber has killed several policemen after exploding his devise amid a group of security officials monitoring protests by shopkeepers in eastern Kabul. More than a dozen policemen were wounded in the Thursday evening bombing. (AP Photo)
More cold and snow headed to Ontario/Quebec
Authorities: Gunman who killed deputy had several weapons
The Latest: 18 dead in South Africa passenger train crash
Train passengers are transferred to a bus at the scene of a train accident near Kroonstad, South Africa, Thursday, Jan 4, 2018. South Africa's transport minister says at least 12 people died and more than 260 were injured in a collision between a truck and a passenger train. (AP Photo)
UK's Tony Blair argues voters deserve another say on Brexit
FILE - This is a Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. file photo of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, left, as he welcomes former British Prime Minister Tony Blair prior to a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels. Blair on Thursday Jan. 4, 2018 was pressing his view that voters should be given a chance to re-think Brexit once plans for Britain's departure from the European Union are clear. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
India airline probes pilot accused of slapping co-pilot
FILE- In this Dec. 25, 2017 file photo, a Jet Airways aircraft lands at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bangalore, India. India's Jet Airways says it has ordered an investigation into reports that a senior pilot slapped a female co-pilot in the cockpit during a London to Mumbai flight this week. (AP Photo/R S Iyer, File)
Harassment probe of Kentucky speaker could be partly secret
Kentucky GOP House Speaker Jeff Hoover attends annual ethics and anti-sexual harassment training for the state legislature on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, in Frankfort, Ky. Hoover has temporarily stepped aside from his duties while the Legislative Ethics Commission investigates a sexual harassment settlement he signed with a woman who once worked in his office. (AP Photo/Adam Beam)
Snow slide kills farmer, third storm-linked death in France
Judge weighs whether NC schools conspired to depress wages
Outlook 2018, Part 4: The eroding wealth and hideous finances of Canadian families
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Japan's foreign minister assures Pakistan of co-operation
In this photo released by Pakistan's Press Information Department, Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, left, receives Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. Kono has assured Pakistan of his country's cooperation with Islamabad on the subject of security and counter terrorism efforts. (Press Information Department, via AP)
Luck of the draw helps Republicans hold Virginia House
FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, file photo, Republican incumbent state Del. David Yancey walks with campaign manager Gretchen Heal outside the Newport News Courthouse in Newport News, Va. A three judge panel on Wednesday, Jan., 3, 2018, has rejected a request to reconsider its ruling in an election recount between Yancey and Democrat challenger Shelly Simonds, that could determine partisan control of the Virginia House of Delegates. State elections officials plan to meet Thursday, Jan. 4, to randomly pick a winner in the contest. (Jonathon Gruenke/The Daily Press via AP, File)
Real weather term "bomb cyclone" blows up on social media
2 Russian soldiers killed in attack on air base in Syria
18 killed, about 260 injured in South Africa train crash
SKorea's leader apologizes to ex-sex slaves over Japan deal
In this photo provided by South Korea Presidential Blue House, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, meets with South Korean Kim Bok-dong who was forced into sexual slavery by Japan's military at a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. South Korea's president has apologized to Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japan's imperial army in World War II over what he calls a flawed 2015 deal with Tokyo to settle disputes over the issue. (South Korea Presidential Blue House via AP)
Israeli novelist, WWII survivor Aharon Appelfeld dies at 85
FILE - In this July 10, 1996 file photo, Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld sits in a Jerusalem cafe where he often worked on his novels in longhand. Appelfeld, esteemed Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor who became among the country's leading voices in Holocaust literature, died Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. He was 85. (AP Photo/Will Yurman, File)
Eurozone economy ends 2017 on 'stellar' note
The jan 3, 2018 photo taken with zoom effect shows the banking district in Frankfurt, Germany. (Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa via AP)
Canadian Securities Exchange hits high in 2017 on pot, blockchain buzz
In the news today, Jan. 4
Pictures and notes in from friends and classmates make up a memorial in support and memory of Aubrey Berry, 4, and her sister Chloe, 6, during a vigil held at Willows Beach in Oak Bay, B.C., on Saturday, December 30, 2017. The father of two girls who were found dead in a Victoria-area home on Christmas Day has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Thursday's Games
German court rules transsexual woman can't be 'mother'
New rules for wood-burning appliances in Montreal, two decades after ice storm
What consumers should know about the romaine lettuce-linked E. coli outbreak
A worker harvests romaine lettuce in Salinas, Calif on Aug. 16, 2007. Some restaurant chains have stopped serving dishes with romaine lettuce amid a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to the leafy vegetable.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Paul Sakuma
Quebecers still have vivid memories of 1998 ice storm
Twenty years ago, nearly five million Canadians in southeastern Quebec, eastern Ontario and parts of the Maritimes were battered by three successive waves of freezing rain between Jan. 5 and 10. Pedestrians make their way past downed trees as an ice storm ripped through Montreal Tuesday, January 6, 1998. The storm has left over 600,000 people without electricity as ice-covered trees crashed down on power lines. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
'Knees together' judge should be able to practise law again: written submission
Federal Court Justice Robin Camp leaves a Canadian Judicial Council inquiry in a Calgary hotel, Friday, September 9, 2016. The lawyer for a former judge who asked why a rape complainant didn't resist by keeping her knees together is arguing that a "lack of sensitivity" at the time is no reason to prevent Robin Camp from rejoining the legal profession. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Todd Korol
Lac-Megantic trial:one defence lawyer distances client from railway company
Closing arguments will continue in Quebec today at the jury trial of three men charged with criminal negligence in the Lac-Megantic rail disaster that killed 47 people. Traffic controller Richard Labrie leaves the courtroom during a break on the second day of jury selection, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 in Sherbrooke, Que. Three ex-railway employees - train driver Thomas Harding, and Jean Demaitre, manager of train operations and Labrie - face 47 counts of criminal negligence causing death stemming from the 2013 railway crash in Lac Megantic Quebec that killed 47 people.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
Theatre star Albert Schultz resigns amid sex assault allegations: Soulpepper
A prominent figure in the Canadian theatre world and the company he founded are facing four separate lawsuits alleging sexual assault and harassment. Director Albert Schultz is pictured in his office in Toronto's Young Centre for the Performing Arts on Monday, March 20, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Canadian Securities Exchange hits high in 2017 on pot, blockchain buzz
Spanish court reviews custody of ex-Catalan vice-president
Taiwan investigates man over illegal North Korean oil sales
FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 29, 2017, file photo, the Lighthouse Winmore, a Hong Kong-flagged ship, is seen in waters off Yeosu, South Korea. Prosecutors in Taiwan say they are investigating a man suspected of involvement in illegal oil sales after reports last week that South Korean authorities seized the Hong Kong-flagged, Lighthouse Winmore ship for violating U.N. sanctions by selling oil to North Korea and that a Taiwan company was involved. (Hyung Min-woo/Yonhap via AP, File)
Flagstaff-based hunting outfitter to pay $30K for refunds
Divided Democrats face liberal backlash on immigration
Opponents of demonstrators urging the Democratic Party to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA) stand outside the office of California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein in Los Angeles Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018. California has the largest number of people who are affected by the law, also known as the Dream Act.(AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
American charged with subversion in Zimbabwe freed 'for now'
FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017 file photo U.S. Citizen Martha O' Donovan, right, appears at the Harare Magistrates court escorted by a plain clothes police officer shielding her face in Harare. A Zimbabwean court on Thursday Jan. 4, 2018 freed "for now" an American woman charged with subversion for allegedly describing the former president on Twitter as a "sick man." (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)
New Mexico ski resort plans forest restoration work
Somalia's PM fires 3 Cabinet ministers as opposition looms
Turkey calls US trial of Turkish banker 'legal disgrace'
In this courtroom sketch, defendant Mehmet Atilla, center left, sits with his attorneys at the defense table during his trial at the United States Courthouse in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018. Atilla was convicted on charges that he took part in a complex scheme where Iran traded its oil and gas for gold, with some of the proceeds moved through U.S. financial institutions without their knowledge. From left are defense attorney Victor Rocco, Atilla and defense attorney Cathy Fleming. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
3 cars on Amtrak train with 311 passengers derail, none hurt
In this image made from video an Amtrak passenger train sits derailed in the snow, Wednesday, Jan. 3, in Savannah, Georgia. An Amtrak spokesman has said three cars on a passenger train have derailed in Savannah, Georgia, but there were no injuries reported among the crew and 311 passengers aboard. (WTOC via AP)
Israeli army to reopen probe into Gaza paraplegic's death
After Trump tweet, Pakistan talks of 'response' to US action
FILE - In this Monday, April 17, 2017, file photo, Pakistan's army spokesman Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor addresses a news conference in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Ghafoor told that Pakistan wants to continue cooperation with the U.S. but will not "compromise on national interests and prestige." (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
Prosecutors: More bribery charges for South Korean ex-leader
FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2017 file photo, Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, arrives to attend a hearing on the extension of her detention at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea. An official says prosecutors have made additional bribery charges against the South Korea's jailed ex-president alleging she received official funds from her spy chiefs for personal purposes. A Seoul prosecutors' office official said Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, the new charges accuse Park of receiving a total of 3.5 billion won ($3.3 million) of official funds from three of her spy chiefs. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
Hip problem forces 5-time finalist Murray out of Aussie Open
FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 29, 2017, file photo, Great Britain's Andy Murray reacts after he lost a match to Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut during the second day of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Murray has withdrawn from the Brisbane International because of a problem with his right hip. The former No. 1-ranked Murray had been scheduled to play his first match on Thursday, but notified organizers he was pulling out after failing to practice on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
CFIA expands recall of caviar products in Quebec and Ontario
Turkey seeks to detain 70 officers suspected of coup links
Wednesday's Games
Powerball jumps to $550M after no winning tickets sold
Japan's Abe: N. Korea should change course, end nuke program
FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2017 file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a question-and-answer session at the parliament's lower house in Tokyo. Abe says North Korea should change its policies to help enrich its people. Abe told reporters Thursday, Jan, 4, 2018 that Japan would do its utmost, working with the U.S. and South Korea, to pressure Pyongyang to shift its course and end its missile tests and nuclear program. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)
Remains of US soldier killed in Afghanistan back home
Vice President Mike Pence, left, stands during a prayer near a transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. 1st Class Mihail Golin at Dover Air Force Base, Del., on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018. According to the Department of Defense, Golin, 34, of Fort Lee, N.J., died Jan. 1, 2018 in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, after being engaged by enemy fire while on a dismounted patrol. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
Israel strikes Gaza after repeated projectile fire
China tries Tibetan language advocate featured in NY Times
Montana finishes year with least traffic deaths since 1989
Iran blames CIA for week of protests; US denies any role
Two young Iranians sit in a fast food restaurant in downtown Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018. Tens of thousands of Iranians took part in pro-government demonstrations in several cities across the country on Wednesday, Iranian state media reported, a move apparently seeking to calm nerves after a week of protests and unrest that have killed at least 21 people. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Blizzard rolls up the East Coast, with cold blast to follow
Fatal crash earlier this week was Australian plane's second
Police and and Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigators board a police boat to go the scene of a seaplane crash in the Hawkesbury River near Sydney, Monday, Jan. 1, 2018. Police divers recovered the bodies of all six victims a few hours after the crash on Sunday, New South Wales police said. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
Athanasiou scores 6 seconds into OT, Detroit tops Ottawa 2-1
Iran's regional enemies watch unrest, searching for leverage
FILE - This Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018 file frame grab from video was taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran from FreedomMessenger, that describes itself as an "independent Iranian news agency seeking complete change of the Iranian regime by reporting on the human rights situation in Iran," purports to show an attack on a police station in Qahdarijan, Iran. Iran’s top regional foes, Israel and Saudi Arabia, are both watching that country’s protests for signs they could lead to change. Iran’s supreme leader has accused enemies of stoking the unrest. (FreedomMessenger via AP, File)
2 shot, 1 dead after officer fires near Calif. train station
9-month sentence for Michigan man in case tied to 5 deaths
Snatched by hungry eagle, little dog lives to bark the tale
In this photo provided by Jessica Hartman, Monica Newhard, right, and her granddaughter, Helen Welch, hold their pet bichon frise, Zoey, as the dog’s rescuer, Christina Hartman, stands behind them, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, in Palmerton, Pa. Newhard’s brother says an eagle snatched Zoey from the yard. (Jessica Hartman via AP)
Burke has two goals, assist to lead Warriors to 6-3 WHL win over Rebels
National Park Service decreases number of free days for 2018
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Brazilian women break taboo to talk about illegal abortions
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Driver killed in northern Ontario crash; highway remains closed
Sharp breaks tie in third, Blackhawks beat Rangers 5-2
New York Rangers right wing Jesper Fast (17) gets tangled up with Chicago Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews (19) during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Homeless man charged with killing ex-60s soul singer
Athanasiou scores six seconds into overtime as Red Wings top Senators
Detroit Red Wings' Andreas Athanasiou scores during overtime in Detroit, on Jan. 3, 2018.
Gagne's shootout goal earns Belleville Senators 3-2 win over Binghamton Devils
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