Canadian skier Brian McKeever aims for 16th Paralympic gold
Canada's Brian McKeever has a chance to race into the history books and grab his 16th Paralympic gold medal in cross-country skiing at the Beijing Winter Games Saturday.
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Clouds over Merkel's legacy as Russian invasion lays flaws bare
Up to the final hours before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, former chancellor Angela Merkel had been touted as the person favoured by Germans to try to talk President Vladimir Putin out of the conflict.
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El Salvador orders arrest of former president over killing of six Jesuits in civil war
A judge in El Salvador ordered the arrest Friday of former president Alfredo Cristiani for alleged links to the murder of six Jesuit priests and two co-workers by the army during the country's the civil war, prosecutors said.
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Turkmenistan heads to the polls for father-son transition
Turkmenistan heads to the polls on Saturday in a tightly-controlled leadership vote that is all but certain to yield ex-Soviet Central Asia's first father-son succession.
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NATO trains to help its own, as Ukraine war rumbles
Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental. As war rages in Ukraine, NATO and its partners will launch exercises in Norway on Monday aimed at coming to the rescue of one of its own.
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In Ukraine ghost city, florist stays open to 'cheer people up'
Most business owners have shut up shop and fled Ukraine's Mikolaiv, but florist Angela Kalisnik continues to sell tulips and roses just a short drive away from the frontline.
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Family of transgender 8-year-old takes on Texas governor
Standing in front of a half-American, half-rainbow flag outside her home, Rebekah Bryant is outraged by a Texas order that considers medical hormonal treatments for transgender minors to be a crime.
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US small-screen series explore the drama of startups
As the founders of massive startups like Theranos, WeWork and Uber fall from grace, their failures have proven rich territory for television series.
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Texas court suspends investigations of parents of transgender minors
A Texas judge on Friday blocked investigations into the parents of transgender minors, halting for the time being a controversial directive by the southern US state's governor.
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Saudi blogger Raif Badawi released after 10 years in prison
After 10 years in prison for "insulting Islam," Saudi blogger and human rights activist Raif Badawi, who has become a symbol of freedom of expression around the world, was released on Friday.
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