Most Canadians say they probably won’t try cannabis and, if they already use it, won’t use more of the mood-altering drug when it becomes legal, according to a survey published Thursday.
Canada is set to become the first G7 nation to legalize the recreational use of cannabis...
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An Australian man is facing 20 years’ jail for dealing cocaine to holidaymakers on the resort island of Bali, police said Thursday.
Brendon Luke Johnson, from Brisbane on Australia’s east coast, was arrested Saturday with his Indonesian girlfriend at their rented unit in Kerobokan, an area...
At least nine migrants including seven children died early Thursday after their boat sank off the western coast of Turkey, local media reported....
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The death toll from a devastating earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok jumped to 319 Thursday, as strong aftershocks triggered panic among traumatised survivors waiting for aid in the worst-hit regions. ....
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At least 20 people were killed on Thursday in landslides triggered by heavy rains in southern India, an official said, pushing the nationwide monsoon death toll for this year to over 700.
The monsoon, which lasts roughly from June to September, is heralded by millions of Indian farmers …...
Russia on Thursday handed life sentences to four gangsters who brutally murdered 17 motorists using methods similar to those of the violent video game Grand Theft Auto...
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The Philippine Navy on Thursday successfully tested its first ever missile system, acquired from an Israeli weapons manufacturer, Officials said.
The Spike Extended Range missile system, fitted on a multipurpose attack craft, accurately hit a metal plate target six kilometres away, Navy...
Eleven Fulani civilians were kidnapped and killed in the latest bout of ethnic violence to hit Mali, local groups said Thursday, while an official put the toll at 14.
The attack, which occurred in the restive central region of Mopti on Tuesday, was attributed to hunters from the …
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An Indonesian shaman has been arrested for keeping an abducted teenager as a sex slave for 15 years by claiming he was possessed by the spirit of her imaginary boyfriend, police said Wednesday.
The distressed woman, who is now aged 28, was found naked by police on Sunday …
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Zambian authorities on Thursday defied a court order stopping them from deporting top Zimbabwe opposition figure Tendai Biti, handing him to police across the border, his lawyer said.
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A criminal court in Bangkok on Thursday sentenced a former Thai Buddhist monk who provoked outrage with his lavish lifestyle to 114 years in prison for fraud, money laundering and computer crimes....
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Germany’s luxury automaker BMW is going to recall 23,700 diesel cars in Europe over an engine fire danger, following a similar action in South Korea, a German media newspaper reported Tuesday.
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As the sun grows brighter at a rate of roughly 10 percent every billion years, Earth will respond by decreasing its own ‘warming blanket’ of atmospheric carbon dioxide. …Over time, the temperature of the Earth will dramatically raise as …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – A group of Egyptian students has designed a vehicle they say will battle rising energy prices and promote clean energy by running on nothing but air.
Mechanical engineering students from Helwan University check the air-powered vehicle that they have designed to promote clean...
Justin Trudeau has defied Saudi Arabia’s demand to withdraw Canada’s calls for the release of jailed civil rights activists and insisted that Canada will continue to defend human rights around the world, suggesting that the escalating diplomatic row between the two countries is set to...
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