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    Charlottetown council asking Elections P.E.I. to handle voting in the city again

    The City of Charlottetown is attempting to mend its relationship with Elections P.E.I.Councillors voted unanimously during a regular council meeting Tuesday night to ask the agency to run municipal elections once again."With this resolution being passed tonight, it tells me that Elections P.E.I. are willing to work with us going forward," said Charlottetown Mayor Philip Brown."The focus was always to get back to the table with Elections P.E.I."Tim Garrity, the chief electoral officer for Electio

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    Some schools closed as freezing rain, high winds expected for N.B.

    Freezing rain and poor road conditions caused the closure of a handful of schools in the northern part of New Brunswick Wednesday morning, with poor weather in the forecast for much of the province throughout the day. Anglophone West district closed schools in Zone 1 — Edmundston.Francophone Northwest district closed all of its schools for the day.Anglophone North district delayed school openings by two hours, with buses also running two hours later for pick-ups. Environment Canada warnings were

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    Search and rescue operations after Tuesday's attack on a clinic in Zaporizhzhia

    Eight people were killed and 22 injured in an attack on a private clinic in Zaporizhzhia, the region's head, Ivan Fedorov, said Wednesday morning. The search and rescue operations were continuing following the strike on Tuesday and four more people were feared trapped under rubble, Fedorov said.

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  • US PoliticsReuters

    Blinken to testify in Congress on Afghanistan weeks before his term ends

    Secretary of State Antony Blinken will testify to a Republican-led House of Representatives committee on Wednesday on the August 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending a long dispute with the panel weeks before the end of his term. The House Foreign Affairs Committee and the State Department have have been wrangling over Blinken's appearance for months. Panel Republicans voted in September - weeks before the presidential election - to recommend the top U.S. diplomat be held in contempt

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    Trump plans major reshaping of U.S. policies within hours of taking office

    President-elect Donald Trump is planning a blizzard of more than 25 executive orders and directives on his first day in office on Jan. 20 as he seeks to dramatically reshape U.S. government policy on issues from immigration to energy. Two sources familiar with the effort said Trump has told his team he wants to make a "big splash" with the Day One orders, looking to exert his executive power with greater scale and speed than he did during his first term. In contrast, Democratic President Joe B

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    Exclusive-Two U.S. lawmakers push for some Syria sanctions relief after Assad's fall

    Two U.S. congressmen have urged senior American officials to suspend some sanctions on Syria to ease pressure on its shattered economy after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, according to a letter dated Dec. 10 and seen by Reuters. The move is the latest effort in the West to push for easing sanctions after rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former al Qaeda affiliate, swept into Damascus. The letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Nationa

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    Riley Laychuk's Manitoba forecast for Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024

    A couple of very cold mornings are in store for much of Manitoba. Extreme cold warnings were issued late Tuesday for much of western Manitoba, with wind chill values expected to make it feel as cold as -40. Very cold conditions will persist into Thursday morning.

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