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ANKARA, Turkey – Officials say Kenan Evren, the leader of Turkey’s 1980 military coup and former president who died aged 97, will be given a state funeral but no government official will attend. The coup was initially welcomed for ending years of street fighting by rival militias but the former …

OTTAWA, Ontario – Canada’s Supreme Court has rejected the federal government’s effort to have former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr declared an adult offender. The Toronto-born Khadr, released on bail in Canada last week, spent 10 years in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Since 2012 he had been …

I remember when I first started out as a print reporter, I covered a local school board hearing. It was fairly uneventful with the board at the time nearly unanimously voting for a new funding initiative to expand the local high school. Yet when I watched TV coverage that same …