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Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was detained on drug charges in 2014 before Canada-China ties nosedived in 2018
China has overturned the death sentence of Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, a Canadian official said on Friday, in a possible sign of a diplomatic thaw as prime minister Mark Carney seeks to boost trade ties with Beijing....

Marius Borg Høiby pleads not guilty in court while pressure mounts against his crown princess mother over Epstein friendship
There will be little to celebrate when Norway’s King Harald, Europe’s oldest reigning monarch, turns 89 later this month.
Two multigenerational crises have rocked the institution, causing its popularity to dip in polls of Norwegians and bringing a public glare that far exceeds that of previous scandals....

Jon Hallford, condemned in court as ‘monster’, stashed decaying bodies and gave grieving families fake ashes
A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed 189 decomposing bodies in a building over four years and gave grieving families fake ashes was sentenced to 40 years in state prison Friday....

Only a smattering of Republicans spoke out about clip in which Obamas’ faces were superimposed on bodies of apes
US politics live – latest updates
Donald Trump said on Friday evening, after a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes had been posted to his social media account and then deleted, that he had directed aides to post the offensive video but that he hadn’t seen that portion...