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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The silencing this year of a familiar mournful howl at the mouth of Halifax harbour has ignited a debate about Atlantic Canada's dwindling number of foghorns.

BANGKOK (AP) — Human rights activists are lobbying major jewelers to stop buying gems sourced in Myanmar as a way to exert pressure on Myanmar’s military leaders by limiting profits from the country’s lucrative mining industry.

THE BACKGROUND: On Oct. 21, on a movie set in New Mexico, what was supposed to be fiction lurched into reality in the most destructive of ways.

TORONTO — Cineplex Inc. says it has won a court battle against a U.K. theatre giant that was due to purchase the Canadian cinema company before the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer said Tuesday that its experimental pill to treat COVID-19 appears effective against the omicron variant.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was ordered by New York's ethics commission Tuesday to give up millions of dollars a publisher paid him to write a book about his response to the coronavirus pandemic.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A former Netflix executive was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for taking bribes and kickbacks from tech companies to approve lucrative contracts with the streaming giant.

Spider-Man movies have come in such flurries over the last two decades that you could almost tell time by them.

NEW YORK (AP) — Everything old is new again — at least for ABC's audience. The network's special, star-filled live presentations of old episodes of “The Facts of Life” and “Diff'rent Strokes” reached some 4.

Nonfiction 1. Will by Will Smith and Mark Manson, narrated by Will Smith (Penguin Audio) 2. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 3. I Am Mine by Eddie Vedder, performed by the author (Audible Original) 4.