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OTTAWA -- The federal prosecution service says a senior RCMP official faces three new charges for alleged secrecy breaches. Cameron Jay Ortis, director general of the RCMP's National Intelligence Co-ordination Centre, was arrested in September for allegedly handing secrets to an unnamed recipient and planning to give additional classified information to an unspecified foreign entity. Source

A junior hockey coach who lashed out at a heckling fan by swinging at him with a hockey stick says he was protecting his players from an aggressive fan, but the coach of the opposing team says there was nothing to be afraid of. Source

A top U.S. commander said on Monday mortars were used in an attack on the American embassy in Baghdad that injured one person and caused some material damage the previous night, not katyusha rockets as was initially reported by staffers and a statement from the military. Source

BAGHDAD -- A top U.S. commander said Monday that mortars were used in an attack on the American embassy in Baghdad that injured one person and caused some material damage the previous night, not katyusha rockets as was initially reported by staffers and a statement from the military. Source

SANAA, YEMEN -- A drastic escalation in fighting between the Saudi-led military coalition and Houthi rebels in Yemen has killed and wounded hundreds of people over the past week, officials and tribal leaders said on Monday. Source

At least eight people were killed early Monday in an explosive fire that consumed dozens of vessels docked at a marina along the Tennessee River in northern Alabama. Scottsboro Fire Chief Gene Necklaus said all eight people who were known to be missing have been confirmed dead, and "that number could go up, because we don't know how many were on boats" that sank. Source

WOODLAND, CALIF. -- A California man has been arrested in the decades-old killings of five of his infant children. The Yolo County Sheriff's Office says 57-year-old Paul Perez, of Delano, was arrested in the death of his children born between 1992 and 2001. Source

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -- Belgium's former king Albert II admitted Monday he is the father of an illegitimate daughter born from an affair 51 years ago after a positive result from a DNA test he was forced to take. Source

U.S. President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate came under fresh pressure on Monday to allow witnesses and new documents in his impeachment trial after a news report that a former top aide, John Bolton, has written a book manuscript that undercuts Trump's versions of events in the Ukraine affair. Source

TORONTO -- Canadian border officials seized more than 20 kilograms of suspected cocaine at Toronto Pearson International Airport earlier this month. Officials say that on Jan. 11, officers with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) searched a flight arriving from St. Source