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OTTAWA - It was only a few lines in the federal budget, and the money involved represents a rounding error in the overall scheme of things. For defence officials and experts who have been sounding the...

SRINAGAR, India - Authorities scrambled anew Saturday to supply medical oxygen to Indian hospitals where COVID-19 patients were suffocating amid low supplies as the country with the world's worst coro...

PARIS - Cradling the head of the deeply sedated COVID-19 patient like a precious jewel in his hands, Dr. Alexy Tran Dinh steered his intensive-care nurses through the delicate process of rolling the w...

BEIJING - China's first Mars rover will be named Zhurong after a traditional fire god, the government announced Saturday. The rover is aboard the Tianwen-1 probe that arrived in Mars orbit on Feb. 24 ...

BANYUWANGI, Indonesia - Indonesia's navy on Saturday said items were found from a missing submarine, indicating the vessel with 53 crew members had sank and there was no hope of finding survivors. Nav...

URUMQI, China - A spokesperson for the Xinjiang region called accusations of genocide "counter to the facts" as China came under more pressure this week over its treatment of the Uyghur ethnic group i...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Southeast Asian leaders met Myanmar's top general and coup leader in an emergency summit in Indonesia Saturday, and are expected to press calls for an end to violence by security ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyans living with HIV say their lives are in danger due to a shortage of anti-retroviral drugs donated by the United States amid a dispute between the U.S. aid agency and the Kenyan...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A recycled SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, the third high-flying taxi ride in less than a year for Elon Musk's co...

TIRANA, Albania - Albania's president has accused the U.S. ambassador of intervening in the small European country's internal affairs by supporting its prime minister in an upcoming parliamentary elec...