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COPENHAGEN - A gunman shot a Danish policeman in the head Tuesday outside a police station in suburban Copenhagen, briefly prompting security outside police stations to be stepped up across the countr...

WASHINGTON - The productivity of American workers rose in the July-September quarter at the fastest pace in two years while labour costs slowed after a big jump in the spring. Productivity increased i...

JERUSALEM - In a first such move, Israel has denied entry to a foreign activist involved in efforts to boycott the Jewish state. Israel’s public security and interior ministers said on Tuesday t...

HALIFAX - For Mary Elizabeth Luka, one of the best ways to comprehend the enormity of the 1917 Halifax Explosion is by tracing the footsteps of the dead. Luka is a member of the Narratives in Space an...

PHILADELPHIA - A suburban Philadelphia judge settled one of two key pretrial issues in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial when he ruled on Monday that the jury could hear Cosby’s damaging t...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - Some rain fell in southern Madagascar last week, a rare piece of good news for a drought-hit region where nearly 1 million people face severe hunger because of failed harves...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Turkish authorities have forcibly evicted tens of thousands of people in security operations in a predominantly Kurdish district of southeastern Turkey, a human rights group said ...

MIRAMICHI, N.B. - A New Brunswick MP is paying tribute to a leading fishermen’s advocate who was killed Monday in a car accident. Dominic LeBlanc, the federal fisheries minister, said in a state...

ATHENS, Greece - A Greek court agreed Tuesday to extradite three Turkish servicemen who were part of an eight-person helicopter crew that fled to Greece after a failed military coup, a decision that c...

LETHBRIDGE – Maintaining safety, preserving infrastructure, upgrading existing systems and providing access for growth are the goals in mind for the City of Lethbridge's next Capital Improvement...