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HALIFAX - Nova Scotia students will return to their classrooms Tuesday, as the government abruptly backed off plans to impose a contract settlement on teachers. The government had sent parents scrambl...

OTTAWA - Days after complaining that an all-party committee didn’t recommend a specific alternative to Canada’s voting system, the Trudeau government launched Monday an online interactive ...

MONTREAL - A single suspect is connected to the death of a Montreal woman whose car was hijacked and the slaying of a young man in an apartment, police said Monday. Major-crimes investigators say both...

ROME - Calls mounted rapidly Monday from populist and other opposition leaders for quick elections in Italy, seeking to capitalize on Premier Matteo Renzi’s humiliating defeat in a referendum on...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - President-elect Donald Trump, a political newcomer who touts his corporate skills, turned businessman-in-chief Tuesday, first demanding the government cancel a multibillion-dollar...

TOKYO - In a story published Dec. 5 about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s upcoming visit to Pearl Harbor, The Associated Press reported erroneously that he would be the first Japanese leade...

Eight stories in the news for Monday, Dec. 5 --- ENERGY EAST STILL NEEDED, N.B. PREMIER SAYS New Brunswick’s premier says there’s still a strong need for the proposed Energy East pipeline ...

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday denounced the rape and killing of a university student as a “tragic event,” responding for the first time to a case that has inflamed pas...

GENEVA - The U.N.’s humanitarian aid co-ordination agency says it and partners require a record $22.2 billion next year to help people hit by conflict and disasters around the world, a 10 per ce...

OTTAWA - Publicity about near-misses between drones and passenger aircraft might give terrorists ideas about how to take down a plane, a federal intelligence report warns. The Transport Canada report ...