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TOKYO - About 5,000 dead fish packed in the ice at a skating rink in western Japan are causing an uproar. Space World amusement park closed the attraction Sunday after a flood of criticism on social m...

BEIJING - The United Nations’ incoming secretary-general said Monday that he wants U.N. peacekeepers to be better trained and more respectful of human rights, amid pressure on the organization t...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A deadly confrontation between a troubled Newfoundland man and the police officer who gunned him down at home could have been avoided, says a report released Monday. Retired j...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea’s three main opposition parties agreed Wednesday to stick to their plans to impeach President Park Geun-hye, dismissing as a stalling tactic her offer to ...

BERLIN - A German federal court has rejected a former Auschwitz death camp guard’s appeal against his conviction for being an accessory to murder, a decision greeted Monday as setting an importa...

Three stories in the news for Monday, Nov. 28 --- TIME RUNNING OUT FOR ELECTORAL REFORM REFERENDUM Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to reform the country’s electoral system in time for...

WASHINGTON - A top Donald Trump adviser has warned that the president-elect’s supporters would feel “betrayed” if he tapped former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as secretary of stat...

ATLANTA - Donald Trump’s disavowal this past week of white supremacists who have cheered his election as president hasn’t quieted concerns about the movement’s impact on his White Ho...

OTTAWA - Canada’s chief electoral officer warns that time is running out to organize a national referendum on electoral reform if the voting system is to be changed in time for the next federal ...

MONTREAL - The Crown’s evidence against ex-Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum is weak and depends on witnesses who testified against him to “save their own skins,” his lawyer said in c...