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BEIJING - China confirmed Wednesday it will prosecute three Australian casino employees who were detained last month on suspicion of violating strict Chinese gambling regulations. The three employees ...

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday she’s not happy about the possible demise of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which President-elect Donald Trump wants to pu...

OTTAWA - New Democrat MP Charlie Angus stepped aside as his party’s caucus chair and indigenous affairs critic Wednesday to contemplate a potential leadership bid. The 54-year-old northern Ontar...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is poised to introduce a bill Thursday that will deliver on some key Liberal promises to reform Canada’s election laws, even as suspicion lingers that they may re...

CRANBROOK, B.C. - A woman who was one of 27 wives to a leader of a British Columbia polygamous sect told a courtroom Wednesday that women and girls in the religious community were taught to be obedien...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Nov. 23 --- CLOSING ARGUMENTS EXPECTED IN HAWKES’ TRIAL Closing arguments will be made today in the trial of a prominent Toronto pastor accused of perform...

KENTVILLE, N.S. - Brent Hawkes’ lawyer told his gross indecency trial Wednesday that the evidence against the Toronto pastor is “weird,” but the prosecutor contended that doesn’...

STANDOFF – It was well after midnight before the final ballots were counted and winners were declared in the Blood Tribe 2016 election of a new Chief and Council for the largest reserve in Canad...

SALEM, Mass. - A Massachusetts college says an art exhibit has been temporarily suspended after students complained about a painting that depicted several members of the Ku Klux Klan. Salem State Univ...

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - Indian troops fired on a Pakistani passenger bus in Kashmir on Wednesday, killing 10 civilians in one of the deadliest incidents in weeks of violence in the disputed Himalayan...