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BEIJING - China’s top legislature took the rare step Monday of intervening directly in a local Hong Kong political dispute by effectively barring two legally elected separatist lawmakers from ta...

LONDON - Brexit Secretary David Davis said Monday that a court ruling requiring Britain’s prime minister to seek Parliament’s approval before initiating the country’s separation from...

WASHINGTON - Every presidential race has its big moments. This one, more than most. A look back at some of the historic, amusing and cringe-inducing events of Campaign 2016. ___ GOING DOWN? Donald Tru...

WASHINGTON - At times it has seemed as though this presidential campaign was occurring in some alternate universe. Up is down, no means yes, day is night. Donald Trump’s tweets, speeches, interv...

MEXICO CITY - Passengers on a commercial flight in Mexico were given a start when a serpent slithered into the cabin in a scene straight out of the Hollywood thriller “Snakes on a Plane.” ...

OTTAWA - Two months into her second maternity leave, Karine Beauchamp would love to spend extra time at home with her son Maxime - but she can’t afford to. Among her friends, the new mothers wit...

TORONTO - The case of a woman who claims she should be recognized as a victim of crime because she developed post-traumatic stress disorder after serving as a juror in a horrific murder trial goes bef...

NEW YORK - Print newspapers may be disappearing like the home telephone, but not after Election Day. Remembering the frenzy for old-fashioned papers the morning after Barack Obama’s historic win...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A man accused of fatally stabbing a 13-year-old girl at a high school in Abbotsford, B.C., sat motionless and was unresponsive during a video appearance in court on Monday. Gabriel ...

ALBERTA – The threat of subdivision or other development has been held off in an important area near Pincher Creek. The Welsch family, working with the Nature Conservancy of Canada, has establis...