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WASHINGTON - Manufacturing in New York state contracted for the third straight month in October. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says its Empire State index slid to a reading of minus 6.8 this mo...

OTTAWA - A weekend push to persuade a small but essential pocket of Belgium to support the sweeping Canada-Europe trade agreement has yet to resolve differences ahead of a key meeting that could deter...

LONDON - A British toddler who went missing on a Greek island 25 years ago is believed to have been killed in a construction-site accident that was covered up for almost a quarter of a century, police...

LETHBRIDGE – The local real estate market continues to see steady gains, as the number of homes sold and total value of sales are up again for Lethbridge. Through the first three quarters of 201...

TORONTO - Kevin Pillar didn’t mince words when talking about his team’s sudden inability to drive in runs. “Well it would help if (the bottom of the order) got on base,” the Bl...

HALIFAX - Police are looking for a violent thief with a taste for trousers. They say two men approached two other men in downtown Halifax (around Prince and Argyle streets) just after midnight and beg...

TORONTO - In a surprise move, Rogers Communications announced Monday the immediate departure of its CEO Guy Laurence and the uncertain arrival time for his replacement, former Telus chief executive Jo...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Long-standing protests over the Muskrat Falls hydro project are escalating - including nine arrests Monday, a march on the provincial legislature and a hunger strike - as rese...

BEIJING - Surgeons from around the world gathered at a conference in Beijing on Monday in China’s latest effort to fight persistent skepticism about whether its hospitals have stopped performing...

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. - A local Republican Party office in North Carolina was torched by a flammable device and someone spray-painted an anti-GOP slogan referring to “Nazi Republicans” on a n...