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BEIRUT - Russia’s Defence Ministry says its airstrike killed the Islamic State group’s spokesman and chief strategist. The Defence Ministry says in a statement on Wednesday that its intell...

WASHINGTON - The German pilot who deliberately flew his airliner into a mountainside last year had struggled with learning to fly and had failed a key test of his skills during training in the U.S., a...

WINNIPEG - Ontario’s chief forensic pathologist says there’s no way to determine the cause of death for six infants whose remains were found in a storage locker, but the babies were certai...

BRASILIA, Brazil - The lead prosecutor in the trial to oust Brazil’s first female president said Tuesday that Dilma Rousseff had committed “fraud” in her accounting practices, then c...

NORWAY HOUSE, Man. - When Ron Evans was 17, he worked as a driver shuttling staff home after their shifts at the Norway House Indian Hospital in northern Manitoba. He’s now racking his brain try...

TORONTO - Stephen Curry and the star-studded Golden State Warriors will take on the Toronto Raptors in a pre-season game in Vancouver as part of the annual NBA Canada Series. The game, which will also...

HARDAN, Iraq - Surrounded by smoke and flames, the sound of gunshots echoing around him, the young man crouched in the creek for hours, listening to the men in his family die. On the other side of the...

OTTAWA - The military’s top brass says progress has been made in the war on sexual misconduct in the ranks, as evidenced by an increase in the number of cases being reported. But they admit that...

CALGARY - The head of an oilfield services lobby group says if Ottawa won’t give the industry money to clean up dormant oilwells, a loan would work just as well. Mark Salkeld, CEO of the Petrole...

TORONTO - Canada’s insatiable appetite for the Tragically Hip sent the rock band’s entire discography back onto the Billboard charts last week. All 17 Hip albums, ranging from their 1987 d...