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BERLIN - Saudi Arabia is closing a government-sponsored school in Germany that has been the subject of tension in the past. The kingdom’s embassy says the King Fahd Academy in Bonn, Germany̵...

VIENNA - An Austrian museum team has recovered two giant tusks and other remnants of what experts say are apparently the remains of a rare mammoth breed, after construction crews unearthed them while ...

CAIRO - Egypt’s parliament is to vote on tougher penalties for female genital mutilation, after the Cabinet approved a bill to redefine it as a felony. In a report carried on state news agency M...

A woman who lost her job at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport because of her family’s alleged links to organized crime could have her security clearance restored after a federal judg...

ST. LOUIS, Sask. - The RCMP has found an automated teller machine that thieves literally dragged out of a Saskatchewan community after they were unable to lift it into the back of a stolen pickup truc...

DETROIT - Air bag maker Takata Corp.’s troubles worsened Monday as the company confirmed that a truck carrying its inflators and a volatile chemical exploded last week in a Texas border town, ki...

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - Niagara regional police say a house fire that was spotted by a U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat last week is a case of arson. Police say the fire in the city of Niagara Falls, Ont., ...

HALIFAX - The man she accused of raping her was convicted of sexual assault - but a Nova Scotia woman says she regrets going to the authorities. Shannon Graham, 22, told police that her common-law spo...

MONTREAL - Protesters forced the cancellation on Monday of the first day of hearings in Montreal into TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline project with police making three arrests. And the Nationa...

EDMONTON – Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives have laid out the rules for their leadership contest, including retroactive finance disclosure and a rule forbidding candidates from doing an...