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BERLIN - Security officials from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc on Friday proposed a ban on wearing the burqa and other face-covering veils in public schools, courts, while ...

ATHENS, Greece - Greece’s coast guard rescued dozens of migrants Friday whose boat ran aground on a deserted islet off the coast of southwestern Greece, hundreds of miles from the usual entry po...

CANBERRA, Australia - Experts hunting for the missing Malaysian airliner are attempting to define a new search area by studying where in the Indian Ocean the first piece of wreckage recovered from the...

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine communist rebels declared a weeklong cease-fire Friday to promote the resumption of long-stalled peace talks aimed at ending one of Asia’s longest-raging rebelli...

HONOLULU - U.S. Food and Drug Administration tests found hepatitis A in scallops from the Philippines, which have been identified as the likely source of an outbreak of the virus in Hawaii. The Hawaii...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national inflation rate was 1.3 per cent in July, Statistics Canada says. Here’s what happened in the provinces and territories (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundla...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 1.3 per cent in July, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated...

OTTAWA - The country’s annual inflation rate was 1.3 per cent in July as Canadians paid more for shelter and food but less for fuel, Statistics Canada said Friday. This overall inflation number ...

WASHINGTON - A firm run by Donald Trump’s campaign chairman directly orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine’s then-ruling political party, attempting to s...

OWEN SOUND, Ont. - Police in Ontario said there is no indication of foul play in the death of a 19-year-old soldier from Nova Scotia, whose body was found along a rugged shoreline of Georgian Bay foll...