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JAKARTA, Indonesia - A strong earthquake that hit off Java island killed four people and damaged more than 200 houses, swaying buildings as far away as Indonesia's capital, officials said Saturday. Th...

CAIRO - The African Union envoy to Sudan said Saturday the pro-democracy movement and the ruling military council have finalized a power-sharing agreement. Mohammed el-Hassan Lebatt told reporters tha...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea said Saturday its leader Kim Jong Un supervised another test-firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could potentially enhance the country's abilit...

SYDNEY, Australia - U.S. Defence Secretary Mark Esper said he wants to deploy an intermediate range conventional missile in the Pacific region within months, now that the Trump administration has form...

Hong Kong protesters ignored police warnings and streamed past the designated endpoint for a rally Saturday in the latest of a series of demonstrations targeting the government of the semi-autonomous ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau injected a dose of electoral politics into an announcement Thursday in Canada's Far North, taking aim at his Conservative rival while unveili...

Five stories in the news for Thursday, August 1 --- CANADA NOT CONSULTED ABOUT U.S. DRUG PLAN Federal officials say Ottawa was not consulted in advance about the details of a ...

WINNIPEG - Helicopters and a specialized military aircraft scoured from the air while armed police took to the ground over northern Manitoba in a hunt for two suspects of murders in British Columbia. ...

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Make it back-to-back victories for the Medicine Hat Mavericks.Freddy Walker and Colling Klingensmith each batted in two runs, helping the reigning league champions capture a 6-4 vic...

Irvine, AB - Cypress County has officially lifted the evacuation order for the hamlet of Irvine and a seven kilometre radius of the community. The hamlet was evacuated for nearly eight hours after a C...