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OTTAWA - Canada's export credit agency says it regrets its 2015 decision to lend US$41 million to a South African company owned by members of a family facing corruption allegations related t...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - After weeks broadcasting his passion for Dildo, N.L., late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel was named "honourary mayor" Thursday night and made a commitment to visit the commun...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Police in New Zealand say a Canadian woman is "shocked and distressed" after her Australian fiance was murdered in an apparently random attack. Insp. Graham Pitkethley says N...

HALIFAX - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the creation of a new advisory committee to help promote apprenticeships and skilled trades across Canada. Trudeau made the announcement toda...

OTTAWA - It would be a mistake to label pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong as terrorists, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday as her government issued a pointed warn...

NEW YORK - Jail guards on duty the night Jeffrey Epstein apparently killed himself are suspected of falsifying log entries to show they were checking on inmates every half-hour as required, according ...

MEDICINE HAT - An unexpected delay has developed in the infrastructure improvements at the Kinplex.The city is working with a consultant and the contractor to find a solution.In the meantime, events s...

MONCTON, N.B. - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is asking Liberal MPs on the House of Commons ethics committee to vote to continue the investigation into the SNC-Lavalin affair, after a sc...

CHICAGO - President Donald Trump says he's still considering whether to sign commutation papers freeing former Illinois governor and one-time "Celebrity Apprentice" contestant Rod Blagojevich from fed...

NEW YORK - Two suspicious objects that prompted an evacuation of a major lower Manhattan subway station during the morning commute Friday are not explosives, police said. The bomb squad cleared the it...