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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudan's military and its paramilitary rival each have announced that they will abide by a 24-hour cease-fire, starting Wednesday evening, after a previous attempt at a truce fai...

OTTAWA - United States chambers of commerce are pushing Washington and Ottawa to strike the right balance between protecting supply chains and maintaining free trade across the continent. The head of ...

DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Two teenagers have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with an Alabama shooting that killed four young people at a Sweet Sixteen birthday party, investigators an...

BOWDOIN, Maine (AP) - A Maine man who police say killed four people in a home and then shot three others randomly on a busy highway had been released days earlier from prison, where he had been servin...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The family of Tyre Nichols, who died three days after a brutal beating by five Memphis police officers, sued the city of Memphis, individual officers and emergency medical person...

OTTAWA - Some 39,000 Canada Revenue Agency employees went on strike as of Wednesday as part of wider labour action by the Public Service Alliance of Canada. The CRA says the strike will mean certain s...

OTTAWA - More than 155,000 public servants are now on strike after the country's biggest federal public-sector union and the government failed to reach a deal by a Tuesday evening deadline. Federal de...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government is modifying the province's anti-tobacco law to crack down on vaping, including by banning the sale of flavoured products. The new regulations would prevent the sale o...

AYODHYA, India (AP) - Syed Mohammad Munir Abidi says India is a changed country, one he doesn't recognize anymore. It's a country, the 68-year-old says, where Muslims are ignored, where rising attacks...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country has built its first-ever military spy satellite and that he planned to launch it on an undisclosed date, state media reported...