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SAO PAULO - Police in Brazil are starting to employ a dictatorship-era national security law against critics of President Jair Bolsonaro, while lawyers and activists rally to provide them with legal h...

NEW DELHI - Top defence officials from India and the United States pledged Saturday to expand their military engagement, underscoring the strengthening defence ties between two countries concerned ove...

MANDALAY, Myanmar - Residents of Myanmar's second-biggest city helped striking railway workers move out of their state-supplied housing Saturday after the authorities said they would have to leave if ...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - A U.N. spokesman said the world body in North Korea has been left with no international staff, who are now working remotely. Despite claiming to be coronavirus free, North ...

OTTAWA - New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh is renewing his pitch to young voters, pledging that an NDP government would cancel up to $20,000 in tuition. Singh says that, if elected, he would also free...

OTTAWA - Canadian psychiatrists' attitude toward medical assistance in dying for people with mental illnesses appears to have undergone a sea change over the past five years. When Canada first legaliz...

When plans for COVID-19 vaccines began to emerge, Rabbi Adam Cutler delivered a sermon at Toronto's Adath Israel Congregation about a blessing people could recite when receiving their shot. He said th...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole will field questions from party members today, a day after he gave a speech outlining what he sees as the path to victory come the next election. And he was b...

SAN DIEGO - A father allegedly carried his 2-year-old daughter into an elephant habitat at the famous San Diego Zoo to take a photo with the animals, police said Friday. An elephant seemed like it wan...

CALGARY - Jennifer Jones and husband Brent Laing are off to a 3-0 start at the Home Hardware Canadian mixed doubles curling championship. The longtime Manitoba skip and Laing beat 2021 Canadian women'...