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NEW YORK - A judge gave Harvey Weinstein the green light Thursday to shake up his defence team yet again - this time a mere two months before the disgraced movie mogul whose case inspired the #MeToo m...

LONDON - Britain's main opposition Labour Party was in turmoil Thursday after a television documentary renewed allegations that anti-Semitism is rife within its ranks. In the BBC program, former staff...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump abandoned his controversial bid to inject a citizenship question into next year's census Thursday, instead directing federal agencies to try to compile the informat...

NEW ORLEANS - People boarded up buildings, stocked up on water and braced for torrents of rain and punishing wind from a strengthening Tropical Storm Barry that threatened millions as it churned a pat...

MOSCOW - Residents of a city in Siberia don't need to fly off to tropical locales for picturesque selfies taken by pristine turquoise waters. Thousands of Novosibirsk residents - ranging from scantily...

Five stories in the news for Thursday, July 11 --- LIBERALS NOMINATE QUEBEC ACTIVIST FOR FALL VOTE Within a few minutes of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's speech Wednesday night introdu...

HALIFAX - The Canadian sailors who fought a deadly fire aboard the submarine HMCS Chicoutimi in 2004 suffered from significantly elevated levels of post-traumatic stress, depression and...

SASKATOON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he still believes national unity is under threat despite two days of collaborative discussions with the country's leaders. Kenney said his ...

MULTAN, Pakistan - A passenger train rammed into a freight train at a railway station in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 20 people and injuring 74 others, hospital officials said. The ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The British navy said Thursday it stopped three Iranian paramilitary vessels from disrupting the passage of a British oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz in a brief b...