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WINNIPEG - Defenceman Neal Pionk has signed a two-year, US$6-million contract with the Winnipeg Jets. The Jets announced the signing of the restricted free agent on Sunday. The deal car...

GWANGJU, Korea, Republic Of - Canadian swimmer Maggie MacNeil has won the country's first gold medal at the world aquatic championships. The 19-year-old from London, Ont., competing on her first senio...

EDMONTON - Team New Zealand, trailing the field early, stormed back in the final three legs to win the elite mixed relay at the World Triathlon Series Sunday. Hayden Wilde, running the anchor leg, mat...

Four stories in the news for Monday, July 22 --- VIGIL ON FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF DANFORTH SHOOTING Members of Toronto's Greektown community will gather tonight to remember the victims of ...

Toronto's Greektown community is expected to gather tonight to remember the victims of a mass shooting last summer. The vigil - set to begin at sunset - marks the first anniversary of the tr...

NEW DELHI - India successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft to the far side of the moon on Monday, a week after aborting the mission due to a technical problem. Scientists at the mission control ce...

OTTAWA - Nearly four years after Justin Trudeau opted not to move into the prime minister's official residence over concerns about its crumbling state, the building remains vacant - except for staff w...

VIENNA - Yukiya Amano, the International Atomic Energy Agency's director general, has died at 72, the agency announced Monday. The Secretariat did not give a cause of death for Amano, or say when he d...

BEIRUT - Syrian opposition activists say an airstrike on a busy market in a rebel-held town in northwestern Syria has killed at least 16 people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights s...

JERUSALEM - Israeli work crews have begun demolishing dozens of Palestinian homes in an east Jerusalem neighbourhood. Monday's demolitions cap a years-long legal battle over the buildings, which strad...