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OTTAWA - It's long past time for the federal government to publicly condemn human rights violations that have been going on in Turkey for years, an Ottawa-based human rights activist says. More t...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Actresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoria are leading a group of more than 150 writers, artists and leaders who have written a public "letter of solidarity" to U.S. Latinos after ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand officials admitted Wednesday that they made a mistake by allowing the man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques to send a hand-written letter f...

JERUSALEM - Israel's interior minister says he has received and granted a request by Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib to enter the Israeli-occupied West Bank on humanitarian grounds. Minister Aryeh Deri ...

Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 14 --- LIBERALS NAME CANDIDATE IN WILSON-RAYBOULD'S RIDING The Liberals now have a candidate in the British Columbia riding of Vancouver Granvill...

Five stories in the news for Friday, Aug. 16 --- LITTLE HAS CHANGED SINCE TINA FONTAINE DIED: ADVOCATES Tomorrow marks five years since the body of a First Nations girl was pulled from ...

FRANKFURT - Germany's economy shrank by 0.1 per cent in the second quarter as global trade conflicts and troubles in the auto industry held back the largest member of the 19-country euro currency unio...

OTTAWA - The RCMP has been sitting for two years on a watchdog report into alleged Mountie surveillance of anti-oil protesters, a civil liberties group charges. In a letter this month t...

CALGARY - A judge has found a man guilty of inflicting a fatal brain injury on his young grandson five months after the boy was sent to Canada from Mexico so he could hav...

WINNIPEG - It was quiet on the summer day when Cora Morgan and her cousin stood on the waterfront and performed a smudging ceremony for a young Indigenous girl pulled out of the Re...