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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigned for re-election on a promise to support abortion rights, a stance that put his Conservative rival on the defensive, and now advocates are an...

OTTAWA - Parliament's budget watchdog warns that rougher economic waters will mean a deeper federal deficit, with no certainty on how much deeper. In a report Thursday, the parliamentary budget office...

MADRID - Spain's government announced Thursday that Catalan poet Joan Margarit won the 2019 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honour. Margarit, who is also an architect, h...

OTTAWA - The last group of former Liberal senators in Parliament's upper chamber are rebranding themselves as the Progressive Senate Group. The nine senators say they have adopted the new name to...

OTTAWA - A Quebec naturopath is not guilty of manslaughter or criminal negligence in the death of a patient, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. Roger Matern, an 84-year-old with heart di...

DES MOINES, Iowa - The family of Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady says he has died of a heart attack at age 66. Cady's family says in a statement posted on the court's website that he died u...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact named French soccer legend Thierry Henry as head coach of the Major League Soccer team on Thursday, signing the former striker to a two-year contract with an o...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - International Criminal Court judges on Thursday approved a request from prosecutors to open an investigation into crimes committed against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority. ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis called Thursday for Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and other tech companies to urgently take measures to remove child porn from the web and prevent children from access...

ANKARA, Turkey - An American man suspected of being a member of the Islamic State group is being repatriated to the United States after spending three days in a no man's land between Turkey and Greece...