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YOLA, Nigeria - Nigerians awakened on Saturday to find the presidential election delayed a week until Feb. 23 because of what the electoral commission called unspecified "challenges." The postponement...

KADOMA, Zimbabwe - Eight artisanal miners who were trapped underground for several days after heavy flooding in Zimbabwe have been rescued, though some of their co-workers are still missing and feared...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing Confession and sexual crimes against mino...

BANGKOK - A Thai court said Thursday that it will decide whether to dissolve a political party that broke tradition by nominating a member of the royal family as its candidate for prime minister in ne...

Six stories in the news for Thursday, Feb. 14 --- QUADRIGACX CASE TO RETURN TO HALIFAX COURT TODAY The bizarre case involving the cryptocurrency firm QuadrigaCX is expected to return to...

HALIFAX - Once one of Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, QuadrigaCX has now run out of money. "As of today, we don't have anything," Maurice Chiasson, a lawyer representing the insol...

REGINA - Five Saskatchewan judges have reserved their decision on the constitutionality of a federally imposed carbon tax after two days of hearings in Regina. Lawyers representing provincial gov...

Chicago police released without charges two Nigerian brothers arrested on suspicion of assaulting "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett and said they have new evidence to investigate as a result of questioni...

AURORA, Ill. - The frantic calls started pouring in at 1:24 p.m. A gunman was shooting people inside a sprawling manufacturing warehouse in Aurora, Illinois. Within four minutes, the first police offi...

TOULOUSE, France - To passengers, the A380 feels immediately different - spacious, smooth and oddly elegant for a jet so gargantuan. Yet to Airbus, it's become a burden so super-sized that the Europea...