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LONDON - Emergency workers raced Saturday to lower water levels behind a damaged dam in northwest England as forecasters warned more bad weather is on the way. Pumps have reduced the water level in To...

A local dancer had his vehicle broken into in front of his mother's house in North Battleford and the thieves took off with his traditional powwow regalia.Christopher Ochuschayoo, 18, has danced for t...

NEW YORK - Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has written a memoir. The book by the man whose leaks of classified documents transformed the debate about government surveillance ...

HALIFAX - Canada's military reserve units will see $250 million in repairs and upgrades to their armouries and training facilities over the next five years, changes Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan...

GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK, Mozambique - Mozambique's president signed a peace accord Thursday with the country's main opposition party Renamo to end decades of hostilities that followed a devastating 15...

OTTAWA - The chief executive of the federal infrastructure financing agency says the pitched political debate about the future of the Crown corporation doesn't reflect behind-the-scenes talks on proje...

MILAN - Italian police have arrested six men on manslaughter charges for allegedly using pepper spray to carry out thefts at a concert for teens, triggering a stampede that killed six people last year...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A strong earthquake that hit off Java island killed four people and damaged more than 200 houses, swaying buildings as far away as Indonesia's capital, officials said Saturday. Th...

CAIRO - The African Union envoy to Sudan said Saturday the pro-democracy movement and the ruling military council have finalized a power-sharing agreement. Mohammed el-Hassan Lebatt told reporters tha...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea said Saturday its leader Kim Jong Un supervised another test-firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could potentially enhance the country's abilit...