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TOKYO - The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant for the first time is removing fuel from a cooling pool at one of three reactors that melted down in the 2011 disaster, a milestone in the d...

VANCOUVER - One person is in custody and one person was airlifted to hospital after a possible shooting in Salmon Arm, B.C. Salmon Arm RCMP say they are responding to a serious incident, which they sa...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is set to report that it raised more than $30 million in the first quarter of 2019, edging out his top two Democratic rivals combined, accordi...

CARACAS, Venezuela - An ace Swedish programmer who was an early, ardent supporter of WikiLeaks has been arrested in Ecuador in an alleged plot to blackmail the country's president over his abandonment...

OTTAWA - Brand-name drug companies could put off introducing new medicine in Canada and scale back research here if the country makes a major shift to cheaper generic alternat...

OTTAWA - The federal government is suspending all direct aid to Nicaragua, citing what it calls "the deteriorating human rights situation" in the Central American nation under President Daniel Ortega....

ESPOO, Finland - The Canadians heard 'O Canada' after their final game of the women's world hockey championship, yet nobody standing on the blue-line was smiling. Bronze medals hung around t...

TORONTO - The federal and Ontario governments are set to square off in the province's top court this week over Ottawa's climate change law in a fight experts say is as much political and ideologi...

When Rakhi Pancholi was asked to run in the Alberta election, she was well versed in the reasons women give for avoiding politics. Through her work with ParityYEG, an Edm...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A Newfoundland genealogist has stumbled onto a rare and mysterious DNA quirk that he says could tell the untold story of the island's first European settlers. David Pike, a mat...