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LONDON - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is chairing a meeting in London today that the federal government hopes will lead to justice and financial compensation for the famil...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Past and present politicians of all stripes are expected in St. John's, N.L., today to pay their last respects to John Crosbie. The former federal cabinet minister and lieutena...

ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani man has been arrested in the 2005 killing of a British woman police officer who was gunned down as she responded to a robbery in the city of Bradford in 2005, police in the U.K...

WASHINGTON - Officials from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan say they have reached a preliminary agreement aimed at clearing the way for the filling and operation of a $5 billion dam project on the Nile Rive...

BERLIN - Germany's foreign minister was flying to Libya on Thursday to meet one of the country's rival leaders, Gen. Khalifa Hifter, in a bid to push forward troubled efforts to secure a cease-fire. G...

JERUSALEM - Religious-nationalist parties in Israel joined forces late Wednesday ahead of the country's unprecedented third straight election in one year. The parties came together after weeks of jock...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United States said its participation at this year's World's Fair in Dubai is being made possible by "the generosity of the Emirati government." The U.S. State Departm...

TOKYO - One of the Japanese lawyers for former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn has stepped down from that job after his client fled the country. Junichiro Hironaka had been representing Ghosn in his defe...

The extreme cold weather continues to pummel Saskatchewan. As of 7 a.m. Thursday, every region in the province was under an extreme cold warning issued by Environment Canada. The agency said three com...

Despite the extreme cold warning continuing across the entire province, all buses for Saskatoon public and catholic schools are running Thursday. Prairie Spirit School Division said buses are running,...