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CAIRO - In a story December 31, 2019, about an Eritrean migrant making sketches about detention centres in Libya, The Associated Press erroneously reported that he escaped forced military conscription...

OTTAWA - In 2019, federal Conservatives sought to draw voters in their direction with the slogan: "It's time for you to get ahead." But they didn't get enough of those voters to form government, and s...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 2. What we are watching in Canada .....

TOKYO - Japanese prosecutors raided the Tokyo home of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn after he skipped bail before a trial on financial misconduct charges and left for Lebanon. Tokyo prosecutors a...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Tens of thousands of Jewish people congregated Wednesday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey to celebrate the reading of the entire Talmud in an event called Siyum HaShas - and dr...

An iconic Chicano mural in Santa Fe painted by Mexican American artists is scheduled for destruction to make way for a new contemporary museum, generating a debate about gentrification and whose cultu...

CAIRO - Two Sudanese sisters, Seham and Ekhlas Bashir, were walking their children home from elementary school in a Cairo neighbourhood when a group of Egyptian teenagers crowded around them. The boys...

LAFAYETTE, La. - A Louisiana mom and son who were devoted fans of Louisiana State University and were on their way to see the school's football team in the Peach Bowl when they died in a plane crash, ...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's parliament is to vote on Thursday on whether to send Turkish troops to Libya, to back the U.N.-supported government in Tripoli that is battling forces loyal to a rival admini...

NEW DELHI - A factory manufacturing batteries caught fire and collapsed in the Indian capital Thursday, injuring 13 fire officials and one security guard, police said. A fire official said three peopl...