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KAMPALA, Uganda - Uganda’s pop star politician Bobi Wine vowed Thursday to continue his fight for more freedom in the country “or we shall die trying,” shortly after security forces ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and son-in-law were released from prison Wednesday after a court suspended their sentences and granted them bail pending t...

BIDDEFORD, Maine - Canadians are known as friendly folks, but these crabby brutes migrating from Canadian waters to coastal Maine are better suited for the hockey rink. Green crabs from Nova Scotia ar...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia’s anti-graft agency said former Prime Minister Najib Razak was arrested on Wednesday and will face further charges of abuse of power over the multimillion-dolla...

LIVINGSTON, La. - A Louisiana sheriff says a 2-year-old has fatally shot himself with a handgun that was left on a counter in a Livingston Parish home. The Advocate quotes Livingston Parish Sheriff Ja...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Sept. 19 --- NAFTA TALKS RESUME AS DEADLINE LOOMS Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is back in Washington - and back in search of a way to bridge the d...

WASHINGTON - Thirteen months is an “absolutely normal” time frame for a task as complex as modernizing North American trade, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday as sh...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has been quietly working on a new body to organize leaders’ debates in federal elections, which it plans to have up and running by next year’s vote. And whi...

TORONTO - Ontario’s top court sided with the provincial government Wednesday in a legal battle over the size of Toronto’s council, firmly establishing a reduced 25-ward electoral map for t...

COPENHAGEN - The man at the centre of a sex-abuse and financial crimes scandal that is tarnishing the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature went on trial in Sweden Wednesday. Jean-Claude A...