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WASHINGTON - Before President Donald Trump sits down with a third-generation North Korean autocrat, he will face what may well turn out to be a tougher crowd - some of America’s oldest allies. W...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rhode Islanders feel slighted that Bostonians get all the glory for helping spark the American Revolution with the Boston Tea Party. After all, more than a year before any tea was t...

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia’s prime minister said on Thursday he would welcome Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testifying to an Australian parliamentary committee on the...

NASHVILLE - The Americana Music Association will honour Canadian singer-songwriter k.d. lang, a four-time Grammy winner with hits in country and pop, with their trailblazer award at this year’s ...

RED DEER- Bargain hunters are getting ready for the ultimate deal, as Kick it to the Curb goes rain or shine this Saturday and Sunday, June 9 and 10. Red Deerians who have been busy clearing out their...

RED DEER- The Recreation Centre will be closed to the public this weekend, as the Red Deer Catalina Swim Club hosts their annual “Freeze or Fry” swim meet. To accommodate the event the ind...

SAN MIGUEL LOS LOTES, Guatemala - Rescuers suspended search and recovery efforts Thursday at villages devastated by the eruption of Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire, leaving people with missing loved...

BADDECK, N.S. - A devastating fire has levelled the main lodge of an historic, much-loved inn on Cape Breton’s Bras d’Or Lakes, even as it spared a unique chapel bankrolled by a Toronto ho...

COPENHAGEN - An Uzbek man who drove a stolen truck into a crowd in Stockholm, killing five people and wounding 14 others, was convicted Thursday of terror-related murder and given a life sentence. Rak...

HOUSTON - A Boy Scout who packed a toy grenade in his carry-on bag caused the shutdown of a security checkpoint at Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport Thursday morning, just a day after the inter...