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HALIFAX - The Gulf of St. Lawrence’s lucrative snow crab fishery has lost its international designation as environmentally sustainable, following the deaths of more than a dozen endangered North...

TORONTO - Canada’s financial consumer watchdog plans to expand its probe of business practices - which found that the country’s six biggest banks had “insufficient” controls in...

WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia’s young crown prince has an ambitious list of to-dos: modernize his conservative kingdom, weaken Iran’s hand across the Mideast and, this week, rehabilitate his c...

WASHINGTON - A skeptical Supreme Court took aim Tuesday at a California law that forces anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centres to provide information about abortion. A ruling striking down the law cou...

MANCHESTER, N.H. - President Donald Trump’s first visit to New Hampshire as president was soaked in nostalgia for his first campaign - and punctuated with subtle nods to his next one in 2020. So...

TUCSON, Ariz. - A rare murder trial of a U.S. Border Patrol agent charged with shooting into Mexico in 2012 and killing a teenager started Tuesday with jury selection. U.S. District Judge Raner Collin...

DUNEDIN, Fla. - There was a time in J.A. Happ’s career when he wouldn’t have been considered to start an opening day game. And even if he was, he wouldn’t have remembered. “The...

OTTAWA - British Columbia’s next lieutenant-governor has a deep background in working with social and government organizations in the province. Janet Austin, who is the CEO of the Metro Vancouve...

PACARAIMA, Brazil - Hungry and destitute, tens of thousands of victims of Venezuela’s unrelenting political and economic crisis are trying their luck in Brazil - a country where they do not spea...

PARIS - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was handed preliminary charges Wednesday over allegations he accepted millions of euros in illegal campaign funding from the late Libyan leader Moammar ...