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TEL AVIV, Israel - Israel’s founding fathers, who etched a commitment to encouraging Jewish immigration into the declaration of independence, might be surprised to find that, seven decades later...

BAGHDAD - A Baghdad court has convicted the sister of the former leader of al-Qaida in Iraq who was killed in 2010 and sentenced her to death on terrorism charges, a spokesman said Thursday. The spoke...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s government-sanctioned maple syrup cartel is hurting the domestic industry with its strict quota system and price controls, says a report published Thursday. Competitors in th...

TORONTO - Canadian entertainment organizations have responded to the recent flood of sexual misconduct allegations with a new collective code of conduct that is a “living document” with ro...

MADRID - Women across Europe and Asia shouted their demands for equality, respect and empowerment Thursday to mark International Women’s Day, with protesters in Spain launching a 24-hour strike ...

RABAT, Morocco - For 23 years, Khadija says her husband raped her, nearly every day. And her case is far from unique, according to counsellors at the Annajda Center in Rabat, one of over 1,000 associa...

CUCUTA, Colombia - In a cramped hospital near Colombia’s border with Venezuela, migrants fill stretchers bearing the wounds of the deteriorating nation they left behind. An 18-year-old woman rub...

KANDY, Sri Lanka - Buddhist mobs swept through Muslim neighbourhoods in Sri Lanka’s central hills, destroying stores and restaurants and setting homes on fire despite a curfew, a state of emerge...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and his appointees have stocked federal agencies with ex-lobbyists and corporate lawyers who now help regulate the very industries from which they previously collec...

WASHINGTON - Not long ago, Gary Cohn was laying out an ambitious 2018 economic agenda for the Trump administration. Fresh off the triumph of a sweeping new tax cut, President Donald Trump’s top ...