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The U.N. Security Council delayed a vote on a resolution demanding a 30-day humanitarian cease-fire across Syria until Saturday in hopes of closing a gap over the timing for a halt to fighting. Russia...

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s top aide has summoned the U.S. ambassador to discuss a global threat assessment by American intelligence agencies that mentioned Dute...

MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin doesn’t tweet and he claims he doesn’t have a smartphone. At first sight, the Russian president’s reluctance to adopt the hyperconnected world’s technol...

JUBA, South Sudan - The witness accounts remain appalling. One South Sudanese man returned home after hiding from government soldiers to find they had blinded his mother, gouging out her eyes with spe...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A Southern California couple suspected of starving and shackling some of their 13 children pleaded not guilty Friday to new charges of child abuse. David and Louise Turpin previous...

JACKSON, Miss. - Ruby Bridges Hall, who faced threats and harassment when she integrated a southern school as a child several decades ago, said Friday that she is distressed by mass shootings in U.S. ...

TORONTO - A timeline of key events in the case of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur based on information released by Toronto police: ___ September 2010 - Skandaraj Navaratnam, 40, disappears from T...

MOSCOW - For the second time in four years, Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev is on the shortlist for a foreign-film Oscar, this time for “Loveless,” a grueling examination of adultsR...

TORONTO - Auston Matthews will be out of the Toronto Maple Leafs lineup with a shoulder injury when they host the Boston Bruins on Saturday. “He’s day-to-day,” Leafs coach Mike Babco...

OTTAWA - The official Opposition is calling for an emergency committee meeting about how a man convicted of attempted murder wound up at a prime ministerial event in India. Conservative public safety ...