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VANCOUVER - Lisa Partridge was 14 when she learned she was HIV-positive. The teenager living in Comox, B.C., underwent a tainted blood transfusion when she was an infant in Romania. When she fell terr...

CORNWALL, Ont. - Their lives changed in an instant that July day when the government letter arrived telling them that her work permit was not being renewed. For five years, Sheila Francois lived, work...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $7 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket purchased in Ontario. The jac...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen says an airstrike that killed at least 14 civilians, including eight members of a single family, was the result of a “tech...

BEIRUT - The remains of eight Lebanese soldiers kidnapped by the Islamic State group three years ago were located Sunday, a senior Lebanese official said, in a negotiated deal that followed a military...

LONDON - Britain’s main opposition party has announced that it backs the U.K. staying in the European Union single market and customs union during a “transition period” after Brexit....

London police arrested a second man Sunday in connection with a suspect who drove up to a police van not far from Buckingham Palace then reached for a 4-foot (1.2-meter) sword, an incident detectives ...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 08-27-2017

OTTAWA - Canada’s top soldier expressed solidarity with the LGBTQ community Sunday by walking in Ottawa’s annual Pride parade. But Gen. Jonathan Vance, the chief of defence staff, had no w...

BRUSSELS - The Islamic State news agency Aamaq has claimed the Brussels attacker who assaulted three soldiers with a knife as an Islamic State group soldier. In a statement Sunday, it said he carried ...