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SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Once or twice a year, activity on the streets of South Korea’s capital freezes as a wailing siren marks a nationwide drill aimed at preparing against a North Korean a...

SALALAH, Oman - On the eastern edge of the Arabian peninsula, a region disappears under sky-wide blankets of fog as the desert blooms green. This is the Omani monsoon: a phenomenon that draws hundreds...

BRAINTREE, Mass. - A 53-year-old Massachusetts hospital worker stepped forward Thursday to claim the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history - a $758.7 million Powerball prize - after breaki...

OTTAWA - The Senate is asking the Federal Court to block the release of documents in a labour dispute where one of its top officials faces racism allegations. The allegations come from Darshan Singh, ...

MONTREAL - A four-day urban rodeo that is promising to bring a bit of the Wild West to Montreal’s Old Port is also expected to draw daily protests from groups denouncing the event as animal crue...

LISBON, Portugal - A Portuguese publisher has withdrawn exercise books for children showing girls in the kitchen doing domestic chores while boys assemble a robot, which the government complained rein...

WASHINGTON - Canada, the United States, and Mexico have signed a confidentiality agreement designed to prevent leaks during the NAFTA negotiations, with a list of rules to protect details of the offer...

OTTAWA - Judy Foote twice continued working to represent her Newfoundland and Labrador constituents while fighting gruelling battles with breast cancer, but it was a health risk to her children that p...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Simon the Cat After the end of World War II, a conflict was brewing in China. The HMS Amethyst, an armed frigate in the British Navy was sent to patrol the...

COPENHAGEN - The headless torso of Swedish reporter Kim Wall, whose death after taking a trip on a homemade submarine remains a mystery, was found naked and police are now searching for her clothes, D...