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Nominees for the Minister's Seniors Service awards were recognized Tuesday during a ceremony at the Radisson in Red Deer. Lori Sigurdson, Minister of Seniors and Housing, presented nominees with their...

AUSTIN, Texas - A Texas version of a North Carolina-style “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people again sputtered out. Chances of any last-minute deals extinguished when the House adj...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - The scene was all too familiar: Islamic extremists striking a popular dining spot while dozens of patrons, many of them foreigners, took a break from daily life in Burkina ...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than 60 stories above the ground, construction workers climb makeshift stairs and cross narrow steel planks to put the finishing touches on Salesforce Tower, now San FranciscoR...

PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba - Calle Marti is a modest half-mile boulevard split by a simple winding flagstone path that’s bracketed by green grass, pine trees and curving blue cement benches. But the pr...

BEIJING - In a ritual of summer, China’s leaders have been holding an unofficial retreat at a beach resort ahead of a key fall Communist Party congress at which President Xi Jinping will launch ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Hawa Stevens spoke through tears of the 28 family members she lost after surging mudslides and floodwaters swept through Sierra Leone’s capital, killing hundreds and lea...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - An influential Iraqi Shiite cleric, notorious for his followers’ deadly attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq over a decade ago and thought at times to have ties to Iran, ...

LOS ANGELES - After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the era of nuclear nightmares - of the atomic arms race, of backyard bomb shelters, of schoolchildren diving under desks to practice their survi...

TORONTO - The University of Toronto has told a white nationalist group they are not welcome to hold a rally on campus. The group - called the Canadian Nationalist Party - has set up a Facebook page pr...