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BRAGG CREEK- The body of a 33-year-old Calgary man has been found in Elbow Falls, southwest of Bragg Creek. RCMP say Abdul Quadir Mohammed and his family were visiting the area on Saturday, and they h...

WASHINGTON - A conservative House Republican is calling on special counsel Robert Mueller to resign. He is citing what he says is a conflict of interest because of Mueller’s “close friends...

PARIS - After failing three times in recent bids, sheer joy was expected from Paris officials when Los Angeles ceded the 2024 Olympics to the City of Lights. Paris bid leaders, however, opted for a di...

CALGARY- Due to a strong second quarter, the Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC), has announced it is increasing the number of wells they had forecast to be drilled in 2017. The Canadian D...

BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping issued a tough line on national sovereignty Tuesday amid multiple territorial disputes with his country’s neighbours, saying China will never permit the lo...

ANKARA, Turkey - Nearly 500 suspects, including generals and military pilots, went on trial Tuesday in Turkey accused of leading last year’s failed coup attempt and carrying out attacks from an ...

MIAMI - Tropical Depression Emily is now moving farther away from the Southeast coast, a day after drenching parts of Florida with rain. The National Hurricane Center said Tuesday afternoon that Emily...

TOKYO - A typhoon that briefly strengthened into the Northern Hemisphere’s strongest storm of the year has lost much of its punch but could still hit Japan by this weekend. Typhoon Noru was pack...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday elected veteran lawmaker Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the country’s new prime minister, a loyalist of outgoing Nawaz Sharif, who was ...

WASHINGTON - Consumer spending slowed in June as income growth turned in the weakest performance in seven months. Spending edged up a tiny 0.1 per cent compared to a 0.2 per cent rise in May, the Comm...