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CALGARY- According to police, early one morning in August 1997, a woman was pulled into an alley where she was threatened, assaulted and later forced to walk a few blocks with a man before he fled. La...

MONTREAL - SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC) is shifting a collection of its Canadian infrastructure holdings to a new partnership with a European investment firm through a $208-million deal announced Friday. The...

TORONTO - Christine Sinclair and Mark Messier, who have led Canada to international glory on grass and ice, have been appointed to the Order of Canada. The two are among 99 new appointments to the Ord...

MOSUL, Iraq - Hundreds of civilians fled Mosul’s Old City on Friday as Iraqi forces slowly squeezed the last pockets of Islamic State resistance, and the U.N. warned that the “intense and ...

BEIRUT - Explosions, including five suicide bombings, shook a Lebanese border town early on Friday, killing a Syrian girl and wounding seven Lebanese soldiers as the army raided several refugee settle...

GENEVA - Nearly a half-million people who were displaced within Syria by the war have returned to their homes, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday, pointing to a “notable trend of spontaneous re...

ANKARA, Turkey - Qatar’s defence minister held talks with his Turkish counterpart on Friday as the Gulf nation’s feud with four other major Arab states deepens amid a sweeping list of dema...

WASHINGTON - A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump’s travel ban is now in force, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likel...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and South Korea’s new leader showed joint resolve on North Korea on Friday despite their divergent philosophies for addressing the nuclear threat, yet the U.S...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Police in South Carolina are seeking a man who apologized after attempting to rob a convenience store. The Sun News reports that Horry County police say they responded June 18 to ...