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ISTANBUL - The trial against 23 army officers who allegedly planned the Istanbul stage of last summer’s failed military coup has opened in the outskirts of the city. The defendants, including si...

BEIRUT - More airstrikes and artillery shelling on Monday hit the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State group, as U.S.-backed fighters pushed closer to the extremist...

MADRID - Authorities in Spain say the two men arrested for ramming into pedestrians in a southern coastal town are British nationals who appeared to be drunk. Eight people, including a newborn baby an...

BAGHDAD - A massive bombing by the Islamic State group outside a popular ice cream parlour in central Baghdad and a rush- hour car bomb in another downtown area killed at least 31 people Tuesday, Iraq...

Five stories in the news for Monday, May 29 --- SCHEER TO DEBUT IN COMMONS TODAY AS OPPOSITION LEADER New Conservative leader Andrew Scheer is expected to gather fellow MPs and senators together in Ot...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government tabled a bill Monday forcing the province’s striking construction workers back on the job by Wednesday. In response, a coalition of construction unions promised ...

OTTAWA - Conservative MPs who weathered months of friendly political fire from fellow leadership rivals trained their sights back on the Liberal benches Monday as they rallied around newly elected lea...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia teachers and other school staff faced violence or threats of violence about 1,800 times in the last school year, according to data provided by the Department of Education. The pr...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nepal’s mountaineering community celebrated the first conquest of Mount Everest 64 years ago on Monday, as well as this year’s climbing season, during which hundreds sca...

ATLANTA - Democrats hope to enlist military veterans in another type of fight - for majority control of the House. Looking ahead to next year’s elections, Democrats are trying to recruit at leas...