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TAIPEI, Taiwan - In a first for Asia, Taiwan’s constitutional Court ruled in favour of same-sex marriage on Wednesday, punctuating a yearslong campaign by advocates for gay rights in one of the ...

PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking to extend a state of emergency, in place since Islamic State attacks on France in 2015, following this week’s attack on a concert in Mancheste...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, May 24 --- TRUDEAU HEADS TO EUROPE FOR NATO, G7 SUMMITS Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves today for Brussels for the NATO leaders’ summit, the first su...

WASHINGTON - Candidate Donald Trump promised better and more affordable health care, but as president his first full budget calls for deep cuts to popular insurance programs. And it omits any proposal...

BRUSSELS - The Latest on President Donald Trump’s first trip abroad (all times local): 7:30 p.m. Donald Trump will be returning to the campaign trail just a few days after he wraps up his first ...

VATICAN CITY - Handshakes, gifts, friendly small talk and big hopes for peace. Setting aside past differences and rude comments aside, President Donald Trump and Pope Francis put a determinedly positi...

TORONTO - Temperatures this summer are expected to feel like “whiplash,” and may swing between hot and cool over the course of the season, a top meteorologist says. The Weather Network rel...

BRUSSELS - The new headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - a massive, state-of-the-art facility that cost more than a billion euros to build - was designed to help the military allian...

OTTAWA - Uncertainties continue to obscure the economy’s stronger-than-expected start to the year, the Bank of Canada said Wednesday as it stuck with its trendsetting interest rate of 0.5 per ce...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Eight Kenyan police officers were killed when their vehicles ran over improvised bombs in two separate incidents near the border with Somalia, officials said Wednesday. The dead inclu...