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BAY MINETTE, Ala. - Authorities in Alabama say no weapon was recovered from a man fatally shot by a deputy on Interstate 10. AL.com reports (http://bit.ly/2qmmj7S) Baldwin County Sheriff Huey Mack sai...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - When researchers travelled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on...

ABIDJAN, Cote d’Ivoire - Ivory Coast’s government has reached an agreement with mutinous soldiers who had taken to the streets in the West African nation’s largest cities to demand m...

OTTAWA - When interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose began using the photo-sharing social media site Instagram, the pictures she posted were all in black and white. She opened the account just days ...

ILFRACOMBE, England - As a vast “ransomware” attack raced from computer to computer, infecting tens of thousands around the world, a young tech expert worked from his bedroom in England to...

BEIRUT - Syria’s government says it “categorically” denies U.S. accusations of mass killings at a prison, including executions of political opponents, and burning the victims in a cr...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia New Democrats are promising to bring in $15-a-day child care beginning next year if they win the May 30 provincial election, a pledge the other parties quickly dismissed as likel...

VIENNA - A man in Vienna has turned up at a waste-disposal site with an apparently live World War II-era hand grenade. That was too much to handle even for trash collectors specializing in environment...

Eight stories in the news for Tuesday, May 16 --- JAGMEET SINGH JOINS RACE FOR NDP LEADERSHIP Jagmeet Singh has launched his bid to leap from provincial politics to head the federal New Democrats. If ...

WASHINGTON - The formal process in renegotiating the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement could begin any day. The U.S. administration says it will soon serve notice that it will enter discussions...