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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The European Union's foreign policy chief said Friday that "a pause" was needed in ongoing talks over Iran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers, blaming "extern...

BEIJING (AP) - China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the 9 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area. Residents are required to remain home...

MONTREAL - Former Quebec premier Jean Charest launched his bid for the leadership of the federal Conservative party in Calgary on Thursday, thousands of miles from the province he led for nine years. ...

VICTORIA - There is public support for a switch to permanent daylight time in British Columbia and Ontario, which have passed laws to allow the change, but the potential costs and risks of going it al...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is scheduled to say this morning how the job market fared in February after it suffered a setback to start the year. The Canadian economy lost 200,000 jobs in January as Omi...

OTTAWA - The news conference at the beginning of 2020 wasn't all that different from the many Dr. Howard Njoo had held in the past. The public health veteran helped to manage the first avian flu cases...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden will announce Friday that, along with the European Union and the Group of Seven countries, the U.S. will move to revoke "most favored nation" trade status for Rus...

BEIJING (AP) - China's Premier Li Keqiang on Friday called the situation in Ukraine "grave" and offered Beijing's help in playing a "positive role" for peace while continuing to refuse to criticize Ru...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A $13.6 billion emergency package of military and humanitarian aid for besieged Ukraine and its European allies easily won final congressional approval Thursday, hitching a ride on a...

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) - Russian strikes hit near airports in western Ukraine on Friday as the military offensive widened, and invading troops kept up pressure on the capital Kyiv and the besieged por...