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CUCUTA, Colombia - Venezuela's National Guard fired tear gas on residents clearing a barricaded border bridge between Venezuela and Colombia on Saturday, heightening tensions over blocked humanitarian...

PARIS - Yellow vest protesters took to the streets across France on Saturday for a 15th straight weekend of demonstrations, trying to re-energize supporters while tamping down on the violence and anti...

SRINAGAR, India - Police have arrested at least 200 activists seeking the end of Indian rule in disputed Kashmir, officials said Saturday, escalating fears among already wary residents that a sweeping...

BARCELONA, Spain - Protesters backing Catalonia's secession from Spain clashed with police and blocked major roads and train tracks across the northeastern region on Thursday during a strike called to...

HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam has announced an unprecedented traffic ban along a possible arrival route of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ahead of his second summit with President Donald Trump in Hanoi ne...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Friday set up new obstacles for women seeking abortions, barring taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from making abortion referrals. The new policy is cert...

VATICAN CITY - A prominent Nigerian nun has blasted the culture of silence in the Catholic Church that has long sought to hide clergy sexual abuse, telling a Vatican summit that transparency and an ad...

VANCOUVER - This hasn't been the NHL season that Ryan Spooner expected. The 27-year-old forward started the year with the New York Rangers then was dealt to the Edmonton Oilers in November, only to be...

HALIFAX - Justin Trudeau told an audience of African Nova Scotians on Thursday that an incident of apparent racial profiling on Parliament Hill shows that racism, unconscious bias and systemic discrim...

HALIFAX - Mourners will descend upon a large Halifax hall today for the funeral of seven children who died in a fast-moving house fire. The service for the Barho children will begin at 1:30 p.m. at th...