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NEW DELHI - India's Election Commission announced Sunday that national elections will begin April 11, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party seeks a second term. About 900 million p...

TORONTO - Ontario is weighing a ban on single-use plastics as part of a broader strategy to send less waste to landfills. Nearly a tonne of waste per person in Ontario is generated each year, and the ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - A construction crew was preparing to take down a Confederate statue in a North Carolina city Tuesday morning, a rare move in a state where such monuments are largely protected by...

ALHAMBRA, Calif. - The hilltop Los Angeles-area mansion where music producer Phil Spector killed actress Lana Clarkson in 2003 is for sale at $5.5 million. The Daily News reported Sunday that the wall...

NASHVILLE - Thanks to Kim Kardashian West, one of the first inmates released after federal sentencing reforms won't have to worry about rent for five years. Matthew Charles told The Tennessean last we...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Police in Brazil have arrested two suspects in the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver. The brazen assassination of the two on March 14 last year led...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The defence is expected to conclude its case in the Dennis Oland murder trial today when the judge hearing the case visits the scene where his father's body was found. Jus...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - U.S. aviation experts on Tuesday joined the investigation into the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner that killed 157 people, as a growing number of airlines grounded the ...

Four stories in the news for Monday, March 11 --- ONTARIO FAMILY OF SIX KILLED IN PLANE CRASH Six members of an Ontario family, spanning three generations, are being remembered as wonderful, lovi...

OTTAWA - A youth facing terrorism charges in Kingston, Ont., is due in court for a bail hearing today. He was charged in late January after a Canadian police investigation sparked by a tip from the FB...