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FRANKFURT - The European Central Bank took unexpectedly quick action on Thursday to support a slowing economy, joining the U.S Federal Reserve and Chinese leadership in their attempts to counter worri...

LONDON - The chairman of Britain's Conservative Party is urging Parliament to back an unpopular withdrawal agreement as British and European Union officials seek a breakthrough on the Brexit impasse. ...

CAIRO - An Egyptian actor known for his criticism of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's government said Thursday a military court has sentenced him in absentia to eight years in prison in two separate ...

MONTREAL - The past two years have not been easy for Quebec's three major police forces, whose officers have been working in a climate of suspicion, scandal and now an allegation o...

JERUSALEM - When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has run into political trouble in the past, he has lashed out at the media, the political opposition and Israel's Arab minority with incendiary and d...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump will be making a significant request for border wall funds and seeking money to stand up Space Force as a new branch of the military in the White House budget being...

TOKYO - A 116-year-old Japanese woman who loves playing the board game Othello was honoured Saturday as the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records. The global authority on records offi...

BANGKOK - A court in Thailand on Thursday ordered the dissolution of a major political party ahead of this month's general election because it nominated a member of the royal family to be its candidat...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to put the SNC-Lavalin affair behind him Thursday, attributing the controversy to a breakdown between his staff and former attorney general ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Just when the prime minister was escaping the political controversy swirling in the nation's capital - at least for a few hours - Mother Nature let him know she had other plans...