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ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey has captured a wife of the slain leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. Erdogan made the announcement w...

Brand new, bigger, and better equipped fire trucks will soon be operating in Bezanson and La Glace. County of Grande Prairie's Regional Fire Service's Chief, Dan Verdun, says the new trucks will repla...

TEHRAN, Iran - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck northwestern Iran early Friday, killing at least five people and injuring over 300 others, officials said. The temblor struck Tark county in Iran's Eas...

OTTAWA - An influential American Democratic lawmaker affirmed his party's commitment to push the ratification of the new North American free trade deal during a visit Wednesday wit...

OSHAWA, Ont. - A young black man told an Ontario court Wednesday he was beaten so badly by a Toronto police officer and his brother that he could barely feel anything anymore and didn't realize h...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Five emerging screenwriters gained the film academy's stamp of admission into Hollywood with help from an ensemble of actors that included Tyrese Gibson and Rosa Salazar. The A...

TUCSON, Ariz. - Arizona's second-largest city wanted to send a message after the state passed a law that required local police to check the immigration status of people suspected of being in the count...

ATHENS, Greece - New excavations at an unusual prehistoric fortress northwest of Athens could hold the key to understanding one of ancient Greece's most impressive engineering feats, which converted a...

KATOWICE, Poland - The only reason Beckie Scott's going-away speech to the World Anti-Doping Agency wasn't her finest moment was because of all that led up to it. Bruised, berated and criticized by so...

YALA, Thailand - Gunmen in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand killed 15 village defence volunteers and wounded five security personnel in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on government fo...