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OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada says consular officials in China visited today with detained former diplomat Michael Kovrig today. It is the fifth time Kovrig has received a consula...

CALGARY- Another United Conservative Party candidate is pulling out of the Alberta election, saying someone outside the party is threatening to release her past social media comments about Muslim refu...

OTTAWA -  As Canada's military mission races to leave Mali and the United Nations pleads for it to stay, the European Union is making a fresh appeal to the Canadian Forces to partner with it in t...

OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency says its online systems have gone down and it isn't saying when they will be back. The agency is apologizing in a tweet for the cut in services this morning, sa...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Gunmen set off a suicide car bombing and then stormed a government building in Somalia's capital Saturday, killing at least five people including the country's deputy labour minis...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May was under intense pressure Monday to resign as the price of breaking the country's Brexit impasse and winning support for her unloved EU divorce deal. May w...

BEIRA, Mozambique - Her name is Chuva, which in Portuguese means rain. For four days that was all she saw as she clung to her rooftop in the cyclone's aftermath and prayed to be saved. Maria Chuva cla...

BEIRA, Mozambique - Authorities in Mozambique say that with a key road open to the badly damaged city of Beira, conditions on the ground improving and more international help arriving, vital aid to th...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan celebrated its national day on Saturday with a military parade showcasing its missiles, tanks and aircraft, even as the prime minister and his Indian counterpart exchanged goodwil...

COPENHAGEN - Norwegian officials have opened an investigation into why a cruise ship carrying more than 1,370 people set sail along the country's often wild western coast despite storm warnings, forci...