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BEIRUT - The Middle East may have turned a page with the defeat of the Islamic State group in its self-declared capital of Raqqa, but the future is looking even more tangled, and potentially as violen...

HOUSTON - An appeals court on Thursday temporarily stayed a judge’s ruling that would have allowed a pregnant 17-year-old being held in a Texas facility for unaccompanied immigrant children to o...

WATERLOO, Ont. - Shopify Inc. (TSX:SHOP) plans to add up to 500 jobs in Waterloo, Ont. which would triple its workforce there over the next couple of years. The Ottawa-based technology company says it...

BAMAKO, Mali - The Islamic militants came on motorcycles toting rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine-guns, killing four American service members after shattering the windows of the unarmored U....

WASILLA, Alaska - It was an odd day for one Alaska animal control officer who took a call about an alligator outgrowing its bathtub. KTUU-TV reports that a Wasilla resident called 911 this week after ...

LUCKNOW, India - India’s famed monument of love, the white marble Taj Mahal, is finding itself at the heart of a political storm, with some members of the country’s ruling Hindu right-wing...

YANGON, Myanmar - A fire gutted a luxury teakwood hotel popular with foreigners in Myanmar’s biggest city of Yangon before dawn Thursday, causing one death. Firefighters who carried a body out o...

BEIJING - China’s ruling Communist Party is expanding its role in business even as it promises freer markets and support for entrepreneurs on the eve of President Xi Jinping’s second five-...

BEIJING - The TV cameras are rolling, the bright lights are on and the reporters are readying their notebooks. It’s the second day of the Chinese Communist Party’s twice-a-decade congress ...

MARAWI, Philippines - Smoke wafted from the smouldering carcasses of buildings and houses, with the dome of a mosque blasted out with holes, as Philippine troops battled Thursday to defeat a final sta...