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Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia (All times Eastern):   10:13 Police south of Montreal are patrolling an ongoing blockade ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. home sales retreated 1.3% in January from the prior month, but low mortgage rates helped enable an increase in purchases from a year ago. The National Association of Realtors said Fr...

Dr. Mike Wilkinson is well-versed in the threat of a pandemic ahead of an Olympic Games. With the opening of the Tokyo Olympics just over five months away, there is rising uncertainty d...

INDIANAPOLIS - Michael Andretti's driver lineup is locked and loaded for May. He already had two race winners, two of Indyar's rising stars and his own son, Marco, geared up. Now he's added 2016 India...

MONTREAL - Ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools operating north of Montreal are illegal and their religious curriculum for boys is so onerous the students have little time to study anything el...

ST-LAMBERT, Que. - About two dozen protesters remain at a blockade south of Montreal in defiance of an injunction delivered Thursday ordering them to leave the site and stop disrupting rail traffic. P...

VIENTIANE, Laos - China's top diplomat assured his Southeast Asian counterparts on Wednesday that the situation in a central Chinese province where the outbreak of a new virus began has "been brought ...

ALEPPO, Syria - A Syrian passenger jet landed in Aleppo on Wednesday from Damascus as domestic flights resumed between Syria's two largest cities for the first time since 2012, while the government co...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - For the South Korean crew behind the latest hit drama "Crash Landing on You," recreating the life in North Korea was a painstakingly meticulous process with big political r...

NANAIMO - A man wanted on several warrants pleaded guilty to four charges will spend the next 45 days in jail. Forty-five year-old John Wilfred Miller John will spend the time for weapons charges, fra...