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MONTREAL - Quebec is replacing its national public health director, with Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh taking over from Dr. Luc Boileau. In a statement Wednesday, the government said Quach-Thanh's term wil...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Congo's health ministry on Thursday announced a new Ebola outbreak, the 16th in the central African country, after a case was confirmed in the southern Kasai province. "To date, ...

QUBEC - Quebec Premier Franois Legault will shuffle his cabinet next week and delay the start of the legislative session by two weeks. His office says the shuffle will give the government new momentum...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The District of Columbia on Thursday sued to stop President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard during law enforcement intervention in Washington. The city's attorney general...

MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Lorena has weakened to a tropical storm but forecasters said a life-threatening risk of flash flooding and mudslides was still present for parts of Mexico's Baja California peni...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that 26 of Ukraine's allies have pledged to deploy troops as a "reassurance force" for the war-torn country once fighting ends in th...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - More than 64,000 Palestinians have been killed in the nearly two-year war in the Gaza Strip, local health officials said Thursday, as Hamas and Israel reiterated their...

VANCOUVER - The union representing thousands of British Columbia public service workers says it is escalating job action in the dispute. The BC General Employees' Union says pickets are being expanded...

OTTAWA - A Canadian is among the injured after a popular 19th-century streetcar crashed in Portugal's capital on Wednesday. At least 17 people died in the wreck, with another 21 injured. The head of L...

MISSISSAUGA - Prime Minister Mark Carney and his ministers are no longer set to meet with the head of a right-wing U.S. think tank as the second day of cabinet meetings begin. Heritage Foundation pres...