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OTTAWA - The cutthroat campaigning for a seat on the United Nations Security Council would hardly be described as a picnic or a walk in the park. But it has become just that as COVID-19's arrival in N...

NEW YORK - Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride's "Deacon King Kong" for her book club. McBride's novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centres on the shooting of a drug dealer by a...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says new spending estimates tabled by the Trudeau Liberals don't provide a complete picture of how much the government will spend on COVID-19-related aid. The...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday, in a carefully choreographed, largely symbol...

WASHINGTON - American industry rebounded last month as factories began to reopen after being shut down by the coronavirus lockdown in Aprll. The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that industiral production...

OTTAWA - A group of Black parliamentarians and their allies are calling on all levels of government to take action to reduce systemic racism in Canada. The request is contained in a statement from the...

LONDON - Nothing has kept Queen Elizabeth II away from the Royal Ascot horse racing meeting during her 68-year reign as U.K. monarch - not pregnancy, a speech to Parliament or even an outbreak of foot...

NEW YORK - Padma Lakshmi's next book is designed for the children's table. The "Top Chef" host and bestselling author is working on her first picture book, "Tomatoes for Neela." Viking Children's Book...

LONDON - Next year's British Academy Film Awards have been postponed by two months, organizers said Tuesday. The move follows a decision by Hollywood's film academy to shift the 2021 Oscars from Febru...

BALTIMORE - U.S. retail sales jumped 17.7% from April to May, with spending partially rebounding after the coronavirus had shut down businesses, flattened the economy and paralyzed consumers during th...