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CANBERRA, Australia - Hundreds of people have been rescued from floodwaters that have isolated dozens of towns in Australia's most populous state New South Wales and forced thousands to evacuate their...

JERUSALEM - Israelis vote Tuesday in their fourth parliamentary election in just two years. Once again, the race boils down to a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu, who has ser...

LONDON - A protest in the west England city of Bristol against new policing legislation descended into violence that left at least 20 officers injured, two of them seriously, police said Monday. The p...

CHICAGO - On federal death row, prisoners fling notes on a string under each other's cell doors and converse through interconnected air ducts. A top issue these days: whether President Joe Biden will ...

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of the Congo - Republic of Congo's top presidential opposition candidate Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, who was hospitalized with COVID-19 complications on election day, has died, a ...

LONDON - AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine provided strong protection against disease and complete protection against hospitalization and death across all age groups in a late-stage U.S. study, the compa...

BEIJING - A second Canadian citizen held for more than two years on spying charges in apparent retaliation for Canada's arrest of a senior executive of the telecoms giant Huawei went on trial in Beiji...

REGINA - First Nations leaders and relatives of a young Indigenous man shot and killed on a Saskatchewan farm are expected to address findings today from a watchdog's review that concluded RCMP racial...

IQALUIT - Solomon Awa thinks he's probably built about 150 igloos, or igluit in Inuktitut, over his lifetime, starting when he was 15. Now in his 60s, Awa is considered a master igloo builder in Nunav...

The federal New Democrats are seeking the support of the House of Commons in calling on the government to eliminate for-profit long-term care. The NDP is tabling a motion today that calls on the gover...