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KABUL - Ashraf Ghani has won a second term as president of Afghanistan, the country's independent election commission announced Tuesday, more than four months after polls closed. The commission said G...

Canadians stranded on a quarantined cruise ship were told that a flight set to bring them home is "expected" to depart Tokyo Haneda Airport on Thursday amid an outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Passe...

Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia:   Via Rail is preparing to resume part of its passenger rail service as anti-pipeline pr...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returns to a House of Commons eager to debate his government's policies on the economy, energy, climate change and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples after a...

GREENBELT, Md. - A former Canadian Forces reservist and accused neo-Nazi is scheduled to appear in court today on weapons charges linked to his role in an alleged plot to touch off a race wa...

NEW YORK - Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Monday that he plans to spend $10 billion of his own fortune to help fight climate change. Bezos, the world's richest person, said in an Instagram post that h...

TOKYO - An extraordinary two-week quarantine of the Diamond Princess cruise ship ends Wednesday, with thousands of passengers and crew set to disembark over the next several days in the port of Yokoha...

MONTREAL - Via Rail says partial service is set to resume between Quebec City, Montreal and Ottawa beginning Thursday. Almost all other Via Rail services remain cancelled with the exception of Sudbury...

LONDON - Singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi and rapper Dave lead the nominations for the U.K. music industry's Brit Awards, which faced criticism for the lack of female artists nominated for the high-pro...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions is warning that the federal public health agency's guidelines to protect front-line health-care workers from outbreaks of diseases like the novel...