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Dubai – A huge blast probably caused by the explosion of chemical materials killed at least 18 people and injured more than 700 on Saturday at Iran's biggest port,…

Los Angeles – Resona Bank has opened a representative office in Los Angeles, the Japanese bank's first such office in the United States in 21 years since its…

Ramallah, West Bank – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appointed a close aide as the first ever vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on…

VATICAN CITY/ROME – Hundreds of thousands of mourners joined world leaders to bid farewell Saturday to Pope Francis, a champion of the poor who strived to forge a…

Disturbingly realistic sexual images of children generated by artificial intelligence are spreading worldwide across social media and online forums — often based on real photos scraped from the…

Quarterback Shedeur Sanders, the son of Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, finally got his NFL draft moment on Saturday, two days later than he would have hoped, after a surprise free fall into the fifth…

SEVILLE, Spain – A Jules Kounde goal in the dying minutes of extra time handed Barcelona a dramatic 3-2 win over fierce rival Real Madrid in an enthralling Copa del…

Tehran/Muscat, Oman – The United States and Iran reported progress in their latest round of nuclear talks on Saturday and agreed to meet again next week as they…

Montreal/Mississauga, Ontario – Canadian leaders campaigned in battleground districts Saturday, two days before a vote electrified by U.S. President Donald Trump's…

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia – Al-Nassr ensured all three Saudi Pro League sides reached the Asian Champions League Elite semifinals as Stefano Pioli's side handed Yokohama…

Manitoba Progressive Conservatives have narrowly selected Fort Whyte MLA Obby Khan to serve as the party's new leader.After a six-month leadership contest, Khan defeated Wally Daudrich, who owns a hotel and ecotourism business in Churchill,…

Months after a British Columbia man's social media invite to Americans went viral, hundreds showed up in Nanaimo, B.C., over the weekend to show their support for Canada.Tod Maffin floated the idea to Americans in February, posting a video…

Palestinian leaders in the Israeli-occupied West Bank met this week for the first gathering of its kind in years. Their mission: to allow Mahmoud Abbas, the aging Palestinian Authority president, to appoint a longtime loyalist to a…

An Israeli airstrike flattened a three-storey home in Gaza City on Saturday, killing 10 people — half of them children — as Arab mediators scrambled to restart a ceasefire.Israeli strikes killed at least 49 people in the past 24 hours,…

Jagmeet Singh says he was warned by the RCMP about a credible threat to his life and placed under police protection two winters ago — and that he considered stepping down as leader of the NDP."When I got that threat, I was floored," Singh…

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Vatican City for the funeral of Pope Francis, met one on one in a marble-lined basilica on Saturday to try to revive faltering efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine…

A massive explosion at a port in southern Iran on Saturday killed at least four people and injured more than 500, according to state media.The exact cause of the blast at the Shahid Rajaee port in the city of Bandar Abbas was not…

Archie Comics has printed 250 copies of a special edition book for a fundraiser organized by the Harbour Breton Volunteer Fire Department. (Archie Comics/Submitted by Kevin Hickey)A volunteer fire department in Newfoundland is hosting a…

A massive explosion and fire rocked a port in southern Iran on Saturday, killing at least four people and injuring more than 500 others, state television reported.The blast happened at the Shahid Rajaei port just outside Bandar Abbas, a…

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Saturday vowed to realize wage hikes that keep up with the soaring cost of living, at his first May Day event since taking office last autumn."We'll definitely realize…

Karthik Babu Menon is ready to vote in his first-ever federal election, but he's not just thinking about how to mark his ballot, but also about the potential challenges he might face in getting into the voting booth.In previous elections,…

Many members of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Cabinet, including the prime minister himself, will be out of the country during the Golden Week holiday period.Ishiba plus 14 Cabinet ministers have…

DUBAI – At least 281 people were injured after a large explosion rocked Shahid Rajaee port in the southern Iranian city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, state media…

At 82, Isabel Allende is one of the world’s most beloved and best-selling Spanish-language authors. Her work has been translated into more than 40 languages, and 80 million copies of her books have been sold around the world. That’s a lot…

Mark Carney flirted with Canadian politics even as he built a career overseas, rejecting offers to join cabinets at least twice.Then in January, President Trump, threatening tariffs and annexation against Canada, brewed a crisis that seemed…

With the end of the election campaign in sight, I asked David Coletto, the head of the polling firm Abacus Data, what stood out for him. His answer, given the exceptional political and economic turmoil in Canada, was a bit surprising.“As…

As Election Day in Canada looms on Monday, support for the two major parties has started to converge in the polls, yet the race appears to remain the Liberal Party’s to lose.Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party now leads the…

The first ominous signs at the Jet Set nightclub came around midnight, when sprinkles of plaster and water from the ceiling landed on some of the hundreds of bankers, politicians, civil servants and former baseball players crowded inside…

When Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope in 2013, his vision for human justice and equality was so entwined with nature that he chose the papal name Francis, honoring the patron saint of…

Paris – Major economies are overstating how much carbon their forests can absorb in a climate accounting fudge that could allow them to use even more fossil fuels,…