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Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Feb. 27 --- WILSON-RAYBOULD TO TESTIFY ON SNC-LAVALIN AFFAIR Jody Wilson-Raybould is warning that she won't be able to speak freely today about e...

CAIRO - A speeding railcar crashed into a barrier at Cairo's main train station, causing its fuel tank to explode and triggering a huge fire that left at least 25 people dead on Wednesday, officials s...

BOGOTA - The United States is planning new ways to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to give up power and other means to provide assistance to the people of the economically devastated Sout...

DOHA, Qatar - U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad met with one of the founders of the Taliban for the first time on Monday ahead of the latest round of talks with the insurgents aimed at ending the 17-year wa...

RALEIGH, N.C. - The Poor People's Campaign will hold bus tours of poverty-stricken areas in more than 20 states to call attention to "what the national emergencies really are" in the wake of President...

Five stories in the news for Monday, Feb. 25 --- SINGH'S FATE IN HANDS OF BYELECTION VOTERS Jagmeet Singh's political fate, and the fortunes of the New Democratic Pa...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's president rejected the resignation of his foreign minister on Wednesday, throwing his full support behind the diplomat who negotiated the country's nuclear deal with world powers...

OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh tightened his shaky grip on the reins of the NDP Monday by winning a do-or-die federal byelection in British Columbia. But the challenge he now faces in reviving ...

REGINA - The deputy mayor of a Norwegian municipality with a sculpture that set off a mighty moose match with a Saskatchewan prairie city is to arrive for a visit later this week. Part of he...

OTTAWA - Jody Wilson-Raybould finally gets the chance today to "speak her truth" about the SNC-Lavalin affair, breaking a three-week silence that has fuelled a controversy based, so far, strictly...