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JERUSALEM - The Israeli military said it intercepted four incoming rockets from Syria on Tuesday and explosions were heard shortly after that in Damascus, a week after another Israeli strike targeted ...

ISLAMABAD - The Taliban on Tuesday freed an American and an Australian held hostage since 2016 in exchange for three top Taliban figures - a move that the insurgent group asserted could help rekindle ...

LAHORE, Pakistan - Pakistan's ailing former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was convicted of corruption, left the country on Tuesday to travel to London for medical treatment. The 69-year-old Sharif,...

WINNIPEG - Three Manitoba liquor store workers were assaulted and one was taken to hospital in what the province's Crown corporation calls an unprovoked attack. It happened in Winnipeg on Wednesday&nb...

CALGARY - Winnipeg Blue Bombers general manager Kyle Walters says he and Mike O'Shea have a verbal agreement to extend his head-coaching contract, but not a signed one. O'Shea has navigated the Blue B...

TORONTO - Orlando's road woes continued Wednesday with a painful twist. The Magic dropped to 0-5 away from home after a 113-97 loss in Toronto that saw all-star centre Nikola Vucevic and forward ...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact acquired Honduran international winger and forward Romell Quioto from the Houston Dynamo on Wednesday in exchange for Argentine defender Victor Cabrera and $10...

VANCOUVER - They Vancouver Whitecaps reached to a transfer agreement with South Korean K League 1 club Suwon Samsung Bluewings for Canadian centre back Doneil Henry on Wednesday. The Whitecaps al...

TORONTO - Lawyers for a group of Canadians affected by cancer they blame on exposure to a weed killer have filed three proposed class-action lawsuits against the product's manufacturer, alle...

HONG KONG - A small but determined group of protesters is remaining inside a Hong Kong university campus, resisting pleas to turn themselves in to police. At least a few dozen were believed to still b...