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JERUSALEM - Israeli media say Jonathan Pollard, who spent 30 years in U.S. prison for spying for Israel, has landed in the country with his wife. The U.S. Justice Department announced in November that...

BEIJING - A Chinese court has sentenced 10 people who sought to flee Hong Kong by speedboat earlier this year to between seven months and three years in prison. The Yantian District Court in the south...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The decades-long fight by Argentine women's groups for legal abortion was being decided by the Senate in a debate that spilled into the early hours of Wednesday before a vote...

NEW DELHI - The men arrived first. And they arrived with a bang. Tens of thousands of them, marching like an army, driving trucks and trailers, prepared to choke key highways that feed into India's bu...

TEHRAN, Iran - As the coronavirus pandemic ravages Iran, home to the Mideast's worst outbreak, a women's group hopes to empower its members by helping them make and sell face masks. The organization c...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Luke Letlow, Louisiana's newest Republican member of the U.S. House, died Tuesday night from complications related to COVID-19 only days before being sworn into office. He was 41 ye...

PHILADELPHIA - Joel Embiid scored 29 points to lift the Philadelphia 76ers over Toronto 100-93 on Tuesday, and the Raptors remain winless three games into the NBA season. Kyle Lowry had 24 points, nin...

PRINCE GEORGE - It's 7:30 in the morning, and while much of the city is calm and quiet, the slicing of blades on ice echoes through the air at the Outdoor Ice Oval. It's here that some of our regions'...

EDMONTON - Quinton Byfield had two goals and four assists in Canada's 10-0 win over Switzerland at the world junior men's hockey championship Tuesday. Jakob Pelletier scored twice for Canada (3-0). Co...

PRINCE GEORGE - It hasn't been easy for Marty Ashfield to get the money BC Premier John Horgan promised in the BC Recovery Benefit."I filled out the application and gave them everything they wanted, t...