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TOKYO - The Olympic flame is set to arrive in Japan from Greece even as the opening of the Tokyo Games in four months is in doubt with more voices calling for the event to be postponed or cancelled be...

TOKYO - The Olympic flame is set to arrive in Japan from Greece even as the opening of the Tokyo Games in four months is in doubt with more voices calling for the event to be postponed or cancelled be...

RIO DE JANEIRO - After questioning the seriousness of COVID-19, defying his own health ministry's recommendations and denouncing a "certain hysteria," Brazil's president is now projecting himself as l...

TORONTO - Major League Rugby has called off the remainder of the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Commissioner George Killebrew calls it the correct decision given the health and safety risks...

MARSEILLE, France - A trans-Atlantic cruise ship carrying several COVID-19 cases among its passengers and with dozens of Canadians aboard has docked in the French Mediterranean port city of Marseille....

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 8:45 a.m. British Columbia's Municipal Affairs Ministry has cancelled three municipal byelections and a referendum in fou...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. military says it is pausing the movement of any new troops into Afghanistan and is quarantining 1,500 troops and civilians who recently arrived in order to protect them from the ...

OTTAWA - Closure of the world's longest undefended border will begin in earnest today as Canada and the United States work out the details of banning non-essential travel between the two countries. Pr...

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 5:30 a.m. ET on March 19, 2020: There are 727 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ British Columbia: 23...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of March 19 ... COV...