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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal jury in New York began hearing testimony in the murder trial of a former New York police officer accused of masterminding the killing of four people — one strangled to death with a zip tie and three others shot execut...

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Unionized staff with the Iqaluit Housing Authority formed a picket line in chilly temperatures outside the housing office in the Nunavut capital Friday morning, demanding better wages. The Nunavut Employees Union, a component of t...

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The Seattle Sounders aim to continue their success at home against defending MLS Cup champion Los Angeles FC on Saturday afternoon when the Western Conference rivals meet. The Sounders (2-1-0, 6 points) have pieced together a six-game home points streak (...

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ATHENS — Greek veterinarians are fighting to save a white tiger cub abandoned in a rubbish bin at an Athens zoo, believed to be a victim of the illegal wildlife trade. The three-month old white tiger was found on Feb. 28 under a garbage bin in the p...

Hexo Corp.'s chief executive says he's seen a "price war" take shape over the last five months that could cause "significant"; damage to Canada's cannabis industry. "No one wins in a price war," Charlie Bowman told analy...

QUITO — Ecuador has secured $150 million in financing to manage its expanded marine reserve around the Galapagos, but remains open to blue bonds to benefit the environmentally sensitive area, Environment Minister Gustavo Manrique said Friday. The So...

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — The main U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led force in northeastern Syria said Friday it lost nine fighters, including a commander, when two helicopters crashed this week in neighboring Iraq. The group known as Syrian Democratic Forces...

SANDVIKEN, Sweden — Kerri Einarson's quest to complete unfinished business at the women's world curling championship starts Saturday against a familiar opponent. Canada opens against the host Swedes skipped by Anna Hasselborg. Einarson edged...

Two sources close to the Florida governor brought to light his idiosyncratic eating habits that may linger in the mind long after the table is cleared...

THE HAGUE (AP) — The International Criminal Court said Friday it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes because of his alleged involvement in abductions of children from Ukraine. The court said in a statemen...

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A spot in the NIT quarterfinals will be on the line Saturday afternoon when Kobe Bufkin, Dug McDaniel and No. 3 seed Michigan visit Tyrin Lawrence and No. 2 seed Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn. Bufkin tallied 23 points, eight rebounds and five assists for ...

'We are recruiting fighters from all regions of Russia,' the ad said, and appealed for people to stop watching porn and join the war...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer serving time for the 2020 murder of George Floyd pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of tax evasion. Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting, failing to file tax returns to the sta...

ANKARA — President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey's parliament will begin ratifying Finland's NATO bid, but not that of Sweden, removing the biggest remaining hurdle to enlarging the Western defense alliance as war continues to ra...

States that rely on water from the over-tapped Colorado River want the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lawsuit from the Navajo Nation that could upend how water is shared in the Western U.S. The tribe doesn't have enough water and says that the federal ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man who shot at two convenience stores hoping to kill Arab and Black people has been sentenced to serve 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal hate crime charge. Larry Edward Foxworth, 48, fired a Glock pistol...

(Adds background on U.S.-Venezuela relations, previous funding) WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) The United States plans to pledge over $171 million in funding for Venezuela at a donor conference on Friday in Brussels, a U.S. official told Reuters, as the c...

MADRID/BARCELONA — Spain is in the grip of a long-term drought after 36 months of below-average rainfall, with some parts so parched that officials have asked people to cut water use and meteorologists warn of worse to come. Some reservoirs in Catal...

New analysis of samples from market in Wuhan, China, suggests the animals there were infected...

If you woke up one morning and found yourself with an extra room in your house, with a high ceiling and easy access to the rest of the place, what would you do with it? As some homeowners in the GTA are discovering, the extra space has been there all alon...

Oh, Danny boy, 'tis the time of year when Irish bagpipes will be calling in the concrete glens of New York City, across the swooning boughs of Savannah, Georgia, and in the halls of the White House as the U.S. celebrate St. Patrick's Day with para...

CHISINAU — President Maia Sandu said on Friday she saw no danger of war in Moldova while Russia is fighting in Ukraine, despite what she said were Russian efforts to destabilize her country. Issuing a rallying cry during a speech to parliament, Sand...

From the moment Justin Trudeau became a politician, the foundation began experiencing a surge of unsolicited cash that hasn't really stopped...

BEIRUT — Lebanon's central bank governor on Friday told European officials that public funds were not transferred to a company owned by his brother and said no money from the institution entered his own personal account. Salameh, 72, is being in...

MILAN (AP) — Premier Giorgia Meloni on Friday became the first Italian leader in nearly 30 years to address the annual meeting of the nation's largest, oldest and most left-wing CGIL union confederation. Meloni, who heads post-war Italy's fi...

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BERLIN (AP) — Lawmakers in Germany approved electoral reforms Friday that would educe the size of the country's increasingly bloated parliament, but two opposition parties were vehemently critical and the plan is expected to face a court challen...

BEIJING (AP) — China appealed Friday to other governments to treat its companies fairly after Britain and New Zealand joined the United States in restricting use of TikTok due to fears the Chinese-owned short video service might be a security risk. ...

LONDON — Prince Harry's lawyers told a London court on Friday that publisher Associated Newspapers had no viable defense to his libel claim over an article about his security arrangements, as the British royal seeks to win his case without a tri...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian fighter pilots involved in an incident with a U.S. drone that resulted in its crash will be given state awards, the Defense Ministry announced Friday, The move appears to signal Moscow's intention to adopt a more aggressive...

Recovering from his near-fatal snowplough accident, Renner reportedly told friends he now wants to focus on changing the world...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Centuries-old cultural artifacts that had been illegally smuggled out from Cambodia were welcomed home Friday at a celebration led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who offered thanks for their return and appealed for further ef...

NEW DELHI/TOKYO — Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will on Monday announce a new plan for an open and free Indo-Pacific in New Delhi and seek India's support to partner with Tokyo to check China's growing influence across the region....

KABUL/DUBAI — Dozens of Afghan businesswomen took part in an exhibition in Dubai remotely this week to promote carpets, jewelry, dried fruit and other handmade goods as part of a push to access international markets after work options for women shru...

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A United States envoy of Friday urged Serbia and Kosovo to implement a European Union-facilitated agreement on normalizing their relations, calling it the best option to preserve peace and security in the region. Envoy Gabrie...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of elite officers in Israel's military reserves say they will not show up for duty starting on Sunday in protest over the government's plans to overhaul the judicial system. The firm date is the first time set for a...

PARIS — Set at foot of the Pyrenees mountains, Lake Montbel is famous in south-west France for its turquoise waters, massive size and thriving aquatic life. But as spring nears, the postcard landscape has largely turned into a muddy wasteland, with ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's response to the failure of two large banks has already involved hundreds of billions of dollars. So will ordinary Americans end up paying for it, one way or another? And what will the price tag be? It could be ...

The Kremlin said on Friday that Ukraine was "illegally attacking" the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) which until recently accepted the authority of the patriarch of Moscow adding that this confirmed the need for its "special military operatio...

Slovakia on Friday became the second of Ukraine's allies to provide MIG-29 fighter jets which Kyiv believes are crucial to repel Russia's year-long invasion. Slovakia joined Poland, which announced its delivery of the planes on Thursday. Both the ...

ATCHAFALAYA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, La. (AP) — Stacks of valves, networks of pipes and hulking, two-story-tall tanks litter parts of the swampy landscape of Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin, rusting relics of sites where oil wells were drilled in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a champion for women's rights whose death ahead of the 2020 election allowed the Supreme Court to become more conservative, will be remembered during ceremonies Friday at the high court. Ginsburg, w...

WASHINGTON — A new judge takes over leadership of the U.S. trial court in Washington on Friday, inheriting oversight of secret proceedings involving special counsel criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump's retention of classi...

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WASHINGTON — A Republican proposal to cancel unspent COVID-19 relief money could undercut healthcare for military veterans and pensions for blue-collar workers while doing little to improve the U.S. fiscal picture, a Reuters review of federal spendi...

'At its core, TikTok functions as a sophisticated surveillance tool that harvests extensive amounts of personal and sensitive data'...