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Five things about Canada's canola industry

The change threatened to have a negative effect on Canada's multibillion-dollar canola exports to China. Trudeau yesterday hailed a new era in relations with ...

Donald Trump insists Mexico will pay for border wall

Don't expect Trump to admit he was given a big fat no from Mexico on wall funding. "We have no idea where they're coming from, we have no idea who they are"...

90-year-old passenger killed in crash along Rt. 196

Her passenger, 90-year-old Jean Brusila, was pronounced dead at the scene. The SUV being driven by Cyr continued traveling on the eastbound side of Route 196 ...

Kidnapped Pa. wife shot dead had feared husband would kill her

A Washington County woman was allegedly abducted by her husband and police are asking for the public's help to locate them. A Pennsylvania woman was found s...

Tropical tracker: Watching 3 storms, 1 may come close to NYC

Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said Monday. Residents and businesses along the coast should be rapidly making preparations today , such as ...

Austrian economy minister adds his 'nein' to US trade talks debate

Although Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel is in favour of the deal, the country's minister of economy and vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said at a press con...

Luiz to Chelsea wraps up Europe's soccer transfer window

Spending by Premier League clubs has broken through the one billion pounds (1.17 billion euros, $1.3 billion) barrier in one window for the first time and Eng...

Tropical Storm Hermine Takes Aim at Florida, Threatens East Coast

In addition to the hurricane-force winds, forecasters said the storm could bring "life-threatening inundation within the next 36 hours along the Gulf coast of F...

Obama Must Listen to Me on Human Rights: Philippines' Duterte

Obama on the sidelines of an East Asia summit on September 6, Mr. Duterte told reporters: "Depends to what degree". "He eats threats for breakfast". The revel...

Brazilian President Rousseff Stripped Of Office

Three hours later, Temer - her center-right former vice president and one time crucial coalition partner whom she now accuses of orchestrating a coup against he...

Famed French photographer Marc Riboud dies aged 93

A visitor looks at photographs at the exhibition "Cuba" by French photographer and reporter Marc Riboud, on August 31, 2016, during the 28th Visa pour l'Image g...

Donald Trump: Mexico will pay for wall, '100 percent'

Peña Nieto hinted at that, saying that both countries should bump up investments to increase infrastructure, personnel, and technology along the border to make ...

Curfew imposed in three places in Kashmir

Danish Manzoor, reportedly between 17 and 19 years as officials could not confirm his age, was killed when the troops opened fire to disperse the mob that wasn'...

Woman charged after infant dies while at unlicensed day care

Police and EMS responded to the 800 block of Levy Loop just before noon on August 15. They administered CPR, but it was too late. According to police, there w...

Obama's refugee program under pressure to reach resettlement goal

His family is among a group that includes the 10-thousandth refugee admitted to the USA from Syria, in the one year period that will end on October first. "A ...

Trump says he, Mexican leader discussed border wall but not who pays

Trump insisted he'd revoke President Barack Obama's executive actions allowing those immigrants to remain in the country. The hastily announced visit to Mexi...

USA senators McCain and Rubio win Republican primaries

He faces a tough Democratic challenge in the November general election from U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick. But the contest between Ward and McCain was often oversha...

Gabon electoral commission count shows Bongo victor

Gabon does not have a run-off system, so the candidate with the most votes in the 10-candidate field wins the election. "The (Bongo) family are repeating same...

Storm Lester becomes a hurricane in the Pacific, says USA monitor

The Hurricane Center gave the weak disturbance a 10 percent chance of becoming a tropical system before it reaches southeast Texas by Sunday. Invest 99 is n...

Historic commercial flight from US to Cuba set to take off

Delta will begin daily service to Havana, Cuba, from Atlanta, Miami and New York-JFK on December 1, 2016, following today's announcement by the U.S. Cuban off...

Dilma Rousseff stripped of Brazil presidency in historic impeachment vote

Brazil's Senate on Wednesday voted to permanently remove Rousseff from office, 61-20, more than the 54 votes they needed. Brazil's first female president i...

Trump changes mind again, says he'll deport all illegal immigrants

But the speech might have done little to appeal to the broader electorate - especially suburban white voters who could be crucial on Election Day. In his spee...

Top North Korean official executed for 'bad sitting posture'

Two other senior officials reportedly were punished. This story comes from Seoul's Unification Ministry spokesman, who said , "Kim Yong-Jin was denounced for h...

Trump Still Says Mexico Will Pay For Wall - Mexico Begs To Differ

Trump is claiming that 13,000 people in the US illegally who were ordered back to their home counties remained in the USA between 2008 and 2012, and committed m...

Syrian rebels advance further toward government-held Hama city: monitor, rebels

The strategically important town of Halfaya in western Syria's Hama Province has fallen to a group of Islamist rebels dominated by the al-Qaeda-linked Jund al...

Pena Nieto Blasts Trump Hours After Meeting

He was measured and soft-spoken, nearly deferential as he read carefully off prepared notes. Republican nominee Donald Trump promised a new, positive relation...

Israeli soldier shot, wounded at West Bank shrine

Sixteen buses of Jewish worshippers had traveled to Nablus for the visit, which was coordinated by the IDF, Border Police, and the Coordinator of Government Act...

Impeachment is a 'coup', says Brazil's suspended president

Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff on Monday spoke in her own defense at her impeachment trial, denouncing the process as an attempted "coup d'etat". "...

Gov't negotiator urges all Colombians to vote in peace deal referendum

Under the agreement, FARC - the Spanish acronym for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - will lay down their weapons, leave their jungle camps and slowl...

Trump outlines hardline position on illegal immigration

Trump said he and Peña Nieto discussed the need for both countries to stem illegal immigration and said he viewed a wall as a sovereign right. In his highly a...

Major Belfast blaze 'could last for days'

Fire fighters believe the fire could last for days due to the volume of household waste involved. Reports appeared on social media about huge plumes of black ...

ME governor Paul LePage considers leaving office after racial remarks

The Maine Republican repeatedly apologized to the Democratic state lawmaker, Rep. Governor LePage has called the obscenity-laced voicemail he left for a state...

#VeteransForKaepernick Emerges In Support Of Colin Kaepernick

I have listened to and read all manner of so-called patriots rant about the disrespect shown by 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick by not standing for the nat...

Teenager killed as fresh protests erupt in Valley

Fresh clashes occurred even as authorities lifted curfew from all areas of Kashmir on Wednesday after 53 days. Danish Manzoor and six other people sustained i...

Thousands jam Lake Tahoe arena for Obama speech at summit

Midway sits inside the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, which President George W. Bush created and Obama expanded ahead of his trip to make it the wo...