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Canada refutes USA claims of unfair dairy trade

Canada's dairy farmers and processors, including Saputo Inc SAP.TO and Parmalat Canada [PLTPRC.UL], struck a pricing agreement in 2016 that industry groups in ...

Trump won't say if he'll sign funding bill without border wall money

It remained unclear Sunday whether moderates within the GOP could convince the White House to avoid a shutdown. In a pair of tweets, Trump attacked Democrats ...

Abe, Pence united on North Korea stance

The vice president's comments come after he spoke to USA and Japanese troops on board the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier earlier in the day. Yet I'm anxio...

Aaron Hernandez's Brain Will Be Donated To CTE Research

Attorneys representing Aaron Hernandez's family are heading to Superior Court on Friday. The Boston Globe says Hernandez attorney Ronald Sullivan wrote in...

Amid violence, EC defers Anantnag LS bypoll to May 25

The by-polls in the three districts of Srinagar, Budgam and Ganderbal saw the lowest voter turn out percentage in nearly 30 years and was marred by widespread v...

Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway postponed to Monday

The race is now scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. on April 23, and it appears FOX will still televise it instead of kicking it to Fox Sports 1. This is the second ...

Revolt first success in 'dharma yudh' against Sasikala: OPS

The Supreme Court by dismissing the Karnataka government's review petition in J Jayalalitha's Disproportionate Assets case without giving an opportunity to the ...

Afghan army chief, defense minister resign following attack

Eight days after the USA military dropped its largest ever conventional bomb on suspected Islamic State fighters in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban militants breac...

Le Pen, Macron projected to advance in French elections

Her ambitions have led observers to predict that a Le Pen victory could be a fatal blow for the European Union, already weakened by Britain's vote to leave. Off...

Trump unlikely to upend Iran deal, says lead negotiator

He again called the nuclear deal a "terrible agreement", but he hasn't withdrawn the USA from the accord. The exchange came a day after U.S. secretary of stat...

Macron and Le Pen spark French revolution in fight for presidency

Marine Le Pen delivers a speech after early results in the first round of 2017 French presidential election, in Henin-Beaumont, France . She said her Natio...

British PM May refuses to rule out personal tax hikes after election

It comes after chancellor Philip Hammond said yesterday that there should be "flexibility to manage the system" of taxation . "At this election people are go...

Palestinian prisoners launch mass hunger strike in Israeli jails

Israeli security forces have detained around one million Palestinians in the nearly 69 years since the Jewish state was established in 1948, Palestinian prisone...

Iranian candidate says nuclear deal failed to lift sanctions

Absent from the race is the former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was disqualified from the election on Thursday. "It plays relatively well f...

Call for probation for Jakarta governor

The controversy is considered the key factor behind Purnama's election loss to Anies Baswedan, a former education minister. "Let's end the divide in Jakarta ...

Russia: Talks with USA won't lead to immediate action

Putin also said on Russian TV that the level of trust has "deteriorated". The talks got off to a frosty start, with the Russian politician branding the Americ...

North Korea army vows 'merciless' response to USA provocation

After a two-month policy review, officials settled on a policy dubbed "maximum pressure and engagement", USA officials said Friday. The administration's empha...

Most Americans think marijuana should be legal, oppose federal crackdowns on sales

Only the elderly age 65 and older believe that marijuana should still be illegal, with only 37 percent approving of legalization. "And only 23 percent think leg...

North Korea reportedly detains USA citizen

The Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang, which represents US interests there because the United States does not have diplomatic relations with North Korea, confirmed t...

Iran 'not living up to the spirit' of nuclear deal, despite compliance

The announcement comes as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson accused Iran of "alarming ongoing provocations" to destabilise countries in the Middle East as the...

French vote for president in litmus test for Europe's future

The election is taking place amid heightened security. Nine other candidates were eliminated. The current president, Socialist Francois Hollande, is not among t...

Dinakaran ousted from AIADMK Amma, he calls meeting of party MLAs

The Panneerselvam camp on Thursday discussed the developments in the ruling AIADMK, which has chose to sideline Sasikala and Dinakaran and let a panel of leader...

SC reinstates Senkumar as Kerala DGP

The Kerala government had defended its decision to transfer Senkumar, arguing that he had protected "erring" police officials in the 2016 Puttingal temple fire ...

Turkish activists post videos of alleged poll fraud in referendum

Mr. Erdogan and his allies say their victory will help bring stability and prosperity to the country, while their critics argue that it will give the president ...

BJP clean sweep in civic polls, rout for AAP

Asked why she voted for BJP, she said: "BJP has selected new candidates this time so I thought of giving them another chance". Saying the complaints against E...

WRAPUP 1-Carrier group heads for Korean waters as Trump calls leaders

In a statement released late Friday, North Korea's Foreign Ministry accused Trump of driving the region into an "extremely risky phase" with his sending of the ...

Snap UK General Election Is a Desperate Attempt to Derail Scottish Independence

No doubt she will be pressed during the campaign to tell her supporters more clearly what they are voting for; but for the same reasons she made a decision to c...

'At least 68 children' among 126 killed in Syria bus bomb attack

People had been stranded at two transit points on the outskirts of Aleppo after an agreement between the warring sides stalled. The convoy was carrying resi...

Security Dominates French Election After Shooting

National police spokesman Jerome Bonet, also speaking on BFM television, said thousands of people were on Paris' iconic boulevard when the gunman opened fire an...

Ontario's New Fair Housing Plan Aims to Stabilize Heated Market

Numerous measures Premier Wynne will announce this morning were also reported by CBC's Queens Park reporter Mike Crawley. The plan introduces a new 15 per c...

North Korea threatens Australia with nuclear strike

Despite Washington's threats, North Korea remain undeterred: days ago, when the USA vice president was flying over the Korean region's airspace, Pyongyang att...

N.Korea detains U.S. citizen; at least 3rd American being held

Despite the near instantaneous failure of the missile launch, it represented the latest violation of worldwide sanctions banning Pyongyang's efforts to develo...

Turkey detains leftist activists after 'No' protests: lawyer

Speaking to CNN , he said: 'Where dictatorships exist, you don't have to have a presidential system. Sunday's referendum narrowly backed the largest overhaul...

Security tight as France plans to vote

Le Pen said Sunday her National Front party will represent "the great alternative" to the French people. Emmanuel Macron has won the first round of the Fren...

France votes to elect a new President

While constitutional obstacles would make it hard for her to uncouple France from the European Union, a Le Pen victory could nonetheless be fatal for the Europe...