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OTTAWA - The Conservative Party of Canada is adding police checks to its candidate vetting policies The party hired lawyer Carol Nielsen more than a year ago to probe how Rick Dykstra was allowed...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals promised Wednesday to give Canada's canola farmers financial aid to lessen the impact of China's decision to ban their products as part of a trade dis...

GENEVA - Ebola deaths in Congo's latest outbreak are expected to exceed 1,000 later on Friday, the World Health Organization announced, as attacks continue on health workers trying to contain the viru...

MONTREAL - It hasn't been pretty, but the results are just fine for Montreal Impact manager Remi Garde. "We don't have the most flamboyant game in Major League Soccer," Garde said. "(But) if we contin...

GENEVA - The sports world's highest court ruled Wednesday that Olympic champion Caster Semenya and other female runners like her with unusually high testosterone must take medication to reduce their l...

GENEVA - The sports world's highest court ruled Wednesday that Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya and other female runners like her with unusually high testosterone must take medication to reduce t...

SECAUCUS, N.J. - The familiar red-and-black uniforms are gone, replaced by suits and ties, and lapel microphones and pens are in place instead of skates and sticks. On a nearby wall is a reminder of t...

Three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka says there has been a "worrying decline in moral standards" in tennis as "politics have overshadowed the action on the courts." In a letter published Frida...

KOLKATA, India - Cyclone Fani tore through India's eastern coast on Friday as a grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and winds gusting up to 205 kilometres (127 miles) per hour and affecting weath...

LOS ANGELES - A spinoff of the ABC sitcom "black-ish" will focus on a young Rainbow Johnson and her challenges growing up in the 1980s. ABC said Thursday that the new series, titled "mixed-ish," will ...