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Canada and the Philippines have concluded talks for a free-trade agreement, which is expected to be formally signed next year.

A London, Ont., father and daughter who have been fundraising for a major surgery in the United States have now surpassed their goal and are moving ahead with a potentially life-changing procedure that no doctor in Canada would perform.

A new report says Canadian students are still feeling the impact of the COVID pandemic's massive upset to their schooling, with declining achievement — particularly in math — and a discrepancy between standardized test scores and the grades kids receive in class.

Self-described "Crypto King" Aiden Pleterski described being beaten with a gun and tortured with knives and a lighter in the back of a truck as he began his testimony at the trial of his alleged kidnappers Friday in Toronto.

New Brunswick RCMP have released the photo of a Moncton man facing several charges in connection with a child luring investigation, as well as a list of communities he has "spent time in" across Canada to encourage people with information to come forward.

Alberta's government is asking a judge to strike down a First Nation's constitutional challenge of its sovereignty act, arguing the law hasn't had any impact on treaty rights.

Santander said in an Instagram post Friday that reflection and conversations with people he trusts made him recognize he should have been more thoughtful about what he shared.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday he was frustrated with the Commerce Department's delay in placing restrictions on Nvidia chip exports to a company led by an alleged Chinese spy.

A tanker in New Orleans that apparently lost its steering slammed into a docked river cruise boat with 180 people aboard Friday, the mayor said. All aboard survived after the crash prompted a massive rescue operation for passengers and crew who plunged into the Mississippi River as the ship took on water and began to topple over.

Some flights diverted to Canada; no evidence cyberattack to blame for air traffic control issues, American officials say

More than 10,000 flights were delayed or cancelled; no evidence cyberattack to blame for air traffic control issues, U.S. officials say

International flights will be managed on a case-by-case basis, Federal Aviation Administration says

Everyone aboard survived and 32 people were sent to hospital after boat left partially submerged in Mississippi River

Incoming Manchester United coach Mauricio Pochettino teared up at a news conference on Friday.

Justices take up Trump’s appeal of lower court ruling that he exceeded his authority with U.S.-Mexico border move

A widespread outage hit Microsoft platforms including Outlook on Nov. 12, with many users encountering trouble using their e-mail accounts and other errors across the tech giant’s suite of apps. Here are some social media reactions to the global outage.

A road trip along the frontier between democracy and authoritarianism took us from a nuclear bunker in Finland to a dying city in Ukraine

Sergei Zavorotnyi was former prime minister Mykola Azarov’s aide

Turkey is striving to place a proposal to expand global electrification, saying the plan will lead to emissions cuts

Many businesses and consumers were unable to communicate through digital channels as a global outage of some Microsoft services left people scrambling.

'The vessel was approximately 500 nautical miles from the area where she was believed to have entered the water,' the U.S. Coast Guard told Global News.

A global outage for Microsoft web services continued to disrupt email accounts and some other applications worldwide on Friday, while the broader stock market remains unsteady.

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress said it was disgraceful that Father Vladimir Malchenko shook hands with Putin two days after Russia bombed a school in Ukraine, killing 55.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) said 'cultivation' — which includes romantic entanglements — is an effective tool deployed by intelligence services.

A police helicopter crew found William, who has Level 2 autism, lying asleep on a flat rock beside a creek and he was later reunited with his mother.

The statement appears to close the door on Russia's return to the world juniors after last month's court ruling that the IIHF must reinstate the country in international hockey.

U.S. officials say they are determined to revive Washington’s peace efforts that so far have failed to deliver significant results.

Schools in Italy were evacuated, Northern Ireland and Scotland also received similar threats, but no evacuations were reported, according to the Associated Press.

A statement described Darchiev as “an outstanding diplomat, experienced leader, good comrade and mentor,” as well as a brilliant scholar of U.S. affairs.

The G.O.P. was able to avoid more House midterm losses — on top of the advantage it already had from gerrymandering.

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins made a name for himself as a coalition builder willing to raise alarms about his state’s dire fiscal straits.

As retirees live longer, governments need to spend more on pensions. That makes it harder to fund other services, spurring protests like those planned this weekend in France.

The air traffic control system’s overloaded, antiquated telecommunications equipment sustained its latest widespread failure, prompting a call for more money to fuel faster upgrades.

The secretary of commerce is almost as responsible for Nvidia’s crisis as the fallen chief executive Jensen Huang.

Travelers are entitled to refunds if their flights are canceled, regardless of the reason, but airlines won’t guarantee other amenities, such as a hotel room or meal vouchers.

By winning approval for a three-story building, then seeking to add more stories, the Brooklyn developer was not subject to the more rigorous oversight required for larger projects.

The president plans to also discuss the war against Iran, but is not expected to bring up Russia’s war in Ukraine or the scandal that has engulfed Jensen Huang.

U.S. intelligence agencies believe a woman who had an affair with Jensen Huang was a Chinese asset. But there is much more that they are still assessing about her role.

Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana called it a “literal miracle on the Mississippi” that all of the nearly 200 people aboard the riverboat were rescued.

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop on Friday afternoon, disrupting thousands of departing of flights.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned this week after reports of multiple affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy, Alice Huang.

The test flight is SpaceX's first attempt to ​catch both the Super Heavy booster and upper stage spacecraft of the rocket at its launch site in Starbase, Texas.

The Republican-led Congress wants to see Jensen Huang in Washington before Democrats take control in January.

Jensen Huang’s resignation as Nvidia CEO has brought renewed scrutiny to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and his family's financial ties to the chipmaker.

Jensen Huang's resignation added to Nvidia's market woes, with the stock already in a downward slide since early October.

The report comes with Wall Street on edge over high-flying AI hyperscalers, while communities are on alert for the rapid spread of data centers.

Jensen Huang resigned as CEO of Nvidia on Thursday after coming under scrutiny for two extramarital affairs.

Treasury yields moved higher as investor expectations for a December rate hike by the Federal Reserve gain strength.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Wallet partners with American Express, Mastercard and Visa, and those cardholders keep their existing credit card rewards.

An investigation into David Walliams over reports of "alleged serious sexual offences" leads a number of Saturday's papers.

US officials say the disruption was caused by old equipment overloading and not a cyber-attack or a Microsoft outage.

Trump will discuss the "reduction of nuclear weapons" during the unprecedented talks, a spokeswoman says.

Aryna Sabalenka's season ends in disappointment as Elina Svitolina beats the former world number one to claim her place in the knockout stage at the WTA Finals.

Supermarkets have started selling Christmas trees - six weeks out from the big day.

The next title in the series is expected to be the biggest video game release ever.

How the parents of Keaton Slater, 12, battled to bring the man who killed him to justice.

It's a weekend of two halves with a cold start on Saturday giving way to wetter and milder day on Sunday.

Jojo was poached as an infant and grew up in captivity. His keepers want to find him a friend - but it's not straightforward.

Elon Musk’s company aborted an attempted catch of the rocket’s booster - instead it came down in the ocean.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said speed restrictions on Starshield ‘limit our ability to intercept jet-powered Shaheds and counter other drones’

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France's President Emmanuel Macron and other leaders are attending a biennial meeting of French-speaking countries and territories in Cambodia

Scientists stumbled onto a hint that measuring a toxic protein tied to Alzheimer’s disease just might one day be useful in diagnosing a different brain disease in football players and others who have suffered repeated blows to the head

Comedian Huang Yi-hao was involved in a car accident in September, but it turned out to be a deliberate attack

Passengers and airlines wait in limbo as flights are delayed and cancelled during a nationwide ground stop. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

India has set an ambitious goal to install enough clean energy to power over 1 billion homes by 2035

Argentina has begun its post-Messi era with a 2-1 loss to Uruguay in an international friendly

Bobby Pulido is a member-elect for the U.S. House of Representatives who has also recently won the Latin Grammy for best Tejano album

No deaths were reported after a massive tanker collided with paddlewheel cruise liner American Heritage steps away from a tourist-heavy downtown