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Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Ugandan authorities on Wednesday ordered the closure of the border with Congo “with immediate effect” as …

Ken Schmahl has lived in the United States all his life, but his roots are firmly in New Brunswick. He remembers hearing stories about the farm his grandmother grew up on in Johnville, 15 kilometres outside Florenceville-Bristol, and has spent time researching his family’s New Brunswick history. So it was …

पश्चिम एशिया में जारी युद्ध का असर अब आम आदमी की रसोई तक पहुंच गया है। खाद्य तेलों की कीमतों में पिछले एक महीने में 15 से 20 रुपये प्रति किलो तक का उछाल दर्ज किया गया है। कारोबारियों का कहना है कि यदि हालात जल्द नहीं सुधरे तो कीमतों …

Winnipeg gold retailers are unusually busy as customers sell off or invest in gold amid rising prices, but businesses are also wrestling with ways to make their goods more attainable.  “It is a roller-coaster,” said Paul Szurlej, co-owner of Golden Hand Jewellery in Winnipeg. “People are selling, people are trading, …

Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A coastal flooding alert is in place this weekend for B.C.’s South Coast, including Metro Vancouver …

Japan deployed troops on Wednesday to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in a mountainous region in the northern prefecture of Akita. Reports of sometimes deadly encounters with brown bears and Asiatic black bears are being reported almost daily ahead of hibernation season as the …

The sight of armed, camouflaged and masked border patrol agents making arrests near famous downtown Chicago landmarks has amplified concerns about the Trump administration’s growing federal intervention across U.S. cities. As Illinois leaders warned Monday of a National Guard deployment, residents in the nation’s third-largest city met a brazen weekend escalation of immigration …

Canadian-born Hashim Akbar first shot his grandfather’s gun as a child while visiting Pakistan. “It was obviously scary. I was a small child, but it was also very exciting as well. There’s … a lot of adrenalin that goes through someone’s body,” said Akbar, 23, vice-president of the Simon Fraser Sports …

Evidence of Americans’ souring mood is everywhere you look. Even in the place you look for evidence: Google. An unprecedented number of Americans are now googling the word “tariff,” an issue of minimal interest to them during last year’s presidential election. There’s an even scarier word they’re now Googling: “recession,” a search trend …

Quebec Premier François Legault is warning that U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs would hurt not only the Canadian economy — but the U.S. economy as well. In an op-ed Wednesday in the U.S. publication The Hill, Legault made the case that tariffs on Canadian imports would hurt “the American economy, …