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OTTAWA - Internal Finance Department documents show officials have deep concerns about the effect of Facebook's planned digital currency on Canada's financial stability. Officials wrote in the briefin...

The plight of a mammoth container ship stuck in Egypt's Suez Canal has highlighted still more pressure points in global trade, a year after supply chains were disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Sa...

Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration's head of the Department of Homeland Security and members of the department's cybersecurity staff whose ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Politicians and friends in the Czech Republic have paid tribute to Petr Kellner, the country's richest man, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Alaska. He was 56. Kellner ...

BEIJING - China stepped up pressure Monday on foreign shoe and clothing brands to reject reports of abuses in Xinjiang, telling companies that are targeted by Beijing for boycotts to look more closely...

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has blamed her country's difficulties during the coronavirus pandemic - from the slow vaccine rollout to the back-and-forth over lockdown rules - partly on "a ...

PARIS - A French pharmaceutical company on Monday was ordered to pay hundreds of millions of euros in damages and fines for its role in one of the nation's biggest modern health scandals, with a Paris...

LONDON - It's been dubbed Happy Monday - the day people could put on a bathing suit and swim in an outdoor pool for the first time in months, or rusty golfers strove to hit their drives down the middl...

EDMONTON - The posting for a new high-level Alberta government job supposed to help the province align with environmental concerns from financial markets seems more about talk than action, observers s...

GENEVA - A joint World Health Organization-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a ...