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OTTAWA - The United States unveiled details of its first global donations of COVID-19 vaccines Thursday, with plans to ship 19 million doses through the COVAX vaccine-sharing alliance and another six ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. will donate 75% of its unused COVID-19 vaccines to the U.N.-backed COVAX global vaccine sharing program, President Joe Biden announced Thursday as more Americans have been v...

OTTAWA - Canada's top military commander says he is starting to see "cracks" as the Canadian Armed Forces faces a confluence of challenges - many of them unprecedented - both at home and abroad. In an...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 5:55 p.m. Alberta health officials are reporting 296 new cases of COVID-19 and five new deaths. The province says there are 411 ...

The Cannes Film Festival on Thursday unveiled a lineup of films from big-name auteurs - including Wes Anderson, Asghar Farhadi, Mia Hansen-Lve and Sean Penn - for its 74th edition, an in-person, summe...

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - Growth in the services sector, where most Americans work, hit an all-time high in May as people flock to bars, restaurants and other venues across the country that now have f...

SOAVE, Italy (AP) - Early risers in Venice were surprised Thursday to see a cruise ship nosing down the Giudecca canal for the first time since the start of the pandemic, despite repeated government p...

OTTAWA - The federal government is increasing the fine for air travellers who refuse to quarantine in a designated hotel for three days after arriving in Canada. Travellers who had faced a $3,000 fine...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week for a fifth straight week to a new pandemic low, the latest evidence that the U.S. job market is regaining its he...

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. productivity growth was unrevised at a 5.4% rate in the first three months of the year, though recent increases in labor costs accelerated. The first quarter gain in productivit...