MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged both sides in the Ukrainian conflict to sit down at the negotiating table and find a compromise. He said such a compromise must guarantee the rights of Russian-speaking residents of eastern Ukraine, ...

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HONG KONG - Sony is joining forces with a state-owned Chinese company to make and sell PlayStations and games in China after the country dropped a longstanding ban on video game consoles. In a filing Monday with the Shanghai stock exchange, ...

Canadian reporter Kathy Gannon, who was shot and wounded Friday in Afghanistan, is no cowboy, as they say in the war-reporting trade. Gannon, 60, is prudent but also unusually keen to go deep into the field to chase down stories. By the sound of it, she ...

Canadian reporter Kathy Gannon, who was shot and wounded Friday in Afghanistan, is no cowboy, as they say in the war-reporting trade. Gannon, 60, is prudent but also unusually keen to go deep into the field to chase down stories. By the sound of it, she ...

Canadian reporter Kathy Gannon, who was shot and wounded Friday in Afghanistan, is no cowboy, as they say in the war-reporting trade. Gannon, 60, is prudent but also unusually keen to go deep into the field to chase down stories. By the sound of it, she ...

Canadian reporter Kathy Gannon, who was shot and wounded Friday in Afghanistan, is no cowboy, as they say in the war-reporting trade. Gannon, 60, is prudent but also unusually keen to go deep into the field to chase down stories. By the sound of it, she ...

Canadian reporter Kathy Gannon, who was shot and wounded Friday in Afghanistan, is no cowboy, as they say in the war-reporting trade. Gannon, 60, is prudent but also unusually keen to go deep into the field to chase down stories. By the sound of it, she ...

Award-winning Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, 48, of Germany was killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan. A Canadian-born journalist working for The Associated Press was also wounded Friday while on assignment in Afghanistan.

BRUSSELS - Leaders of some 70 nations in Africa and Europe are seeking to improve political and economic co-operation between the two continents at a two-day summit. The meeting in Brussels beginning Wednesday will also centre on development aid, ...

CONAKRY, Guinea - Health officials rushed Monday to contain the deadly Ebola virus in Guinea, where at least 59 people are believed to have died from an outbreak of the virus that can cause severe internal bleeding. Those suspected of exposure to the ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The International Criminal Court on Friday convicted a rebel leader of charges including murder and pillage over a deadly attack on a village in eastern Congo, but acquitted him of rape, sexual slavery and using child soldiers.