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Highway 75, the main route between Winnipeg and the USA, is open again after being closed for 29 days due to flooding. A section of highway north of the town of Morris was cleared of clay dikes Monday afternoon. Morris Mayor Gavin Van Der Linde said traffic started flowing right away. "I'm...

Highway 75, the main route between Winnipeg and the USA, is open again after being closed for 29 days due to flooding. A section of highway north of the town of Morris was cleared of clay dikes Monday afternoon. Morris Mayor Gavin Van Der Linde said traffic started flowing right away. "I'm...

"Fast Five," the fifth entry in the "Fast and the Furious" street-racing franchise, raced to the biggest opening of the year at the North American box office, while "Thor" was the top choice overseas. According to studio estimates issued on Sunday, "Fast Five" earned about $83.6 million during...

PYONGYANG, North Korea – Weeping and shaking their fists, North Koreans released last month after being held by South Korea for 50 days claimed Thursday they were beaten, imprisoned and pressured to defect after the South's coast guard raided and seized their fishing boat. Speaking publicly for...

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SEOUL, South Korea – The foreign ministers of South Korea and China expressed worries Wednesday about North Korea's recently disclosed uranium enrichment program, which could give it a second way to make atomic bombs, a South Korean official said. The foreign ministers agreed to consult closely...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/02/18/bs.protest.region.explainer.cnn Two months ago, a Tunisian fruit vendor struck a match that started a fire that has spread throughout much of North Africa and the Middle East. CNN's Michael Holmes and John Vause explain the tumult sweeping across...

-- North Korea has completed the structures at a second missile launch site in the northwest part of the country, a U.S. official said Thursday. The admission comes on the same day that new satellite imagery, taken by GeoEye on January 10, was released showing a tower, a movable launch pad and...

-- Talks between North and South Korea collapsed Wednesday after the two sides failed to reach an agreement on securing high-level military discussions during preparatory meetings held in the border area of Panmunjom. The resumption of talks, the first of its kind since the Yeonpyeong island...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/02/07/ctw.cotd.ban.ki.moon.cnn -- North and South Korea opened working-level military talks Tuesday at the truce village of Panmunjom, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, marking the first inter-Korean dialogue in months. The talks are meant to help...

-- The final results of a Southern Sudan referendum will be announced Monday, organizers said, bringing the largest nation in Africa closer to breaking into two. An overwhelming majority of Southern Sudanese -- nearly 99% -- voted to split from the north, preliminary results show. Sudan's...

-- North and South Korea have agreed to hold working-level military talks at the truce village of Panmunjom next week, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. In the talks, scheduled for February 8, the South will demand that Pyongyang take responsibility for last year's military provocations...

Jan 8, 2011 The Earth’s magnetic poles are shifting. They have shifted so much that a runway at Tampa International Airport has been shut down. The runway markings and designations need to be changed so the airplanes can approach and land safely. The magnetic poles do not coincide with the...

-- South Korea proposed on Wednesday holding working-level talks with North Korea on February 11, the unification ministry said. The meeting would take place at the truce village of Panmunjom, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, and is aimed at paving the way for higher-level military...

People in Canada's North and South agree that the Arctic is highly important and deserving of a dominant place in the country's foreign policy, a new poll suggests. There is a "surprising level of consensus within Canada on these issues," says a report released Tuesday by the Munk School of...

-- An overwhelming majority of Southern Sudanese voted to split from the north, new preliminary results show, bringing the largest nation in Africa closer to breaking into two. The results, published Friday on the website of the commission that ran the referendum, show 98.6% voted for a split...

A B.C. First Nation is mourning the death of a young mother, found frozen to death Sunday near New Hazelton, in the province's north. Police said the 24-year-old woman, a mother of two, appears to have fallen in the snow late Saturday night in -17 C temperatures. The woman's body was found in...

-- Rick Downes' mission has brought him here, to the National Archives in suburban Washington, D.C. His goal: to find any records, information -- anything at all -- that would tell him what happened to his father. "My father is missing in action 59 years ago yesterday. He was Air Force and his...

-- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Tuesday that North Korea is becoming a direct threat to the United States, asserting that the rogue Communist regime is within five years of developing intercontinental ballistic missiles. "I think that North Korea will have developed an...

- The South Korean Ministry of Unification confirmed Wednesday that it has reopened communication channels with Pyongyang, North Korea, in the border area of Panmunjom. A media officer at the ministry said officials reopened a direct hotline between the two Koreas and Red Cross communication...