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At the counting fence on the Cowichan River, members of Cowichan Tribes are anxiously watching as salmon make their way through the fish channel and up to spawning grounds that have been painstakingly restored over the past decade.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government's approach to aid for Africa has been criticized in some quarters, reassured famine-stricken residents of Africa on Thursday that Canada will not abandon them.

Lebanese Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged on Thursday sending a drone aircraft that was shot down last weekend after flying 55 kilometres into Israel.

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A Pakistani schoolgirl fighting for her life after being shot by the Taliban for campaigning for education rights was transferred on Thursday from a hospital in a province that is a militant haven to a specialist hospital in the army garrison town of

A coroner's jury has recommended body-fluid samples taken from people admitted to hospital for unnatural deaths or injuries should be automatically stored for more than the current practice of seven days.

Call your mom, Christopher Smith. Poppy Smith hasn't heard from her 30-year-old son, who goes by Cody, since Aug. 18 when he told her he was headed to Tex-ada Island with a friend. When she hadn't heard from the Duncan resident by Sept.

The pharmacy at the centre of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak, possibly linked to tainted steroid injections, faced mounting federal and state scrutiny on Thursday, including a potential criminal investigation, as the death toll climbed to 14.

A group of former Catholic priests backed gay marriage in Washington state Thursday in a challenge to bishops who have lobbied against same-sex nuptials ahead of a November ballot measure that could legalize such unions in the state.