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Canada’s John Tavares and Jordan Eberle, who forced overtime with his second regulation goal of the night, beat Russian goaltender Vadim Zhelobnyuk in the shootout to cap a 6-5 semifinal win Saturday night at the world junior hockey championship.

Israel expanded its week-long military campaign against Hamas late Saturday by sending ground forces into the Gaza Strip after nightfall, while Israel’s defence minister warned the offensive”will not be easy or short.”

A suicide pact between a Quebec couple resulted in the deaths of the father and 3 children, police alleged on Saturday, as relatives suggested financial strain on the couple was a factor in the tragedy.

A senior Ukrainian official says European consumers will see sincere natural gas shortages in 2 weeks if Moscow and Kiev don’t resolve their dispute over gas payments.

3 skiers and a snowboarder were rescued Friday afternoon on Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver, after ducking past a boundary rope and ignoring instructions to return to the inbound area.

Tax cuts could be included in the upcoming federal budget as 1 way of stimulating the economy in the facial of a global financial crisis, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday.

A Federal Court judge has decided to release the last foreign national accused of links to Islamic militancy who was being held on a controversial national security certificate.

1 of 2 B.C. men shot in a strip bar in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, has been discharged from hospital and sent home while the other remains in sincere but stable condition, says a doctor who has treated them.

A captain with the Canadian Forces has been charged in connection with the death of a presumed insurgent in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.

Police have found the bodies of 3 children and a man at a home in Saguenay, about 250 kilometres north of Quebec City.