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TOKYO - Shelters made of cardboard start popping up in the basement of Tokyo's Shinjuku train station right before the shutters come down at 11 p.m., in corridors where "salarymen" rushing home and co...

TOKYO - Shelters made of cardboard start popping up in the basement of Tokyo's Shinjuku train station right before the shutters come down at 11 p.m., in corridors where "salarymen" rushing home and co...

TOKYO - Japan logged a deficit for a second straight year last year as its exports were hurt by a slowdown of demand in China amid a tariff war with the U.S. Government data released Thursday showed J...

WASHINGTON - U.S. home sales climbed 3.8% in December, but a record-low inventory of houses on the market has caused prices to surge amid worsening affordability. The National Association of Realtors ...

OTTAWA - Canada's national annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in December, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctua...

OTTAWA - Canada's national annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in December, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labra...

TORONTO - German automaker Volkswagen is expected back in court in Toronto today to plead guilty to environment-related charges. The company had wanted to enter a guilty plea to 60 charges last month ...

BEIRUT - Before picking up cash from a downtown bank in Lebanon's capital, Mey Al Sayegh mentally braces herself for what would have been a routine trip before the country's crippling cash crunch. For...

The Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce rolled out a new charter Tuesday to push businesses in the province to be more inclusive of hiring, training and keeping Indigenous people on staff. It’s cal...

DAVOS, Switzerland - President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's led a "spectacular" turnaround of the U.S. economy and urged the world to invest in America, but had less to say about climate change...