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CAIRO – Egypt’s deposed longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak has celebrated his 87th birthday by waving to some 100 supporters gathered outside of a military hospital where he is being held in Cairo. The crowd gathered Monday held up photos of Mubarak and praised him with slogans of support, days before …

TORONTO – A meeting of Canada’s federal Conservative party was described as being like a “morgue” a day after Alberta, Canada’s most conservative province, elected a left-of-center provincial government, ending a 44-year-old conservative party dynasty. Voters in the western oil-rich province chose a New Democratic Party government. The stunning result …

MANILA, Philippines – Forecasters say a strong typhoon is headed to the northern Philippines, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people living on the slopes of a rumbling volcano. Typhoon Noul is packing sustained winds of 160 kilometers (100 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 195 kph (122 …