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MONTREAL — The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec posted a return of 4.6 per cent in the first six months of the year, but its executives set the stage Tuesday for more uncertainty in the months ahead.

BELA-BELA, South Africa (AP) — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet.

CALDONO, Colombia (AP) — When the armed groups that operate in Colombia's drug trade need new recruits, they are increasingly turning to the children of the regions where they are active.

CALDONO, Colombia (AP) — When Patricia Elago Zetty's 13-year-old son went missing in Colombia's conflict-ridden southwest, she didn't hesitate.

TORONTO — Ontario's climate plan is set to be put to the constitutional test again in December.

MADRID (AP) — Wildfires burned in parts of Europe on Tuesday as millions of people across the continent struggled to adapt to the new reality: record summer heat. Temperatures in some areas soared past 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).

HALIFAX — An East Coast drought that’s fuelling wildfires is also drying up farmers' fields, and has homeowners scrambling to refill empty wells.

GENEVA (AP) — Environmentalists and Indigenous leaders held signs Tuesday in front of the United Nations buildings in Geneva, where talks for a global accord to end plastic pollution are taking place, asking nations to show courage and agree to a str

KAMRIENG, Cambodia (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Cambodian migrant workers have been heading home from Thailand as the two countries work to keep a ceasefire in armed clashes along their border.

TAITA TAVETA, Kenya (AP) — For farmers in the Taita hills in southern Kenya, elephants are a menace: they raid crops and will occasionally injure or even kill people. Farmer Richard Shika, 68, has had some close encounters.