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OTTAWA, Ontario – Canada will send 200 military trainers to Ukraine, joining the U.S. and Britain in an effort to shore up the eastern European country’s battered forces. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Defense Minister Jason Kenney announced the move Tuesday. The troops will join U.S. and British soldiers early …

MOSCOW – About 300 US Army paratroopers have arrived in Ukraine for training exercises with national guard units, a move criticized by the Kremlin and eastern Ukraine’s Russia-backed separatist rebels. The troops, from the Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade, are to spend several weeks training a total of about 900 Ukrainian …

RIO DE JANEIRO – A tornado battered a city in southern Brazil, killing two people, injuring 120 others and forcing more than 1,000 people from their homes, officials said Tuesday. The National Institute of Meteorology said a supercell storm produced the tornado that struck Xanxere city in the state of …