Never mind Hollywood-style happy endings. Ask Vladimir Putin about his first meeting with Joe Biden, and he makes a bleaker allusion to Russian literature. That's about as good as it gets for the U.S....

Five editors and executives at pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper were arrested Thursday under Hong Kong's national security law, its stock was halted and police were searching its offices in moves r...

China launched the first three-man crew to its new space station in its first crewed mission in five years Thursday.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday concluded their first face-to-face summit since Biden took office with an agreement to return their nations' ambassadors to t...

Israeli airstrikes hit militant sites in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, and Palestinians responded by sending a series of fire-carrying balloons back across the border for a second straight day. ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is reaching out to prospective security partners in the Asia-Pacific as it turns its attention to China. But some NATO members want the focus to remain where it ...

Yukon Premier Sandy Silver is calling on his fellow Yukoners to get vaccinated against COVID-19, to stay vigilant and to follow public health measures, as the territory experiences an ongoing outbreak...

In 2019, residents of Kiselyovsk, Russia, a city surrounded by vast, open-pit coal mines, made a video asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to allow them to come to Canada as environmental refugees. T...

Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have decades of political experience and share a preference for aviator sunglasses, but don’t expect the highly anticipated summit between the two presidents in Geneva o...

Lawmakers in Hungary approved legislation Tuesday that prohibits sharing with minors any content portraying homosexuality or sex reassignment, which human rights groups denounced as anti-LGBT discrimi...

The U.S. Department of Transportation is seeking a $25.5 million US penalty against Air Canada for "failing to provide consumers prompt refunds" after cancelling their flights amid the COVID-19 pandem...

In a Monday Twitter statement, Lin-Manuel Miranda issued an apology for the lack of Afro-Latino representation in his new movie-musical In The Heights. 

A New York judge on Tuesday approved disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's extradition to California, where he faces additional sexual assault charges, ending a legal fight prolonged by the COVID-1...

The deal the United States and the European Union reached Tuesday to end their long-running dispute over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus will mean the phase-out of billions in punitive tariffs. It will...

MacKenzie Scott announced Tuesday that she has given $2.7 billion US to 286 organizations. It is the third round of no-strings-attached, major philanthropic gifts from Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon fou...

A new analysis of blood samples from 24,000 Americans taken early last year is the latest and largest study to suggest the new coronavirus may have popped up in the U.S. in December 2019 — weeks bef...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has wrapped up a mini-summit with leaders of the European Union that was part business, part thank-you for co-operation in securing Canada a share of European-manufactu...

A Carleton University PhD student and Canadian permanent resident who spent the last 262 days in a Turkish prison has been freed.

China's mission to the European Union urged NATO on Tuesday to stop exaggerating the "China threat theory" after the group's leaders warned that the country presents "systemic challenges." ...

Although the government says fully vaccinated Canadians may soon be allowed to skip the expensive initial hotel stay and 14-day entry quarantine when entering the country, that change appears to exclu...