Iran began voting Friday in a presidential election tipped in favour of a hardline protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, fuelling public apathy and sparking calls for a boycott in the Isla...

U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law Thursday a bill to make Juneteenth, or June 19, the 12th federal holiday.

Maya Foa, director of the NGO Reprieve, says a young Saudi man's family is 'absolutely devastated' after he was executed for taking part in protests as a teenager.

A sense of dread is growing in some of the poorest countries in the world as COVID-19 cases surge and more contagious variants take hold amid a crippling shortage of vaccine.

An agency set up to oversee the voluminous files of communist East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, has wrapped up its work after nearly three decades.

St. Louis, Mo., couple Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators walking past their home last year, pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor cha...

Janet Malcolm, the inquisitive and boldly subjective author and reporter known for her challenging critiques of everything from murder cases and art to journalism itself, has died. She was 86. ...

An extremist group like al-Qaeda may be able to regenerate in Afghanistan and pose a threat to the U.S. homeland within two years of the U.S. military's withdrawal from the country, the Pentagon's top...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a Republican bid that had been backed by former president Donald Trump's administration to invalidate the Obamacare health-care law, ruling that Texas and o...

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....

Rwandan prosecutors on Thursday requested a life sentence for the man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda, as he faces terrorism charges while his family asserts that he faces mistreatment and an unfai...

A pledging conference for Venezuelan refugees chaired by Canada today raised about US$1.55 billion in grants and loans to help countries dealing with the world's largest displacement crisis after Syri...

Officials in British Columbia outlined the province's plans Thursday to have all kids in school full time in September.

A 1,098-carat diamond believed to be the third-largest gem-quality stone ever to be mined has been discovered in Botswana, according to a joint venture between Anglo American's De Beers and the govern...

Nepal has significantly reduced coronavirus infections after its worst outbreak, which overwhelmed the country's medical system, but is in desperate need of vaccines, its health minister said Thursday...

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...

Three Chinese astronauts arrived Thursday at China's new space station, starting a three-month mission that marks another milestone in the country's ambitious space program.

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 ...