Military forces detained a number of senior Sudanese government figures on Monday, the country's information ministry said, as the country's main pro-democracy group called on people to take to the st...

As the international community threatens to sideline the Taliban for human rights violations, some Afghan Canadians worry ordinary Afghans are suffering in the process. Now, they are pleading with Can...

The husband of U.K. charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained for more than five years in Iran, has gone on a hunger strike again after a court decided she has to spend another y...

Colombian security forces have captured the country's most wanted drug trafficker, a rural warlord who stayed on the run for more than a decade by corrupting state officials and aligning himself with ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's political opponents said his call to expel the ambassadors of 10 Western countries was an attempt to distract attention from Turkey's economic difficulties, wh...

Eleven Pablo Picasso artworks have been sold for a combined $109 million US ($135 million Cdn) in a Las Vegas auction coinciding with the artist's 140th birthday.

Two provinces are set to ease restrictions on Monday as Canada's top doctor says nearly 90 per cent of eligible residents in the country have been administered at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine....

A new climate alliance led by Denmark and Costa Rica is pushing countries to set a date for the end of oil and gas extraction in their countries — but Canada seems unlikely to join.

The gun used in a fatal shooting on a movie set in New Mexico earlier this week had been declared safe to use by a crew member just before it was discharged, court records show. The shooting happened ...

It's been more than a month since the Taliban forbid Afghan girls in grades higher than six from going to school. The Taliban called it a temporary measure, but fears among Afghan women are growing th...

Matteo Salvini, known for an 'Italians first' policy, is charged with kidnapping and abuse of office in connection with the illegal detention of 147 migrants aboard their rescue boat in August 2019. ...

NATO defence ministers engaged in what was undoubtedly a painful (if somewhat perfunctory) soul-searching exercise over Afghanistan in their first full-fledged meeting since the Taliban seized the co...

Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who was fatally shot by Alec Baldwin, travelled far during her 42 years. She grew up on a remote Soviet military base and worked on documentary films in Eastern Eu...

At a green summit in Saudi Arabia, one of the world's largest oil producers announced it aims to reach 'net zero' greenhouse gas emissions by 2060, and Prince Charles warned there is a 'dangerously na...

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces will be deployed to Saskatchewan to help battle the province's fourth wave of COVID-19, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said. ...

A Florida businessman who helped Rudy Giuliani's effort to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine was convicted Friday of campaign finance crimes, including funnelling a Russian entrepreneur's money to U...

An emerging trade irritant between Canada and the U.S. that's been quietly simmering for months has now bubbled into the open. The Canadian government sent a letter to U.S. officials expressing dismay...

The U.S. Supreme Court is not immediately blocking the Texas law that bans most abortions, but has agreed to hear arguments in the case on Nov. 1. But Justice Sonia Sotomayor says women in Texas seeki...

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died Thursday after a prop firearm that actor Alec Baldwin was holding discharged on the New Mexico set of Rust. Here's a look at the use of firearms on sets — and th...

Peter Scolari, a versatile character actor whose television roles included a yuppie producer on Newhart and a closeted dad on Girls and who was on Broadway with longtime friend Tom Hanks in Lucky Gu...