The Canadian military's air detachment in the Middle East — which has been supporting anti-terrorism operations and UN peacekeeping missions in Africa — is being relocated to the United Kingdom. ...

A Russian missile attack killed 22 civilians and set a passenger train on fire in eastern Ukraine as the country marked its independence day under heavy shelling, officials in Kyiv said. ...

The Uvalde, Texas, school district fired police chief Pete Arrendondo on Wednesday, making him the first officer to lose his job over the hesitant and fumbled response by law enforcement at Robb Eleme...

Japan's national police chief says he will resign to take responsibility over former leader Shinzo Abe's shooting death.

Afghan women's rights activists opened a library in Kabul on Wednesday, hoping to provide an oasis for women increasingly cut off from education and public life under the ruling Taliban. ...

More than 40 million Americans could see their student loan debt reduced — and in many cases eliminated — under the long-awaited forgiveness plan U.S. President Joe Biden announced Wednesday, a hi...

Kobe Bryant's widow was awarded $16 million US as part of a $31 million jury verdict Wednesday against Los Angeles County for deputies and firefighters sharing grisly photos of the NBA star, their 13...

A severe drought in Texas has offered a rare sighting of some ancient dinosaur tracks preserved in stone for about 113 million years.

In the U.S., Democrats suddenly don’t seem so dead. The assumption they’re headed to a midterm electoral slaughter has been upended by recent polls, by a surge of enthusiasm related to abortion, a...

For Ukrainians, the six-month anniversary of the start of the war is nothing of the sort; they've been fighting Moscow for years. But it did coincide with the murder of ultranationalist propaganda mer...

With Ukraine set to mark both its independence from Soviet rule in 1991 and six months since Russian forces invaded, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed that any Russian attacks in or around the date ...

The National Archives and Records Administration recovered more than 100 documents bearing classified markings, totalling more than 700 pages, from an initial batch of 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-La...

Two white Atlanta police officers who clashed with Rayshard Brooks acted reasonably during the 2020 encounter that ended with the 27-year-old Black man's fatal shooting, a specially appointed prosecut...

A jury on Tuesday convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, in a plot prosecutors described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil war by anti-government extremists...

A former head of security at Twitter has filed a whistleblower complaint with U.S. officials, alleging that the company misled regulators about its cybersecurity defences and its problems with fake ac...

Former U.S. president Donald Trump on Monday asked a federal court to temporarily block the FBI from reviewing the materials it seized two weeks ago from his Florida home, until a special master can b...

New images of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope offer unprecedented views of Jupiter's northern and southern lights, and swirling polar haze.

Malaysia's Najib Razak will become the country's first former prime minister to be jailed, after losing his final appeal on Tuesday in a graft case linked to the looting of the 1MDB state fund. ...

Another significant section of the devastated Beirut Port silos collapsed on Tuesday in a cloud of dust. No injuries were reported — the area had been long evacuated — but the collapse was another...

Thousands of protesters in Haiti's capital and other major cities blocked roads, shut down businesses and marched through the streets Monday to demand that Prime Minister Ariel Henry step down and to ...