A grassroots Russian group called the Council of Mothers and Wives has been publicly demanding to speak to Russia's military leadership about the draft — and, in some cases, learn the whereabouts of...

The director of Haiti's National Police Academy was shot and killed at the doors of a police training facility in a gang-controlled neighbourhood in the country's capital of Port-au-Prince, Haitian po...

Ukrainian authorities on Friday gradually restored power to millions of people left in the dark after the most devastating Russian airstrikes so far, aided by the reconnection of the country's four nu...

New Twitter owner Elon Musk says that he is granting "amnesty" for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation. ...

Doctors in Kyiv were performing open-heart surgery on a 14-year-old boy Wednesday when the lights suddenly flickered off.

The Canadian government has an unequivocal position about what it intends to say regarding the just-announced political comeback of Donald Trump: nothing. Two years after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...

The Osaka Tennoji Zoo held a drill simulating a lion escape following an earthquake. Staff practised rescuing people calling for help, as well as recapturing the lion, which was playfully represented ...

Tensions ran high at Iran's second match at the World Cup in Qatar on Friday as fans supporting the Iranian government harassed those protesting against it and stadium security seized items expressing...

A Chinese court on Friday sentenced Chinese Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years in prison on charges including rape.

The appointment of Lt. Gen. Syed Asim Munir to the role ended weeks of intense speculation and comes at a time of fierce debate over the Pakistani military's role in politics in the nuclear-armed c...

Residents of China's capital were emptying supermarket shelves and overwhelming some delivery services on Friday as the country grappled with a spike in COVID-19 cases.

Residents of Ukraine's bombed capital clutched empty bottles in search of water and crowded into cafés for power and warmth Thursday, switching defiantly into survival mode after new Russian missile ...

The UN Human Rights Council voted Thursday to condemn the bloody crackdown on peaceful protests in Iran and create an independent fact-finding mission to investigate alleged abuses, particularly those...

The family of an Iranian dissident rapper is fearful for his life, saying the regime is trying to charge him with a crime that carries the death penalty. Toomaj Salehi, 32, was arrested last month ami...

Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim was finally sworn in as prime minister on Thursday, capping a three-decade political journey that has seen him cast as esteemed protege, protest leader, a prisoner twice convi...

Richard Fierro is one of two people police are crediting with saving lives by subduing a person armed with multiple firearms, including an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle, who went on a shooting rampa...

The discovery of top secret documents at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort sparked a criminal investigation and has the former U.S. president facing the possibility of criminal charges. But it’s al...

Sean Morrow says his tweet claiming insulin was free didn't fool anyone — and that’s kind of the point.

As cases of COVID-19 hit record daily highs in China, the country is reimposing a range of strict measures under its "zero-COVID" policy, including lockdowns, mass testing and quarantines for anyone s...

An independent government agency is reviewing how Canada's spy agency handles human sources after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised in August to follow up on claims that a CSIS operative smu...