U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday embraced potential regime change in Iran and declared that "tremendous power" will soon be in the Middle East, as the Pentagon sent a second aircraft carrier to the region.

Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office is investigating whether a Canadian mining company holds any responsibility in the suspected cartel kidnapping of 10 of its workers, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday.  

Democrats in Washington say they’re launching an investigation into the Trump administration and its links to the wealthy owner of the Ambassador Bridge after the U.S. president threatened to block the opening of the competing Gordie Howe Bridge ea...

Canada and Denmark have signed a new defence co-operation agreement aimed at strengthening Arctic security amid lingering tensions over U.S. annexation threats toward Greenland. The pact enhances collaboration on surveillance and joint operations but...

Andrew Chang explains why U.S. President Donald Trump wants to build a 250-foot-high 'Independence Arch' in Washington, D.C., and why it’s under heavy scrutiny. Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

Britain's High Court says the U.K. government acted unlawfully when it designated the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization. But the fate of protesters arrested under the Terrorism Act still hangs in the balance.

An Indian man pleaded guilty on Friday to ‌U.S. criminal charges that he orchestrated a failed Indian government-backed plot to kill a Sikh separatist in New York ‌City, in connection with what U.S. and Canadian authorities have called a broader ...

The Olympics have long been a platform for political posturing, with countries boycotting or being banned from sending athletes to Games over geopolitical conflicts. But the International Olympic Committee bars political demonstrations from podiums ...

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has apologized for his yearslong friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that included regular correspondence and multiple visits to the disgraced financier's Manhattan apartment, as well as vis...

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi says he plans to return to Iran after Oscar season is over, despite the looming threat of his arrest amid a government crackdown on protests that has killed thousands and detained many more.

Different versions of the Iranian flag have appeared at protests around the world. Here are the facts about what each of them represent.

Investigators in Arizona want residents near Nancy Guthrie's home to share surveillance footage of suspicious cars or people they may have noticed in the month before she disappeared.

Of the many proxy battlegrounds between Iran and the U.S., Iraq is one of the most overlooked, at least outside the Middle East. But U.S. reaction to the reappearance on the political scene of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki — a candid...

Air Transat says it plans to bring home thousands of Canadians from Cuba in the coming days, at a time when Ottawa is telling people to avoid delaying their exit from the island country.

The brief shutdown of El Paso airport by the Federal Aviation Administration because of safety ‌concerns posed by the use of a military laser-based anti-drone system was unacceptable, the top Democrat on the Senate's commerce committee said on Thur...

Vizsla Silver Corp.'s workers laboured in an environment punctured by gunfire, cartel checkpoints and drones, says the brother of a geologist with the Canadian mining company in Mexico, who was among five people found dead after they were kidnapped b...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi attacked Democrats during her fiery House Judiciary Committee testimony as she faced criticism from lawmakers over the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files.

The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and the deaths of two U.S. citizens is nearing an end, U.S. President Donald Trump's border czar said Thursday.

U.S. President Donald Trump is applying severe economic pressure to an already-strained Cuba mired in a food and power crisis. Andrew Chang explains why the U.S. is choosing now to cut off the country's oil supply, and why, for Trump and U.S. Secreta...

Syrian government forces have taken control of a base in the east of the country that was run for years by U.S. troops as part of the war against the Islamic State group, the defence ministry said in a statement on Thursday.