Haiti has a proud past but a difficult history. The recent earthquake is the country’s latest disaster, but entrenched crises of poverty and political instability are inhibiting its ability to respo...

U.S. President Joe Biden said the Aug. 31 deadline for the withdrawal from Afghanistan depends on the Taliban's co-operation, while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadian troops will remain to he...

B.C. will reimpose a mask mandate for indoor public spaces Wednesday, as Quebec announces that students in nine regions will be required to wear masks at school this fall.

Kathy Hochul became the first female governor of New York on Tuesday and in her first hours on the job sought to bring a new sense of urgency to tackling immense problems that went unaddressed during ...

Canada will remain in Afghanistan beyond the Aug. 31 date set for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country to help evacuate more Canadians and eligible Afghans if the security situation permits,...

Hong Kong said on Tuesday that new film censorship legislation will be introduced to "safeguard national security," in another sign of shrinking freedoms in the former British colony.

'The Taliban is intensifying a search for people who worked with U.S., Canadian and NATO forces in Afghanistan. My family members are in hiding, but the Canadian government says they don’t qualify f...

An Amherstburg, Ont., nurse has returned to Canada from Haiti, where she was part of a volunteer team helping people in the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation. She says she saw injuries "as bad or wo...

The leader of the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced to more than five months in jail on Monday for burning a Black Lives Matter banner that was torn down from a historic Black church in downtow...

The slow and sprawling storm system named Henri drenched much of the inland northeast with rain Monday, hampering cleanup efforts and threatening further flooding in areas with ground already saturate...

A U.S. government watchdog found multiple problems with the construction, manufacture and design of the Keystone pipeline, validating President Joe Biden's decision to revoke the permit for a Keyston...

An officer who shot and killed a woman during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol acted lawfully and in line with police department policy, the U.S. Capitol Police said Monday.

The federal government has confirmed for the first time that Canada's special forces are operating outside the security cordon of the airport in Afghanistan's capital, working to shepherd people fro...

Bayern Munich and Canada soccer star Alphonso Davies, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, shared words of encouragement with the six members of the Refugee Par...

Millions of people in Syria and Iraq are at risk of losing access to water, electricity and food amid rising temperatures, record low water levels due to lack of rainfall and drought, international ai...

Andrew Cuomo defended his record as New York's governor and portrayed himself Monday as the victim of a "media frenzy" over allegations of sexual harassment as he prepared for a midnight power transfe...

Greece's fire department scrambled firefighting aircraft and ground forces as at least two new blazes broke out in areas already scarred by wildfires this summer, with strong winds complicating effort...

The new toll comes at a time when relief operations are expanding — the U.S.-based aid agency Samaritan's Purse opened a field hospital Saturday — but authorities are struggling with security at d...

At least 22 people were killed, and rescue crews searched desperately Sunday amid shattered homes and tangled debris for dozens of people still missing after record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surg...

Tropical storm Henri socked the northeast with heavy wind and rain as it made landfall Sunday on the coast of Rhode Island, knocking out power to more than 100,000 homes and causing deluges that close...