An order to declare 10 foreign ambassadors persona non grata Saturday was Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's response to last week's diplomatic call for the release of philanthropist and busines...

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...

U.S. health officials may have solved the mystery of how four people in different states came down with a serious tropical disease even though none had travelled internationally: an aromatherapy spray...

With the COVID-19 death toll in the United States having surpassed 730,000, Dr. Anthony Fauci tells IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed that he finds it "mind-boggling" that partisanship and skepticism of science ...

Years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks, a new study has found.

Alec Baldwin was handed a loaded weapon by an assistant director who indicated it was safe to use in the moments before the actor fatally shot a cinematographer, court records released Friday show. ...

China Evergrande Group appeared to have averted default with a last-minute bond coupon payment, a source said on Friday, buying it another week to deal with a debt crisis looming over the world's seco...

Ethiopian military airstrikes on Friday forced a United Nations humanitarian flight to abandon its landing in the capital of the country's Tigray region, according to two aid workers.