The war in Ukraine will cast its shadow over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other Commonwealth national leaders as they arrive in Kigali, Rwanda on Wednesday for their first meeting since the on...

An earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing at least 255 people, authorities said.

Eight-year-old Danil Baranovsky spent months living underground in a Kharkiv subway station with his family as they tried to avoid Russian rockets. The city’s mayor, Ihor Terkhov, has said Russia’...

The House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday outlined Donald Trump's relentless pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election, aiming to show it led to widespread ...

Jurors in a civil trial Tuesday found that Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975, awarding Judy Huth, who is now 64, $500,000 US.

Two Canadians — one of them sought by Interpol — have been found dead of knife wounds in Mexico's Caribbean coast resort of Playa del Carmen, the state prosecutor's office said Tuesday. ...

Law enforcement authorities had enough officers on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, the Texas public safety chief testifi...

Britain's biggest rail strike in 30 years kicked off on Tuesday as tens of thousands of staff walked out in a dispute over pay and jobs that could pave the way for widespread industrial action across ...

Two Florida deputies have each been suspended for about two weeks for leaking news about actor and comedian Bob Saget's death before his family was alerted, officials said.

Canada will spend $4.9 billion over the next six years to modernize continental defence, Defence Minister Anita Anand said Monday.

Europe's biggest buyers of Russian gas raced to find alternative fuel supplies on Monday and could burn more coal to cope with reduced gas flows from Russia that threaten an energy crisis in winter if...

Jihadists killed 132 civilians in multiple attacks on villages in central Mali over the weekend, the government says, in the latest major incident in a worsening security situation.

The Nobel Peace Prize that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov auctioned off to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold Monday night for $103.5 million US, shattering the old record for a Nobel. ...

Israel's weakened coalition government on Monday decided to dissolve parliament and call new elections. The vote could bring about the return of a nationalist religious government or another prolonged...

Authorities in India and Bangladesh struggled Monday to deliver food and drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from their homes in days of flooding that have submerged wide swath...

The world's largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United States. ...

A fuel storage depot in the Eastern Ukrainian town of Novomoskovsk exploded on Sunday, killing one person and injuring two, after it had been hit by three Russian missiles, the regional administratio...

A Japanese court ruled on Monday that a ban on same-sex marriage was not unconstitutional, dealing a setback to LGBTQ rights activists in the only G7 nation that does not allow people of the same gend...

Former rebel Gustavo Petro narrowly won a runoff election over a political outsider millionaire Sunday, ushering in a new era of politics for Colombia by becoming the country's first leftist president...

French President Emmanuel Macron lost control of the National Assembly in legislative elections on Sunday, a major setback that could throw the country into political paralysis unless he is able to ne...