As U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence on controlling Greenland becomes even more vehement despite polls showing most Americans don't support it, there’s a growing sense of urgency around the globe to figure out if there is anything that cou...

On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of an act of “great stupidity” for returning an island to Mauritius that houses an important military base. The episode shows how fast Trump can turn on internati...

A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday.

The people of Greenland are looking to Canada for support as they continue to face threats of annexation from the U.S., says Gov. Gen. Mary Simon. Simon, a former ambassador to Denmark and Canada’s first ambassador for Circumpolar Affairs, says sh...

A Barcelona commuter train crashed Tuesday after a retaining wall fell onto the tracks, Spanish regional authorities said, killing one person and injuring at least 14 others.

U.S. military forces boarded and took control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela on Tuesday as the Trump administration continues its efforts to take control of the oil in the South American country.

Andrew Chang explains what $1 billion US buys members on Trump's new Board of Peace. Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

It wasn't too long ago that Donald Trump's administration hailed the "growing influence of patriotic European parties," but many of those party leaders have taken exception to his aggressive bid to seize control of Greenland for the United States.

A heavy dust storm swept across Libya on Tuesday, reducing visibility, forcing the temporary suspension of flights at two airports and shrouding cities there with a thick orange haze.

Witness testimony ended Tuesday in the trial of a former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer accused of failing in his duty to stop a gunman in the critical first minutes of the 2022 Robb Elementary School attack, setting up the case to go to the ju...

European Commission President ​Ursula von der Leyen said ​on Tuesday the EU shared concerns with the United States about Arctic security, but if President Donald Trump followed through with new tariffs based on a dispute over Greenland, the allia...

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said on Tuesday that Ottawa does not plan to pay the $1-billion US price tag for a permanent seat on U.S. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace," that will oversee the governance and reconstruction of ...

Australian band Midnight Oil announced on Tuesday that Rob Hirst, their powerhouse drummer and co-founding member, has died at age 70.

The Canadian tourist who was found dead on a beach in Australia Monday morning is being remembered as a strong and adventurous young woman who planned to earn her pilot's license once she returned from her trip.

Syria on Tuesday announced a ceasefire with Kurdish forces it has seized swathes of territory from in the northeast and gave them four days to agree on integrating into the central state, which their main ally, the United States, urged them to accep...

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau and international pop star Katy Perry took their relationship to the next level, appearing together at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where Trudeau delivered a speech to the world's el...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Europe would not give in to bullies or be intimidated in a scathing criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose steep tariffs if Europe does not let him take over Greenland.

Israel demolished structures inside the UN Palestinian refugee agency's East Jerusalem compound ​on Tuesday after seizing the site last year, in an act condemned by the agency as a violation of international law.

A vast portion of Arctic lands belong to Canada, but its military presence there is small compared to other countries, especially Russia and Norway.

Stocks sank in afternoon trading on Wall Street Tuesday after President Donald Trump threatened to hit eight NATO members with new tariffs as tensions escalate over his attempts to assert American control over Greenland.