It has been 20 years since Canadian soldiers walked into a Taliban killing ground west of Kandahar. Operation Medusa became Canada’s largest battle since Korea — a brutal test against a disciplined, entrenched enemy. Canada prevailed, but at a te...

A University of Waterloo student is suspected of espionage after the FBI said he admitted to accessing airport facilities in Toronto and Chicago, to take photos on behalf of a shadowy figure from China. Weiheng Zeng, himself a Chinese citizen, was ar...

U.S President Donald Trump is continuing his pursuit of Venezuela's oil jackpot, announcing a new deal aimed at boosting production in the South American country. And while Trump is flaunting the potential controlling stake in a portion of Venezuela...

The U.S. launched new air strikes on Iranian targets on ‌Tuesday, in a move that threatened to reignite the six-month-old conflict that has driven global energy prices higher and weighed heavily on U.S. President Donald Trump's popularity at home.

Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that has effectively stifled the city's once-thriving pro-democracy...

Four people were killed in a Gaza City displacement camp Tuesday in a raid Israel's defence minister said was to locate a senior Hamas official.

Tyler Robinson, the man accused of fatally shooting prominent U.S. conservative activist Charlie Kirk on ‌a Utah college campus last year, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a murder charge that a judge ruled could carry the death penalty.

Apple changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America on the web version of its Apple Maps following U.S. President Donald ‌Trump's executive order renaming the lake. The move by Apple on Tuesday followed a decision by Alphabet late on Saturday to...

Rescue teams with search dogs on Tuesday continued to look through mud, rocks and debris along the border between Nepal and China for thousands of people still missing following the catastrophic floods that tore through communities across the Himala...

Canada is attracting dozens of top academics from the United States with a promise to support their work, which has been deprioritized by the Trump administration. Andrew Chang breaks down how this sweep of American professors fits into Canada's trad...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” last week, but not all Americans are happy with the change — including some in the United States House of Representatives. Democratic Rep. Tim Kennedy ...

More than 170 Jewish members of the entertainment industry, including Hannah Einbinder, Ilana Glazer, Joel Coen and Canadian filmmaker Emma Seligman, have signed an open letter defending American actor Mark Ruffalo from what the letter calls an "outr...

The German government is blaming Russia for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month using a drone laden with explosives, and announced it would shut down a Russian consulate, among other measures against Moscow.

As video games become an increasingly digital-first hobby, the people keeping the Atari name alive are going back to their roots, by offering new versions of their 1980s classics.

A new academic year began across the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday despite concerns by parents and teachers that the country's Ebola outbreak still poses risks to children in the epicentre.

Canada has an infanticide provision in the Criminal Code that applies exclusively to a mother who kills her newly born child while her mind is "disturbed."

Russian air attacks killed 12 people and injured several more in Kyiv and the surrounding region early on Tuesday, authorities said, in the sixth consecutive day of strikes on the Ukrainian capital.

Tens of thousands of music lovers descended on Great Park in Irvine, Calif., over the weekend to scream along to their favourite artists — part of a history-making event to raise funds for women's health, reproductive rights and ending gender-based...

Chuck Thompson, the head of public affairs at CBC, says the public broadcaster is reviewing the Republican National Committee's "disappointing" decision to revoke CBC/Radio-Canada press accreditation for next month's event in Dallas, Texas.

U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is stepping down after 18 months on the job, the White House said Monday, in the latest departure of a top military leader during the second Trump administration.