Three years after Raqqa's liberation from Islamist militants by Syrian Kurdish forces and 10 years after the start of the Syrian civil war, the city that was once the home base for ISIS is struggling ...

Engineers on Monday "partially refloated" the colossal container ship that remains wedged across the Suez Canal, a canal services firm said, without providing further details about when the vessel wou...

A global pandemic, anti-racism protests and a turbulent U.S. presidential election had Americans glued to their screens in 2020, but as people consumed more news, they began to trust media less, surve...

Royal visits to Canada may be out of the question right now, but Prince Edward took to Zoom recently to check in virtually with Canadian Armed Forces reserve regiments that have him as their colonel-i...

Denmark became the latest European soccer team on Sunday to use World Cup qualifying games to direct attention to workers' rights in Qatar, which hosts the 2022 tournament.

The pandemic has revealed the Commonwealth's lack of relevance and the empty nature of its promises of solidarity — as the U.K. sits on the world's largest supply of vaccines and refuses to share wi...

The massive cargo ship currently blocking the Suez Canal — holding up of billions of dollars worth of shipping each day — isn't the first time something has shut down the link between the Mediterr...

China is sanctioning nine U.K. citizens, accusing them of spreading lies about the treatment of Uighur Muslims after London imposed penalties on Chinese officials.

As Myanmar's military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day holiday with a parade on Saturday in the country's capital, soldiers and police elsewhere reportedly killed dozens of people as they suppre...

U.S. President Joe Biden is including rivals Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China among the invitees to the first big climate talks of his administration.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says it is “absolutely essential” countries such as Canada repatriate Canadian women and children currently being held in prison camps in Syria. ...

The European Union's medicines regulator on Friday said it has approved new manufacturing sites for coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca-Oxford, in a move that could s...

Two trains crashed on Friday in southern Egypt, the latest in a series of deadly accidents on the country's troubled railways.

Carbon pricing didn't just win a big endorsement from Canada's Supreme Court on Thursday — it's also receiving surprising new support from a new corner in the U.S.: the American oil lobby. Ironicall...

New Zealand's parliament has passed legislation giving mothers and their partners the right to paid leave following a miscarriage or still birth, becoming one of the few countries in the world to do s...

The ship the length of four football fields that's wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal is bottlenecking global trade routes for a third day as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the cruci...

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland held her first call with U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris on Thursday, a discussion that touched on migration from Central America, the im...

It's the hottest debate in U.S. politics — one potential rule change that could change everything when it comes to passing laws in Congress. The Senate's filibuster rule has created a graveyard of b...

Dominion Voting Systems, which was founded in Toronto, filed a $1.6 billion US defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed the company had rigged the 20...