Canada is taking a lead role in what Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Thursday he hopes will become an international effort to better protect civilian airliners around the world from being shot down over conflict zones.
A U.S. federal judge on Thursday sharply rebuked Attorney General William Barr's handling of the special counsel's Russia report, saying Barr had made a "calculated effort" to spin the investigation's findings in favour of President Donald Trump.
Testifying before a U.S. congressional committee, an American official revealed that more than 100 people from Canada have been denied entry as a result of recent travel to China. One senator warned that the border must never be "hermetically" sealed, because it would devastate trade and wreck the economy.
NASA's next Mars rover finally has a name. Perseverance, a six-wheeled robotic explorer, will blast off this summer to collect Martian samples for eventual return to Earth.
Nations around the world girded for months of disruptions from the novel coronavirus Thursday as its unrelenting spread brought ballooning infections, economic fallout and sweeping containment measures.
The final results from Israel's election have confirmed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again fallen short of a parliamentary majority with his hard-line allies.
Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum ordered the abduction of two of his daughters and orchestrated a campaign of intimidation against his former wife, a British judge has ruled.
Elizabeth Warren, who electrified progressives with her "plan for everything" and strong message of economic populism, dropped out of the Democratic presidential race on Thursday, according to multiple U.S. media reports.
Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court gave the green light Thursday for prosecutors to open an investigation targeting the Taliban, Afghan forces and U.S. military and CIA personnel for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Javier Perez de Cuellar, the two-term United Nations secretary general who brokered a historic ceasefire between Iran and Iraq in 1988 and who came out of retirement later to help re-establish democracy in his Peruvian homeland, has died. He was 100.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday began talks over a potential ceasefire in northern Syria with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan by offering condolences over the recent killing of Turkish soldiers there.
Devastating bushfires that swept Australia in recent months were at least 30 per cent more likely as a result of climate change, scientists said on Wednesday, warning such fires may create unmanageable risks as emissions and temperatures rise further.
Federal authorities announced an investigation of the Seattle-area nursing home at the centre of an outbreak of the new coronavirus as the U.S. death toll climbed to 11, including the first fatality outside Washington state.
Big wins on Super Tuesday and in South Carolina have turned Joe Biden's campaign for the Democratic nomination around. Is it his to lose again?
