A 10-year-old Afghan girl who was preparing to come to Canada with her family was instead shot dead by the Taliban last week, a death critics say is partly to blame on Ottawa's sluggish efforts to relocate Afghans who worked with the Canadian military.
Twenty-seven people are feared dead after a fire broke out in a building in Osaka in western Japan, fire department officials said Friday.
The 10 people who lost their lives in a massive crowd surge at the Nov. 5 Astroworld music festival in Houston founded by rapper Travis Scott died from compression asphyxia, officials announced Thursday.
Palestinian militants on Thursday opened fire near a Jewish settlement in the northern West Bank, killing at least one Israeli, according to Israeli leaders.
A group of missionaries, including 16 Americans and one Canadian, who were kidnapped in October by a gang in Haiti have been released, according to police.
France will restrict arrivals from Britain because of fast-spreading cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant, putting limits on reasons for travelling and requiring 48-hour isolation upon arrival, the government said Thursday.
Here's how U.S. Democrats are responding to trade threats from Canada, which has threatened tariffs and threatened to suspend bits of the new NAFTA. "I don't care," says one. The bottom line: An irritant over electric vehicles will likely drag into 2022, as the U.S. Congress struggles to complete a landmark bill.
A powerful storm system swept across the U.S. Great Plains and Midwest Wednesday, closing highways in western Kansas, spawning reported tornadoes in Nebraska and Iowa and raising concerns about fires because of unusually high temperatures.
Four children were killed and several more badly injured in Australia after strong winds lifted an inflated jumping castle into the air during end-of-year school celebrations, causing them to fall 10 metres, authorities said on Thursday, prompting an outpouring of grief.
