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OSAN AIR BASE, Korea, Republic Of - As North Korea vowed “merciless retaliation” against U.S.-South Korean military drills that it claims are an invasion rehearsal, senior U.S. military co...

WASHINGTON - Laying out his new Afghanistan war strategy, President Donald Trump reissued old demands on neighbouring Pakistan to eliminate militant sanctuaries. Less expected: an entirely new warning...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is vowing to win what has seemed to be an unwinnable war. How he plans to do so is still murky despite the months of internal deliberations that ultimately persuade...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has rejected a coal industry push to win a rarely used emergency order protecting coal-fired power plants, a decision contrary to what one coal executive said the...

BEIRUT - The Lebanese military is now in control of over 80 per cent of the areas previously held by the Islamic State group along the border with Syria, only days after launching a broad offensive th...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s atomic chief said Tuesday the Islamic Republic needs only five days to ramp up its uranium enrichment to 20 per cent, a level at which the material could quickly be further...

TOKYO - Japan’s new foreign minister is a reputed renegade, famous for bashing his ruling party’s policies with stands against nuclear power and for stricter checks on foreign aid. Taro Ko...

NEW DELHI - India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce their wives as unconstitutional. The bench, comprising five senior judges of dif...

The Glencross Invitational Charity Roughstock Event is saddling up for its sixth year of raising important funds for two worthy central Alberta charitable organizations. Along with its accompanying po...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s Liberal government finally moved on a contentious piece of labour legislation Tuesday, effectively imposing a wage package on the province’s 75,000 public sector em...