The United States and South Africa struck a deal Thursday to allow the release of $1.5 billion in frozen Libya funds for humanitarian aid and other civilian needs, UN diplomats ...

British Columbians have voted to scrap their Harmonized Sales Tax, Elections BC announced Friday.

The CBC reports that Moammar Gadhafi has called on Libyan forces loyal to him to "destroy" the rebel forces who have driven him into hiding.

Jack Layton was saluted by 15 guns, a round of O Canada and John Lennon's Imagine as his casket left Parliament's Centre Block Thursday.

Three Palestinians killed, amid calls from Hamas for the international community to intervene.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il is on Wednesday expected to meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a Siberian military base for secrecy-shrouded summit talks on energy and food aid.

The criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, officially ended Tuesday after a Manhattan judge dismissed all charges at the prosecution’s request.

Libyan rebels claimed to be in control of most of Tripoli Monday after their swift advance on the capital heralded the fall of Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year regime.

Jack Layton, the New Democratic Party leader who led his party to Official Opposition status in this year’s federal election, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 61.

Hamas calls on Palestinian groups to abide by cease-fire agreement but Popular Resistance Committees says it "won't stop the resistance."

Libyan rebels have moved into the capital Tripoli and are nearing the city centre as Muammar Gaddafi's defenders melted away.

Thein Sein, the Burmese president, has met Aung San Suu Kyi, his regime’s harshest critic, for the first time since she was released from house arrest nine months ago, adding ...

Israel's defence minister has apologized for the deaths of Egyptian security forces killed this week during a shootout between Israeli soldiers and suspected Palestinian militants.

Gunmen who crossed from the Egyptian desert launched a series of attacks Thursday in southern Israel, killing eight people and threatening to destabilize a volatile border region that includes the ...

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday issued his first direct call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down.