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US combat troops could leave Iraq by 2011 under the terms of a deal awaiting approval by Iraq's parliament and presidency, an Iraqi official has said. The draft security agreement also calls for US forces to withdraw from all Iraqi urban areas by June 2009. The 27-point agreement reportedly...

Tit for Tat.... it's getting more serious by the day! Russians halt Nato co-operation Russia has told Nato it is halting all military co-operation, the bloc says, as the crisis over Georgia deepens. The Russian move follows a statement by Nato that there would be no...

Harper no-show at Games an error, Chrétien says Prime Minister Stephen Harper has risked relations with China by failing to attend the Olympic Games and going overboard in honouring Tibet's Dalai Lama, former prime minister Jean Chrétien said yesterday. Speaking to a Canadian Bar Association...

President Musharraf of Pakistan Resigns Under pressure over impending impeachment charges, President Pervez Musharraf announced that he would resign Monday, ending nearly nine years as one of the United States’ most important allies in the campaign against terrorism. Facing impeachment...

Taliban letter to Canadians warns of more attacks The Taliban has sent an open letter urging Canadians to push Ottawa to leave Afghanistan or face more insurgent attacks. In an open letter written on behalf of the "Islamic Emirate of...

Missile Defense: Washington and Poland just moved the World closer to War The signing on August 14 of an agreement between the governments of the United States and Poland to deploy on Polish soil US ‘interceptor missiles’ is the most dangerous move towards nuclear war the world has seen since...

Strict security, growing costs impede major military purchase U.S. limiting exports to Canada over espionage fears, files show Ottawa is facing an uphill battle to carry out a promised purchase of $17-billion in new military equipment because of stringent U.S...

Ties with China stronger, Emerson says. Repairing Canada's relationship with Communist country 'a top priority' for Foreign Minister; critics call for more effort from Harper. Emerson says our relationship with China is improving, the Harper government is making efforts to...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin's prison system in his novels and spent 20 years in exile, has died near Moscow at the age of 89. The author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, who returned to Russia...

A stampede at a hilltop temple in northern India has killed at least 68 people, police say. The victims were 30 children and 38 women, with more than 40 others also injured, but the unofficial death toll is said to be at least one hundred, and 200 injured. It apparently happened when a...

What melts the ice up North, if not a warming trend? The biggest ice shelf has just dropped a 4-square-kilometer chunk of ice. That is a huge piece. In the past 100 years some 9000-square-kilometers have been whittled away. Doesn't that coincide with man's gradual pollution evolution? Read...

A Manhattan federal judge tossed out $28.5 million in settlements for the families of four 9/11 victims on Thursday after blasting their lawyers as greedy. Judge Alvin Hellerstein slammed the Baltimore law firm of Azrael, Gann & Franz for demanding a 25% cut - totaling $7.1 million - from four...

Visa survey shows Canada number one foreign destination for Americans In mid-May, Visa surveyed 1,000 credit or debit card holders who live in the United States and have travelled outside the U.S. in the past three years. The phone survey, which was not limited to Visa holders, had a margin of...

Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s most wanted war criminals for his part in the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995, was arrested Monday in a raid in Serbia that ended a 13-year hunt. The prosecutor of the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague, hailed...

Obama meets Afghan leader Karzai US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has met President Hamid Karzai while on a visit to Afghanistan. The senator had breakfast with US troops in the city of Kabul. Mr Obama is later expected to visit Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and...

UK 'must check' US torture denial [finally they are waking up!] The British government should not rely on US assurances that it does not use torture, a report by MPs says. The foreign affairs select committee said the UK and US differ on their definitions of what constitutes torture and it...

Plans to legalise prostitution for the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa have been criticized by religious groups and opposition parties. Opposition parties fear that, if introduced, it could become permanent. An additional concern is Aids - some five million people in South Africa are...

German row over Obama speech plan A leading German politician is the latest to criticise a tentative plan by Barack Obama to speak at Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate. Mr Obama is to visit Europe and the Middle East in late July. His campaign team said the Brandenburg Gate was one of...

Pres. Bush is in Japan today, and his first order of business was to defend his intention to attend the Olympic Opening Ceremonies in Beijing, China. For that attitude I applaud Mr. Bush, even give him a standing ovation, plus 10 greenies!!!:lol: Bravo, Mr. Fukuda!!! Other world leaders...

Canada gets Saddam's uranium The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans...