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I think with the additions, I wouldn't say of who unless no one knows about the Toronto Blue Jays, I will say that it is looking good for Toronto to win the World Series. Just watching them so far they are all pretty good, even the two call ups so far this season, minor-league guys from other...

Now it has been fun, but since I came back from field exercise last week I haven't felt well. So I have decided to cut back on my output for this forum here. I will leave all politic issues to everyone else. Just to note I am socialist, and I am Anti-Iraq war and a Canadian soldier. However...

So what has happened here since I left for a field exercise last week? It seems like everyone seems to be fighting each other. What's happened?

The United Nations on Thursday dashed Serb hopes of their own "entity" in Kosovo and issued a stark response to those threatening to leave if the Albanian majority wins independence. "When told me they couldn't live in an independent Kosovo, if this is the outcome of the status process, I told...

CANCUN, Mexico (CP) - Canadians need to get used to the fact that they'll soon have to show a passport every time they want to go to the United States, even if it's just by car, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday. Harper acknowledged at the end of two days of meetings with his U.S. and...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti on Friday condemned the jailing of thousands of people who have not been convicted of a crime, saying the practice violated prisoners' human rights. Only 10 percent of some 4,000 prisoners have been convicted, U.N. spokeswoman...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A letter from President Bush to Iraq's supreme Shiite spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, was hand-delivered earlier this week but sits unread and untranslated in the top religious figure's office, a key al-Sistani aide told The Associated Press on Thursday...

NABLUS, West Bank - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the northern West Bank settlement of Kedoumim after nightfall Thursday, killing three Israelis, settlers and Israeli media said. Army Radio said police suspect three Israelis, two women and a man, gave a...

The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca) was a militarily unsuccessful rebellion staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday in April 1916. Nevertheless, despite its military failure, it can be judged as being a significant stepping-stone in the eventual creation of the Irish...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - The main coalition airbase in Kandahar has apparently been hit by three mortar rounds. Three distinct explosions were heard around 3 a.m. local time Tuesday and U.S. helicopter gunships were scrambled. There has been no immediate comment from military officials...

Now if H5N1 results in collapse of governments will people go into a tribal system. Yes or No?

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The singer who dressed as a policeman in the flamboyant late 1970s disco band "Village People" has been arrested after disappearing while drug and gun charges against him were pending, officials said on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT Victor Willis, who co-wrote some of the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sudan's government must not waste any time in agreeing to a U.N. force to stabilize its western Darfur region, where the situation is daily becoming more troubling, said a senior U.S. official on Monday. "There is no time to waste. There are people suffering and dying...

KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan man who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity has appealed for asylum in another country, the United Nations said Monday after hundreds of Muslims marched against a court's decision to dismiss his case. Afghan officials did not...

JERUSALEM - Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has laid out the choice in stark terms: a vote for his Kadima Party in Tuesday's election is a vote for an Israeli pullback from much of the West Bank. ADVERTISEMENT Barring an unexpected right-wing surge, Israelis will give a green light to...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. ambassador to Iraq has asked one of Iraq's most prominent Shiite politicians to seek the withdrawal of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's contentious nomination for a second term, two aides said Monday. The aides to Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim said U.S. Ambassador...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shiite politicians raged at the United States and halted negotiations on a new government Monday after a military assault killed at least 16 people in what Iraqis claim was a mosque. Fresh violence erupted in the north, with 40 killed in a suicide bombing. The firestorm of...

CARLISLE, Pa. - The United States is faring poorly in its effort to counter ideological support for terrorism, in part because the government does not communicate effectively, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday. Rumsfeld made the remark in response to a question from a member...

NEW YORK (AFP) - US President George W. Bush made clear to British Prime Minister Tony Blair in January 2003 that he was determined to invade Iraq without a UN resolution and even if UN arms inspectors failed to find weapons of mass destruction in the country, The New York Times...

Afghanistan to blame for Conservative popularity dip in Quebec: pollster -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- at 17:58 on March 24, 2006, EST. OTTAWA (CP) - Support for the Conservatives dipped slightly in Quebec in the wake of the prime...