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New Swedish bloc poised for power Sweden's centre-right leader Fredrik Reinfeldt has begun talks on forming a new government after his coalition narrowly won Sunday's elections. The leader of the Moderate Party declared victory as near-complete results gave him a 1% lead. Mr Reinfeldt, 41...

Muslim religious leaders have accused Pope Benedict XVI of quoting anti-Islamic remarks during a speech at a German university this week. Questioning the concept of holy war, he quoted a 14th-Century Christian emperor who said Muhammad had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things. A...

Using a network of small, automated telescopes known as HAT, Smithsonian astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other known world. This new planet, designated HAT-P-1, orbits one member of a pair of distant stars 450 light-years away in the constellation Lacerta. "We could be looking...

A majority of Canadians believe U.S. foreign policy was one of the root causes that led to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and Quebecers are quicker to criticize the U.S. administration for its international actions than other Canadians, a recent poll suggests. Those conclusions are found in a...

Canadian astronaut Steve MacLean and his five crewmates put on their orange space suits Friday morning as they prepared for the launch of space shuttle Atlantis in Florida. NASA crews fueled the spacecraft early Friday in anticipation of the much delayed launch at 11:40 a.m. and they were...

‘Stunning’ designs unveiled for WTC site Architects present plans for three more skyscrapers to join Freedom Tower NEW YORK - Architects presented striking new visions for the World Trade Center site Thursday with designs for three more towers — including a diamond-shaped skyscraper — that...

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Jazeera broadcast Thursday a previously unshown video of the preparations for the Sept. 11 attacks in which al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden is seen meeting with some of the planners and hijackers in a mountain camp in Afghanistan. The station did not say how it obtained the...

Or so states an NDP resolution. Troops acting 'like terrorists?' Draft resolution to go before NDP committee John Ivison, National Post Published: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 OTTAWA - Canada's troops in Afghanistan have been "acting like terrorists, destroying communities, killing and...

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An award-winning Iraqi journalist wonders about the cost of the U.S. invasion. May 12, 2006 - On Wednesday I sat in a darkened room at the Kennedy Library in Boston watching photos from Iraq projected on a wall screen as an Associated Press photographer talked about covering the anguish of...

Slow, Painful Change A visit to Israel illustrates the harsh realities of the Palestinian conflict—and refutes some assumptions about this troubled land. July 7, 2006 - We arrived at the prime minister’s office an hour after the Hamas groups holding a captured Israeli soldier issued an...

Going Green With windmills, low-energy homes, new forms of recycling and fuel-efficient cars, Americans are taking conservation into their own hands. July 17, 2006 issue - One morning last week ... 29 years after president Jimmy Carter declared energy conservation "the moral equivalent of war"...

A new report describes Canadian teen Omar Khadr being carried into Guantanamo Bay interrogations on a stretcher, dangling from a door frame for hours and used as a human floor mop to clean his own urine. The Center for Constitutional Rights in New York released the first major overview Monday...

What effect will N Korea missile tests have? The US has dismissed demands from North Korea to have sanctions against it lifted as a precondition for returning to talks on its nuclear programme. US envoy Christopher Hill, who is on a tour of the region, accused the North of trying to divert...

MOSCOW, Russia -- Shamil Basayev, the rebel Chechen warlord believed to have masterminded the deadly school siege in Beslan and many other terrorist attacks, has been killed, the head of the Federal Security Service said Monday. FSB head Nikolai Patrushev told Russian President Vladimir Putin...

TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japan said Monday it was considering whether a pre-emptive strike on the North's missile bases would violate its constitution, signaling a hardening stance ahead of a possible U.N. Security Council vote on Tokyo's proposal for sanctions against the regime. While Japan...

By David McNally National myths die hard. And few Canadian myths are more entrenched than the notion of this country as a peacekeeper, free from the militarism and imperialism of the US. Yet this image is a wild fantasy that obscures some ugly truths. Take Canadian participation in the war on...

There’s an old, awful joke that – in direct proportion to its offensiveness and horrific frankness – gets to the heart of one of the fundamental hypocrisies of Canadian apartheid and the comfortable air of superiority with which we tend, from here, to observe the catastrophic racial dystopia...

Russian airliner crash kills at least 122 Airbus jet carrying 200 veers off Siberian runway, bursts into flames MOSCOW - A Russian passenger plane skidded off a rain-slicked Siberian runway early Sunday and plowed through a concrete barrier and into some nearby garages, bursting into flames...

Israel says its troops have left their positions in northern Gaza but has rejected a Palestinian cease-fire offer. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected the offer proposed by Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, and will not accept a truce until the ruling Hamas Party free an Israeli...