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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...

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...

Panel Questions State Dept. Role in Iraq Oil Deal Bush administration officials knew that a Texas oil company with close ties to President Bush was planning to sign an oil deal with the regional Kurdistan government that ran counter to American policy and undercut Iraq’s central government, a...

Zimbabwe is already destitute, now a new crisis looms over Somalia: Fears of another Somalia famine rise I can't imagine how this child can still be alive! The body is a miracle machine! I wish I could pack my knapsack and walk over there and bring them the contents of my pantry shelves...

Morgentaler named to Order of Canada Morgenthaler:?:..... Is Canada going down the drain, just like the millions of babies he helped down the sewer pipes? What on earth is this world coming to!!!!! http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl.../National/home...

From reading Praxius' thread about Omar Khadr's trial in the US, I have asked myself, "is there an anti-Muslim attitude in the ranks of our government, and in the Canadian public as well?" I would appreciate your input from personal observations, articles you have read, and news you heard...

Oil tycoon surprises University of Calgary with $27-million Mr. Boone Pickens, the Texas billionaire and former Calgarian, was expected to donate $2.25-million to the Harley Hotchkiss Brain Institute Friday. But when it came time to show the money, Mr. Pickens added another $25-million – for...

Supermarkets contribute to failing fisheries North American supermarkets can be blamed for contributing to the looming global fisheries collapse, according to a report authored by Greenpeace. Canada's big three grocery chains -- Loblaws, Metro and Sobeys -- all fare poorly in the report for...

From Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: Recent trends in military expenditure World military expenditure is estimated to have been $1339 billion in 2007—a real-terms increase of 6 per cent over 2006 and of 45 per cent since 1998. This corresponded to 2.5 per cent of world gross...

Pakistan fury over U.S. 'hot pursuit' attack Pakistan summoned the U.S. ambassador Wednesday to protest a U.S. airstrike that it says killed 11, and wounded another seven of its forces who were cooperating with the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. "The United States regrets that actions in...