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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The prospect of Iranian-U.S. talks on Iraq, which look more likely after statements in Washington and Tehran on Thursday, partly reflects intense struggles within Iraq's dominant Shi'ite Alliance, Iraqi political sources say. ADVERTISEMENT Deadlock on forming the...

SO who will win?

JERUSALEM - Israel's dramatic seizure of senior Palestinian militants from a West Bank jail highlights its new freedom of action with the internationally shunned Hamas poised to take over Palestinian government. ADVERTISEMENT Tuesday's raid also undercuts the authority of Palestinian...

UNITED NATIONS - The General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to replace the U.N.'s discredited human rights body with a new Human Rights Council, ignoring U.S. objections that not enough was done to prevent abusive countries from becoming members. ADVERTISEMENT Ambassadors from most...

I think what should happen as well since we have people from all over the world on this forum as well as many different people who speak different languages or learning different languages that it would be neat if there was a thread for other languages besides French and English where people can...

Ainsi avec Stephen Harper dans le contrôle de Parliment et sa fourmi pour la décentralisation ce qui devrait le rôle de Québec être au Canada. Puisque Klein part et Alberta Premier suivante pourrait être occupée avec les questions intérieures, Québec sera-t-il numéro un dans le Canada d'Harper...

Not only m I taking a U.N course but now i am learning Arabic and Swedish as well. And even though I have already completed a lesson I only remember a few things in either. For example in Arabic Salem: Peace Ommi: My mother marharban ismi *name*: My name is *name* and in Swedish Yo...

Now I was watching CBC and they had an American journalist on ho said that American generals told him that iraq has now crossed over into a Low-level civil war with the finding of 87 bodies. So Americans at least 60% didn't want to stay in Iraq as well as 77% of American soldiers in Iraq, I...

Now I will put it to a poll to see if people on this forum support Canadian troops. This is a question at the Canadian members, but I don't see why not other members like in America or overseas can't post as well. i would like to know why? And where you are politically? (Just for fun)...

HALIFAX (CP) - A Nova Scotia senator is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to clarify his government's stance on Ottawa's offshore energy deals with Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Liberal Senator Terry Mercer raised concerns about the fate of the multibillion-dollar agreements after...

JERICHO, West Bank (AP) - Israeli forces driving bulldozers and firing tank shells and missiles burst into a Palestinian prison Tuesday and removed dozens of inmates in a raid targeting prisoners convicted of killing an Israeli cabinet minister. Furious Palestinians attacked offices linked to...

KABUL (CP) - With military helicopters swirling overhead, Afghanistan's president told Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Tuesday he's willing to visit Canada to persuade Canadians their help is essential to his country's growing democracy. Hamid Karzai accepted the prime minister's invitation...

KABUL (CP) - Local shopkeepers and labourers repeated the pleas of President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday for Canada to remain committed to building democracy, despite the bloody conflict in southern Afghanistan. "It's part of the humanity of Canadians that they sacrifice their lives for...

Militarized conflicts This is a list of militarized conflicts involving the United States, the dates show the years in which U.S. military units (primarily regular, occasionally irregular) participated. The bolded items are the U.S. wars most often considered to be major conflicts by historians...

VALPARAISO, Chile - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered congratulations Saturday to Chile's first female president, a socialist taking office more than three decades after a U.S.-linked coup that ousted the country's elected leftist leader. ADVERTISEMENT The inauguration of...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Words like "victory" and "mission accomplished" aren't heard much anymore as the United States enters its fourth year of war in Iraq. ADVERTISEMENT The slogans now are "political process" and handing over "battle space" to Iraq's new army so that the Iraqis themselves...

JERUSALEM - Israel's March 28 election has all the makings of high drama: party splits, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's devastating stroke, Islamic militants ruling in the Palestinian territories. ADVERTISEMENT So why, in a country of high emotions and loud opinions, has the campaign...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran threatened Saturday to use oil as a weapon if the UN Security Council imposes sanctions over its nuclear program. The country's interior minister raised the possibility of using Iran's own oil and gas supplies and its position on a vital Persian Gulf oil route as...

WASHINGTON (CP) - Oh sure, you hear about how everyone plays hockey in Canada, gets to the rink by dogsled and then goes home to an igloo. But many myths about Canadians that circulate in the United States aren't nearly so silly or harmless. Perceptions that Canada is soft on immigration...

JAYYUS, West Bank (AP) - Palestinians throughout the West Bank expressed sorrow Saturday over the killing of American Tom Fox, 54, who had travelled to the West Bank to protest for their cause before he was taken hostage in Iraq. Fox's body was found shot in the head and chest Thursday near a...