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OTTAWA (CP) - The length of Canada's military commitment in Afghanistan will be determined in large part by the generals, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said Monday amidst sustained calls for a full parliamentary debate. MacKay was responding to comments by Gen. Rick Hillier, the chief...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Sunday told an influential pro- Israel lobbying group there is an urgent need to confront Iran's "clear and unrelenting drive" for a nuclear weapons program. ADVERTISEMENT John Bolton, speaking before a crowd of 4,500...

UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan will ask U.N. member states to consider outsourcing some U.N. operations as part of an overhaul of the world body's management, according to an outline of his proposed reforms obtained by The Associated Press. ADVERTISEMENT Annan's reform...

Bush faces fire for deal with India on nuclear energy ALAN FREEMAN WASHINGTON -- U.S. President George W. Bush returned home from a swing through South Asia yesterday after signing an "historic" deal on nuclear energy with India. But the agreement faces tough opposition from Congress, which is...

Ottawa — More than 60 members of the country's political and business elites say some of Mr. Justice John Gomery's key reform proposals would do more harm than good to the federal government. In a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the group argues that the drastic changes proposed by...

NAZARETH, Israel - A distraught Israeli couple, joined by another woman, entered one of Christianity's holiest sites Friday and set off explosions, police said, sparking a large riot in this biblical town in northern Israel. ADVERTISEMENT At least eight people, including five police...

OTTAWA (CP) - The ethics commissioner is launching a preliminary inquiry into conflict-of-interest allegations against Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Bernard Shapiro said Friday he will look into what influence was wielded in the decision by former Liberal David Emerson to cross the Commons...

A Montreal school board went too far in imposing a blanket ban on the wearing of Sikh ceremonial daggers by students, says the Supreme Court of Canada. ADVERTISEMENT In an 8-0 judgment, the court overturned a decision that barred teenager Gurbaj Singh Multani from wearing the dagger, known...

EDMONTON (CP) - Premier Ralph Klein has apologized for throwing a booklet at a page in the legislature during an emotional debate Wednesday over Alberta's health care reforms. ADVERTISEMENT The 17-year-old page had delivered a soft-covered, 80-page booklet of Liberal policy proposals to...

SYDNEY, Australia - Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein, as lawlessness and sectarian violence sweep the country, the former U.N. human rights chief in Iraq said Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT John Pace, who last month left his post as director of...

WASHINGTON (AP) - In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President George W. Bush and his homeland security chief before hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, risk lives in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to...

Crash of Canadian armoured vehicle kills one, injures seven in Kandahar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- at 9:19 on March 2, 2006, EST. Canadian soldiers in a LAV III (Light Armoured Vehicle) drive past the ruins of the King's Palace in...

Palestinian ambassador to Russia says Hamas might rethink attitude to Israel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- at 5:40 on March 2, 2006, EST. MOSCOW (AP) - The Palestinian ambassador to Russia said Thursday that Hamas might reconsider its...

Harper to raise Mexico deaths with minister amid threat of diplomatic row -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- at 13:41 on March 1, 2006, EST. OTTAWA (CP) - Stephen Harper says he'll do whatever it takes to help solve the murder of a Canadian...

Old habits die hard. After years of being on the governing side of the House of Commons, Liberal MPs made their way to a caucus meeting today in Ottawa. Many, including former justice minister Irwin Cotler, gravitated toward the government caucus room, only to be directed by security to the...

TORONTO (CP) - A Canadian facing charges in the United States for allegedly plotting to kill Americans will return to court in two weeks. Abdullah Khadr appeared in a Toronto court today before he was remanded into custody until March 16. The federal justice minister has until then to consider...

Now I am a usually a happy person. And I have a lot of friends at the DND, and from my cadet days. However to look back on the moment some of my friends have actually passed on at very young ages because of the three reasons I list above. First off, I had a friend (the security guard) who...

OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government will be examining Alberta's health-care reform plan over the next few days to see if it respects the Canada Health Act, says Prime Minister Stephen Harper. ADVERTISEMENT Harper emphasized Wednesday that the plan is just a "working document" at this time...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Leaders of Sunni, Kurdish and a secular political party decided Wednesday to ask the Shiite alliance to withdraw its nomination of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari for another term, political officials said. ADVERTISEMENT The move is expected to draw sharp opposition from...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein said in a defiant courtroom confession Wednesday that he ordered the trial of 148 Shiites who were eventually executed in the 1980s, but he insisted he had the right to do so because they were suspected of trying to kill him. ADVERTISEMENT The dramatic...