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U.S. Gen. David Petraeus says he has arranged for the safe passage of a senior Taliban commander to Kabul for ongoing peace talks. More...

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon refuses to speculate on claims that the U.S. sabotaged Canada's chances of winning a temporary seat on the UN Security Council. More...

The Crown has dropped charges against more than 100 people who were arrested during the G20 summit in Toronto. More...

More than 100 Chinese activists have called for Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo to be released from prison. More...

CBC News has confirmed there are talks aimed at getting a plea deal between the U.S. government and Canadian Omar Khadr's defence team ahead of the resumption of his war-crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. More...

Admitted murderer and sexual stalker Col. Russell Williams is due back in Ontario Superior Court in Belleville, Ont., on Thursday for pre-trial motions over how the media can report on his upcoming sentencing. More...

After coming within a hair's breadth of parity on Wednesday, the loonie draws even with the U.S. dollar early Thursday. More...

Khurram Syed Sher, the doctor arrested in August with two Ottawa men on terrorism charges related to an alleged bomb plot, has been granted bail. More...

The Canadian dollar rises to a five-month high as it once again is on the verge of trading at parity with the U.S. currency. More...

Experts are blaming Canada's failure to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council on its foreign policy, not political division, a day after Tuesday's surprise loss in New York. More...

Immigration advocates say Canada may have contravened international law if it had any role in the arrest of more than 150 Tamil migrants in Thailand on Monday, even if they were headed for Canada. More...

1st Chilean miner rescued WATCH LIVE VIDEO: The first of 33 trapped Chilean miners was raised safely to the surface at 11:11 p.m. ET Tuesday after 69 days underground. More...

Canada has dropped its bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council after coming behind Portugal in second ballot voting Tuesday in New York. More...

Canada's federal deficit for the 2009-10 fiscal year came in at a record $55.6 billion, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced. More...

U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has lifted a moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, but companies will have to meet certain safety conditions, officials say. More...

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon spent Thanksgiving weekend campaigning at the UN for Canada, which is vying for a seat on the Security Council. More...

A military source in Ottawa says the United Arab Emirates closed its airspace Monday to Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay and Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Walt Natynczyk in an escalating diplomatic row over aviation rights. More...

More interested suitors are circling around Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan and may try to top BHP Billiton's takeover offer, media reports say. More...

The engineer leading Chilean rescue efforts says his team has successfully tested a rescue capsule nearly all the way down to where the miners are trapped. More...

Americans Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides, a British and Cypriot citizen, have won the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. More...