Chinese President Xi Jinping pressed US President Donald Trump on the status of the self-governing island of Taiwan and urged his counterpart to maintain improved ties, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged Beirut to disarm Hezbollah, speaking after an Israel Defense Forces strike in the Lebanese capital killed the Iran-backed terror group’s “chief of staff.” Read More

U.S. and Ukrainian officials said Sunday that they made progress in Geneva working through a new version of a controversial plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine ahead of a Thanksgiving deadline imposed by the United States, while President Donald Trump faced mounting criticism from lawmakers and his own base over the proposal. Read More

India's hugely popular Bollywood star Dharmendra, who was equally at ease in romantic comedies and high-octane action blockbusters, died aged 89 on Monday. Read More

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For more than a decade a massive Ontario research lab has been importing dogs for scientific experimentation from a U.S. breeder with a history of serious animal cruelty allegations. Read More

Mosab Hassan Yousef is a rare voice to emerge from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a man whose journey took him from the dark pit of Hamas, to an outspoken critic and bestselling author. Read More

Monkman is known for inserting his alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, into imitations of other historical pieces in order to "reverse the colonial gaze." Read More

If you can find a way to watch the recently released Khalistani propaganda film Guru Nanak Jahaz, you might as well watch it. You paid for it, after all. Read More

Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing faster than any technology in human history, reshaping everything from how we diagnose disease to how we teach, learn and work. The question today is no longer what AI can do, but what ends it should serve. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When U.S. President Donald Trump first threatened tariffs on Canadian goods, the forecasts were grim. Read More

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to resume discussions on a bilateral free trade deal, the latest sign of warming relations between the two countries. Read More

The controversial 28-point plan dropped suddenly by the Trump administration to Ukraine as a take-it-or-leave it proposition mere days ago was mostly the result of several weeks of negotiations behind the scenes between Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev that excluded not only Ukraine and its allies but even some key U.S. officials. Read More

G20 leaders gathered Sunday in South Africa hailed multilateralism — even as they struggled to adapt to a changing world order beset by go-it-alone U.S. policies, wars and deepening geopolitical rivalries. Read More

The IDF said Sunday it killed the Hezbollah terrorist group’s “chief of staff” in Beirut in a targeted airstrike, pledging to continue to act against its efforts to rebuild and rearm. Read More

Canada no longer considers its approach to global engagement a “feminist foreign policy,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday, marking a clear departure from the doctrine championed by Justin Trudeau and his former Liberal government. Read More

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the world can make progress on a range of issues without the U.S., and that consensus reached at a Group of 20 leaders’ meeting in Johannesburg this weekend carries weight despite a boycott by President Donald Trump’s administration. Read More

Imagine teaching young people a course on the “politics of memory.” At the University of New Brunswick, there is such a course, taught by professor Donald Wright, historical biographer and past president of the Canadian Historical Association. Read More

To live in Toronto, to be subjected to its politics, is to watch the perfect lay waste to the good over and over again. So it’s tempting to side with the admirably uncynical activists and advocates who championed what passes for a recent major change in this city: Neighbourhood retail, which is to say retail in neighbourhoods, has been “legalized.” Read More

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I wrote last week of how the most significant churchman of the 20th century, St. John Paul the Great, proclaimed the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire with his June 1979 sermon at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw. The whole world knows of his impact. Read More