US & World

Israel says it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza. The full effects of that are not immediately clear, but the territory’s desalination plants receive power for producing drinking water.  Supplies heading into Palestinian territory halted a week ago. Israel says it is cutting off its electricity supply to …

A statement from Ukraine’s airborne assault forces said that Russian soldiers had used the pipeline in an attempt to gain a foothold, but the Russians were promptly detected and attacked with rockets, artillery and drones.  Ukrainian officials say attack repelled as its soldiers face encirclement in Russia. Russian special forces …

Hassan Al-Abbasi, who lives in Ottawa, has been searching for his sister’s six children in orphanages across Syria, after she was detained nearly 12 years ago by the ousted Assad regime alongside her husband, secretary and six children.  Dentist Rania Al-Abbasi was put in Assad’s prison network with 6 children …

Canadians may know U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick as the face of Donald Trump’s tariffs. But nearly 25 years ago, he became a national figure when more than 650 employees of his Wall Street firm located in the World Trade Center were killed on Sept. 11, 2001.  U.S. commerce secretary …

The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, including nearly 750 civilians, a war monitoring group said Saturday.  Death toll mounts after just 2 days of clashes, revenge …

Hassan Al-Abbasi, who lives in Ottawa, has been searching for his sister’s six children in orphanages across Syria, after she was detained nearly 12 years ago by the ousted Assad regime alongside her husband, secretary and six children.  Dentist Rania Al-Abbasi was put in Assad’s prison network with 6 children …

A massive SpaceX Starship rocket exploded after takeoff again, raining down fiery debris and briefly grounding flights at Orlando International Airport Thursday evening.  Flights briefly grounded at Orlando International Airport ‘due to space launch debris in the area. Witness captures fiery debris streaking through sky after SpaceX rocket explodes An …

For 65 years, Antarctica — which is one and a half times the size of Canada — has been governed by a treaty of nations. But with rising geopolitical tensions and a shifting world order, that governance system is now under pressure. The southern pole region has been governed by …

At the heart of NATO, the world’s longest-standing security alliance, is the notion that an attack on one is an attack on all. But with many in Europe doubting a Trump-led United States will really come through for them, France’s president says his country may have to play a bigger …

Cuts to the U.S. agency responsible for weather forecasting and climate science have left scientists on this side of the border concerned about the reliability of data Canada needs to predict dangerous events, conduct accurate flood forecasts and understand broader changes to the climate. Manitoba scientists concerned about loss of …