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The choice of Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence in Donald Trump's second administration could cause "a lot of headaches" for U.S. allies, including Canada, given her questionable past comments regarding both the Ukraine war and some Western adversaries led by autocrats.

Iran will back any decision taken by Lebanon in talks to secure a ceasefire with Israel, a senior Iranian official said on Friday, signaling Tehran wants to see an end to a conflict that has dealt heavy blows to its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.

A week after Israeli soccer fans were attacked in the streets of Amsterdam, triggering damning accusations of a "Jew hunt" in a city with an ugly history of antisemitism, a clearer picture of what happened that night is slowly emerging. It suggests a far more nuanced take on events than Dutch authorities had initially indicated.

At the sprawling forested Ādaži military base, north east of Riga, Latvia, 3,000 troops have spent the past two weeks participating in a Canadian-led NATO military exercise designed to simulate an attack on the Baltic nation coming from beyond its nearly 300 km-long border with Russia. 

Donald Trump's pathway to deporting millions of undocumented migrants may hinge on a 226-year old-law last used to target and detain non-citizens of Japanese, German and Italian descent during the Second World War.

A Georgia mom was arrested after her 10-year-old walked to their rural town alone. The case has sparked a debate about whether childhood safety fears have gone too far and how much supervision children need.

A heavy police presence but few visiting fans are expected when France hosts Israel in Nations League soccer on Thursday, a week after violence erupted in Amsterdam in connection with an Israeli team’s visit.

Lindsey Vonn is coming out of retirement to rejoin the U.S. Ski Team, she announced Thursday, intending to race again at age 40 — and six years after her last Olympics.

Human Rights Watch says the "massive" and "deliberate" forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces equates to war crimes and crimes against humanity, in a new report published Thursday.

Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House of Representatives, completing the party's sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside president-elect Donald Trump.

An Israeli government agency tasked with co-ordinating aid deliveries to Gaza is rejecting figures reported by international organizations on the number of supply trucks entering the territory, a day after Israel failed to meet the U.S. deadline to allow in more humanitarian assistance.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is quickly announcing plans for an emboldened new administration. Some choices are already raising eyebrows, but it's unclear if any of the choices will face pushback in the Senate.

As one of the few paramedics left in northern Gaza, Niveen Al-Dwawsa, is often the first on the scene of airstrikes, where she treats as many wounded people as she can. She used her phone to record what she saw while responding to the aftermath of an attack on a school shelter in Jabalia on Oct. 21.

The fight over Canada's controversial digital services tax may escalate this week, as a deadline looms for the Biden administration to decide whether to proceed with dispute arbitration under the revised North American trade deal amid retaliation threats from Donald Trump's next administration.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump moved to build out his national security team Tuesday, announcing he is nominating Fox News host and army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as his defence secretary and former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.

Not only does Mary the Asian elephant prefer to shower herself, but she's really good at it. So good, in fact, that her dexterous bath-time ritual is the subject of a new study about animal tool use. 

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was nominating former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee as its next ambassador to Israel, tapping a staunchly pro-Israel conservative whose choice could signal future U.S. policy toward conflicts in the Middle East.

A federal judge sentenced a Massachusetts Air National Guard member to 15 years in prison Tuesday for leaking classified military documents about the war in Ukraine, actions prosecutors said put the country's national security at risk, endangered other military members and damaged U.S. relationships with its allies.

An investigation found that he failed to inform police about serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps as soon as he became aware of it.