NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalian pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, an attack that could pose a huge environmental.
LONDON — Iran is holding five British sailors after stopping their racing yacht in the Persian Gulf, the British government said Monday. The move could heighten tensions between Iran and major world powers, including Britain, that are demanding a halt to its nuclear program.
Millions of Muslim pilgrims, many wearing surgical masks, jostled together shoulder-to-shoulder furiously casting pebbles at stone walls representing the devil Saturday — the hajj ritual of highest concern to world health authorities watching for an outbreak of swine flu.
Wal-Mart Canada says it’s not surprised the highest court in the country has ruled the multinational was entitled to close a unionized store in Quebec in 2005.
Scientists say shrinking Arctic sea ice may be forcing some hungry polar bears to cannibalize bear cubs.
Officials leading a media tour of the Toronto Humane Society on Friday said a mummified cat was discovered in a live trap inside the building’s drop ceiling.
Insp. Kevin Strooband, an officer with the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, called the find “very disturbing.”
One of four police officers killed in an ambush at a coffee house Sunday fought with the gunman and may have wounded him before the officer died just outside the doorway, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
Residents gathered at the local pub to watch the Grey Cup game on Sunday rushed to their boats after seeing a float plane crash into the harbour of this community in B.C.’s Gulf Islands, plucking the pilot and a passenger from the frigid waters
The federal Conservatives are planning to reduce the time it takes for internationally-trained workers to have their foreign credentials recognized.
The current wave of H1N1 activity may have peaked in all provinces and territories, the Public Health Agency of Canada says in its latest assessment on the state of the pandemic.
The appeal of amnesty has dwindled dramatically for Taliban thinking of giving up arms, hinting at an insurgency that is increasing its resolve and complicating President Hamid Karzai’s promise to reach out to insurgents.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper assured Canada’s military Sunday that he and most Canadians stand behind them, even if his political opposition does not.
British Columbia’s New Democrats have elected Moe Sihota, a former cabinet minister whose 15 years in politics were marked by several controversies, as president of the provincial Opposition party.
PORT-OF-SPAIN — Prime Minister Stephen Harper assured Canada’s military Sunday that he and most Canadians stand behind them, even if his political opposition does not.
SATURNA, B.C. — It was the sound of the float plane “crumpling” that sent James White rushing to his skiff to look for survivors of a crash he didn’t see but knew from that sound was devastating.
DHAKA, Bangladesh — The death toll from the capsizing of a ferry over the weekend in southern Bangladesh rose Monday to 72 after rescuers recovered an additional 14 bodies.
VIENNA, Austria — The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board censured Iran on Friday, with 25 nations backing a resolution demanding that Tehran immediately freeze construction of its newly revealed nuclear facility and heed Security Council resolutions to stop uranium enrichment.
LONDON — The United States was “hell bent” on a 2003 military invasion of Iraq and actively undermined efforts by Britain to win international authorization for the war, a former British diplomat told an inquiry Friday.
PORT-OF-SPAIN — The head of the United Nations is trying to prod Canada into taking greater action on climate change, saying the Canadian government needs an “ambitious” mid-range target to reduce greenhouse gases — and needs to set one more quickly.
TORONTO — Corruption at the Afghan government’s highest levels, coupled with unhelpful Western meddling along the way, crippled efforts to effectively battle the country’s burgeoning opium trade, says the country’s former counter-narcotics minister.
