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Canadian police have arrested a man suspected to have shot dead three police officers and wounded two more, ending a massive manhunt, the police said on Friday. The shooting in the eastern city of Moncton was one of the worst...

The United States and its allies used the first Group of Seven meeting without Russia in 17 years to condemn Moscow's actions in Ukraine and threaten hard-hitting sanctions if President Vladimir Putin does not help restore stability. Meeting in Brussels...

Police in New Brunswick scoured overnight for a man they say fatally shot three of their officers and wounded two others in the Canadian province. "Shooter still believed to be in Pinehurst Subdivision area of Moncton. Stay locked inside. Leave...

The United States will strengthen its presence in the Black Sea region using part of a $1 billion fund promised to NATO allies on Russia's borders, and will continue to send warships to the area, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel...

Ukrainian government forces battled separatists with artillery and automatic weapons on Wednesday in a second day of fighting in and around Slaviansk, forcing many residents to flee. The Kiev government, trying to break rebellions by pro-Russia militias, said over 300...

US President Barack Obama is meeting Ukraine's President-elect Petro Poroshenko in Warsaw, to discuss providing economic support. Mr Obama has said he will offer US support as Kiev tries to settle a gas bill with Russian supplier Gazprom, which has...

China deployed its vast security apparatus on Wednesday to snuff out commemoration of the suppression of pro-democracy protests around Tiananmen Square 25 years ago, flooding the streets with police as censors scrubbed the Internet clean of any mention of...

The Taliban have released a 17-minute video showing the handover of U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl to the American military close to the Afghan border with Pakistan, in an exchange for five militants held at U.S. jail Guantanamo Bay,...

On the first anniversary of nationwide protests that shook Prime Minster Tayyip Erdogan's rule, barely a thousand anti-government demonstrators marched in Istanbul on Saturday. Outnumbered by riot police, they were soon sent scurrying into side streets by tear gas and...

Polls for the Syrian presidential election opened Tuesday against the backdrop of a bloody and protracted civil war. The outcome is hardly in doubt: President Bashar al-Assad is almost guaranteed to emerge victorious in a vote that opposition groups and...