Winnipeg, When Canada’s newest national museum opens next weekend, it will mark the end of a 14-year journey sparked by one family’s desire to have Canadians learn about the struggle for — and the fragility of — freedom. The road to create the Canadian Museum For Human Rights has not alwaysRead More

Toronto, The Teranet-National Bank house price index was up almost 0.8 per cent in August, with the strongest gains in Winnipeg, the Ottawa-Gatineau region and Toronto. It was the second consecutive month in which prices were up in 10 of the 11 Canadian metropolitan markets surveyed. Montreal was the only cityRead More

Baghdad, Iraq’s new Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has renounced his British citizenship since assuming office last week, three government officials close to the premier said Sunday. According to the officials, who declined to be named because they are not authorized to discuss the matter, al-Abadi surrendered his British passport afterRead More

Islamabad , In a major boost to the morale of anti-government protesters, a Pakistani court on Sunday ordered the release of all arrested supporters of Imran Khan and cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, a day after the two leaders suspended talks and mounted pressure on the embattled government. Pakistani police arrested several protesters and aRead More

Pyongyang, North Korea , North Korea’s Supreme Court on Sunday sentenced Matthew Miller, a U.S. citizen, to six years of hard labor for entering the country illegally and trying to commit espionage. At a trial that lasted about 90 minutes, the court said Miller, 24, of Bakersfield, California, tore upRead More

London, The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the beheading of a British aid worker on Saturday, an act slammed as “pure evil” by Prime Minister David Cameron who vowed Britain would do all it could to catch the killers. President Barack Obama offered US support for its “ally in grief”,Read More

Singapore, Malaysia Airlines 3786.KU +1.96% said Sunday that one of its planes bound for India returned to Kuala Lumpur due to a fault with its autopilot system. Flight 198 left Kuala Lumpur at 10:20 p.m. Saturday for Hyderabad, India, and returned nearly four hours later, Malaysia Airlines said in aRead More

Gaza city, Some half million Gaza children returned to their schools today after facing a devastating 50-day war with Israel that killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and damaged hundreds of school buildings. Gaza Education Ministry official Ziad Thabet said that 230,000 students from 1st to 12th grades attended public schoolsRead More

Washington, President Barack Obama is distinguishing the military campaign against Islamic State militants from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He says the new fight must avoid what he calls mistakes of the past. Obama says more nations are joining a coalition against the extremists. In his weekly radio andRead More

Washington, A US court overseeing spy agencies has renewed the government’s authority to carry out a controversial phone surveillance programme for another three months, federal bodies have said, attributing it to the delay in the passage of the surveillance reform bill by the Senate. Reauthorisation from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance CourtRead More