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EU leaders give Russia one week to scale back Ukraine intervention or face...
By Juergen Baetz And Jim Heintz BRUSSELS, Belgium — Despite tough rhetoric decrying Russia’s increasing military involvement in Ukraine, European Union leaders on Sunday stopped short of imposing new...
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EU leaders pick Italy foreign minister as bloc’s top diplomat, Polish premier...
By Juergen Baetz BRUSSELS, Belgium — European Union leaders on Saturday picked Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, to become the 28-nation bloc’s top diplomat for the next five years. The...
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Fisher: How Russia’s Vladimir Putin hoodwinked the West
A few months ago I wrote from eastern Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin might have blinked when he appeared to do an unexpected volte-face and called for an end to the violence there. I was...
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Ukraine truce tested as both sides report deaths
By Volodymyr Verbyany and Stephen Bierman Ukraine’s government and the pro-Russian separatists its army has been fighting reported deaths overnight, testing a truce intended to stem months of...
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Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko to visit Canada, address Parliament next...
TORONTO — Ukraine’s new president, Petro Poroshenko, will visit Canada next week and address Parliament, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday night. Addressing a gathering of Ukrainian...
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US, EU levy new sanctions on Russia, take aim at Moscow’s energy future (with...
By Julie Pace And Jonathan Fahey WASHINGTON — Unsatisfied with a fragile cease-fire in Ukraine, the United States and the European Union levied new sanctions Friday against major Russian banks and...
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s UN performance ends on high note
NEW YORK – For years Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s attitude towards the United Nations has at least appeared to be one of high-handed dismissiveness, if not contempt. When he shunned the General...
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Harper gives EU leaders free plane ride on heels of free-trade deal
OTTAWA — The Prime Minister’s Office is defending a decision to give a European Union delegation a free plane flight home last Friday at a cost that a media report estimated at more than $300,000....
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Man in Northern Ireland visited by police after complaint that EU flag looked...
A golf fan in Northern Ireland got a surprise visit from police Sunday over concern he was flying an offensive flag at his house. Someone had called in to complain, mistaking the 12 gold stars of the...
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World is watching as Canada and EU iron out trade-deal kinks
By Andy Blatchford TORONTO – The director of the influential World Trade Organization says nations around the planet are keeping a close eye on how Canada and the European Union overcome the stumbling...
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Den Tandt: Canadian military may get its $3.1-billion back
Even as the Harper Conservatives have deployed CF-18 fighter jets to Eastern Europe, and now to Kuwait to join the air war against Islamic State, the Canadian Forces have seen their funding slashed....
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Fisher: Canada reluctantly joins the motorcycle gang of nations
It is a horrible way to wake a country from a deep slumber, but the murder this week of two Canadian soldiers in separate attacks in Quebec and Ottawa, and in particular Wednesday’s assault on...
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Coyne: Obama’s new climate change agreement leaves Canada biting the dust
For a lame duck, Barack Obama is looking distinctly frisky. In the days since his Democratic Party took a pasting in the midterm elections, the U.S. president has been moving quickly across a number of...
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Fisher: Vladimir Putin’s global antics overshadow G20′s economic agenda
BRISBANE, Australia — Prime Minister Stephen Harper may be slowly moving toward acceptance of more environmental-friendly policies ahead of next fall’s federal election. The prime minister once again...
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Philippine typhoon kills 3, weakens, as central region escapes repeat of...
LEGAZPI, Philippines — Typhoon Hagupit knocked out power, left at least three people dead and sent nearly 900,000 into shelters before it weakened Sunday, sparing the central Philippines the type of...
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Russia dismisses new sanctions, says U.S. and Canada ‘still cannot get over’...
By Nataliya Vasilyeva MOSCOW — Russia on Saturday dismissed new U.S. sanctions as useless and said it was poised to wait as long as it takes for the U.S. to recognize its historic right to the Crimean...
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Increased security at Frankfurt airport could slow boarding times
By Richard Weiss Frankfurt airport has imposed more manual luggage checks, opening one in four bags, after a European Union audit revealed security shortcomings at Europe’s No. 3 hub. During the...
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Scrubbing away cruise ship emissions
“Scrubbing”…hear that word and you probably think of washing everything from your car to the floor to the family dog. In the cruise world, scrubbing is all about the environment and that’s why Royal...
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With prisons overflowing, Switzerland mulls plan to export inmates to France...
BERLIN — Little Switzerland has too many criminals and too few prisons. Now the Justice Ministry is reportedly considering a proposal to export convicts to neighbouring France and Germany. Swiss...
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The 1% will own more than half the world’s money next year
LONDON — The richest 1 per cent of the population will own more than half the world’s wealth by 2016, Oxfam International said in a report released as the World Economic Forum begins in Davos,...
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Despite tensions with Russia, many Ukrainians have high hopes for a Western...
KYIV, Ukraine — The last time the Poklonovs visited Kyiv, it was the capital of a drastically different country: Ukrainians summered on the lush Black Sea Crimean Peninsula, now annexed by Russia;...
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U.S. may restore electric chair in place of lethal injections for death row...
By Raf Sanchez WASHINGTON — A number of U.S. states may revert to killing their death row inmates with electric chairs, firing squads and gas chambers as it becomes increasingly difficult to buy the...
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Today on the Hill: Dutch foreign minister to talk Ukraine crisis with John Baird
OTTAWA — The foreign affairs minister from the Netherlands is in Ottawa, where he’ll speak at the Rideau Club about relations between Canada and the European Union in light of recent security...
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Ukraine’s likely descent into civil war stirs memories of Balkan conflict
Konstyantynivka, Ukraine — As it was 20 years ago during the Balkan wars, it is a perilous business running the gauntlet of checkpoints on the roads leading to Ukraine’s separatist-held town of...
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EU expands Ukraine sanctions, adding 13 people and two firms while...
By Raf Casert BRUSSELS, Belgium — European Union foreign ministers added 13 people Monday to their visa ban and asset freeze list over Ukraine’s crisis but are not expected to decide whether to impose...
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Devastation caused by Balkan flooding may exceed damage from 1990s wars
SARAJEVO — Recovering from the historic floods in the last week will cost Bosnia and Serbia billions that neither country has, officials said Wednesday. Although there’s no official total for flood...
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French father tried for ordering daughter’s killer kidnapped
PARIS — A 76-year-old Frenchman has gone on trial for taking justice into his own hands after a decades-long mission to avenge his daughter’s death. Andre Bamberski is accused of ordering the...
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Canada loses WTO appeal as EU’s ban on seal products upheld
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Canada lost its bid to overturn a World Trade Organization ruling that Europe’s ban on seal products is justifiable but seized on findings that aspects of the embargo breach...
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Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s ‘chocolate king,’ poised to win presidential...
KYIV, Ukraine — “Chocolate King” Petro Poroshenko, the frontrunner to become Ukraine’s next president, will almost certainly win Sunday’s election, replacing Viktor Yanukovych who was ousted in a...
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New European Parliament is an eclectic mix of renegades, recluses and rebels
A Dane who lives in an amusement park. A Gypsy who vows to ban short-distance air travel. A Pole who wants to turn the European Parliament into a brothel. Europe has elected 751 people to five-year...
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Den Tandt: If you’re seeking bright ideas, you won’t find them in Ottawa
It would be easy to blame all three major federal parties for the pre-summer torpor that has settled over Ottawa this spring, as MPs turn their minds to garden parties, BBQs and a break from the...
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Google gets 12,000 removal requests on first day after EU privacy ruling
By Brian Womack Google Inc., complying with a top court ruling that backs European citizens’ right to delete personal information on the Internet, received 12,000 requests in the first day of offering...
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Photos June 2: Top images from around the world
The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world. Tourists react to a large bubble created by a street performer...
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Arrest in Jewish museum killings mocks Europe’s bid to track jihadists
PARIS — The suspect in the recent killings at the Jewish Museum in Brussels is a text book case of the West’s long-standing fear — the threat posed by radicalized citizens returning from the...
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Fisher: Western leaders mark D-Day with an aggressor in their midst
WARSAW — Vladimir Putin keeps turning up like a bad penny. Kicked out of the Group of Eight two months ago over his swift annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, instead of hosting a scheduled gathering of...
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Fisher: Stop the charade about Russian meddling in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine — As western convictions about Ukraine begin to wobble, Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to toy with his biggest Slavic neighbour. Putin has been playing one of the oldest games...
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Maher: Conservatives leave the pitch with more red cards and own goals than...
When MPs gathered in Ottawa back in October 2013, Jim Flaherty was still finance minister, Mike Duffy was a senator, the prime minister had a secret plan to announce a free trade deal with the European...
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Putin backs Ukraine cease-fire, warns it will fail without peace talks;...
By David McHugh THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed support Saturday for Ukraine’s unilateral cease-fire in its battle against pro-Russian separatists and...
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Ukraine, European Union ink historic trade pact
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday signed up to a trade and economic pact with the European Union, saying it may be the “most important day” for his country since it...
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Russian foreign minister accuses United States of fueling confrontation in...
MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister on Saturday accused the United States of encouraging Ukraine to challenge Moscow and heavily weighing in on the European Union. Speaking in televised remarks...
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Coyne: 147 years on, economic union still a dream
Unveiling the western premiers’ groundbreaking initiative for a “Canada Free Trade Zone,” Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall was momentarily overcome by a sense of national vision. “The proposal before...
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At least 4 civilians killed in artillery attack that hit residential in...
MARYINKA, Ukraine — Artillery fire killed at least four people in an overnight attack on a residential area in eastern Ukraine, spurring more people to flee the besieged city of Donetsk and its suburbs...
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Fisher: How long until the West takes meaningful action against Russia?
What to do about Russia? The question that has been largely unanswered since Moscow seized Crimea in March and subsequently began encouraging a violent revolt by ethnic Russian separatists in eastern...
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Train carrying bodies of Flight 17 victims arrives in Kyiv-controlled Kharkiv
KHARKIV, Ukraine — A train carrying the remains of people killed in the Malaysia Airlines crash arrived in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Wednesday on their way to the Netherlands, a journey...
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Harper government shies away from report Germany to reject EU-Canada trade deal
MONTREAL – The Harper government isn’t responding directly to a report that Germany is set to reject Canada’s long sought after trade deal between Canada and the European Union. The leading German...
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Ukraine prepares offensive in hopes of retaking rebel stronghold of Donetsk
By Ayse Wieting And David McHugh DONETSK, Ukraine — Ukrainian officials said their forces advanced to the outskirts of a key town north of Donetsk on Saturday as they try to retake the stronghold held...
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Red Cross: Russian aid convoy for eastern Ukraine held up by lack of security...
By Alexander Roslyakov And Jim Heintz KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia — Hundreds of trucks in a Russian aid convoy waited Saturday near the Ukrainian border as complicated procedures dragged on for...
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Rebels enter southeastern town as battle for Ukraine’s strategic coastline...
By Peter Leonard NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine — Pushing west in a new offensive along Ukraine’s strategic coastline, heavily armed Russian-backed separatist forces captured new territory Wednesday far from...
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EU to slap new sanctions on Russia as Ukraine’s president calls conflict...
Juergen Baetz And Jim Heintz BRUSSELS, Belgium — A top European Union official said Saturday that the 28-nation bloc is set to decide new sanctions against Russia as Ukraine’s president warned the...
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U.S. data-sharing deal with Europe in jeopardy over spying revelations
By Karin Matussek U.S. surveillance practices revealed by Edward Snowden raised questions about whether companies can rely on rules that govern data transfers between the European Union and U.S.,...
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