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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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