US & Canada
Eight dead after tornado, storms hit Texas
Tornadoes swept through the Dallas area leaving substantial damage and at least eight people dead either from the storm or related traffic ...US air strikes in Afghan district under Taliban siege
The US launched air strikes to bolster Afghan forces scrambling Thursday to beat back Taliban insurgents who seized large swathes of a ...U.S. defense chief Carter, in Baghdad, seeks to step up Islamic State fight
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Iraqi leaders on Wednesday discussed the idea of greater U.S. contributions to the fight against Islamic ...Republicans debate how to defeat jihadists, rivals hit Trump
Republican presidential hopefuls put Islamic State jihadists in their crosshairs as they debated how to keep America safe, with Jeb Bush and ...US Fed announces historic rate increase, first since 2006
The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday its first interest rate increase in more than nine years in a landmark move signaling the US ...Obama says military hitting IS group harder than ever
US President Barack Obama voiced fresh determination to destroy the Islamic State Monday, vowing to kill the group\'s leaders and win back ...World climate accord hailed as turning point from fossil fuels
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius presented a landmark global climate accord on Saturday, a "historic" measure for transforming the world\'s fossil fuel-driven ...Canada welcomes first Syrian refugees
Canada welcomed 163 Syrian refugees, taking in the first of a planned 25,000 in a matter of months and promising them a ...Palestinian shot dead after wounding two Israelis in West Bank stabbing
A Palestinian was shot dead by security forces after wounding an Israeli soldier and a civilian when he stabbed them in the ...Scotland shuns Trump after Muslim remarks
The Scottish government sacked US presidential hopeful Donald Trump as a business ambassador and a university revoked his honorary degree on Wednesday ...