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Authorities are conducting an Ontario-wide search for a prisoner on the lam after his brazen escape outside a Hamilton hospital with the help of two masked, armed men. Canada's major airports will soon have new X-ray scanning gear for carry-on...

00 AM MST A Fort Carson soldier from Illinois has died after an attack in Afghanistan...McLeod of Crystal Lake died Monday west of Pashmul of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with mortar fire.

Canadian officials have halted the transfer of prisoners to Afghanistan's intelligence service "more than one time," because of the possibility of torture, Canada's chief of defence staff said...Walter Natynczyk, speaking at the end of the three-day Halifax International Security Forum,...

The Liberal government takes heat for the prisoner transfer, with Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark saying they could face a US military tribunal and death penalty. Dec. Chief of the defence staff general Rick Hillier signs Canada's first detainee transfer...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama today reaffirmed the global strategic partnership between India and the US, and launched a new phase in this partnership. Commending the deepening bilateral cooperation between the world's two largest democracies across a...

The vulnerability of Afghan schools to Taliban violence is increasing the popularity of informal education. International says schools linked to foreign funding or the national government are at greater risk of attack. Continued Below Community-based schooling has emerged as a...

The incident took place on Tuesday in the eastern province of Khost, the Associated Press reported. The device was reportedly planted beneath a cistern and was remotely detonated as the family was passing by in a vehicle, the report added....

The widow of army bomb disposal expert Olaf "Oz" Schmid today paid tribute to her "warrior" husband as his funeral took place with full military honours in his home city of Truro. Christina Schmid said her husband was a protector...