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The search for a 68-year-old missing sailor from Halifax resumed Sunday and officials say there is reason to be optimistic after another vessel that made the same trip arrived safely in Bermuda Saturday. A Cape Breton man is recovering from...

America's broken politics Social polarisation, the growth in lobbying and a loss of faith in process has left government paralysed in the face of huge challenges It is hard for international observers of the United States to grasp the political...

But what the White House sees as a necessary, thoughtful process to arrive at the best-possible decision on an eight-year conflict is seen as dangerous "dithering" [delay] by Republican legislators.  Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee spoke on Fox News Sunday....

Five Afghan border policemen were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan Sunday, a police official said. The explosion happened in Spin Boldak, a district in the volatile province of Kandahar bordering Pakistan, said General Abdul Raziq, the...

Despite conflicting casualty reports, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Zamary Bashary confirmed that four people were injured in the rocket attack near a luxury hotel in the center of the capital Kabul. Bashary added that two women and one Afghan police...

The degeneracy of a poltical system is manifest in the exigent way this most mind boggling anti- democratic feat was surmounted with the explicit blessing of America. If this is the color of the democracy America wants the occupied lands...

Three of the Americans were said by Nato to have died in southern Afghanistan on Sunday and the other in the east in a bomb explosion on Monday. Three Afghan soldiers were also killed in a separate incident on Sunday...

The latest Iraq revelations in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph come as the Guardian is told how the failings in post-war planning may constitute grounds to prosecute for breach of the Geneva convention. In any other context, such suggestions would constitute political...

Twelve of the 13 casualties in the Fort Hood massacre were soldiers. But were they combatants, and was an Army post in the middle of Texas a combat zone? If the answer is yes – as many Texas lawmakers say...