Raul Castro: Copenhagen a failure before it starts

Raul Castro on Sunday declared the global climate summit in Copenhagen a failure from the start and urged leftist Latin American leaders to devise their own plan on how to cope with climate change.

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Southeast Asia to have rights monitor

Southeast Asian nations unveil a landmark human rights watchdog this week, but critics charge that it will be both toothless and include in its membership one of the world's worst human rights offenders — military-ruled Myanmar.

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Leftist LatAm bloc rejects Honduras election

Leaders of a bloc of leftist Latin American governments urged the international community Saturday to reject the presidential election planned by Honduras' interim government next month.

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China says it can withstand world financial crisis

China said Thursday its financial markets would remain stable enough to allow it help ex-Soviet Central Asian countries weather the global economic crisis — assistance that would augment Beijing's increasing influence in the region.

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OTTAWA–Opposition critics boycotted a non-partisan ceremony Tuesday to mark the 20th anniversary of the Dec. 6 massacre at L'École Polytechnique in Montreal, saying they wouldn't stand alongside Helena Guergis, the Conservative Status of Women minister.

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OTTAWA–Angry Liberals Wednesday accused the Conservative government of reaching a new political low by circulating flyers characterizing the Liberals as anti-Semitic.

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OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff seems to have read the public mood precisely with his decision to support the Tory budget with conditions, a new poll suggests.

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Markets do not love uncertainty. They do not gravitate toward it. In fact, they abhor it. At the beginning of this decade, the Western world watched on in horror as Argentina collapsed under a series what seemed to be Governments of the Week.

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New immigrants accounted for at least one-third of the increase in the number of New York City voters since 2004, while the number of Irish, Italian and Jewish voters, who together represent the traditional core of the city's political establishment, decreased slightly, accordi …

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Flamboyant pop star Mika has pulled off a double coup, with both his debut album and single at the top of the charts. The singer-songwriter, who has drawn comparisons with the Scissor Sisters, clung on to the number one singles spot with Grace Kelly.

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