1,000 days after Taliban ban on girls in school, the resistance lives
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers bar girls over 12 from receiving a formal education, but some brave young women refuse to accept the draconian edict.
Weather, avalanche threat stymies hunt for missing climbers in Canada
Officials say adverse conditions are holding up efforts to locate 3 experienced mountaineers in Canada's rugged Garibaldi Park.
Why does Canada have so many wildfires?
Crews in Western Canada are currently facing 130 active wildfires, including 14 considered out of control. Here's why it's so bad.
Sightings of invasive, toxic hammerhead flatworm increasing in Ontario
It's invasive, harmful and can regenerate from a tiny piece of its body — it's the hammerhead land planarian, and its been increasingly sighted in Ontario.
Moscow attack fuels concern over ISIS risk from Taliban's Afghanistan
The Taliban promised the Trump administration it wouldn't allow terror groups to plot attacks on Afghan soil. That vow has gone unfulfilled.
Canada wildfire season smolders on as "zombie fires" burn through winter
It's the middle of the winter, but there are still 149 wildfires burning across Canada, including 2 deemed out of control.
13 men arrested, charged with luring minors for sexual abuse in Canada
Canadian police arrested 13 men, including one U.S. national at a hotel in Niagara Falls and charged them all with child sex trafficking offenses.
Al Qaeda setting up new training camps in Afghanistan, U.N. report says
A report compiled for the U.N. Security Council says the Taliban has allowed al Qaeda to continue posing "a threat in the region and potentially beyond."
6 killed in small plane crash in Canada's Northwest Territories
A regional jet carrying workers to Rio Tinto's Diavik diamond mine in Canada's Northwest Territories crashed, killing an unknown number of people.
Taliban jails women to protect them from gender-based violence, U.N. says
The report is a snapshot of legal and judicial responses by the Taliban to complaints of gender-based violence, including murders, honor killings and rapes.
Report warns Taliban crackdown, abuse in schools harming girls and boys
The Taliban's draconian school policies are "causing irreversible damage to the Afghan education system for boys as well as girls," rights group warns.
Pakistan begins mass deportation of Afghan refugees
The Pakistani government gave 1.7 million Afghan refugees living in the country until Nov. 1 to leave voluntarily or face arrest and forced deportation.
U.S. provides $12 million in aid for Afghan earthquake relief
The United States is providing $12 million in "immediate humanitarian assistance" for Afghanistan following multiple devastating earthquakes that killed nearly 1,200 people and leveled villages.
Race to find survivors after devastating earthquakes hit Afghanistan
More than 2,000 people were killed by powerful earthquakes in Afghanistan's western Herat region, but the toll is likely to rise.
Pakistan's plan to expel thousands of Afghans spurs fear, condemnation
Afghan's Taliban regime has decried Pakistan's plan to deport "illegal alien nationals," and the U.N. says, "any refugee return must be voluntary."