Organizers of a Belgian classical music festival said they cancelled an orchestra's performance because they weren’t able to clarify conductor Lahav Shani’s “attitude to the genocidal regime in Tel Aviv” — a decision that’s being called antisemitic.

While there was plenty of protests outside, one could hear a pin drop inside Scotiabank Centre as Montreal's Gabriel Diallo opened the tie with a 6-1, 6-2 dismantling of Israel's Daniel Cukierman on Friday in Halifax.

Members of the G7 condemned recent actions by Iran Friday, saying the country has been engaging in transnational repression and attacks on political opponents in other countries.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would send National Guard troops to Memphis, Tenn., to combat crime, following his administration's unprecedented police takeover in Washington, D.C., last month.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Russian Ambassador Oleg Stepanov was summoned Wednesday for an "official reprimand."

Nepal's former chief justice Sushila Karki has been chosen as the country's interim leader, said an official from Nepal president's office, after violent anti-corruption protests forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to resign this week.

A regulator has approved a world-first vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia infections, which are causing infertility and death in the iconic native species that is listed as endangered in parts of Australia.

Many Palestinians have been forced to relocate to the southern Gaza Strip after the Israeli military called for a full evacuation of Gaza City before it launches what it says is a major offensive against Hamas.

Poland rejected on Friday a suggestion by Donald Trump that Russian drone incursions into its airspace could have been a mistake, a rare contradiction of the U.S. president from one of Washington's closest European allies.

Data about the recent waves of arrests and deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement do not support Donald Trump's claim that his administration is targeting "the worst of the worst," nor does is the agency on track to reach its stated goal of one million deportations per year.