The oil-rich province of Alberta has rejected the pathway to secession and will remain part of Canada, public broadcaster and CNN newsgathering partner CBC News projected Monday.

While separatist sentiment has existed in the province for decades, Premier Danielle Smith is the first Alberta leader to put the question to voters. Smith, who has urged Albertan

Voters in Alberta are set to reject separation from Canada, a victory for Prime Minister Mark Carney after a long referendum campaign that created divisions in the country’s energy heartland.

Canada is waiting on results from a referendum in oil-rich Alberta that could put the province on a path toward independence, testing national unity as President Donald Trump’s trade war

The president blamed Ukraine’s leader on lives lost in Russia’s invasion and suggested someone else negotiate on behalf of the country.

President Donald Trump said Monday Russia has “been fine on Ukraine,” criticizing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and saying it’s time for “somebody else” to negotiate for Kyiv.

President Donald Trump criticizes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over his approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war while speaking to reporters at the White House.

US President Donald Trump has excoriated Ukraine’s leader after the country launched one of its biggest drone attacks on Russia this year, hitting a key oil terminal in defiance of his demand it stop hitting Russian energy infrastructure.

Protesters have focused their anger on French President Emmanuel Macron, who they blame for the rising cost of living and record-high oil prices.

The violence that rocked France this weekend as cost-of-living protests degenerated into looting and burning nationwide is raising alert levels across Europe, where elections will be held in at least half a dozen countries next year.

Demonstrators denounced rising living costs and poor school conditions. Authorities said masked groups set fires and attacked public buildings in

Rioters clashed with police, set cars on fire, stormed public buildings and engulfed a historic city hall in flames in France’s worst civil unrest in years

Vice President JD Vance has declined to endorse Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection a day after President Donald Trump endorsed the embattled Israeli leader

Vice President JD Vance on Monday declined to say whether he endorses Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection, after President Donald Trump recently threw his support behind the Israeli prime minister.

Trump said in a post on social media that Netanyahu "has been a Great Warrior Prime Minister, and an even greater Partner for Peace in combatting the Islamic Republic of Iran."

Israelis vote for parties, not single candidates. The parties then form alliances to create a majority coalition. In the country's 78-year history, no single party has won a majority in the 120-member parliament, or Knesset.

Japan launched an uncrewed spacecraft toward the Martian moon Phobos on Tuesday (October 20) on a mission intended to become the first to collect samples from the small rocky body and return them to Earth for analysis.

The Martian Moons eXploration mission will aim to bring back samples from Phobos Japan’s mission to collect samples from a Martian moon is off to a good start. Launched atop an H3 rocket from Tanegashima Space Center just after 3:40 p.

Bring back samples from the Martian system.

Oct. 19, 2026 at 4:40 p.m. ET

The tensions between Russian autocracy and the liberal democracies of the European Union have been growing since Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014. But things have gotten much worse of late. Donald Trump — who has threatened to shirk America’s obligations to NATO allies — has increasingly sided with the Kremlin against Kyiv,

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Donald Trump is pressuring Ukraine into surrendering to Russia. US equity futures rebound following last week’s chip rout. And A24’s Eli

Hardly a day goes by now in Ukraine without news of another Russian air strike on the country's energy sector, causing widespread blackouts, including in the capital, Kyiv.Last winter, Russian

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s decision to ease sanctions on Russian diesel deliveries will actually put more pressure on the Kremlin, Energy Secretary Chris Wright claimed Sunday. Wright contended that bringing down hurdles for Russia to sell diesel will motivate the Kremlin to ease up on its war efforts so that it doesn’t have to face Ukrainian strikes on its energy infrastructure. “This is pressuring Russia. Russia does not have diesel to...