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The war in the Middle East triggered by US and Israeli strikes on Iran has raised the question of whether the Iranian national team will take part in the World Cup later this year, during which it is due to play group games in the United States. Read More

Former President Bill Clinton told the House panel investigating Jeffrey Epstein that former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers introduced him to the disgraced financier after Clinton departed the White House. Read More

A Toronto synagogue was hit and damaged by gunfire Monday night in what police are investigating as a “targeting incident” and potential hate crime. Read More

The US-Israeli war on Iran reverberated across the region for a fourth day, with oil and gas prices surging and the world adjusting to a conflict that President Donald Trump says has no fixed timeline. Read More

An 86-year-old B.C. man and former teacher recently given an eight-year federal sentence for historic sexual crimes against young boys will have to await the outcome of his appeal from a prison cell, a B.C. judge has ruled. Read More

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Canada's defence minister says the Liberal party is a "big tent" as divisions emerge over its decision to back the U.S. strikes against Iran, calling its supreme leader who was killed in the assaults a "force for evil." Read More

British Columbians, particularly those in Vancouver, have learned that another agreement was signed behind their backs, this time by the federal government and First Nations authorities. On Feb. 20, Ottawa inked three “historic” agreements with the Musqueam Indian Band, whose traditional land covers the City of Vancouver and its inner suburbs like Burnaby and North Vancouver. Read More

Notorious child rapist and killer Michael Rafferty has been convicted of assault with a weapon after attacking an inmate in the prison where he is serving time for the brutal murder of eight-year-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford, National Post has learned. Read More

The Online News Act (C-18) is working. It’s delivering real resources into newsrooms. And that’s precisely why it is under attack. By Meta. By its proxies and lobbyists. By its friends in government. Read More

The last 10 or 15 years have not been kind to Canada. Along with a decline in prosperity has come an erosion of the things that made our society great, a decline of what held us together and made us the envy of the world: things like resilience, friendship and service. In this series, National Post writers consider What We’ve Lost. Read More

On Saturday, the United States and Israel launched a joint operation against the Islamic Republic's regime in Iran, with the stated goals of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and helping the Iranian people topple the repressive regime. Read More

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is now the former supreme leader of Iran and the world is a better place for his absence. Dozens of other figures in Iran’s murderous Islamist regime join him in improving the planetary climate by their removal as the result of a joint American-Israeli attack on Iran. But U.S. lawmakers and the public learned about the conflict after the decision to launch strikes had been made by the Trump administration. U.S. President Donald Trump has followed in the footsteps of too many of his predecessors in committing the country to a military conflict with all the risk that entails without first convincing people of the necessity of such a step or asking Congress for constitutionally required permission. Read More

OTTAWA — A new study from free-market think tank the Montreal Economic Institute finds that new federal procurement rules favouring domestic firms will lead to costlier projects, shoddy infrastructure and make Canadians worse off. Read More

There are nearly four times as many chickens as humans on Earth — but being ubiquitous doesn’t necessarily mean being understood. In fact, according to a new documentary, our knowledge of the poultry might indeed be quite paltry. Read More

NEW DELHI — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Monday the Liberal government still wants to see a "diplomatic solution" to resolve the war in the Persian Gulf days after the prime minister said he supported the attack on Iran by the U.S. and Israel. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump’s assault on Iran has killed the country’s supreme leader and left it burning through missiles, but there’s little sign Tehran can count on Beijing to bolster its defences. Read More

First Lady Melania Trump pressed the cause of children caught in conflict as she chaired a UN Security Council meeting on Monday as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran raged. Read More

LONDON — Pierre Poilievre said a Conservative government would allow other countries to have to access to a future Canadian national energy and critical mineral stockpile, but only allies in times of "crisis and war" who have a free-trade agreement with Canada. Read More

The federal government’s Indigenous affairs office has signed an agreement with the Musqueam Indian Band in B.C., a deal that recognizes the community’s aboriginal rights within a wide swathe of land encompassing much of Vancouver. Read More

A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s request to delay next steps in the fight over tariff refunds for importers, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the president’s signature economic policy. Read More

In his Davos speech in January, Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government’s aim in foreign affairs is to be “principled and pragmatic.” Read More

TEL AVIV — The American-Israeli war against Iran’s Islamic Regime is both righteous and strategically sound. Ignore the critics who clutch their pearls and selectively bray about international law. Read More

Air Canada announced Monday that it has suspended all flights to and from Dubai and Tel Aviv, with a plan to restart on March 23. Read More