Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said India would take all necessary steps to safeguard its nuclear facilities as the country tightened security in the wake of fresh fears over possible attacks.

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OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian member of Parliament learned the hard way on Tuesday that insulting a rival legislator by Twitter is not a good idea, especially if you're sitting around the same table at the time.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Senior Canadian military and government officials ignored evidence that Afghan authorities were torturing detainees handed over by Canada's troops and then tried to silence those who raised the alarm, a senior diplomat said on Wednesday.

Finance ministers and central bankers from the world's seven richest countries will meet in the Canadian Arctic in February, ahead of the full G20 summits later in 2010, officials announced Wednesday.

Canadian troops handed Afghan detainees to local authorities in the knowledge they would be tortured, and later tried to silence critics of the practice, a senior Ottawa diplomat told lawmakers.

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Canada's government has dismissed opposition demands for a public inquiry into claims that troops in Afghanistan handed detainees over to local officials who were believed to torture.

A UN panel on Friday blasted Iran for "serious, ongoing and recurring" human rights violations, including violence against protesters after the disputed June presidential elections.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian court ordered a new refugee hearing on Friday for a U.S. Army deserter who claimed she would face persecution because of her homosexuality if returned to the United States.

Canadian court orders refugee board to reconsider case of lesbian deserter from US army. A lesbian who deserted the U.S. military and fled to Canada must be given another chance to plead her case for refugee status, Canada's Federal Court ruled Friday.

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Friday said Washington aims to boost cooperation with Canada in the Arctic, as Russia and others eye its vast untapped resources.

US and Canadian military commanders are reviewing whether to maintain elaborate air defenses set up after the attacks of September 11, 2001, a spokesman said on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.

An international trade tribunal has rejected Canada's bid to pay a reduced fine for breach of a softwood lumber trade pact with the United States, trade officials in Washington said Monday.

An international trade tribunal has rejected Canada's bid to pay a reduced fine for breach of a softwood lumber trade pact with the United States, trade officials in Washington said.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The United States will likely not meet its goal of blending 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol into the gasoline supply in 2010 unless it raises the proportion of ethanol allowed in fuel, a U.S. industry group said on Tuesday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian and U.S. governments said on Wednesday they have not yet reached a deal to exempt Canadian companies from the "Buy American" provision that blocks them from bidding on some U.S. stimulus projects.

Americans are to teach Canadian soldiers to speak French -- one of Canada's two official languages -- after the military's own lessons received a failing grade, local media said Wednesday.

Americans are to teach Canadian soldiers to speak French -- one of Canada's two official languages -- after the military's own lessons received a failing grade, local media said Wednesday.