To win a UN Security Council seat, Canada may have to change its position on reforming the very council it seeks to join.

Yasser Ahmed Albaz, a 51-year-old engineer from Oakville, Ont., has been in a Cairo prison since February, when he was detained at the airport on his way home from a business trip.

François-Philippe Champagne has been named the new foreign affairs minister.

A Canadian man sentenced to 10 years in a Cuban prison says he is innocent, and his lawyer says his client was likely set up following a night of partying in Varadero.

André Gauthier was imprisoned in Dubai for almost 18 months between 2015 and 2017, and has been jailed in Oman since March.

Amnesty International has renewed a call for an international investigation into the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

One tweet appears to have cost the Canadian economy more than $1 billion. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is unlikely to seek to repair relations with Saudi Arabia when he and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman see each at this weekend's G20 summit.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland paid a visit to Hackett’s Cove, N.S., on Thursday to tout the benefits of new international trade deals at a Nova Scotian manufacturing company.

“The first priority of the government of Canada is to collect the evidence and to make sure that where criminal charges can and should be laid, they are in fact laid,” Goodale said in Saskatchewan Tuesday.

If Saudi Arabia doesn't want to trade with Canada, Danielle Smith says the feeling is mutual. 'I won’t be crying the blues if we stop trading with that loathsome regime.'