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Instead, Justin Trudeau said if elected, his government would launch an “open and transparent competition” to replace the aging fleet of CF-18s with a cheaper option, allowing increased spending on the Royal Canadian Navy.

President Barack Obama has ordered his administration to prepare for at least 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year, the White House said on Thursday.

On the other hand, the Boeing Super Hornet’s fly away price is around $65 million at an 80-cent dollar, with the possibility that a large proportion of the maintenance can be done in Canada, the Liberals said in the document. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said the...

The price of waging America’s wars has gone up dramatically this week. No discussion or vote has taken place in parliament; the opposition Labor Party has simply extended its bipartisan support to the Liberal-National Coalition government. Such discrepancies are common in...

Croatia closed all but one of its eight border crossings with Serbia after more than 13,000 people, who were turned away from Hungary, flooded into the country in a matter of days. The train with eleven carriages left Friday morning carrying hundreds to refugee centers in the...

Citing security concerns, Austria partially shut a highway linking Vienna and Hungary on Friday.

The Slovenian authorities on Friday registered more than 1000 refugees that had entered the country while more than 700 were still at the Obrezje border crossing, 20 kilometres east of the Croatian capital Zagreb, waiting to be allowed in.

The centers could register and screen those arriving, the United Nations agency said.

We call upon the Obama Administration to pledge to accept at least 65,000 refugees from Syria for resettlement in the United States by 2016. Germany allowed 20,000 migrants into the country over the weekend and is preparing for 800,000 this year.

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic called on the army to be on alert and act if needed to protect the border from the migrants, after chaos erupted Thursday on the border with Serbia in a rush to get on the few available buses and trains, the AP said.

Croatia says that seven of its eight borders with Serbia have been blocked.

The Coast Guard officers who rushed to the site after being alerted by a Greek armed forces patrol recovered the girl’s body and rescued 12 people, reported Xinhua news agency.

Germany recently announced it would accept up to 800,000 refugees, and the United Kingdom said it would take in some 20,000.

According to the global Organization for Migration, there have been more than 2,700 migrant fatalities in the Mediterranean Sea this year, 103 of them in the waters between Greece and Turkey.

But the warm words of support are all that Gretzky can do for the Conservative leader – as a long-time resident of the United States, it is highly unlikely the hockey legend will be allowed to vote in the upcoming election. While your government has been juggling numbers,...