International

President François Hollande delivered a key speech in Paris on Thursday in which he rejected the idea that the state should sacrifice civil liberties in the fight against terror and emphasised that French secularism is not incompatible with religion. “The French Constitution is not a flexible text with ellipses or parentheses,” Hollande said in his […]

Eli Brauner rarely makes it to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. When he does, it’s a painful experience for him. His ancestors built a synagogue here in the late 16th century, believed to be the country’s oldest partially preserved synagogue. After the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, they burned the Golden Rose

In 2017, Canada’s last destroyer, HMCS Athabaskan, will be retired, forcing the Royal Canadian Navy to lean on the U.S. to protect its ships from air attack. Last year, the vessel, flagship of the Atlantic fleet, twice broke down while at sea. Meanwhile, even Canada’s newly renovated submarines won’t last more than a few years