Peter MacKay - From left to right: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Secretary Margaret Beckett, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso, Canadian Foreign Minister Peter Mackay, Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik pose for a group photo after a G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Moscow, on June 29, 2006. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)
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RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN MEETS WITH G8 FOREIGN MINISTERS IN MOSCOW
From left to right: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Secretary Margaret Beckett, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso, Canadian Foreign Minister Peter Mackay, Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik pose for a group photo after a G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Moscow, on June 29, 2006.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Scores of New Orleans hospital patients were airlifted to safety from Monday's landfall of Hurricane Gustav by a Canadian military team.
OTTAWA, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Canada announced the launch of a staff and language training center in Kabul, Afghanistan, in a move to promote long-term security goals.
IQALUIT, Nunavut, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Canada has launched Arctic sovereignty military exercises as the defense minister warned Russia its aircraft would be met with fighter planes.
OTTAWA, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Russia's incursion into Georgia has prompted Canadian and American defense officials to cancel a planned joint military exercise.
OTTAWA, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Canadian defense officials announced Friday plans to send troops on a one-year deployment to take part in the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.
OTTAWA, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Canada has withdrawn from scheduled joint security exercises with Russia and the United States to protest Russia's incursion into Georgia.
OTTAWA, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Responding to recent calls for new protection, Canadian defense officials announced Wednesday plans to escort World Food Program shipments to Somalia.
OTTAWA, June 9 (UPI) -- A recent decision in the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada has prompted a legislation proposal that would amend the National Defense Act.
OTTAWA, June 5 (UPI) -- Canada's national defense and NATO contribution in submarines is down to one vessel for at least a year and a half, defense documents show.