Tag Archives: Politics

BATON ROUGE, La. - Republican Julia Letlow easily won a Saturday special election for the northeast Louisiana-based U.S. House seat that her husband, Luke, couldn't fill because of his death from comp...

BANGKOK - Scores of people were injured and arrested in the Thai capital after police used water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets Saturday night to break up a rally by pro-democracy protesters cal...

ISTANBUL - Turkish police on Sunday detained a prominent pro-Kurdish party politician who was staging a days-long protest in parliament. He was released after questioning several hours later. Omer Far...

KABUL - U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, on his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, said Sunday that the Biden administration wants to see "a responsible end" to America's longest war, b...

WASHINGTON - North America's polarizing pipeline battles have seen many venues - from the Prime Minister's Office and the U.S. State Department to the windswept plains of Nebraska and Minnesota to jud...

VANCOUVER - Noor Fadel says most people assume that the night she was attacked by a racist man on a SkyTrain in Vancouver in 2017 was the worst night of her life. In fact, the nights that followed wer...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Sunday March 21, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 141,064 new vaccinations administered for a total of 3,862,333...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - North Korean diplomats vacated their embassy in Malaysia and were expelled Sunday, after the two nations cut diplomatic relations in a spat over the extradition of a North Kor...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Saturday March 20, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 141,064 new vaccinations administered for a total of 3,862,...

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of the Congo - The leading opposition presidential candidate in Republic of Congo was receiving oxygen at a private hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19, a family member ...