Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not examine the rejection of a class-action suit against the founder of Just for Laughs. A group of women known as "Les Courageuses" has pursued legal action ...

OTTAWA - The Chinese government is firing back at Canada's ambassador to the United Nations for calling on the UN to investigate whether China's persecution of ethnic Muslim Uighurs in its Xinjiang pr...

For the second time this month, there's promising news from a COVID-19 vaccine candidate: Moderna said Monday its shots provide strong protection, a dash of hope against the grim backdrop of coronavir...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - President Donald Trump's campaign is withdrawing a central request in its lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania, where Democrat Joe Biden ...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden's scientific advisers plan to meet with vaccine makers in coming days even as a stalled presidential transition keeps them out of the loop on government plans to...

JERUSALEM - Israeli protesters shouted down a group of European diplomats on Monday who were visiting the site of a planned settlement expansion in east Jerusalem that would make it even harder to est...

BRUSSELS - Belgian authorities "abandoned" thousands of elderly people who died in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic and did not seek hospital treatment for many who were infected, violati...

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will assess the effects of a nearly two-week-long partial lockdown with state governors in a video conference Monday. Germany went into a partial lockdown at t...

PARIS - Head lowered, an Islamic State operative listened silently as a Paris judge on Monday detailed his alleged plot to unleash mass slaughter on a high-speed train before he was tackled and subdue...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia - Opposition candidates have won council seats and mayoral posts in Bosnia's biggest cities, dealing a painful blow to the long-entrenched nationalists in nationwide municipal electio...