Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider reinstating the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, presenting President Joe Biden with an early test of his opposi...

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said he will get a coronavirus vaccine shot on Tuesday, several months after widespread vaccination started in Russia. Kremlin opponents have criticized Putin for not...

BRUSSELS - The European Union, Britain, Canada and the United States on Monday launched co-ordinated sanctions against officials in China over human rights abuses in the far western Xinjiang region, p...

JERUSALEM - Israelis vote Tuesday in their fourth parliamentary election in just two years. Once again, the race boils down to a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu, who has ser...

BERLIN - Germany has extended its lockdown measures by another month and imposed several new restrictions, including largely shutting down public life over Easter, in an effort to drive down the rate ...

WASHINGTON - A tool designed to help businesses protect themselves from further compromises after a global hack of Microsoft email server software has been downloaded more than 25,000 times since it w...

LONDON - A protest in the English city of Bristol against new policing legislation turned into violent clashes that left at least 20 officers injured - two of them seriously - widespread damage to a p...

CHICAGO - On federal death row, prisoners fling notes on a string under each other's cell doors and converse through interconnected air ducts. A top issue these days: whether President Joe Biden will ...

BEIJING - A second Canadian went on trial in Beijing on Monday after being detained for more than two years in apparent retaliation for the arrest in Vancouver of a top executive with Chinese telecom ...

OTTAWA - New Democrats are seeking the support of the House of Commons in calling on the Liberal government to eliminate for-profit long-term care. The NDP tabled a motion Monday that calls on the gov...