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BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has blamed her country's difficulties during the coronavirus pandemic - from the slow vaccine rollout to the back-and-forth over lockdown rules - partly on "a ...

PARIS - A French pharmaceutical company on Monday was ordered to pay hundreds of millions of euros in damages and fines for its role in one of the nation's biggest modern health scandals, with a Paris...

LONDON - It's been dubbed Happy Monday - the day people could put on a bathing suit and swim in an outdoor pool for the first time in months, or rusty golfers strove to hit their drives down the middl...

EDMONTON - The posting for a new high-level Alberta government job supposed to help the province align with environmental concerns from financial markets seems more about talk than action, observers s...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Monday March 29, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 146,438 new vaccinations administered for a total of 5,113,757...

OTTAWA - Canada is scheduled to receive a flood of new COVID-19 vaccine doses this week, with around 3.3 million shots due for delivery from different pharmaceutical companies over the coming days. Th...

The mayor of a small Alberta border town says semi-trailers rolling through the community serve as a constant reminder of the pandemic's effect on the lives of community members. "It's almost like som...

OTTAWA - The Liberals are setting aside $250 million over five years in a dedicated fund for rural transit, with the minister in charge saying the cash could be used for innovative on-demand services,...

GENEVA - A joint World Health Organization-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a ...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Sunday March 28, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 146,438 new vaccinations administered for a total of 5,113,75...