Category Archives: World

The 93rd annual Academy Awards were always going to be a bit surreal this year. The pandemic changed many of the usual rhythms and traditions of the Oscars on Sunday night. There was a glamour-filled ...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is opening a sweeping probe into policing in Louisville, Kentucky after the March 2020 death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot to death by police during a raid at her...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. will begin sharing its entire pipeline of vaccines from AstraZeneca once the vaccine clear federal safety reviews, the White House said, with as many as 60 million doses expected...

Apple is expanding spending in the U.S. and announced plans Monday to build its first East Coast campus, in North Carolina. The iPhone maker is boosting U.S. spending to $430 billion over the next fiv...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defence. The case ma...

BRUSSELS - The European Union's executive branch said Monday that it has launched legal action against coronavirus vaccine-maker AstraZeneca for failing to respect the terms of its contract with the 2...

WASHINGTON - Orders for big-ticket manufactured goods rebounded 0.5% in March as U.S. factories recovered from frigid February weather disruptions. It was the tenth gain in the past 11 months and foll...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - An Iranian-British woman long held in Tehran has been sentenced to another year in prison, her lawyer said Monday, drawing immediate criticism from Britain in the high pr...

TOKYO - Japan's ruling party lost all three parliamentary byelections held Sunday, loosening Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's grip on power ahead of national elections later this year. Suga said he tak...

TIRANA, Albania - Preliminary results on Monday showed the ruling Socialist Party ahead in Albania's parliamentary election. With one-third of the votes counted, the left-wing Socialists of Prime Mini...