President Joe Biden's cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline has become an early talking point against him from domestic critics of his administration — and even some allies.

Tokyo Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori on Thursday apologized for making sexist remarks about women, saying he retracted the comments and would not resign, despite calls for him to step down on social me...

For those who have been working for more than two years to free Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor from detention in China, the new U.S. administration brings with it the hope of some new mom...

Even as civilian politicians passed laws and Myanmar was held up as an imperfect but inspiring example of peaceful transition to democracy, its military generals never gave up power.

A white Ohio police officer was indicted Wednesday on murder charges in the December shooting death of 47-year-old Andre Hill, a Black man.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pledged on Wednesday to mobilize enough international pressure on Myanmar's military "to make sure that this coup fails" after police filed charges ag...

A Paris court has ruled that the French state failed to take sufficient action to fight climate change in a case brought by a group of non-governmental organizations.

Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline says it will work with German biopharmaceutical company CureVac to develop new vaccines targeting emerging variants of coronavirus. The announcement comes amid concerns that ...

People who for years believed in the wide-ranging QAnon conspiracy theory now feel betrayed and confused, according to an expert on extremist beliefs at Cornell University. And many are seeking a way ...

CBC's vaccine tracker indicates nearly 1.1 million doses have been administered to date. Provincially, Ontario has delivered the most shots to its residents — more than 348,331 to date.  ...

The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday dropped its discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that had alleged the university was illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applic...

A coalition of 180 rights group on Wednesday called for a boycott of next year's Beijing Winter Olympics tied to reported human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in China.

Britain's health minister on Wednesday defended the country's vaccine rollout strategy after skepticism emerged in Europe, saying the science supported a decision to give the shot developed by Oxford ...

Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi agreed Wednesday to try to form a non-political government to steer Italy through the coronavirus pandemic after last-ditch negotiations among political...

Tokyo organizers and the IOC on Wednesday began explaining in public just how they hope to do it, rolling out "playbooks" to detail the ways that 15,400 athletes will enter Japan — and exit Japan â€...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to more than three years in prison in a Moscow court hearing on Tuesday, but not before calling the proceedings a vain attempt by the Kremlin to ...

Capt. Sir Tom Moore, the British Second World War veteran who raised millions of pounds for health service workers on the front lines of the battle against the pandemic by walking 100 laps of his gar...

Slain U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was lying in honour in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday evening, allowing his colleagues and the lawmakers he protected to pay their respects and to remembe...

The Canadian Securities Administrators and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada warned that they will act if they see manipulative activity on social media on stocks such as Game...

Scores of people in Myanmar's largest city honked car horns and banged on pots and pans Tuesday in the first known public resistance to the coup led a day earlier by the country's military. ...