The U.K. has one of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the world. But on the ground, getting the shots into people's arms isn't always an easy task. We look at why vaccine hesitancy is a concer...

Already suffering because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jamaica's vital tourism industry was dealt another blow when Canada announced it was cancelling all direct flights to the region. Jamaican Minister ...

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a budget outline on Friday that enables Democrats to push President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion US coronavirus relief package through Congress without Republi...

Russia said Friday it was expelling diplomats from Sweden, Poland and Germany, accusing them of attending a rally in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, as international tensions grew over th...

A metastudy to be published in the journal Science shows that humans have drastically altered oceans' underwater soundscapes, in some cases deafening or disorienting whales, dolphins and other marin...

Hong Kong has unveiled controversial guidelines for schools in the Chinese-ruled city that include teaching students as young as six about colluding with foreign forces and subversion as part of a new...

As murmurs of cancellation and restrictions at the Tokyo Olympics grow louder, life in the city of 14 million appears strangely normal, a contradiction that only further muddies the picture of what th...

The new Biden administration sees Huawei as a national-security threat and wants to discuss the issue with allies. Answers from the nominee for commerce secretary make clear the pressure on Canada to ...

The U.S. Senate, in the throes of a marathon debate over the shape of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion US coronavirus aid plan, voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to exclude upper-income Americans f...

Republican U.S. House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of her House committee positions Thursday over her racist and conspiracy-laden theories in a vote that mostly played out along...

British scientists are starting a study Thursday to find out if it's OK to mix and match COVID-19 vaccines. Participants in the government-funded study will get one shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine fol...

Donald Trump's lawyers say the former president will reject a request by U.S. House Democrats on Thursday to testify under oath for his Senate impeachment trial.

After more than 2,700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate blew up in Beirut’s port, we’re no closer to learning what caused the blast and who is responsible, says Aya Majzoub of Human Rights Watch. ...

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...

The business consultant McKinsey & Company agreed to pay nearly $600 million US for its role in consulting businesses on how to sell more prescription opioid painkillers amid a nationwide overdose cri...

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...