Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin is one of the rare voices in Russia calling people out for not doing their civic duty and getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Unlike many countries that have struggled ...

President Joe Biden ordered U.S. intelligence officials to "redouble" their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including any possibility the trail might lead to a Chinese lab...

They are traumatized after 11 days of bombardments. Their community is filled with massive piles of rubble. But, as Margaret Evans reports, many Gazans will still say the cyclical wars between Hamas a...

Police arrested three people Wednesday in the cable car disaster that killed 14 people in northern Italy, saying workers placed a clamp on the emergency brake to deactivate it as a patchwork repair â€...

An employee opened fire Wednesday at a California rail yard serving Silicon Valley, killing eight people before ending his own life, authorities said.

A spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry accused Taiwan of "clumsy political manipulation" and "grandstanding" after Taiwan's foreign minister gave an interview to CBC News which called on othe...

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's former chief aide lashed out Wednesday at the government he once served, saying people died "in horrific circumstances" because of authorities' failed response to t...

Ecuador confirmed on Tuesday that a giant tortoise found in 2019 in the Galapagos Islands is a member of the species Chelonoidis phantasticus that was considered extinct a century ago. Galapagos Natio...

Eric Carle, the beloved children's author and illustrator, has died at age 91. His classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other works gave millions of kids some of their earliest and most-cherished ...

Belarus's authoritarian president on Wednesday defended his action to divert a European flight that triggered bruising European Union sanctions and accused the West of waging a "hybrid war" to "strang...

People around the world stayed up early Wednesday to witness a rare total lunar eclipse coinciding with a super "blood" moon. A "super moon" refers to a full moon that is closest to Earth in its month...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad cast his vote on Wednesday in an election expected to win him a fourth term, choosing the former rebel stronghold of Douma where a suspected chemical weapons attack i...

The United States is ramping up its dispute with Canada over the sale of American dairy products north of the border — the first significant new trade squabble between the two countries of the pos...

Amazon is paying almost $9 billion US to buy movie studio MGM with the hopes of filling its video streaming service with more stuff to watch.

Iran named the hardline cleric running its judiciary and six others Tuesday as approved candidates in its June 18 presidential election, barring prominent candidates allied to its current president am...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced the reopening of the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem — a move that restores ties with the Palestinians that had been downgraded by the Trump...

Alberta could see all public health restrictions lifted by early July, as Premier Jason Kenney announced a three-stage plan to ease COVID-19 limits tied directly to vaccination and hospitalization n...

Airlines shunned Belarus's airspace on Tuesday and Belarusian planes could soon be banned from Europe — potentially isolating the land-locked country apart from its border with Russia — after auth...

Moderna said Tuesday its COVID-19 vaccine strongly protects kids as young as 12, a step that could put the shot on track to become the second option for that age group in the United States. ...

European Union leaders on Monday agreed on a set of sanctions against Belarus, including a ban on the use of the 27-nation bloc's airspace and airports, amid fury over the forced diversion of a passen...