Last year was a disaster for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.He helplessly watched his country’s already battered economy decay further amid pandemic border...
Testing wristbands are in. Mask-wearing is mandatory. Desks are socially distanced.The clearest sign that there’s a new boss at the White House is the...
(Bloomberg) -- Samsung Electronics Co. is considering spending more than $10 billion building its most advanced logic chipmaking plant in the U.S., a major...
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. President Joe Biden presented a national strategy to combat the coronavirus, saying the pandemic is likely to claim another 100,000 lives...
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Sedition!It’s an alarming accusation, and when it is made, it is often a serious danger to free expression.In many nations, including...
Changes to India’s farm laws could open up the second-most populous country to Canadian farmers, although a lot remains unknown about how a liberalized...
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Even before the Covid-19 pandemic devastated global growth in 2020, the U.S. economic boom that Donald Trump described in campaign pledges...
The White House says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will speak with newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday.Press secretary Jen Psaki says Trudeau...
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke of unity and change during his inaugural speech on Wednesday.Here’s a full transcript of his remarks:Chief Justice Roberts, Vice...
(Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden has some experience with putting out fires. When he was sworn in as Barack Obama’s vice president on Jan. 20, 2009, America was...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday to return to a 2015 nuclear deal and lift crippling sanctions on the...
U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to pardon his former strategist and far-right figurehead Steve Bannon, according to multiple reports.The decision, reported by CNN,...
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. deaths topped 400,000, the world’s worst Covid-19 toll. An appointee of President-elect Joe Biden said the U.S. is preparing to join...
By
Jarrett Renshaw
Reuters
Posted January 19, 2021 8:01 am
Smaller font
Descrease article font size
-A
Larger font
Increase article font size
A+
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign dozens of executive orders and...
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to...
Israel is giving weekly data updates on its COVID-19 outbreak to vaccine maker Pfizer under a collaboration agreement that may help other countries fine-tune...
(Bloomberg) -- Health authorities in Norway say there’s no evidence of a direct link between the recent string of deaths among elderly people inoculated...
In a bipartisan vote Wednesday afternoon which saw 10 House Republicans join their Democrat counterparts, outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump was impeached for a...
(Bloomberg) -- Alexey Navalny is Russia’s most prominent opposition figure, an anti-corruption investigator whose exposés have targeted President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle. His return...
VADO HONDO, Guatemala — Guatemalan police and soldiers launched tear gas and wielded batons and shields against a group of Honduran migrants that tried...
Freshman Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been suspended from Twitter, the platform says.In an email to Global News, a Twitter spokesperson said the...
Another 3,830 people in the U.S. died of causes related to Covid-19, keeping the country on track to reach 400,000 deaths before President-elect Joe...
(Bloomberg) -- Spain began the new year battling Storm Filomena, a once-in-a-generation weather event that blanketed Madrid in snow and paralyzed the economy. Health workers...
Truth caught up with Donald Trump after years of giving chase.The twice-impeached president painted a fantasy world in office, starring himself. In this world,...
(Bloomberg) -- Europe is kicking off the year’s first earnings season with expectations running high after a strong equity rally, setting the stage for...
India started inoculating health workers Saturday in what is likely the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination campaign, joining the ranks of wealthier nations where the...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had “fabricated” drug trafficking accusations against his country’s former defence...
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is proposing a US$1.9 trillion plan to expand coronavirus vaccinations, help individuals and jump-start the economy. The plan, which would...
Federal prosecutors offered an ominous new assessment of last week’s siege of the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters on Thursday, saying in...
All through downtown Washington, the primary sound for several blocks was the beeping of forklifts unloading more fencing.There were no cars or scooters and...
A racing pigeon has survived an extraordinary 13,000-kilometre Pacific Ocean crossing from the United States to find a new home in Australia. Now authorities...
(Bloomberg) -- Hundreds of dollars in statement credits. Extra points for ordering takeout. Cash back on virtual personal-training sessions.In the pandemic age, banks are...
Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump has been impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for a second time.Members of the lower chamber of Congress...
(Bloomberg) -- Congress and federal agencies have been slow or unwilling to address warnings about cybersecurity, shelving recommendations that are considered high priority while...
The FBI warned law enforcement agencies ahead of last week’s breach of the U.S. Capitol about the potential for extremist-driven violence, U.S. officials said...
(Bloomberg) -- Harvard University’s Kennedy School removed Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik from a committee of the Institute of Politics after its dean concluded she...
A 12-year-old in Virginia died just before Christmas after a supposedly “inert” antique grenade exploded, according to investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,...
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. job openings fell in November by less than forecast, indicating labor demand remained relatively steady before the resurgent virus began to...
(Bloomberg Markets) -- Few predicted—and most were unprepared for—the enormous challenges that have kicked off this decade: pandemic, economic collapse, social unrest, and political...
In a highly unusual move, American diplomats have drafted two cables condemning President Donald Trump’s incitement of the deadly assault on the Capitol and...
Joe Biden promised that his presidency would mean a return to normalcy. His Cabinet picks help demonstrate how he plans to deliver.The president-elect announced...
(Bloomberg) -- A group of HSBC Holdings Plc shareholders have filed a resolution urging the bank to cut its support to the fossil-fuel industry.Amundi...
(Bloomberg) -- An Indonesian search-and-rescue team has located the suspected crash site of the missing the Boeing Co. jet carrying 62 people operated by...
Articles of Impeachment seeking to remove U.S. President Donald Trump from office for “inciting an insurrection at the Capitol” has just reached 180 co-sponsors,...
Governor Andrew Cuomo has insisted that New York’s health-care workforce be fully vaccinated before others in the state are immunized, but in neighboring Connecticut,...
President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in November was tempered by concerns that he would face Republican opposition in the Senate that could stymie him at...
China will provide COVID-19 vaccines free of charge once they become available to the general public, government authorities said on Saturday.National Health Commission official...
Corporate America is parting with its CEO president -- carefully.Four years after Donald Trump swept into the White House, cowing executives and shaking markets...
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump is losing his social-media megaphone after encouraging the rioters that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.Facebook Inc. said it...
Peaceful demonstrators for racial justice were tear-gassed in Lafayette Square last June so U.S. President Donald Trump could take photos at a nearby church...
One of the U.S. police officers who shot Black emergency medical technician Breonna Taylor in Louisville and the officer who prepared the warrant for...
World leaders and governments on Wednesday expressed shock and outrage at the storming of the US Capitol in Washington by supporters of President Donald...
Swarms of protesters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday as they sought to force Congress to undo President Donald Trump's election loss, temporarily suspending...
(Bloomberg) -- Boris Johnson prepared the ground for lockdown rules to last for several more months as U.K. coronavirus deaths hit the highest daily...
China said Wednesday it was still negotiating with the World Health Organization the dates and itinerary for a visit by international experts looking into...
Hundreds of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump descended on the nation’s capital Tuesday to cheer his baseless claims of election fraud a day...
Two Alberta ministers admitted Tuesday they were also angry and frustrated to learn several of their colleagues participated in non-essential travel over the holidays...
Iran's persistent rhythm of half-measures, a drum beat of self-assertion, rarely lets up, leaving its adversaries -- from hawk to moderate -- able to...
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks will sink in coming months before resuming their record-setting rally and faster growth will spark inflation and higher yields in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The extraordinary Republican effort to overturn the presidential election was condemned Sunday by an outpouring of current and former GOP officials...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi was narrowly reelected Sunday as speaker, giving her the reins of Democrats’ slender House majority as U.S. President-elect Joe...
U.S. daily coronavirus cases soared to a record of nearly 300,000 after the holidays, while global cases hit 85 million. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s...
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz on Saturday said he will spearhead a drive by nearly a dozen Republican senators to challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s victory when...
A suicide bombing near the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Saturday killed five people including two Turks, Turkish and Somali officials said.The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist...
U.K. hospitals struggled with rising numbers, Greece extended its national lockdown and Germany reported more than 21,000 new infections in 48 hours.In the U.S.,...
China’s relationship with the United States has reached a “new crossroads” and could get back on the right track following a period of “unprecedented...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for emergency use, paving the way for it to be distributed to countries in need.It is...
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is planning a lighting ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to honour those killed by the coronavirus the day...
By
Staff
The Associated Press
Posted December 30, 2020 10:33 pm
Smaller font
Descrease article font size
-A
Larger font
Increase article font size
A+
China has given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine...
(Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration announced additional tariffs on some products from the EU as part of a long-running dispute over subsidies to aircraft...
The U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday that it would not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of...
(Bloomberg) -- Of all the developing countries testing China’s Covid-19 vaccines, few are friendlier to Beijing than Pakistan. In the years leading up to...
South Africa banned alcohol sales and made masks mandatory in public from Tuesday, tightening restrictions after a surge in coronavirus cases as more countries...
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- One morning in early March, 12,000 schoolchildren and their teachers gathered in London for the world’s loudest field trip. Screams filled...
They are two young girls from two very different worlds, linked by a global industry that exploits an army of children.Olivia Chaffin, a Girl Scout in rural Tennessee, was a...
WASHINGTON — The House voted Monday to increase COVID-19 relief checks to $2,000, meeting U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand for bigger payments and sending...
With federal officials having identified the man believed to be behind Nashville’s Christmas Day bombing, authorities now turn to the monumental task of piecing...
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Russian prime ministers are often swiftly forgotten. Few, like Vladimir Putin himself, have gone on to greater things.Since taking over as prime minister...
Britain on Monday urged businesses to prepare for Brexit, just days before a transition period designed to smooth the UK’s departure from the European...
(Bloomberg) -- It’s been a tough year by all accounts. But for Bitcoin, 2020 has been a marvelous time.The cryptocurrency almost quadrupled, surpassing $20,000...
DAR MANGI, Pakistan (AP) — Arifullah Khan had just administered another polio vaccine when the gunfire blasted from the nearby hills.“It happened so suddenly....
By
Staff
The Associated Press
Posted December 26, 2020 10:06 pm
Updated December 26, 2020 10:30 pm
Smaller font
Descrease article font size
-A
Larger font
Increase article font size
A+
A gunman opened fire...
Italy, Germany, France and the Nordics started inoculating their citizens as part of a massive Europe-wide vaccination campaign, as a growing list of countries...
Sydney’s COVID-19 outbreak continued on Sunday with more than a quarter-million people in lockdown as Australia’s largest city awaited word on whether any public...
Millions of people in the United Kingdom faced tough new coronavirus restrictions on Saturday, with Scotland and Northern Ireland demanding tighter measures to try...
A recreational vehicle exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning in what police described as an “intentional act,” and fire officials reported taking three people to...
The United States will require airline passengers from Britain to get a negative COVID-19 test before their flight, the Centers for Disease Control and...
(Bloomberg) -- The State Department notified Congress that it’s moving to issue a license for the sale of 7,500 precision-guided, air-to-ground munitions valued at...
(Bloomberg) -- On a block of South Hermitage Avenue on Chicago’s South Side, rows of crenelated brick apartment buildings stand behind low iron fences...
Chinese regulators on Thursday announced an anti-monopoly investigation of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, stepping up the ruling Communist Party’s efforts to control fast-growing tech...
The U.S. cybersecurity agency said on Wednesday that a sprawling cyber espionage campaign made public earlier this month is affecting state and local governments,...
Peru passed 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus infection Tuesday, becoming the fifth nation in Latin America to report that number as the region struggles...
(Bloomberg) -- There isn’t a currency in the world that’s worrying traders more than the pound.The relative cost to hedge against sterling’s decline over...
Here are five things you must know for Tuesday, Dec. 22:1. -- Stock Futures Wobble After Congress Passes Relief BillStock futures edged higher Tuesday...
Campaigning in Georgia on Monday, Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris stressed a need to elect Democratic U.S. Senate candidates who will advance President-elect Joe Biden’s agenda....
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Sam Fazeli, a Bloomberg Opinion contributor who covers the pharmaceutical industry for Bloomberg Intelligence, answered questions about the emergence in the U.K. of...
(Bloomberg) -- The $900 billion stimulus package agreed to by U.S. lawmakers over the weekend could keep the economy from contracting again, but pandemic-related...
Italy’s foreign minister announced Sunday that Italy is suspending flights from Britain “to protect Italians” from the new coronavirus variant.Minister Luigi Di Maio said...
(Bloomberg) -- Eight months after they got a $56,000 forgivable loan from the federal government, Lauren and Ben Reese lie awake nights talking about...
(Bloomberg) -- Congressional leaders are rushing to finalize the package in time to attach it to crucial government spending legislation and pass by the...
Hundreds more U.S. hospitals will begin vaccinating their workers Tuesday as federal health officials review a second COVID-19 shot needed to boost the nation’s...
The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine was set to begin leaving the company's Michigan factory on Sunday, ready to be injected into the arms of millions...
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s campaign plans to buy ads on unspecified cable television networks to promote his effort to overturn the election he...
(Bloomberg) -- Like many Americans, Gladys Estolas began trading stocks on the Robinhood app when the pandemic descended this year and kept her stuck at...
U.S. Pesident-elect Joe Biden‘s son Hunter said Wednesday that he is facing a federal investigation into his taxes, putting a renewed spotlight on the...
(Bloomberg) -- Long before federal regulators would accuse him of fraud for running a Ponzi-like scheme, Victor Farias decided to raise some cash in...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced sanctions on top officials in China’s legislature for the body’s enforcement of a controversial national security...
(Bloomberg) -- Elk and pronghorn antelope migrate each fall through southern Wyoming, where the sparsely vegetated landscape slowly gives way to the foothills of...
India summoned Canada’s ambassador on Friday and said comments made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over protests by farmers near Delhi were an interference...
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In Gabarone last week, the Southern African Development Community met to discuss the crisis in Mozambique’s oil-rich north, where Ahlu Sunna...
(Bloomberg) -- The Chicago Loop Alliance, which promotes the downtown core, rolled out a Back-to-Work website in early October encouraging workers to put on...
