KIM BOLANVancouver SunA high-profile Lower Mainland gangster was shot to death early Wednesday inside his parents’ South Surrey home.Gary Kang was gunned down about 5 a.m. at the home in the 16000-block of 30th Avenue in the Morgan Creek area of Su...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 7 ...What we are watching in Canada ...OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will conven...

Pedram Mousavi sat with the other passengers on Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752 as it remained parked on the tarmac south of Iran's capital, Tehran, about an hour behind schedule in the pre-dawn darkness.It was Jan. 8, 2020. Amid escala...

OTTAWA — Canada's special adviser on the Iranian military's downing of a passenger jet one year ago this week is rejecting Tehran's offer to pay $150,000 to the families of those killed in the tragedy.Ralph Goodale, the former Liberal public safety...

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will convene a virtual First Ministers meeting today, with speeding up COVID-19 vaccinations high on the agenda.Earlier this week, Trudeau voiced frustration over the pace of getting Canadians inoculated again...

KABUL — Separate attacks in southern Afghanistan left at least 11 civilians and security forces dead, officials said Thursday, even as Afghan negotiators were in Qatar to resume talks with the Taliban aimed at finding an end to decades of conflict....

NEW YORK — The riotous mob that laid siege to the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was the product of the destructive forces that President Donald Trump has been stirring for years, culminating in the disruption of a democratic ritual that would formally ...

BERLIN — A German company that is in the advanced stages of producing a vaccine against COVID-19 is linking up with pharmaceutical giant Bayer to help develop and distribute the product.CureVac, based in the German city of Tuebingen, said last mont...

The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was both stunning and predictable, the result of a Republican Party that has repeatedly enabled President Donald Trump's destructive behaviour.When Trump was a presidential candidate in 2016, Republican officials ...

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano spewed avalanches of hot clouds Thursday morning as hundreds more residents were evacuated from its fertile slopes.Authorities evacuated more than 500 people living on the mountain in Magelan...

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo’s acting president has set Feb. 14 as the date for a new parliamentary election following a court ruling that Parliament’s confirmation of the Cabinet in June passed because of an invalid vote.In a late Wednesday state...

All it took for social-media giants Twitter and Facebook to even temporarily bar President Donald Trump from addressing their vast audiences was a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, fueled by years of false statements, conspiracy theories and ...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are vowing an investigation into how law enforcement handled Wednesday’s violent breach at the Capitol, questioning whether a lack of preparedness allowed a mob to occupy and vandalize the building.U.S. Capitol Police, who ...

LOS ANGELES — California hospitals struggling with a skyrocketing coronavirus surge are trying to prepare for the possibility that they may have to ration care for lack of staff and beds — and hoping they don't have to make that choice.The state ...

PHOENIX — As Arizona experienced periodic spikes in COVID-19 cases since last spring, Gov. Doug Ducey frequently resisted calls to take strong measures. He has declined to institute a statewide mask mandate, allowed school districts to mostly make ...

WASHINGTON — A sober, shaken Senate returned to its hallowed chamber Wednesday night to slap away a frivolous election challenge, but its secondary purpose seemed to be to rise from the wreckage of a shocking day in which they were forced to flee t...

BELLOW, India — On a recent chilly winter day in Indian-controlled Kashmir, Mushtaq Ahmed shovelled the earth, laboriously digging a grave for his teenage son. There was, however, no body to be lowered inside.Stunned, a group of onlookers watched i...

HONG KONG — An American human rights lawyer who was detained in Hong Kong with scores of democracy activists and supporters as part of a sweeping crackdown was granted bail, his associate said Thursday.John Clancey, who works at law firm Ho Tse Wai...

WASHINGTON — The Latest on Congress’ tally of the Electoral College vote won by Joe Biden (all times local):3:55 a.m.President Donald Trump now says there "will be an orderly transition on January 20th" after Congress concluded the electoral vote...

TOKYO — Amid the global outrage at the storming of the U.S. Capitol building by angry supporters of President Donald Trump was a persistent strain of glee from those who have long resented the perceived American tendency to chastise other countries...