The trial of Michael Kovrig, the second of two Canadians detained in China for more than two years, is underway in Beijing in a closed courtroom, a senior Canadian diplomat said Monday. ...

AstraZeneca says advanced trial data from a U.S. study on its COVID vaccine shows it is 79% effective.

As Israel holds its fourth election in two years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads the right-wing Likud party, is currently on trial in three separate cases involving fraud, breach of trus...

The Canada Revenue Agency has been reporting hundreds of thousands of Canadian bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service, despite the fact that they fall below the mandatory reporting level provi...

As Canadian immigration officials decide the fate of an interpreter who worked for the Nazis, the Jewish community of a Russian city, decimated by the unit he worked for, is watching.

Thousands of people have packed the city's Art Deco Cultural District causing bedlam and lawlessness in recent days when university students typically celebrate spring break, leading some businesses t...

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Saturday in support of the Asian American community after a shooting at three local day spas this week left eight peo...

Turkey withdrew early Saturday from a landmark European treaty protecting women from violence that it was the first to sign 10 years ago and that bears the name of its largest city.

Britain's Prince Harry has written the foreword for a new book aimed at the children of front-line workers who died in the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing the pain he suffered as a boy after the death of h...

Brazil has entered the deadliest phase of the pandemic so far, with the daily death toll exceeding 2,000 on some days this past week. But the government is still downplaying the disaster, and Presiden...

European leaders address concerns about the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine by getting the shot amid a third wave of the coronavirus, much of it propelled by variants.

LeBron James left in the second quarter with a high right ankle sprain that the Lakers said will sideline him indefinitely, as Los Angeles lost 99-94 to the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday.

Canada is about to get a big boost in vaccine doses, with a first cross-border shipment from the United States. The deal is equivalent to more than a one-third boost in total doses administered in Can...

What we know so far about the victims who have been publicly identified in the wake of Tuesday's shooting rampage at three Atlanta-area massage spas.

Officials said the risk was too great to admit ticket holders from overseas during a pandemic, an idea strongly opposed by the Japanese public.

The eruption of a long-dormant volcano that sent streams of lava flowing across a small valley in southwestern Iceland is easing and shouldn't interfere with air travel, the Icelandic Meteorological O...

The court hearing for Canadian citizen Michael Spavor, detained by China since late 2018 on suspicion of espionage, ended on Friday after around two hours without a decision.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris offered solace to Asian Americans and denounced the scourge of racism at times hidden "in plain sight" as they visited Atlanta on Friday, just...

Alyssa McGrath told the New York Times that Andrew Cuomo called her beautiful in Italian, referred to her and her female colleague as "mingle mamas," asked why she wasn't wearing a wedding ring and in...

The scientist who won the race to deliver the first widely used coronavirus vaccine says people can rest assured the shots are safe, and that the technology behind it will soon be used to fight anothe...