Tag Archives: Politics

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran's president-elect staked out a hard-line position Monday in his first remarks since his landslide election victory, rejecting the possibility of meeting with Pr...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Prime Minister Pedro Snchez said Monday that the Spanish Cabinet will approve pardons for nine separatist Catalan politicians and activists imprisoned for their roles in the 20...

STOCKHOLM (AP) - Stefan Lofven, Sweden's Social Democratic prime minister since 2014, lost a confidence vote in parliament on Monday, making him the first Swedish government leader ever to lose such a...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's new foreign minister will head to the United Arab Emirates next week for the first known visit by a top Israeli diplomat to the Gulf Arab country, the ministry said Monday. F...

OTTAWA - Parliamentarians are in their final week before a summer break in the House of Commons, where federal parties are using the minority makeup to posture for a potential election. With only days...

OTTAWA - Canada is set to receive more than five million doses of COVID-19 vaccine over the coming week. Around 2.4 million are expected to come from Pfizer and BioNTech, though that shipment isn't sl...

OTTAWA - Fully vaccinated Canadians returning to Canada will soon be able to avoid a mandatory quarantine as long as they still test negative for COVID-19. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said Monda...

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) - Results released Monday showed that the party of Armenia's acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan won snap parliamentary elections which he called to ease anger over a peace dea...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Monday June 21, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 352,550 new vaccinations administered for a total of 32,171,232...

VICTORIA - Mounties have arrested eight more people camped near old-growth forest logging areas west of Victoria. RCMP say in a release that seven of the people they arrested Saturday were in violatio...