Tag Archives: Politics

For the second time this month, there's promising news from a COVID-19 vaccine candidate: Moderna said Monday its shots provide strong protection, a dash of hope against the grim backdrop of coronavir...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - President Donald Trump's campaign is withdrawing a central request in its lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania, where Democrat Joe Biden ...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden's scientific advisers plan to meet with vaccine makers in coming days even as a stalled presidential transition keeps them out of the loop on government plans to...

JERUSALEM - Israeli protesters shouted down a group of European diplomats on Monday who were visiting the site of a planned settlement expansion in east Jerusalem that would make it even harder to est...

BRUSSELS - Belgian authorities "abandoned" thousands of elderly people who died in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic and did not seek hospital treatment for many who were infected, violati...

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will assess the effects of a nearly two-week-long partial lockdown with state governors in a video conference Monday. Germany went into a partial lockdown at t...

PARIS - Head lowered, an Islamic State operative listened silently as a Paris judge on Monday detailed his alleged plot to unleash mass slaughter on a high-speed train before he was tackled and subdue...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia - Opposition candidates have won council seats and mayoral posts in Bosnia's biggest cities, dealing a painful blow to the long-entrenched nationalists in nationwide municipal electio...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted Monday he is firmly in control of the government, despite having to self-isolate for two weeks because a contact tested positive for the coronavi...

CHISINAU, Moldova - Maia Sandu, a former World Bank economist who favours closer ties with the European Union, has won Moldova's presidential runoff vote, decisively defeating the staunchly pro-Russia...