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DC on lockdown and on edge before Biden's inauguration
WASHINGTON - The inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden will take place in a Washington on edge, after the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol unleashed a wave of fear and unmatched security concerns. ...
Jan 20, 2021
Analysis: For Biden, chance to turn crisis into opportunity
WASHINGTON - In the 11 weeks since Election Day, the collision of crises confronting President-elect Joe Biden have gone from staggering to almost unimaginable. More than 170,000 Americans have died f...
Jan 20, 2021
Vice-President Harris: A new chapter opens in US politics
WASHINGTON - For more than two centuries, the top ranks of American power have been dominated by men - almost all of them white. That ends on Wednesday. Kamala Harris will become the first female vice...
Jan 20, 2021
Businesses reopen as searchers dig in Indonesia quake rubble
MAMUJU, Indonesia - Grocery stores, gas stations and other shops were reopening Wednesday in a quake-hit Indonesian city where debris still covered streets and searchers continued to dig in the rubble...
Jan 20, 2021
Indonesian leader promises compensation for plane crash
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's leader on Wednesday assured relatives of 62 people killed in a Sriwijaya Air plane crash that they will be compensated. President Joko Widodo visited the command centr...
Jan 20, 2021
Facing crush of crises, Biden will take helm as president
WASHINGTON - Joe Biden swears the oath of office at noon Wednesday to become the 46th president of the United States, taking the helm of a deeply divided nation and inheriting a confluence of crises a...
Jan 20, 2021
India starts supplying COVID-19 shots to neighbouring nations
NEW DELHI - India began supplying coronavirus vaccines to its neighbouring countries on Wednesday, as the world's largest vaccine making nation strikes a balance between maintaining enough doses to in...
Jan 20, 2021
U.S. presidential inauguration day and Tory MP's fate: In The News for Jan. 20
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. 20 ... What we are watching ... Canadians...
Jan 20, 2021
Panel: China, WHO should have acted quicker to stop pandemic
GENEVA - A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization has criticized China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and questioned...
Jan 20, 2021
Indian village cheers for Harris before swearing-in as US VP
THULASENDRAPURAM, India - A tiny, lush-green Indian village surrounded by rice paddy fields was beaming with joy Wednesday hours before its descendant, Kamala Harris, takes her oath of office and beco...
Jan 20, 2021