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WASHINGTON - Winston Churchill was not known for leaving his thoughts unspoken. One of them was this: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms...
Nov 14, 2020
MILAN - Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele has been looking to transcend the runway show, and the coronavirus pandemic has provided an apt moment. Michele teamed up with American film director...
Nov 14, 2020
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden is expected to take a historic step and select a woman to head the Pentagon for the first time, shattering one of the few remaining barriers to women in the depa...
Nov 14, 2020
BEIRUT - A top Lebanese security official said Saturday that he visited Syria for two days to speak with officials there about American journalist Austin Tice, who has been missing in the war-torn cou...
Nov 14, 2020
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Saturday said India was sponsoring "terrorism" aimed at destabilizing the country and targeting its economic partnership with China, accusations that top Pakistani officials de...
Nov 14, 2020
LONDON - A British judge has denied bail to a nurse accused of murdering eight babies and the attempted murder of 10 other infants in a hospital's neonatal unit. Lucy Letby was charged with committing...
Nov 14, 2020
NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethiopia's defiant Tigray regional government has fired rockets at two airports in the neighbouring Amhara region as a deadly conflict threatens to spread into other parts of Africa's...
Nov 14, 2020
OTTAWA - The election of Kamala Harris as vice-president of the United States will inspire more young Black women in Canada to engage in politics and run for office, says Velma Morgan, a Black Canadia...
Nov 14, 2020
Democrats won the popular vote in this year's presidential election yet again, marking seven out of eight straight presidential elections that the party has reached that milestone. And, for some Democ...
Nov 14, 2020
HANOI, Vietnam - President Donald Trump skipped a summit with his Southeast Asian counterparts for the third year in a row on Saturday, with rival China set to expand its influence with a massive free...
Nov 14, 2020