World

China sentences 10 seeking to flee Hong Kong to prison terms

BEIJING - A Chinese court has sentenced 10 people who sought to flee Hong Kong by speedboat earlier this year to between seven months and three years in prison. The Yantian District Court in the south...

Dec 29, 2020

Argentine Senate weighs fate of abortion in pope's homeland

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The decades-long fight by Argentine women's groups for legal abortion was being decided by the Senate in a debate that spilled into the early hours of Wednesday before a vote...

Dec 29, 2020

Month on, women hold the fort at India farmer protests

NEW DELHI - The men arrived first. And they arrived with a bang. Tens of thousands of them, marching like an army, driving trucks and trailers, prepared to choke key highways that feed into India's bu...

Dec 29, 2020

Iranian women's group empowers amid pandemic by making masks

TEHRAN, Iran - As the coronavirus pandemic ravages Iran, home to the Mideast's worst outbreak, a women's group hopes to empower its members by helping them make and sell face masks. The organization c...

Dec 29, 2020

Louisiana congressman Luke Letlow dead from COVID-19

BATON ROUGE, La. - Luke Letlow, Louisiana's newest Republican member of the U.S. House, died Tuesday night from complications related to COVID-19 only days before being sworn into office. He was 41 ye...

Dec 29, 2020

Officer who sought warrant at Taylor home could be dismissed

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville police have taken steps that could result in the firing of an officer who sought the no-knock search warrant that led detectives to the apartment where Breonna Taylor was ...

Dec 29, 2020

White House wins ruling on disclosing health care prices

WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favour of the Trump administration's plan to require hospitals and insurers to disclose the actual prices for common tests and procedures. The White Ho...

Dec 29, 2020

With deadline looming, group wants more census documents

With the Census Bureau days away from likely missing a year-end deadline for turning in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats, President Donald Trump's administration still hasn't turned ov...

Dec 29, 2020

Diddy providing some COVID-19 relief for Miami neighbourhood

MIAMI - Rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs provided some coronavirus relief in a Miami neighbourhood on Tuesday, handing out $50 bills amid a crowd of hundreds. He was joined by his children at the event set u...

Dec 29, 2020

First reported US case of COVID-19 variant found in Colorado

DENVER - The first reported U.S. case of the COVID-19 variant that's been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday. The variant was found in a man...

Dec 29, 2020