In final pre-election push, Biden, Trump gird for possible court battle
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden made a last-ditch push for votes in battleground states on Monday as their campaigns...
New Zealand appoints first Indigenous female foreign minister
WELLINGTON – New Zealand appointed its first Indigenous female foreign minister Monday to represent what's shaping up to be one of the most diverse...
Japan opens airport coronavirus test lab for departing travellers
TOKYO – Japan’s largest airport opened a novel coronavirus testing facility on Monday as it takes steps to reopen international travel that has been...
White House, US top virus doctor clash ahead of polls
WASHINGTON – One of America’s top government scientists, Anthony Fauci, has issued an urgent plea for a change in US policy on the coronavirus,...
Man rescued from rubble as Turkey quake death toll hits 60
IZMIR – A 70-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building in the Turkish city of Izmir on Sunday, after being...
WHO chief in quarantine after contacts test positive for COVID-19
GENEVA – The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said he was self-quarantining after someone he had been in contact with tested positive...
Turkish rescue workers search for survivors in quake; death toll rises to 27
ANKARA – Rescue workers in western Turkish city of Izmir searched through rubble for survivors on Saturday after a powerful earthquake hit the Aegean...
Coronavirus found on Ecuadorian seafood packaging; China suspends imports
BEIJING – China suspended imports from FIREXPA S.A., an Ecuadorian seafood product manufacturer, after the novel coronavirus was found on the packaging of a...
Canada raises immigration targets to make up for pandemic shortfall
ONTARIO – Canada will aim to welcome 1.2 million immigrants from 2021 to 2023 to make up for a shortfall this year blamed on...
Trump vs Biden: 80M Americans vote early in US elections
MORE than 80 million Americans have cast ballots in the US presidential election, according to a tally on Thursday from the US Elections Project...