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MPs from across political spectrum urge feds to support WTO's COVID-19 vaccine waiver
WASHINGTON - A broad coalition of MPs from all five parties wants the federal government to support waiving the global rules that guard vaccine trade secrets. The group of 65 MPs has written a letter ...
May 07, 2021
Telus reports Q1 profit down from year ago, raises quarterly dividend
VANCOUVER - Telus Corp. reported its first-quarter profit fell compared with a year ago as its revenue climbed nearly nine per cent.The company also raised its quarterly dividend half a penny to 31.62...
May 07, 2021
Israeli troops kill 2 Palestinian attackers as tensions rise
JERUSALEM - Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians and wounded a third after the men opened fire on a base in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the latest in a series of violent confrontation...
May 07, 2021
Pressure rises for India lockdown; surge breaks more records
NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced growing pressure Friday to impose a strict nationwide lockdown, despite the economic pain it will exact, as a startling surge in coronavirus cases...
May 07, 2021
Carbon emissions from energy dropped 10% in the EU last year
BRUSSELS - Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion dropped 10% in the European Union last year amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to estimates from the EU's statistical office. Euro...
May 07, 2021
US citizen in Thailand charged with murdering Thai wife
BANGKOK - Police in Thailand said Friday they have charged a U.S. citizen from the state of Colorado with murdering his pregnant Thai wife. Jason Matthew Balzer, 32, was interrogated Friday in the nor...
May 07, 2021
Tokyo Olympic head says Bach visit to Japan could be 'tough'
TOKYO - The president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Friday that a visit to Japan this month by IOC President Thomas Bach seemed unlikely with a state of emergency order being extended...
May 07, 2021
Red meat politics: GOP turns culture war into a food fight
DES MOINES, Iowa - Conservatives last week gobbled up a false news story claiming President Joe Biden planned to ration red meat. Colorado Rep. Rep. Lauren Boebert suggested Biden "stay out of my kitc...
May 07, 2021
Tokyo Olympic head says Bach visit to Japan could be 'tough'
TOKYO - The president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Friday that a visit to Japan this month by IOC President Thomas Bach seemed unlikely with a state of emergency order being extended...
May 07, 2021
China discounts possibility of harm from falling rocket
BEIJING - China says the upper stage of its Long March 5B rocket that launched the core module of its space station will mostly burn up on re-entry, posing little threat to people and property on the ...
May 07, 2021