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Workers protest Indonesia's labour law in May Day rallies
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Workers in Indonesia marked international labour day on Saturday with significantly less attended marches due to coronavirus restrictions but thousands still vented their anger at...
May 01, 2021

76,000 California inmates now eligible for earlier releases
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California is giving 76,000 inmates, including violent and repeat felons, the opportunity to leave prison earlier as the state aims to further trim the population of what once was...
May 01, 2021

Extreme weather kills 11, injures 102 in eastern China
BEIJING - An extreme thunderstorm hit an eastern Chinese city, leaving 11 dead and 102 injured, with strong winds causing buildings and trees to collapse. Nantong city, located in the eastern province...
May 01, 2021

How the Gaetz probe grew from sex trafficking to medical pot
ORLANDO, Fla. - When Rep. Matt Gaetz vacationed in the Bahamas in 2018, he was joined by a doctor who donated to his campaign and a former colleague in the Florida state legislature. The Republican co...
May 01, 2021

GOP seeks to convince vaccine skeptics within its own ranks
WASHINGTON - When a group of Republican doctors in Congress released a video selling the safety of the coronavirus vaccine, their message wasn't explicitly aimed at their conservative constituents, bu...
May 01, 2021

Biden to veer from Trump, Obama policies in taking on NKorea
WASHINGTON - The White House says President Joe Biden plans to veer from the approaches of his two most recent predecessors as he tries to stop North Korea's nuclear program, rejecting both Donald Tru...
May 01, 2021

Vaccine campaign begins amid virus surge in rebel-held Syria
IDLIB, Syria - A COVID-19 vaccine campaign kicked off in Syria's last rebel-held enclave on Saturday, with a 45-year-old front-line nurse becoming the first to receive a U.N.-secured jab. Nizar Fattou...
May 01, 2021

Hospitalizations, ICU admissions growing for younger Canadians in third wave
OTTAWA - High vaccination rates among seniors and more infectious variants of COVID-19 are shifting the weight of the pandemic in Canada to younger people. An analysis of data published online by Heal...
May 01, 2021

'People were upset': Parliament's language interpreters told no sick pay during COVID
OTTAWA - Interpreters who have been the French or English voice of politicians and top doctors for the public during the COVID-19 pandemic say a federal department has told them that if they fall ill,...
May 01, 2021

Giuliani search warrant resolved Justice Department dispute
WASHINGTON - The question of whether to serve a search warrant for Rudy Giuliani's records simmered inside the Justice Department in the waning months of the Trump administration, dividing officials i...
Apr 30, 2021