Category Archives: Politics
With sovereignty off the table, Quebec Liberals struggling to connect with voters
MONTREAL — Quebec's next provincial election is still more than five months away, but Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade is already on the campaign trail. On Thursday, the official Opposition leader was in Trois-Rivières, Que., a city of 140,000 people h...
Remains of 17 French WWI soldiers buried at Gallipoli
CANAKKALE, Turkey (AP) — The remains of 17 missing French soldiers who fought in the World War I Battle of Gallipoli were on Sunday handed over to French military officials and put to rest alongside other fallen comrades more than
4 Polish miners declared dead; search goes on for 6 missing
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The death toll from accidents in recent days at two coal mines in southern Poland has increased to nine after four miners were brought to the surface and pronounced dead, authorities said Sunday.
India’s Modi touts development projects in visit to Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Himalayan Kashmir on Sunday for his first public event since New Delhi stripped the disputed region’s semi-autonomy and took direct control in 2019.
EXPLAINER: How France’s old-school voting system works
PARIS (AP) — Paper ballots tucked in paper envelopes. No absentee voting, and no early voting either. French voters in Sunday’s presidential election are using and old-school system that has defied calls for more flexibility or modernization.
Live updates |U.S. pledges new Ukraine aid, diplomatic surge
NEAR THE POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDER — The United States is giving new military assistance to Ukraine and renewing a diplomatic push in the war-ravaged nation as President Joe Biden’s secretary of state and Pentagon chief complete a secretive trip to Kyiv....
To Europe’s relief, France’s Macron wins but far-right gains
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron comfortably won a second term Sunday, triggering relief among allies that the nuclear-armed power won't abruptly shift course in the midst of the war in Ukraine from European Union and NATO efforts to
Opposition wins Slovenia vote, defeating right-wing populist
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — An opposition liberal party convincingly won Sunday's parliamentary election in Slovenia, according to early official results, in a major defeat for populist Prime Minister Janez Jansa, who was accused of pushing the small Eu...
Long-serving US Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah dies at age 88
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Orrin G. Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history and a fixture in Utah politics for more than four decades, has died at age 88.
Zelenskyy meets top-level US delegation, gets aid promises
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.S. secretaries of state and defense met Sunday night with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the highest-level visit to the country’s capital by an American delegation since the start of Russia's invasion.
