Belarus suspends routine medical care to focus on COVID-19
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus on Monday ordered a halt to routine medical care at state clinics in order to devote more resources to coronavirus patients.
Norway: Bow-and-arrow attack victims likely stabbed to death
HELSINKI (AP) — Norwegian police say the Danish man suspected of killing five people and injuring three others in an attack last week also used “stabbing weapons" along with a bow and arrow to kill his victims.
Ontario reports 373 new cases of COVID-19, two more deaths
TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 373 new cases of COVID-19 today, and two more deaths. Health Minister Christine Elliott says 265 of those cases are in people who aren't fully vaccinated, or their vaccination status isn't known. The seven-day average of ...
Businesses see higher inflation, wages and job changes, Bank of Canada reports
OTTAWA — Consumers and businesses expect increases in the cost of living to stay hot over the next year, the Bank of Canada says as part of surveys results that also show people more willing to search for new jobs,
Pro-business party OKs formal talks on new German government
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's pro-business Free Democrats on Monday became the last of three parties to back the start of formal coalition talks on forming a new government.
Center-left wins in Rome, elsewhere in blow to Italy’s right
ROME (AP) — Italy’s center-left forces won big in Rome, Turin and several other mayoral runoffs on Monday, dealing embarrassing defeats to the anti-migrant and far-right parties that are hoping to capture Italy's premiership in the next national electi...
Ontario proposes legislation that would license temp agencies and recruiters
TORONTO — Ontario is set to introduce legislation that would require temp agencies and recruiters to be licensed. Labour Minister Monte McNaughton said there are more than 3,000 agencies in the province and the vast majority operate ethically, but not ...
EPA unveils strategy to regulate toxic ‘forever chemicals’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday it is launching a broad strategy to regulate toxic industrial compounds associated with serious health conditions that are used in products ranging from cookware to carpets and firefighting foams. ...
Colin Powell dies, trailblazing general stained by Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) — Colin Powell, the trailblazing soldier and diplomat whose sterling reputation of service to Republican and Democratic presidents was stained by his faulty claims to justify the 2003 U.S. war in Iraq, died Monday of COVID-19 complicati...
Witnesses: Ethiopian military airstrikes hit Tigray capital
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopian military airstrikes hit the capital of the country’s Tigray region and killed at least three people, witnesses said Monday, returning the war abruptly to the city of Mekele after several months of peace.