How Tulsa massacre spent most of last century unremembered
When the smoke cleared in June 1921, the toll from the massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was catastrophic — scores of lives lost, homes and businesses burned to the ground, a thriving Black community gutted by a white mob.
New Brunswick hits 60 per cent with one shot of vaccine, reports 10 new virus cases
FREDERICTON — Health officials in New Brunswick say just over 60 per cent of residents aged 12 and older have received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Officials say more than 46,000 people have been at least partially immunized in
Nova Scotia reports four COVID-19 deaths, highest single-day total in last year
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is reporting its highest single-day death toll from COVID-19 in just over a year with four new deaths related to the virus. Health officials say the deaths include two men in their 80s and a woman in
Quebec police kept busy on first night without COVID-19 curfew in Quebec
MONTREAL — Quebecers lost no time in marking the end of the provincewide curfew imposed to help lower COVID-19 cases, gathering in large groups across the province and creating a busy night for local police forces. Authorities in multiple jurisdictions...
Dancing like there’s no COVID-19: Paris hosts test concert
PARIS (AP) — Thousands of people, masked and tested for the coronavirus, packed inside a Paris arena for a concert Saturday as part of a public health experiment to prepare France to host big events again.
UK: Anti-immigration protest blocks traffic in port of Dover
LONDON (AP) — Anti-immigration demonstrators protesting the rising numbers of people attempting to reach the U.K. by crossing the English Channel in small boats blocked trucks traveling to a cargo terminal in Dover on Saturday.
Belarusians abroad protest repression in homeland
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Belarus's exiled opposition leader vowed Saturday to persist fighting the country's authoritarian regime despite intensifying repression that was thrown into high relief a week ago by the diversion of a commercial airliner and...
Black fear of Tulsa police lingers 100 years after massacre
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — There’s been undeniable progress in the relationship between the Tulsa police and the city's Black community in the past 100 years. Then again, it’s hard to imagine it could have gotten worse.
Vietnam finds new virus variant, hybrid of India, UK strains
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has discovered a new coronavirus variant that’s a hybrid of strains first found in India and the U.K., the Vietnamese health minister said Saturday.
Advocates in US push new efforts to bring back deportees
MIAMI (AP) — Jesus Lopez says he feels like a stranger in the place he was born. He's from Guadalajara, Mexico,