‘If you show up, I win’: Inside Patrick Brown’s drive for Conservative leadership
OTTAWA — An apology to the Tamil community, improving cricket infrastructure and putting a visa office in Kathmandu are just some of the promises Patrick Brown has made in hopes of becoming the next leader of the Conservative Party of
Ukraine rejects Serbian bomb threat claims on Russia flights
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Ukraine on Monday rejected as baseless and false the accusations made by Serbia’s president that Ukraine’s secret service is behind a series of hoax bomb threats against Air Serbia flights to Russia.
Spyware use on separatists in Spain “extensive,” group says
MADRID (AP) — The phones of dozens of pro-independence supporters in Spain's northeastern Catalonia, including the regional chief and other elected officials, were hacked with controversial spyware available only to governments, a cybersecurity rights ...
France: EU fraud agency investigating candidate Le Pen
PARIS (AP) — Paris prosecutors are studying a report by the European Union's fraud agency accusing French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and other members of her nationalist party of misusing public funds while serving in the European P...
Biden to require US-made steel, iron for infrastructure
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking a key step toward ensuring that federal dollars will support U.S. manufacturing — issuing requirements for how projects funded by the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package source their constr...
Police speak to Scottish leader Sturgeon over mask slip-up
LONDON (AP) — Police said Monday that they spoke to Scotland’s leader to remind her about sticking to coronavirus mask rules after she was filmed without a face covering indoors while on the election trail.
J&J’s Janssen settles with WVa for $99M in opioid lawsuit
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will receive $99 million in a settlement finalized Monday with Johnson & Johnson's subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. over the drugmaker's role in perpetuating the opioid crisis in the state that has lon...
Prime minister pays tribute to 22 victims on anniversary of Nova Scotia mass shooting
HALIFAX — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is paying tribute to the 22 victims of the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history. Two years ago today, a gunman began a two-day rampage in the small Nova Scotia community of Portapique. In a
Japan, Switzerland agree to keep tough sanctions on Russia
TOKYO (AP) — Swiss President Ignazio Cassis said Monday his country has joined the international community in implementing tough sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, but that does not mean it has abandoned its traditional neutrality. ...
2 Turks fly to Greece in small plane in apparent asylum bid
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two Turkish men who apparently flew right across the Aegean Sea in an ultralight aircraft to seek asylum in the European Union have been rescued after they ran out of fuel and ditched their small plane
