Only one of Russia's 85 regions, a sparsely-populated patch of the Arctic known for reindeer herders, voted against changes granting Russian President Vladimir Putin the right to stay in power until 2036.
Work crews have removed a statue of U.S. naval officer Matthew Fontaine Maury in Richmond, Va., a day after crews took down a statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson on an order from the mayor to remove all Confederate statues on city land.
Canada and four other countries whose citizens died when the Iranian military mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet are formally joining forces to seek "full reparations" from Tehran, according to a letter sent to the families of the victims on Thursday.
Hugh Downs, whose congeniality and authoritative manner allowed him to move between the world of game shows and U.S. network news in a career that lasted more than 60 years, has died at the age of 99.
A fire and an explosion has struck a centrifuge production plant above Iran's underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, western analysts say. It's one of the most tightly guarded sites in all of the Islamic Republic after earlier acts of sabotage there.
A U.S. judge allowed Enbridge to resume pumping oil through its Line 5 pipeline in Michigan on Wednesday, nearly a week after shutting it down because of damage to a structure that anchors a section of the line running through a Great Lakes channel.
Authorities in Botswana do not know what has caused 275 elephants to die in recent months. Poaching has been ruled out because the carcasses were found intact.
The Global E-waste Monitor 2020 report, released Thursday, found that the world dumped a record 53.6 million tonnes of e-waste last year. Just 17.4 per cent was recycled.
The U.S. economy created jobs at a record clip in June as more restaurants and bars resumed operations, further evidence that the COVID-19 recession might be over, though a surge in cases of the coronavirus threatens the fledgling recovery.
Europe’s Arctic nations are following Canada’s lead in pursuit of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. But critics say the problems present in Canada’s process are being reproduced.
Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite who was accused by many women of helping procure underage sex partners for Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested in New Hampshire, the FBI said Thursday.
A New York appeals court cleared the way Wednesday for a publisher to distribute a tell-all book by U.S. President Donald Trump's niece over the objections of the president's brother.
Tesla Inc. became the most valuable car company in the world on Wednesday, a day before the electric car maker posted better-than-expected sales numbers.
Governors of U.S. states hit hardest by the resurgent coronavirus halted or reversed steps to reopen their economies on Wednesday, led by California, the nation's most populous state and a new epicentre of the pandemic.
China's government and pro-Beijing activists in Hong Kong condemned what they called foreign meddling in the territory's affairs on Thursday, as countries moved to offer Hong Kongers refuge and impose sanctions on China over a new security law.
Britain will be easing the quarantine measures for air travellers, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday, adding that more details of plan will be released this week.
A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar killed at least 113 people, with more feared dead, authorities said on Thursday, after a heap of mining waste collapsed into a lake, triggering a wave of mud and water that buried many workers.
Almost 78 per cent of voters in Russia have approved amendments to the country's constitution that will allow President Vladimir Putin to stay in power until 2036, Russian election officials said Thursday after all the votes were counted. Kremlin critics said the vote was rigged.
