Following the deadly violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 by pro-Trump rioters, security measures for Joe Biden's Jan. 20 inauguration have ramped up. CBC's Thomas Daigle shows what it looks like on the ground.
Two days after Uganda’s electoral commission announced that President Yoweri Museveni had decisively won last week’s ballot, challenger Bobi Wine and his wife remained under house arrest just north of the capital, Kampala.
The resiliency, culture and heroism of Black Americans and the African diaspora will be the central theme of a virtual event on Tuesday that will celebrate the country's diversity a day before the presidential inauguration.
U.S. law enforcement is investigating whether a woman took a laptop computer or hard drive from U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol and tried to sell the device to Russian intelligence, according to a court filing.
Two days before the inauguration, U.S. president-elect Joe Biden and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris joined Martin Luther King Jr. Day service projects on Monday as a militarized and jittery Washington, D.C., prepared for a swearing-in that will play out under extraordinary security.
Hundreds of mostly Honduran migrants huddled overnight on a highway in eastern Guatemala after domestic security forces used sticks and tear gas to halt the passage of a United States-bound caravan just days before U.S. president-elect Joe Biden takes office.
Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit reached space for the first time on Sunday with a successful test of its air-launched rocket, delivering 10 NASA satellites to orbit and achieving a key milestone after aborting the rocket's first test launch last year.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Monday acknowledged errors in fighting the unprecedented pandemic, but in a speech aimed at preserving his second mandate, he told lawmakers his government can "hold its head high."
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was rushed to a court hearing inside a police station on Monday, a day after he was detained at a Moscow airport when flying home for the first time since he was poisoned last summer.
U.S. defence officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington for the event.
Markets boosted by tax cuts and years of low interest rates have made the rich richer and the U.S. more divided than ever, something the Biden presidency will have trouble reversing.
