A single U.S. senator detonated a political bombshell by refusing to back the U.S. president's Build Back Better bill. The wide-ranging blast radius has touched his political party, his country, and his planet. Let's sift through the wreckage and look at the effects of Sen. Joe Manchin's decision.
Omicron is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., racing ahead of all others, and accounting for 73 per cent of new infections last week, federal health officials said Monday.
Captive missionaries in Haiti found freedom last week by making a daring overnight escape, eluding their kidnappers and walking for kilometres over difficult, moonlit terrain with an infant and other children in tow, according to the agency they work for, officials said Monday.
Britain's main nurses' union warned Monday that exhaustion and surging coronavirus cases among medical staff are pushing them to the breaking point, adding to pressure on the government for new restrictions to bring down record-high infection numbers driven by the Omicron variant.
Canada and other countries were hoping a U.S. senator might kill a controversial electric-vehicle tax credit that has angered America's trading partners. Sen. Joe Manchin may be planning to torpedo the entire Build Back Better legislation that contains that provision.
Rebellious Tigrayan forces fighting the central government are withdrawing from neighbouring regions in northern Ethiopia, a spokesperson for the Tigrayan forces said on Monday, a step toward a possible ceasefire after 13 months of brutal war.
More people in Ontario can access COVID-19 booster doses on Monday, a move that comes amid concern over the Omicron variant and increasing case numbers.
Israeli ministers on Monday agreed to ban travel to the United States, Canada and eight other countries amid the rapid, global spread of the omicron variant.
The NHL and NHLPA reached an agreement to continue the regular-season schedule despite a rising number of positive COVID-19 cases, and the NBA said several games including the Toronto Raptors game against Orlando on Monday would be postponed.
Pro-Beijing candidates dominated Hong Kong's legislative elections, beating out moderates and independents in the city's first public poll after Beijing passed a resolution to amend the region's election laws.
