World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday a clinical trial of vaccines to combat the Sudan strain of Ebola could start within weeks as an outbreak of the disease in Uganda reached the capital, stirring alarm.
As Haiti rapidly spirals into chaos, a high-ranking Haitian diplomat has called on Canada and the United States to form a strike force to confront gangs creating a humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean country.
Calls for renewed protests in Iran saw demonstrators on the streets again, weeks after the death of a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the country's morality police, an advocacy group said.
Canada's deputy prime minister urged the world's democracies on Tuesday to confront the hard economic truths of a perilous new world order and seek common cause in the shared values of prosperity, energy security, protecting the planet, and free and fair trade.
U.S. President Joe Biden says he'll grant automatic pardons to all Americans convicted on federal charges of simple possession of marijuana. Some Canadian legal experts say that's the approach Canada should have followed. Instead, Ottawa puts the onus on the applicant — and has granted far fewer pardons than the government hoped.
