U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's former chief aide lashed out Wednesday at the government he once served, saying people died "in horrific circumstances" because of authorities' failed response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Amazon is paying almost $9 billion US to buy movie studio MGM with the hopes of filling its video streaming service with more stuff to watch.
Alberta is expected to outline its reopening plan later Wednesday, a day after officials in British Columbia presented a four-step plan to lift COVID-19 restrictions as vaccination rates increase and case counts and hospitalizations decline.
Belarus's authoritarian president on Wednesday defended his action to divert a European flight that triggered bruising European Union sanctions and accused the West of waging a "hybrid war" to "strangle" the ex-Soviet nation.
Polling stations opened on Wednesday across Syria in a presidential election that is set to usher Bashar al-Assad into a fourth term in office.
