Canada to recognize more vaccines, will soon require international students and workers to be fully vaccinated

International students, temporary foreign workers, and other exempt travellers will soon need to be fully vaccinated in order to come to Canada. Canada announced several new...

PH logs 3K Covid-19 recoveries; active cases down to 21K

MANILA – The nation’s total number of recovered coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases has reached 2,758,235 after 3,152 new recoveries were reported on Sunday. In its latest...

ICC move to defer probe on drug war shows PH institutions working

MANILA – The decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to temporarily suspend its investigation into the Duterte administration’s drug war is a recognition that the Philippine’s...

Resupply to PH troops in Ayungin Shoal to proceed this week

MANILA – Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Sunday said the resupply mission to Filipino troops stationed at the BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin...

Mavs to retire Nowitzki’s No. 41 jersey next year

ANKARA – The Dallas Mavericks will retire German legend Dirk Nowitzki’s jersey in 2022, the National Basketball Association (NBA) team said Friday. “It is time to send...

IATF to roll out Covid-19 alert level system in remaining regions

MANILA – The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has approved the Phase 4 implementation of the Covid-19 Alert Level System covering...

France, Germany voice ‘serious concerns’ over Ayungin incident

Death toll rises to four as B.C. officials warn about next ‘atmospheric river’

Senior government officials in British Columbia warned residents on Saturday to brace for another round of weekend rainstorms even as the death toll from floods triggered...

‘I know that many of you are angry with me’: Kenney speaks to UCP tensions during AGM

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is acknowledging tensions within his United Conservative party, while the UCP president is pleading with members to remain united under...

Ontario Senator Josée Forest-Niesing dies at 56 after battle with COVID-19

OTTAWA — Josée Forest-Niesing, a lawyer and Ontario senator, has died shortly after being hospitalized with COVID-19. She was 56. Forest-Niesing’s office said earlier in the...