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BANGKOK - Authorities in Thailand are imposing fines of up to 20,000 baht ($640) for people who fail to wear face masks in public in 48 provinces, as the government struggles to cope with a new wave o...

JAYAPURA, Indonesia - An Indonesian brigadier general was killed in an ongoing clash between security forces and a rebel group in restive Papua province, authorities said Monday. The clashes started A...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A recording of Iran's foreign minister offering a blunt appraisal of diplomacy and the limits of power within the Islamic Republic has been leaked, providing a rare look ...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it expects Canada to receive around 1.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine this week, including its very first shipment of single-dose shots from Johnson & John...

Montreal officials are looking into extending voting rights to more than 100,000 non-citizens in order to better integrate immigrants and encourage more racialized people to participate in municipal p...

LOS ANGELES - Chlo Zhao has made history at the 2021 Academy Awards, becoming the first woman of colour to win best director and just the second woman to win the award. Zhao won the directing Oscar fo...

The premise for an interlude at the Oscars was simple: Questlove played a song and a chosen celebrity had to guess if the tune was ever nominated for or won an Oscar. The game, run by "Judas and the B...

LOS ANGELES - Winners so far at the 93rd Academy Awards: Original screenplay: "Promising Young Woman," Emerald Fennell Adapted screenplay: Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton, "The Father" Internat...

LOS ANGELES - Youn Yuh-jung,'' the feisty grandmother in "Minari," captured more than her grandson's heart. Youn, a prominent film and TV actor in her home country of South Korea, won the best support...

Actor and director Regina King acknowledged the hardships of the past year during an opening straight out of the movies for the 2021 Oscars. "It has been quite a year and we are still smack dab in the...