Canada’s ambassador to China, Dominic Barton, has been granted consular access to a Canadian detained in China for the first time since late January. In an update released Wednesday afternoon, Global Affairs Canada said Barton was granted virtual access to Robert Schellenberg. The statement said the agency continues to offer consular services to Schellenberg and […]

China conducted new naval exercises on Wednesday, a report quoting maritime officials said, amid escalating tensions in the South China Sea and as President Xi Jinping urged the military to “focus on war preparedness and combat capabilities”. The state-owned Global Times quoted the country’s maritime safety agency as saying that drills were taking place in […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Voting options seem much broader in the US this year, as COVID-19 has forced authorities to adapt. Several avenues which already existed for US voters have taken on renewed importance this year, […]

Sen. Josh Hawley on Wednesday demanded that the Federal Election Commission investigate Twitter and Facebook for possibly violation campaign-finance law by censoring The Post’s reporting on emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop. The Missouri Republican wrote in a letter to the FEC that the social media giants’ “active suppression of public speech” regarding The Post’s article […]

Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed the media Wednesday for the ongoing decrease in the number of families opting for classroom instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. De Blasio complained that what he calls “good news stories” about the quality of in-person instruction are “often not going to be spread in the mainstream media.” “They’ll spread at […]

Two landlords of the Hudson’s Bay Co. are suing the retailer for unpaid rent, alleging the iconic department store that anchors shopping malls across Canada hasn’t paid its bills at multiple locations since April. The lawsuits filed in Quebec Superior Court by Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust and Oxford Properties Group and its co-owners are […]

HUNTER Biden, the son of Joe Biden, was reportedly seen “smoking crack during a sex act." Video and emails were revealed amid scrutiny over Hunter’s job at oil and gas giant Burisma. ⚠️ Follow our US election 2020 live blog for the latest news & updates Who is Hunter Biden? Hunter Biden is the second […]

Amy Cooper — the Central Park “Karen” who sparked international outrage when she called the cops on a black birdwatcher who asked her to leash her dog — is hammering out a deal with prosecutors to avoid prison time, it was revealed in court Wednesday. Cooper, 41, her expression as grim as the black turtleneck […]

DRUG-RELATED deaths in England and Wales have hit record highs as deaths involving cocaine use increased for the eighth year in a row, data has revealed. Official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that 2019 had the highest number of drug-related deaths registered in more than a quarter of a century. The […]

A grieving woman and her 20 other family members have been filmed stealing a man's body from a morgue after he reportedly died of coronavirus. The hospital has since filed a criminal complaint against the daughter and her family for violating the protocol of handling Covid-19 deaths. The woman's dad, Ramon Juarez, was admitted to […]