President Joe Biden is set to announce that the United States is doubling its purchase of Pfizer's COVID-19 shots to share with the world to one billion doses as he embraces the goal of vaccinating 70 per cent of the global population within the next year.

The newly re-elected Liberal government will have to hit the ground running on the world stage as U.S. President Joe Biden pledges new era of vigorous competition without triggering a new Cold War. Experts are urging the government to stop dealing with crises on an ad-hoc basis and appoint a permanent committee of cabinet for national security.

With demand for taxis drying up in Thailand and thousands of drivers leaving town, one Bangkok cab company has turned its vehicles into mini vegetable gardens, hoping to take the edge off the coronavirus crunch.

Ontario and New Brunswick are rolling out vaccine passport systems on Wednesday that require people who are eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine to show proof of vaccination before entering non-essential indoor spaces. 

Images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback grabbing asylum seekers near the U.S.-Mexico border are "heinous," according to U.S. Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman.

Russia's ruling party will get 324 of the 450 seats in the next national parliament, election authorities announced Tuesday, which is less than United Russia won in the previous election but still an overwhelming majority.

The Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week and nominated their Doha-based spokesperson Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan's UN ambassador, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

Gabby Petito was killed by another person, a coroner concluded, while also confirming that the human remains found recently at a Wyoming national park were those of the 22-year-old woman who disappeared months after she set out on a cross-country road trip with her boyfriend, the FBI said Tuesday.

As word spreads of expulsions, Haitians in the U.S. stream back across the Rio Grande to Mexico to avoid being put on a plane back to their homeland.

Central American migrants are waiting in Mexico, hoping the U.S. will grant them asylum. Here's what it's like for them.

If you're 25 years old, you grasp the near certainty of climate catastrophe. Then you fight it, because what choice do you have?

Migrants say they've been forced to traverse the river daily to buy food because they're not allowed to cook in the camp and the U.S. has failed to provide any real sustenance.

The "In America: Remember" art installation, a concept by artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, includes blocks of small white flags planted across 20 acres of grass at the National Mall in Washington.

Haitian migrants continue to pour into Texas. But hoping to avoid deportation, many decide to cross the Rio Grande back to Mexico.

At the United Nations summit, President Biden must attempt to repair damaged U.S. credibility and alliances after Afghanistan and amid COVID.

Some Latin American countries are loosening or scrapping their abortion laws, even as access to abortion shrinks in the U.S. It's a dramatic flip of circumstances.