Artist-provocateur Ai Weiwei became world famous mocking Chinese icons—dynastic artifacts, Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s Olympics—and has spent time in detention for his artistic expressions. One symbol of Chinese power he hasn’t pilloried is Xi Jinping, the country’s pre-eminent leader.
Mr. Ai, who is publishing a memoir on Nov. 2, says his mission is to call out governments and institutions when freedoms are threatened.
France, which has opened its borders to Canadian tourists, is eager to see Canada reopen to the French. The Canadian border remains closed...
Kashechewan First Nation in northern Ontario is experiencing a “deepening state of emergency” as a result of surging COVID-19 cases in the community...
The virus that causes COVID-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case was identified in the central city of Wuhan, a new study...
April Ross and Alix Klineman won the first Olympic gold medal for the United States in women’s beach volleyball since 2012 on Friday,...
