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A Russian anti-submarine destroyer chased off a US submarine near the Kuril Islands, forcing it to leave the country’s territorial waters, Moscow said on Saturday, amid rising tensions over Ukraine. The US military however…

Canadian police started clearing protesters blocking a bridge linking Canada and the United States more than 12 hours after a court order to end the blockade took effect, police said. The Ambassador Bridge, North America’s…

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, is set to speak with his US and French counterparts on Saturday after the United States warned that Moscow could invade Ukraine in days. The United States had dramatically raised the alarm…

An Ontario judge on Friday granted an injunction to end the blockade of the Canada-US land border by truckers and protesters opposed to COVID-19 restrictions. The judge said the injunction would come into effect at 7 pm ET…

The European Medicines Agency’s safety committee said on Friday it was reviewing reports of heavy menstrual bleeding and absence of menstruation from women who had received COVID vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. The…

The French government on Friday said it would scrap the requirement for a negative Covid-19 test for all vaccinated travellers arriving in the country. From Saturday “proof of vaccination will be sufficient to come to France…

US President Joe Biden urged Americans to leave Ukraine immediately, as his top diplomat said Friday that a Russian invasion could come “any time” — including during the Winter Olympics, which end in nine days. With Moscow…

Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 400 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, as the highly contagious Omicron variant dominates the outbreak. The pandemic has also killed over 6 million people worldwide. The…

Over 16,000 people committed suicide due to bankruptcy or indebtedness India’s Council of States, known as Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Another 9,140 people ended their lives due to unemployment between 2018 and…

The next leader of the Islamic State is likely to be from a close circle of battle-hardened Iraqi jihadists who emerged in the aftermath of the 2003 U.S. invasion, two Iraqi security officials and three independent analysts…

In what was Germany’s biggest post-war fraud, a former Warburg banker was handed a 3-1/2 year jail sentence on Wednesday for his part in the scam. The scam involved scores of banks and investors engineering multi-billion-euro…

Mexican civil servants must refrain from kissing, hugging or giving sexually suggestive compliments at work, according to a code of ethics published Tuesday aimed at tackling harassment. The new rules come at a time when…

After protesters hounded Britain’s Labour leader Keir Starmer, Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced pressure on Tuesday to withdraw a claim that the opposition leader had failed to prosecute one of the country’s most notorious…

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson on Sunday declared a state of emergency to help deal with an unprecedented 10-day occupation by protesting truckers that has shut down much of the core of the Canadian capital. “(This) reflects the…

British Queen Elizabeth marks 70 years on the throne on Sunday, a milestone never reached by any of her predecessors over the last 1,000 years. It is also a milestone which only a few monarchs across the globe have ever…

Canadian cities, including the financial hub Toronto, faced disruptions on Saturday as protests against vaccine mandates spread from the capital of Ottawa. The so-called “Freedom Convoy” began as a movement against a vaccine…

Queen Elizabeth II in a special Platinum Jubilee message on Saturday backed the Duchess of Cornwall becoming Queen Camilla. In remarks delivered on Saturday, the eve of the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne, the…

A Texas man, Kevin Milazzo went on a murderous rampage early Saturday morning, killing four of his family members. He wounded three others before turning the gun on himself on Saturday, the New York Postreported, quoting…

Russia has in place about 70% of the combat power it believes it would need for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and is sending more battalion tactical groups to the border with its neighbor, two U.S. officials said on…

Iran’s foreign minister said on Saturday that a U.S. move to restore sanctions waivers to Tehran was not enough and Washington should provide guarantees for the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal with major powers. Washington…

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that he had tested positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19. In a tweet, Erdogan said he and his wife were experiencing mild symptoms of the coronavirus, adding that he…

California lawyer Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of cheating porn actor Stormy Daniels out of nearly $300,000 she was supposed to get for writing a book about an alleged tryst with former President Donald Trump.…

Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Friday Donald Trump was wrong to believe Pence had the power to reverse the outcome of the 2020 presidential election that Trump has falsely claimed was stolen from him. The…

The parents of a young Black man shot dead by police said Friday that Minneapolis officers “executed” their son and gave him no chance of survival. Authorities in the northern US city, still reeling from the police murder of…