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Mozambique attack: Timeline of terror

B.C. records 486 sudden deaths, almost triple the usual number, during heat wave

Satellite images show China building what appears to be over 100 new silos for its nuclear missiles, analysts say

Serbian ex-spy chiefs jailed for Balkans war crimes

Trump Organization expected to be charged with tax crimes

Nxivm cult: Actress Allison Mack sentenced to three years in prison

Miami building collapse: Two dead children found in rubble

"Stop financing fascism": public figures appeal to Polish government after grants to far-right groups

Bill Cosby: The rise, fall and release of 'America's Dad'

'Super-spreader' Party Infected All Except Six Vaccinated Attendees, NSW reveals

Anti-vaxxer attacks on London health staff ‘are on the rise’

182 Bodies Found Near Third Canadian Residential School

Trudeau pays respects to Canada heatwave victims

Obituary: Donald Rumsfeld

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dead at 88

Donald Rumsfeld has died.

Russia, China pledge to not use nuclear weapons at each other

Ex-US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld dead at 88

President Biden blames climate crisis for deadly heatwave in western US and Canada

Another unmarked graves found at former residential school. 182 unmarked graves found in Cranbrook, BC

Remains of 182 people found in unmarked graves near former residential school outside Cranbrook, B.C.

"We will find you and we will kill you": Afghan interpreters face threats as U.S. plans mass-evacuation

By 2035 all new cars, light-duty trucks sold in Canada will be electric

Hong Kong: How life has changed under the national security law

Lady Boss documentary film "recasts Jackie Collins as feminist icon

Pinjra Tod: Women's rights activists finally free in India

Afghanistan: US commander warns of possible civil war after withdrawal

Canada weather: Dozens dead as heatwave shatters records

Guatemala asks Russia to return money due to Sputnik V non-delivery

Miami building collapse: Letter in April warned of worsening damage

Canada mandates new cars to be zero-emissions by 2035

Boris Johnson refuses to deny using private email for government matters amid security risk concerns

Portugal's top art collector Joe Berardo arrested over fraud allegations

Netherlands Says Russian Fighter Jets Engaged in 'Mock Attacks' Against Navy on Black Sea

Liberals say by 2035 all new cars, light-duty trucks sold in Canada will be electric

Istanbul: Authorities fire tear gas, make arrests at Pride march. Riot police in Istanbul fired tear gas and blocked streets during a march in support of LGBT+ rights, detaining 25 people including prominent AFP photographer Bulent Kilic.

Ethiopia Tigray conflict: Rebels build on capture of capital

Portugal exempts under-18s from quarantine

Bill curtailing indigenous land rights advances in Brazil's Congress

5,000-year-old man was 'oldest plague victim'

Wimbledon 2021: Serena Williams retires injured against Aliaksandra Sasnovich

Russian fighter jets harassed a Dutch frigate in the Black Sea for hours and carried out mock attacks, defense ministry says

Israel: Knesset member calls for murder of people in mixed marriages

“Witness K” convicted for exposing Australia’s illegal bugging in East Timor

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine shows promise against Delta variant in lab study

A Picasso and a Mondrian painting disappeared almost 10 years ago in a museum heist. Greek police just found them.

Picasso painting found in Athens years after gallery heist

Covid vaccine gap: How South Africa hopes to bridge the divide

Inside India's deadly mucormycosis fungus epidemic

The precarious life of a Gaza fisherman

Australian farmer spreads joy with colourful rescue lambs

19 killed, including 15 innocent bystanders, in terrorist attacks near U.S. border in Mexico

Mexico Top Court Decriminalizes Recreational Marijuana Use

Three Brazilian senators formally accused President Jair Bolsonaro of malfeasance before the Supreme Court Monday over allegations he failed to have a top ally investigated for suspicions of massive corruption in the purchase of Covid-19 vaccines

Ethiopia declares immediate, unilateral cease-fire in Tigray

US judge throws out Facebook anti-trust lawsuits

Canada to Make Online Hate Speech a Crime Punishable by $16,000 Fine

Bruno Candé: White man jailed for Portugal murder of black actor

US Supreme Court declines transgender bathroom appeal in win for student

Kuwait arrests man who posted TikTok weather rant

Mexico’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Marijuana Prohibition After Lawmakers Fail To Act

Rockets fired at American base by pro-Iranian militias in response to US airstrikes

Australian mining companies have paid little or no corporate income tax in PNG despite huge profits

Justin Trudeau says Pope Francis should apologize on Canadian soil for church's role in residential schools

11-year-old girl reportedly becomes UK’s youngest mom to give birth

Tigray conflict: Unilateral ceasefire declared - state TV

Abu Dhabi to ban unvaccinated people from public places

Canada unveils plans to make online hate speech a crime

Canada hits record temperature of 46.1C amid heatwave | Canada

US conducts “defensive precision air strikes” targeting Iranian backed groups along the Syrian Iraqi border

A militant group called "Niger Delta Avengers" that roughly halved Nigeria's oil production in 2016 has threatened to resume attacks amid disagreements over the share of oil wealth local communities should get.

Wuhan lab-leak theory fuels Trump comeback rally

Germany could stop gas flowing through the almost-complete Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia if Moscow breaks the terms of the arrangement or uses it to put pressure on Ukraine, conservative chancellor candidate Armin Laschet said on Saturday.

B.C. heat wave shatters temperature records across the province: Lytton, B.C., broke Canadian record Sunday for highest temperature ever recorded

Hong Kong police arrest former Apple Daily journalist at airport

India Shifts 50,000 Troops to China Border in Historic Move

Papua's sacred forest for women only

Climate change: Why action still ignites debate in Australia

Jack Dorsey: Unpicking Twitter boss's passion for Nigeria

Why biologists like Carl Bergstrom are warning that social media is a risk to humanity

Saudi Arabia releases two prominent women’s rights activists. Most of those imprisoned, estimated to be in the dozens, campaigned for the right to drive and an end to the kingdom’s male guardianship system, which requires women to obtain the consent of a male relative for major decisions.

France elections: Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron suffer humiliating results in regional vote | France's far-right have endured another miserable night in the country's regional elections, with Marine Le Pen's National Rally failing to win any of the dozen mainland areas where it stood.

Ex-Indian state minister arrested after allegedly raping Malaysian actress

David Bowie painting found near North Bay, Ont., sells for record $108K in auction

Exit polls show French far-right loses regional vote in key southern battleground Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur

Delta variant 'spreading rapidly' from Lisbon to rest of Portugal

Palestinian protests: Crowds clash with police after death of activist

Emmanuel Macron's party is wiped out in French local elections

Iran refuses to give nuclear site images to IAEA

France elections: Far-right National Rally loses key battleground states - poll

Czech President Zeman calls transgender people 'disgusting'

UK Imposing Junk Food Advertising Ban/Limitations

150 million meals a year thrown away rather than given to hungry because of £600m government subsidies paid to supermarkets.

US Launches Drone Strikes in Northern Afghanistan

FDA adds warning about rare heart inflammation to Pfizer, Moderna Covid vaccines

He Saved 31 People at Sea. Then Got a 142-Year Prison Sentence.

Coalition fails to meet endangered species targets to stem decline of birds, mammals and plants

Colombia offers reward after presidential helicopter shooting

Deleted gene sequences confirm coronavirus circulated before Wuhan seafood market

UK students want tuition fees refunded as they face third year online

Germany: Cannabis legalization becomes election campaign issue; Millions of people regularly use illegal drugs. After Germany's upcoming parliamentary election, drugs legalization looks set to be a new issue on the political agenda.

Engineer warned of 'major structural damage' years before Florida condo collapsed

Colombian army under investigation for 'executing children during Farc raid

Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment

New Zealand suspends travel bubble with Australia as COVID-19 cases rise in Sydney

Germany knife attack: Three killed were all women

Matt Hancock resigns as UK health secretary after breaking social distancing rules by kissing a colleague

Pakistan’s leader sparks protests by blaming women ‘wearing very few clothes’ for sexual assaults

Reuters: YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative

Turkey LGBT: Police use force to break up Gay Pride rally in Istanbul

Israel votes to condemn China abuses against Uyghur Muslims

Matt Hancock resigns after questions over relationship with aide

COVID-19: UK reports 18,270 new coronavirus cases - the highest since 5 February

Tens of thousands of anti-lockdown protesters march on London in biggest demo yet

WHO urges fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks as delta Covid variant spreads

Colombia President Iván Duque's helicopter hit by gunfire

Duminda Silva: Anger as Sri Lanka frees politician sentenced for murder

Ros Atkins On…Why the Olympics is going ahead

Russia's Euro 2020 Covid dilemma

Trudeau says Pope should apologize on Canadian soil for church's role in residential schools

Scientist Who Spent Year at 'Epicenter' of Climate Crisis Warns World May Already Have Hit Arctic 'Tipping Point': "We probably still have a short, brief time window to save the summer Arctic sea ice."

Nunavut premier asks ‘how many more’ as 751 more bodies uncovered at former school

George Floyd murder: Derek Chauvin sentenced to over 22 years

UFO report: US 'has no explanation' for sightings

Czech Republic: Tornado fells trees then smashes eyewitness's window

Israeli police killed unarmed Palestinian who did not pose threat, rights group says

This is a food bank now: Workers seized a McDonalds in France

U.K. Begins Formal Probe of Fake and Paid Reviews on Google and Amazon Sites

Iranian Nuke Centrifuge Plant Badly Damaged By Drones - Breaking Defense

Brazil continues to lose an entire generation of Indigenous elders and leaders to COVID-19, leading to a loss of culture and history

Germany passes new citizenship law for descendants of Nazi victims

Canada puts U.S. Three Percenters militia on terror list, cites risk of violent extremism

Three people reported killed, six injured in knife attack in Germany's Wuerzburg

German knife attack: Several dead and wounded in Würzburg

UFO Pentagon report: Do Americans believe something's out there?

Scientists hail stunning 'Dragon Man' discovery | Chinese researchers have unveiled an ancient skull that could belong to a completely new species of human

Germany: Several injured in Würzburg attack

Even the Taliban are surprised at how fast they're advancing in Afghanistan

Israel to reinstate indoor mask mandate next week as COVID-19 cases keep rising

Gibraltar votes to ease tough abortion laws

Nicaragua's fragile leader and his ruthless crackdown on rivals

India's opinionated feminist and her viral wedding ad

Biden backs bumper economic stimulus bill - with big caveat

Child labour in Uganda: The hidden costs of Covid

Canadian report slams 'reckless' Iran for downing of flight PS752

BBC appeals to UN over Iran's harassment of Persian service staff

Why New York Pride parade has barred uniformed police officers

Africa's week in pictures: 18-24 June 2021

Tour champion Tadej Pogacar supporting cycling's next generation

Sask. First Nation announces discovery of 751 unmarked graves near former Canadian residential school

Czech Republic: Powerful tornado sweeps through villages

Major supplier for Nestle and Pepsi breaks its 'no deforestation' pledge to provide these companies with palm oil from orangutan habitat, report shows

New prehistoric human unknown to science discovered in Israel

Dutch PM Rutte: No place in EU for Hungary with anti-LGBT law

New type of ancient human discovered in Israel

The U.S. Will Relocate Thousands of Afghan Citizens Who Worked With U.S. Troops

Sea lion opens gate to crash fisherman's interview about a 'plague of sea lions'

Ground Temperatures Hit 118 Degrees in the Arctic Circle

Dutch PM Rutte: No place in EU for Hungary with anti-LGBT law

UK deaths outnumber births for first time in 40 years

U.S. to Move Afghans Who Aided Troops to Third Countries

Nigeria child abduction: Kidnappers demand millions for a child's life

Hundreds of bodies found in unmarked graves at former Saskatchewan residential school

Seattle scientist digs up deleted coronavirus genetic data, adding fuel to the covid origin debate

Britney Spears speaks out against conservatorship at hearing

Calls grow to evacuate Afghan collaborators to Guam as US troops leave

'The worst is yet to come': Draft UN climate report warns of drastic changes over 30 years

Biden unveils strategy to combat US crime wave

HMS Defender: What will be the fallout from Black Sea incident?

Russian jets and ships shadow British warship

Hungary's authoritarian leader won't attend soccer game against Germany amid spat over his anti-LGBTQ law

John McAfee: Anti-virus creator found dead in prison cell

Euro 2020: Fans make pro-LGBT protest at Germany-Hungary football game

Italian PM rebuffs Vatican protest over proposed homophobia law

John McAfee, the creator of the antivirus, found dead in Brians 2 prison after the AN ordered his extradition - Digis Mak

AntiVirus Creator John McAfee Found Dead In Catalan Prison Cell

Minister says travel quarantine rules do not apply to ‘important people’

John McAfee dies of suicide in prison cell - report

The UN General Assembly condemned the nearly 60-year-old US embargo on Cuba for the 29th year in a row Wednesday, calling for it to end by a vote of 184 to two. Only Israel voted with the US against the resolution

All UK arrivals in EU should be quarantined, says Angela Merkel | Coronavirus

The United Nations resolution condemning the US blockade against Cuba is approved with 184 votes in favor, 2 votes against, and 3 abstentions.

Delta variant to account for 90% of new COVID-19 cases in Europe by late August, warns EU agency

Angela Merkel Joins Other EU Leaders in Criticizing Hungary's LGBT Law: 'This Law is Wrong'

Iran announces U.S. will lift oil and shipping sanctions as nuclear talks progress

Hungary's anti-gay law threatens programming of TV favourites

Saudi Operatives Who Assasinated Jamal Khashoggi had paramilitary training in US: report

China hits back at Canada, calls for UN investigation into crimes against Indigenous people

Education interrupted: Kashmir students climb mountain to cross digital divide

Activists fear Biden’s climate pledges are falling apart: ‘We aren’t seeing grit’ | Joe Biden

Trudeau challenges China to publicly probe its mistreatment of Uyghurs as Beijing attacks Canada’s residential schools

Moscow Restricts Restaurants to Vaccinated and Immune Diners - The Moscow Times

Tax audits of ultra-wealthy Canadians yield zero prosecutions, convictions

Housing Market ‘Gone Berserk’ Stirs Unease Over Investors’ Clout: Investors account for about 20% of new mortgages in Canada and critics say first-time buyers are getting shut out of the market.

Senate Republicans block Democrats' election bill

Lebanon is grappling with the worst economic and financial crisis — one that the World Bank has said is likely to rank as one of the worst the world has seen in the past 150 years

Leaked U.S. Military Training Document Says Socialists Represent “Terrorist” Ideology

Tens Of Thousands Sign Petition To Stop Jeff Bezos From Returning To Earth

Japan proposes four-day working week to improve work-life balance: The Japanese government has just unveiled its annual economic policy guidelines, which include new recommendations that companies permit their staff to opt to work four days a week instead of the typical five

Millions become millionaires in Covid pandemic

WHO says delta is the fastest and fittest Covid variant and will ‘pick off’ most vulnerable

Iran said Tuesday that several state-linked news websites have been seized by the U.S. government under unclear circumstances

Palestinian Authority arrests activist over online criticism (Associated Press)

China calls for UN investigation into crimes against Indigenous people in Canada | CBC News

Delta variant first found in India is the greatest threat to U.S. effort to eradicate COVID-19 in its borders: Dr. Anthony Fauci

Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: Heavy fighting reported

Vatican urges Italy to stop proposed anti-homophobia law

Paving over the dead: How China is 'erasing' the Uighur people's past by destroying cemeteries and other locations

A fake wedding, and a $250,000 scam - 'I was such an idiot'

Tokyo 2020: Does Japan have Covid under control?

India economy: Seven years of Modi in seven charts

Eva Schloss: 'Why I took Austrian citizenship aged 92'

How farmers and scientists strive for more flavour

Covid sweeps India's Buddhist monasteries

Macron and Le Pen lose out as 68% of French voters shun local elections

China agrees to reschedule Congo Republic's $2.4bn debt

Nicaragua political arrests lead Argentina and Mexico to recall envoys

Israeli Yesh Atid MK appeals to designate Lehava (Jewish Ultranationalists) as a terror organization

US, EU, UK and Canada impose fresh sanctions on Belarus

How scientists know New Zealand is due for one of the biggest earthquakes in its modern history

Covid: Vaccines running out in poorer nations, WHO says

China fails to meet promises on missing Xinjiang children

Since 9/11, military suicides dwarf the number of soldiers killed in combat

US Supreme Court sides with college athletes against NCAA

Fifth presidential candidate detained in Nicaragua; 15 opposition leaders now detained in total

President Rodrigo Duterte threatens to jail people who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19

India Covid vaccination: New policy to speed up delivery

“Black fungus” surges in India — thousands blinded, maimed, dead

COVID-19 survivors may suffer from a loss of gray matter and other brain tissue over time, a long-term study suggests. A new study that drew on data gathered by UK Biobank suggests COVID-19 survivors may suffer from a loss of gray matter over time.

Ship That Sunk Carrying 25 Tons of Chemicals Caused 'Significant Damage' to Planet

Pope's lack of apology over church's role in residential schools was no surprise to Vatican observers | CBC News

Usain Bolt welcomes newborn twin sons Thunder and Saint Leo

North Korea's attempted $1bn bank hack

Joe Biden: My surprise claim to be the US president's English cousin

French court dog helps soothe anxious victims of crime

Birtukan Mideksa: Ethiopia's electoral board chairperson

WHO accused of sexism for suggesting women of ‘childbearing age’ shouldn’t drink

South Korea: Swapping Seoul megacity isolation for village life

Macron faces crushing defeat in local elections, exit polls show

Digby, a ‘Defusing’ Dog, Saves the Life of a Lady who was Attempting Suicide on a Bridge above the M5 motorway in Devon, near Exeter, England

Armed settlers open gunfire at Palestinians west of Nablus

US Navy uses 40,000lb explosive to test warship in 'Full Ship Shock Trial'

North Korea attempted to hack South Korea's nuclear think tank, lawmaker says

Body found of armed Belgian anti-vaccine fugitive, suicide suspected

National security adviser: US preparing more Russia sanctions over Navalny poisoning and imprisonment

White House won’t ‘simply accept China saying no’ on probe in Covid origin, says national security adviser

South Africa announces gems found are not diamonds

In Egypt, online group Qawem saving hundreds of women from sextortion

One dead after driver crashes into Florida Pride parade

Cuba encouraged by early efficacy results of homegrown COVID-19 vaccine

Oil firm led by Tory donor investigated over alleged bribes in nine countries

Iran’s sole nuclear power plant undergoes emergency shutdown

Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers

Top US general dismisses warnings of imminent Chinese invasion of Taiwan

In pictures: 1,000 Dreams to mark World Refugee Day

'War on Terror': Are big military deployments over?

K-wave: How fans are supporting their favourite idols

Ethiopia elections: The misinformation circulating online

Troubled US teens left traumatised by tough love camps

Pentagon pulls missile defense, other systems from Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries

Bolsonaro's rule is 'worse threat than coronavirus,' say Brazilians as nation passes 500,000 deaths

Antwerp: Five construction workers killed in school building site collapse

'World's oldest' alligator Muja celebrates 85th birthday at Belgrade Zoo

Turkish women rally in Istanbul to defend rights, anti-violence treaty withdrawal

Third Wave Of COVID-19 Definitely Underway In UK, Says Vaccine Expert

Iran election: Israel voices 'grave concern' over Ebrahim Raisi

Arizona police shoot driver who crashed into charity bike ride

Brazil surpasses 500,000 Covid-19 deaths.

More US labour unions join alliance against 'Israeli apartheid'

Covid: Brazil hits 500,000 deaths amid 'critical' situation

The largest gay pride parade in central Europe took place again in Warsaw for the first time in two years after a pandemic-induced break — and amid a backlash in Poland and Hungary against LGBT rights

Moscow records pandemic-high COVID-19 cases for second day running

Iran election: Wariness and welcome for Ebrahim Raisi

Poland: thousands turn out for Warsaw Pride march

Valuable 350-year-old oil paintings found in skip

Afghans who helped Lithuanian troops to receive asylum, says minister. Helping the interpreters is Lithuania's "matter of honour".

U.S. Triples Vaccine Doses to Taiwan as China Denies Blocking Access

Bus runs off road, killing 27 mineworkers in Peru

Myanmar coup: UN calls for arms embargo against military

Canada-U.S. border closure extended again, until July 21

COVID-19: Pregnant women and their unborn babies dying in Brazil as deaths set to pass 500k mark

Plane collapses at Heathrow Airport

Myanmar: Who are the ethnic armies training protesters?

Life in lockdown: The pandemic through our eyes

North Korea: Why doesn't it have enough food this year?

France's Le Pen on track for regional power with an eye on presidency

Armenia's war defeat prompts bitter vote on rebuilding country

Ethiopia Denies There’s a Famine in Tigray. We Obtained Photos of Starving Children.

12 new blood clot cases ‘likely’ linked to AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, TGA says

Legendary sprinter Milkha singh passes away due to COVID-19 complications, days after the death of his wife .

“Eyebrow-raising”: Canada's largest grocery chain monitoring unions alongside cyberthreats, natural disasters as “risks”

Lisbon gave protesters' data to foreign embassies

Farmer discovers 2,600-year-old stone slab from Egyptian pharaoh

Palestinians cancel deal for Israel to supply 1 million COVID vaccines

Abortion rights: US Catholic bishops face clash with Biden

Russia just annexed Georgian village.

Germany-based BioNTech announced the first patient had been treated in its BNT111 cancer vaccine

Electoral Commission to be stripped of power to prosecute after probe into Boris Johnson’s flat makeover

COVID-19: Italy imposes five-day quarantine for British visitors from Monday over Delta variant fears

Poland becomes haven for Belarusians fleeing crackdown

Are Asia's Covid 'winners' entering shaky new territory?

Africa's week in pictures: 11-17 June 2021

Iran: How a unique system runs the country

Alarming Covid surge cools Russia’s football fever

The Gurkha veterans fighting for Covid care in Nepal

Why US millennials are quitting big cities

Pornhub videos: Women sue, alleging lack of consent

Juneteenth: What is the newest US holiday and how is it celebrated?

Mass Graves Found in Myanmar Amid Alarm Over Human Rights Abuses

Previous infection with coronavirus does not necessarily protect against Covid in the longer term, especially when caused by new variants of concern, a study on healthcare workers suggests.