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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 22:18:00 ESTDenmark launches digital COVID-19 vaccine passport
Denmark is launching a digital vaccine passport, with the goal of allowing COVID-19 vaccinated residents to move around in public more freely. The hope is businesses could operate more openly, too. So...
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:24:44 EST'You can't incite what was already going to happen': Trump defence argues voter anger made riot inevitable
Donald Trump's defence lawyers made the case for the former U.S. president's acquittal on Friday in forceful terms, calling his impeachment an act of "political vengeance" and a "sham."
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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 07:53:49 ESTLos Angeles closes mass COVID-19 vaccination sites due to lack of supply
Los Angeles is temporarily closing five mass vaccination sites including Dodger Stadium because of a lack of supply as California faces continuing criticism over its vaccine rollout.
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:59:18 ESTMario Draghi becomes Italy's new prime minister after weeks of infighting
Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, took charge of Italy's new government on Friday, and unveiled a cabinet that mixed unaffiliated technocrats with politicians from across his...
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:33:59 ESTChina bans BBC news broadcasts in apparent retaliatory move
China has banned the BBC World News television channel in a diplomatic fight with Britain after British regulators revoked the licence of state-owned Chinese broadcaster CGTN.
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:22:04 ESTAlexei Navalny back in court, anti-Kremlin movement gets a bitcoin boost
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appeared in a Moscow court on Friday to face a charge of defaming a Second World War veteran. Meanwhile, Navalny's anti-Kremlin movement has received bitcoin...
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:40:47 ESTFailing to convict Trump could result in dire harm to democracy, say impeachment prosecutors as case wraps
Democrats prosecuting Donald Trump's impeachment trial sought Thursday to directly link his words to the rioters' actions.
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 02:45:08 ESTHead of Tokyo Olympics resigns over sexist comments
Yoshiro Mori resigned Friday as the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee following sexist comments implying women talk too much.
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:12:22 ESTCharges dropped against Buffalo, N.Y., officers seen on video shoving elderly activist to the ground
Criminal charges have been dropped against two police officers seen on video last spring shoving a 75-year-old protester to the ground in Buffalo, N.Y., prosecutors said Thursday.
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:00:14 ESTEuropean powers warn that drones threaten stability on Arabian Peninsula
Britain, France and Germany on Thursday condemned a spate of attacks on Saudi Arabia claimed by Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen, saying the proliferation of drones posed a serious threat to regional sta...
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 20:54:29 ESTNew video shows 9-year-old's distressing wait for help after being pepper sprayed
A nine-year-old Black girl who was pepper sprayed by police in Rochester, N.Y., pleaded "please don't do this to me" and "it burns" as she waited handcuffed in the back seat of a police cruiser for 16...
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 04:00:00 ESTLancet gives the nod to Russia's coronavirus vaccine, giving a beleaguered Putin a soft-power victory
Russia has scored a political and medical victory last week with the scientific community’s validation of its Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus. Still, some still view it as another tool in ...
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 04:00:28 ESTCome From Away plays to (almost) packed crowds in Australia, restoring sense of community
Fans are flocking back to see Come From Away in Melbourne, Australia, where the Canadian musical is one of the first theatre productions to reopen its doors following months of COVID-19 lockdown restr...
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:47:53 ESTU.K. judge rules that newspaper invaded Meghan Markle's privacy
A British judge has ruled Thursday that the Mail on Sunday newspaper and its MailOnline website invaded Duchess of Sussex's privacy by publishing a personal letter to her estranged father.
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Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:15:49 ESTFrom Myanmar to Ethiopia, internet shutdowns become favoured tool of regimes
Around the world, shutting down the internet has become an increasingly popular tactic of repressive and authoritarian regimes and some illiberal democracies. Digital rights groups say governments use...
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:08:36 ESTGina Carano ditched from 'The Mandalorian' over social media posts
Lucasfilm says Gina Carano is no longer a part of The Mandalorian cast after many people online called for her firing over a social media post that likened the experience of Jews during the Holocaust ...
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 07:40:54 ESTCoronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Thursday
Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted it would be "open season" for vaccinations in the United States by April, as a supply increase will allow most people to get shots to protect them against COVID-19.
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Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:00:02 ESTIran claims secret recording about Flight PS752's destruction is fake
Iran is pushing back at what it calls "fruitless sensationalization" of the Flight PS752 disaster in the wake of a CBC News report about a secretly-recorded conversation that suggests the world may ...
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 21:25:53 ESTLarry Flynt, controversial porn publisher who pushed limits of free speech, dead at 78
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt Jr., the self-described "smut peddler who cares" who used his pornography empire and flair for the outrageous to push the limits of free speech, has died at the ...
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:10:55 ESTNew video, Trump's own words used in trial to argue he incited Capitol attack — and failed to stop it
House Democrats opened their first day of arguments in former president Donald Trump's impeachment trial with searing footage and audio from the U.S. Capitol riot as they painted Trump as an "incite...