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Fri, 14 Jan 2022 02:11:28 EST
Novak Djokovic faces deportation after Australia revokes visa for 2nd time
Novak Djokovic faces deportation again after the Australian government revoked his visa for a second time, the latest twist in the ongoing saga over whether the No. 1-ranked tennis player will be allo...

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 03:48:19 EST
North Korea fires fresh missiles in response to U.S. sanctions
North Korea on Friday fired two short-range ballistic missiles in its third weapons launch this month, officials in South Korea said, in an apparent reprisal for fresh sanctions imposed by the Biden a...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:27:33 EST
Prince Andrew loses military affiliations, royal patronages amid sex abuse lawsuit
Prince Andrew has returned his military affiliations and royal patronages to Queen Elizabeth, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday, a day after his lawyers failed to persuade a U.S. judge to dismiss a c...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:15:45 EST
Russia ups ante in dispute with West over Ukraine, not ruling out deployment to Cuba, Venezuela
Russia raised the stakes Thursday in its dispute with the West over Ukraine when a top diplomat refused to rule out a military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela if tensions with the United States escal...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:42:26 EST
Leader of far-right Oath Keepers militia group arrested over Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, authorities...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 14:56:23 EST
As talks with Russia stall, NATO chief warns of a new war in Europe
The threat of a new war in Europe is very real, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday following talks with Russia at the military alliance’s headquarters in Brussels. ...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:20:52 EST
Russia-led troops sent to quell Kazakhstan protests preparing to leave, Moscow says
Troops belonging to a Russia-led security alliance were preparing to pull out of Kazakhstan, Russia's Defence Ministry said on Thursday. The withdrawal comes only a week after they were deployed to th...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:42:19 EST
Syrian ex-secret police officer convicted of crimes against humanity by German court
Anwar Raslan, a former Syrian secret police officer, was convicted by a German court Thursday of crimes against humanity for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail near Damascus a decade ago. ...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:28:50 EST
Canada's Citizen Lab says dozens of journalists, activists in El Salvador targeted by spyware
Canadian research institute Citizen lab says the cellphones of nearly three dozen journalists and activists in El Salvador, several of whom were investigating alleged state corruption, were hacked and...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:19:27 EST
Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Jan. 13
New Brunswick is moving to the more restrictive Level 3 of its COVID-19 plan as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the province.

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 10:25:24 EST
Watch an endangered tiger cub take its 1st steps outdoors
A critically endangered Sumatran tiger cub took its first steps outdoors this week, a month after it was born at a London zoo.

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:41:40 EST
Djokovic included in Australian Open draw despite uncertainty over visa situation
Tennis world No. 1 Novak Djokovic was included in the Australian Open official draw on Thursday, although uncertainty remained about whether the government will cancel the top seed's visa for a second...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 17:19:57 EST
House panel probing Capitol riot seeks interview with Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
The House of Representatives panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection requested an interview and records from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday.

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 19:16:26 EST
Families await news of thousands held by police in Kazakhstan after protests
With about 12,000 people arrested after anti-government protests in Kazakhstan last week, friends and relatives of those held by police waited outside a jail Wednesday, hoping to learn their fate ...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:04:33 EST
Prince Andrew's bid to dismiss sex abuse accuser's lawsuit rejected by U.S. judge
Britain's Prince Andrew failed to persuade a U.S. judge to dismiss Virginia Giuffre's lawsuit accusing the Duke of York of sexually abusing her when she was underage.

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 17:26:57 EST
Ronettes lead singer and '60s icon Ronnie Spector dead at 78
Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock 'n' roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as Be My Baby, Baby I Love You and Walking in the Rain as the leader of the girl group the Ronettes, has died. ...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 12:22:20 EST
Magawa, rat who detected landmines in Cambodia, dies in retirement
A landmine-detecting rat in Cambodia who received a prestigious award for his life-saving duty has died in retirement, the charity for which he had worked has announced.

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 04:00:00 EST
Ukraine dusts off Cold War bunkers in case of Russian invasion many think won't happen
Beneath an administrative building in Kyiv, a concrete stairwell leads down to a thick metal door — the entrance to a bomb shelter from the Cold War era. It's just one of the hundreds of shelters ...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 08:13:38 EST
U.K. PM Boris Johnson apologizes for attending lockdown party
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized on Wednesday for attending a "bring your own booze" gathering at his official residence during the first coronavirus lockdown, as a senior figure in his...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:50:45 EST
20 years after he built it, this general wants Guantanamo closed. But he's 'not confident' it ever will be
Retired Major General Michael Lehnert has called repeatedly for the military prison to be closed. Two decades after the first detainees arrived, he still wonders how his country will get there. ...



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