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Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:04:48 EST
Canada pulls diplomats from Ukrainian capital amid fears Russia is headed for war

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:10:38 EST
French police fire tear gas at demonstrators as anti-restriction convoy enters Paris
Police fired tear gas at demonstrators as a convoy protesting COVID-19 restrictions breached their defences and drove into central Paris on Saturday, snarling traffic around the Arc de Triomphe and on...

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:55:38 EST
Biden orders $7B in frozen Afghan funds be used for humanitarian aid, Sept. 11 victims
President Joe Biden signed an order Friday to free $7 billion US in Afghan assets now frozen in the U.S., splitting the money between humanitarian aid for poverty-stricken Afghanistan and a fund for S...

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 20:13:36 EST
Former U.S. Air Force staff sergeant pleads guilty in fatal shooting of federal guard
A former U.S. Air Force staff sergeant and alleged member of the "boogaloo" extremist movement pleaded guilty Friday in the fatal shooting of a federal security officer in the San Francisco Bay Area a...

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:30:17 EST
Galvanized by Canadian trucker protests, convoy of vehicles descends on French capital
Waving French flags and shouting "freedom," protesters angry over pandemic restrictions drove toward Paris on Friday, galvanized in part by truckers who have blockaded Canada's capital and blocked bor...

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:25:59 EST
Koalas declared endangered in eastern Australia
Koalas were declared officially endangered Friday in eastern Australia as they fall prey to disease, lost habitat and other threats.

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:46:16 EST
Ukrainian Olympian flashes 'No War in Ukraine' sign after competing
A Ukrainian skeleton athlete flashed a small sign that read "No War in Ukraine" to the cameras as he finished a run at the Beijing Olympics on Friday night, a plea for peace at a time of rising tensio...

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:37:13 EST
CIA has shielded secret data collection program from oversight, 2 U.S. senators say
Two U.S. senators claim the Central Intelligence Agency is running a secret program aimed at scooping up massive amounts of data and has been shielding it from Congressional oversight, they said in a ...

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 18:06:07 EST
Beijing's ambitious COVID-19 Olympic 'bubble' holding strong
One week into the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games and China seems to be meeting its formidable COVID-19 challenge with a so-called 'bubble' that allows Games participants to skip quarantine but tightly res...

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 07:37:11 EST
Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Feb. 11
Ontario is lifting the directive that paused non-urgent procedures and surgeries, with the province citing a "steady decline in COVID-19 related hospitalizations and ICU admissions."

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:51:59 EST
Elon Musk says 36-storey Starship could see 1st launch in March
SpaceX's Elon Musk said Thursday that the first orbital flight of his towering Starship — the world's most powerful rocket ever built — could come in another month or two.

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:36:43 EST
U.S. offers Trudeau government help to end border blockade
U.S. officials have offered to help the Trudeau government end a protest blockade whose effects are multiplying across the border and causing increasing concern in Washington.

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:00:00 EST
How a former Trump official wound up at Ottawa's convoy protest
A former Trump administration official who clashed with colleagues in Washington over views on the pandemic fell outside the scientific consensus has found allies at the vaccine-mandate protest in Ott...

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 20:23:30 EST
Ukraine crisis now 'most dangerous moment' in Europe in decades, U.K. PM says
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday the Ukraine crisis has grown into "the most dangerous moment" for Europe in decades, while his top diplomat held icy talks with her Moscow counterpar...

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:02:08 EST
U.S. politician uses blockade at Canada-U.S. border to argue for Buy American
The effects of the Ambassador Bridge shutdown in Windsor, Ont., have hit car plants and a Michigan Democrat says this illustrates the need for the U.S. to rely less on Canada. The timing, for Canada, ...

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:00:00 EST
Putin sat far from Macron after French leader refused Russian COVID-19 test: sources
French President Emmanuel Macron refused a Kremlin request that he take a Russian COVID-19 test when he arrived to see President Vladimir Putin this week, and was therefore kept at a distance from the...

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 15:47:44 EST
Police launch tear gas at striking factory workers in Haiti's capital
Police fired tear gas for a second day Thursday in attempts to break up protests by striking workers demanding pay increases at an industrial park in Haiti's capital.

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:34:15 EST
No religious clothes until hijab row settled, India court tells students
A court in a southern Indian state told students on Thursday not to wear any religious clothing until it delivers a verdict on petitions seeking to overturn a ban on hijabs, headscarves worn by Muslim...

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 04:00:00 EST
As Russia maintains the pressure, Ukraine trains citizen-soldiers for guerrilla warfare
They are medical interns, truck drivers, clerks and students. As members of Ukraine's newly reorganized territorial defence units, some of them could be called upon to do some of the toughest, most da...

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:37:27 EST
House Democrats to probe handling of records in Trump White House
A House committee is investigating whether former U.S. president Donald Trump violated the Presidential Records Act, after boxes of presidential records were discovered at his Florida estate and a new...



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