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Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:12:38 EDT
U.S. central bank hikes interest rate by biggest amount since 1994
The Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points to a range of up to 1.75 per cent, its most aggressive hike in almost 27 years as the U.S. central bank scrambles to rein ...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 03:30:18 EDT
French, German, Italian leaders arrive in Kyiv ahead of EU summit
The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania arrived in Kyiv on Thursday in an apparent show of collective European support for Ukraine as it tries to resist Russia's invasion.

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:22:17 EDT
Human remains found, suspect confesses to killing 2 men in Amazon, police say
A federal police investigator in Brazil said Wednesday night a suspect had confessed to fatally shooting an Indigenous expert and a journalist in a remote part of the Amazon, and had taken officers to...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
'No regrets': A Canadian volunteer wounded in Ukraine is coming home
After two near-misses in two wars, the odds say JT should be dead. The Ottawa native came close to death a second time while volunteering with a Ukrainian military unit when he drove over an anti-tank...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 08:51:10 EDT
Russia claims strike on NATO-supplied weapons depot in Ukraine as West pledges more arms
The Russian military said it used long-range missiles Wednesday to destroy a depot in the western Lviv region of Ukraine where ammunition for NATO-supplied weapons was stored, and the governor of a ke...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:18:38 EDT
Attempted Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr. fully released after four decades
John Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan and several others in 1981 and was acquitted by reason of insanity, no longer faces oversight from legal and mental health professi...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:09:58 EDT
Federal charges for accused in Buffalo mass shooting raise death penalty possibility
The white man accused of killing 10 Black people in a mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket was charged Wednesday with federal hate crimes and could face the death penalty if convicted. ...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:32:14 EDT
Putin critic Alexei Navalny confirms move to another maximum security prison
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny confirmed Wednesday that he was transferred to another prison and is in quarantine.

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:03:49 EDT
Thailand moves closer to legalizing same-sex marriage
Lawmakers in Thailand pass four bills that will provide same-sex partners with almost the same legal rights as heterosexual couples. Activist say there's a long road ahead.

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:36:29 EDT
After 27 years, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser hits retirement
As of Wednesday, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers loved to hate — and a few still claim to adore. The application joins BlackBerry phones, dial-...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 21:22:01 EDT
Historic flooding forces Yellowstone National Park to get visitors out, close gates
More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as unprecedented flooding tore through the northern half of the nation's oldest national park.

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 06:29:18 EDT
EU threatens Britain with legal action over changes to Brexit deal on Northern Ireland
The European Union is launching legal action against the U.K. in response to unilateral moves to rewrite parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol in the post-Brexit deal between both sides, the bloc's e...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 08:29:00 EDT
British government's 1st asylum seeker deportation flight to Rwanda called off
Britain's first scheduled flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda was due to depart on Tuesday, with the government warning anyone who avoided it through last-minute legal challenges would be put on a ...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:19:50 EDT
Brazilian police arrest 2nd suspect in disappearance of journalist, Indigenous expert
Brazil's federal police said Tuesday they arrested a second suspect in connection with the disappearance of an Indigenous expert and a British journalist in a remote area of the Amazon. ...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Brutal honesty meets 'prudence': Canadian and U.K. parliaments dissect the Afghanistan withdrawal
Two Parliaments — the U.K. and Canadian — released reports recently on the chaotic withdrawal of Western forces from Afghanistan. The U.K. report was brutally direct in its description of the fall...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 18:02:17 EDT
Iran preparing space rocket launch, satellite images suggest
Iran appeared to be readying for a space launch Tuesday, satellite images showing a rocket on a rural desert launch pad suggest, as tensions remain high over Tehran's nuclear program.

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:29:44 EDT
World Health Organization holding emergency session next week on monkeypox
The World Health Organization will convene an emergency committee on Thursday next week to assess whether the monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern. ...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 13:56:22 EDT
BTS label says group's plan to work on solo projects is not a hiatus
Global superstars BTS said they are taking time to focus on solo projects, but the company behind the groundbreaking K-pop group said they are not taking a hiatus.

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 09:48:03 EDT
Buzz Lightyear film featuring same-sex couple will not play in 14 countries
Walt Disney Co. has been unable to obtain permission to show its new Pixar movie Lightyear in 14 Middle Eastern and Asian countries, a source said on Monday, and the animated film appeared unlikely t...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:03:21 EDT
Crypto gloom continues as Coinbase lays off 1,100 people
The gloom in cryptocurrencies continued into Tuesday with one of the biggest trading platforms in the sector announcing it will be laying off 18 per cent of its staff.



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