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Tue, 1 Nov 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Judges under fire: Defending rule of law with a pen and a gun in Ukraine
Two of Ukraine's top supreme court justices have delivered starkly personal messages to an international conference of top legal minds in Ottawa. With their country under fire, they say the rule of la...

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:04:51 EDT
Man charged in Pelosi home attack allegedly told police he wanted to hold Nancy Pelosi hostage
The man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi, the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, told police he wanted to hold the Speaker hostage and "break her kneecaps," authorities said Monday. ...

Tue, 1 Nov 2022 03:42:20 EDT
Israelis head to the polls in 5th national election since 2019
For the fifth time since 2019, Israelis were voting in national elections on Tuesday, hoping to break the political deadlock that has paralyzed the country for the past 3½ years.

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 07:10:36 EDT
Russian strikes knock out power, water in Kyiv and other cities
A massive barrage of Russian cruise missile and drone strikes hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv, Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities early Monday, knocking out power and water supplies in apparen...

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:14:48 EDT
More than 100 people dead after tropical storm hits Philippines
More than 100 people have died in one of the most destructive storms to lash the Philippines this year, with dozens more feared missing after villagers fled in the wrong direction and got buried in a ...

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:28:25 EDT
Meet the election deniers on the cusp of controlling U.S. elections

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:47:26 EDT
South Korea vows investigation into deadly Halloween crowd surge
South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Monday promised a thorough investigation into the Halloween crush over the weekend that killed more than 150 people in the capital and plunged the country...

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 17:03:40 EDT
Lula returning to Brazil presidency after beating Bolsanaro in closest vote in decades

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:19:13 EDT
India bridge collapse death toll rises to 134, with 9 people arrested
Police in western India arrested nine people on Monday as they investigated the collapse of a newly repaired 143-year-old suspension bridge in one of the country's worst accidents in years, officials ...

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:21:58 EDT
Iran to try 1,000 people over protests
Mass indictments mark the Iranian government's first major legal action aimed at quashing dissent since unrest erupted over six weeks ago.

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:20:42 EDT
Instagram says it has fixed bug that suspended users' accounts, cut follower numbers
Thousands of Instagram users reported being locked out of their accounts Monday morning, with some saying their accounts had been suspended without warning and others losing all of their content. ...

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 12:29:29 EDT
Canadian man who allegedly attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband to be charged Monday
Paul Pelosi is recovering in hospital after surgery for a skull fracture and arm injuries after an intruder broke into the U.S. Speaker's California home and attacked her husband with a hammer. ...

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Battling Haiti's gangs — the mission no nation seems to want
Events on the ground in Haiti — and the reluctance of both the U.S. and Canada to wade into a quagmire there — may finally be forcing Haiti's two most powerful donor nations to accept the Haitian ...

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 20:02:00 EDT
Meet Iran's dissident rapper helping youth circumvent regime internet crackdown
As one of Iran's most popular rappers, Toomaj Salehi has been in hiding since protests against the clerical establishment erupted last month, leveraging a network of supporters and technical tools to ...

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 12:43:57 EDT
More than 80 people dead after suspension bridge collapses into river in India
Children were among those killed when a suspension bridge collapsed into a river in India's western Gujarat state, leaving dozens of survivors clinging to cables while awaiting rescue.

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 06:12:09 EDT
2 car bombings in Somalia kill at least 100
Somalia's president says at least 100 people were killed in Saturday's two car bombings at a busy junction in the capital and the toll could rise in the country's deadliest attack since a truck bombin...

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 08:48:20 EDT
Head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards warns this is 'last day' of protests
The head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards warned protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets, in a sign that security forces may intensify their crackdown on unres...

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 04:00:47 EDT
In Bolzano, northern Italy, a once-controversial symbol of fascism now educates
A century after the March on Rome that brought Benito Mussolini to power, a symbol of fascism still stands in the northern Italian city of Bolzano. But rather than tear down the Monument to Victory, t...

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 04:00:15 EDT
Canadian businesses have much to lose if China puts security over economy, experts say
China's mediocre economic growth, paired with the issue's neglect during the recent 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, has raised concerns about the country's lack of attention to ...

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 05:53:15 EDT
South Korea grieving after more than 150 die in Halloween crowd surge
Concerned relatives raced to hospitals in search of their loved ones Sunday as South Korea mourned the deaths of more than 150 people, mostly in their 20s and 30s, who got trapped and crushed after a ...



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