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Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:04:48 EST
Ukraine's civilian deaths underestimated and maybe impossible to know: UN

Fri, 1 Apr 2022 19:27:23 EDT
Will Smith resigns from film academy over Chris Rock slap at Oscars
Will Smith resigned Friday from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences following his Oscars night slap of Chris Rock and said he would accept any further punishment the organization imposed. ...

Fri, 1 Apr 2022 20:12:19 EDT
Yemen's warring parties agree to 2-month truce in major breakthrough
The warring sides in Yemen's seven-year conflict have for the first time in years agreed a nationwide truce, the most significant step yet towards ending a conflict that has killed tens of thousand...

Fri, 1 Apr 2022 18:10:02 EDT
See the gifts exchanged at the Pope's final meeting with Indigenous delegations
In a powerful reminder of why the meetings between Pope Francis and Indigenous delegations took place this week, the Pope was gifted a white leather stole, the garment priests wear over their shoulder...

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 11:34:25 EDT
Pope Francis apologizes to Indigenous delegates for 'deplorable' abuses at residential schools

Fri, 1 Apr 2022 15:35:22 EDT
U.S. to accept asylum claims at southern border again next month after pandemic pause
The United States will end a sweeping, pandemic-related expulsion policy that has effectively closed down the U.S. asylum system at the border with Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayork...

Fri, 1 Apr 2022 13:13:54 EDT
Mine collapse in Serbia kills 8, injures 18
An accident in a coal mine in Serbia has killed eight people and wounded 18 others, authorities say. It happened when part of the mine collapsed early Friday.

Fri, 1 Apr 2022 13:20:24 EDT
Canada to face Belgium, Croatia and Morocco in group stage at World Cup in Qatar
Canada will face Belgium, Morocco and Croatia in Group F in the opening group stage of the World Cup in Qatar this November.

Fri, 1 Apr 2022 12:56:21 EDT
Amazon workers at New York warehouse vote to unionize
Amazon warehouse workers in the Staten Island borough of New York City voted to unionize on Friday, marking the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the online retail giant's history and handing...

Fri, 1 Apr 2022 09:50:27 EDT
Canadian intelligence agency calls out false Russian claim that Ukraine is harvesting organs
Russia has been spreading false claims that Ukraine has been harvesting the organs of fallen soldiers and children as Moscow tries to build support for its invasion, according to a rare public warn...

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 21:36:40 EDT
L.A. police were willing to arrest Will Smith, Oscars producer says
Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:09:31 EDT
Cherry blossoms return to Japan, but the party's not the same this year
People are celebrating Japan's peak cherry blossom viewing season without COVID-19 restrictions for the first time in two years. But many are strolling under the trees rather than drinking and eating ...

Fri, 1 Apr 2022 06:52:24 EDT
Rainbow flags may be taken to protect fans at World Cup, Qatari official says
A senior Qatari leader overseeing security for the World Cup has told The Associated Press that rainbow flags could be taken off supporters. He says that would be to protect them from being attacked f...

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:13:40 EDT
7 months after Kabul's fall, Canada has yet to bring in 30,000 Afghans
Multiple Afghan interpreters and their families have told CBC News about being stuck in Islamabad, Pakistan, while the Canadian government has just brought over a 10,000 Afghans fleeing the Taliban. ...

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 16:54:21 EDT
Washington OK's statewide alert system for missing Indigenous people
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday signed into law a bill that creates the country's statewide alert system for missing Indigenous people.

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:45:45 EDT
Some Shanghai residents to face longer period of COVID lockdown
Residents of eastern Shanghai hoping to emerge from a four-day lockdown got some bad news Thursday night: Some will be confined to their homes for at least 10 more days.

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:53:07 EDT
U.S. to release extra 1 million barrels of oil a day from strategic reserves to battle high prices — and Putin
U.S. President Joe Biden is ordering the release of one million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve for six months, in a bid to control skyrocketing energy prices and...

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:32:39 EDT
South Korea just upheld a law that makes tattooing a crime
The Constitutional Court in Seoul upheld a ban on tattooing on Thursday, confirming South Korea as the only developed country that permits no one but medical professionals to perform the procedure. ...

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:48:17 EDT
Catherine McKenna to chair UN panel on climate change progress at corporate, local levels
The head of the United Nations announced the appointment Thursday of an expert panel led by Catherine McKenna, Canada's former environment minister, that will scrutinize whether companies' efforts to ...

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 08:07:29 EDT
Israeli forces kill 2 in West Bank clash, Palestinian stabs bus passenger
Israeli forces raided a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank early Thursday, setting off a gun battle in which two Palestinians were killed and 15 were wounded, the Palestinian Health Ministry said....



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