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Fri, 28 Oct 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Ye or nay? Yeezy sneaker sales soar as fans, companies split on giving Kanye West the boot
While some sneakerheads swear off Yeezys and companies scrub Kanye West from their playlists following his antisemitic comments, others see a golden opportunity to profit after shoemaker Adidas ended ...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 09:05:49 EDT
World faces a 2.8-degree warmer future by 2100 if countries continue with current 'action gap,' UN warns
The world, especially richer carbon polluting nations, remains "far behind" and is not doing nearly enough — nor even promising to do enough — to reach any of the global goals limiting future warm...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 04:00:00 EDT
Why are we indifferent to the suffering of millions? There's a term for that
Hurricanes in Canada and the U.S. versus the immense suffering of tens of millions of people in the global south, yet it seems difficult for some people to grasp the scope of the tragedy. We may be ha...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:25:44 EDT
Putin downplays nuclear threat in Ukraine as tens of thousands leave Kherson
Ukrainian forces attacked Russia's hold on the southern city of Kherson on Thursday while fighting also intensified in the country's east. The battles came amid reports that Moscow-appointed authoriti...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 21:13:53 EDT
Elon Musk finalizes deal to buy Twitter, starts firing top execs
Elon Musk completed his $44 billion US acquisition of Twitter late on Thursday and his first move was to fire the social media company's top leadership, which he accused of misleading him over the nu...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 14:46:45 EDT
Russian lawmakers vet new bill restricting LGBTQ 'propaganda'
Russian lawmakers gave preliminary approval Thursday to a bill that imposes tough new restrictions on activities to promote LGBTQ rights in the country.

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 08:07:59 EDT
Meta shares fall to lowest level since 2016 as Big Tech wipeout continues
Shares in the company formerly known as Facebook lost more than 20 per cent of their value on Thursday morning, after the social media company posted quarterly results that showed its core business is...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 07:43:31 EDT
Prince Harry memoir, Spare, to be released on Jan. 10
Prince Harry's memoir, an object of obsessive anticipation worldwide since it was first announced last year, is coming out on Jan. 10.

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:18:00 EDT
Kanye West kicked out of Skechers' headquarters after arriving unannounced
The rapper formerly known as Kanye West was escorted out of the California headquarters of athletic shoemaker Skechers on Wednesday after showing up unannounced.

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:04:48 EST
Why Russia is claiming Ukraine wants to use a 'dirty bomb' on its own soil

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:43:32 EDT
Climate change has broad effects on health-care systems, medical journal says
When you have to shut down a hospital operating room because there's so much wildfire smoke your instruments can't be kept sterile, you know climate change is affecting health care.

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:23:20 EDT
Rishi Sunak is the 1st British PM richer than the monarch. Does it matter?
Though it's not clear exactly how much Rishi Sunak and his wife are worth — their combined wealth is estimated at $1.2 billion Cdn — for the first time in modern history, Britain's political leade...

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 09:44:22 EDT
Gunmen attack holy Muslim shrine in Iran as protesters mark 40 days since Mahsa Amini's death
An attack on a Shia Muslim shrine in the Iranian city of Shiraz killed 13 people on Wednesday, authorities said, and President Ebrahim Raisi vowed that the shooting by suspected Sunni Muslim militants...

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:00:01 EDT
Ebola infects 6 schoolkids in Uganda as outbreak grows
Six schoolchildren in Uganda's capital have tested positive for Ebola, the health minister said Wednesday, marking a serious escalation of the outbreak declared just over a month ago.

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:53:02 EDT
Former Trump chief of staff ordered to testify in Georgia election results investigation
A judge on Wednesday ordered former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify before a special grand jury that's investigating whether former U.S. president Donald Trump and his allies illega...

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 08:02:11 EDT
2 women arrested in Canada after coming home from Syrian camp for ISIS fighters' families
Police have arrested two Canadian women and charged one with terrorism-related offences after the federal government repatriated them from a detention camp in Syria for ISIS fighters' family members. ...

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:51:58 EDT
3 men convicted of supporting plot to kidnap Michigan's governor
Three men accused of supporting a plot to kidnap Michigan's governor were convicted of all charges Wednesday, a triumph for state prosecutors after months of mixed results in the main case in federal ...

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:35:12 EDT
Darrell Brooks found guilty in Christmas parade car attack which killed 6
A Wisconsin man accused of killing six people and injuring many others by driving an SUV into a Christmas parade last year has been found guilty by jurors.

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 07:07:06 EDT
China begins deploying COVID-19 booster vaccine administered orally
The Chinese city of Shanghai started administering an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday in what appears to be a world first.

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:24:58 EDT
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to visit Canada at a tense time for the world
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Canada later this week — a trip that comes as the West grapples with a series of major geopolitical issues, such as the ongoing war in Ukraine and ...



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