Category: World

Heather Bear: This has shaken, shaken our country, not only First Nations, but many non-First Nations, government leaders, professionals. And I think just every corner of our country has now been impacted with this new awareness that is not new. This has always been. These stories have all been told. […]

WASHINGTON—President Biden said the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan is on track to end on Aug. 31, arguing that the U.S. had achieved the objectives it set out two decades ago and adding that his administration would move thousands of potentially endangered Afghan interpreters out of the country next month. […]

New research from France adds to evidence that widely used COVID-19 vaccines still offer strong protection against a coronavirus mutant that is spreading rapidly around the world and now is the most prevalent variant in the U.S. The delta variant is surging through populations with low vaccination rates. On Thursday, […]

The assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse plunged the Caribbean country into upheaval Wednesday — a nation that was already in crisis over alarmingly high violence, poverty and political instability. Haiti’s security forces Thursday continued battling a group of gunmen suspected of killing the president in his home overnight […]

WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – The assassination of President Jovenel Moise of Haiti could complicate efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic in the Caribbean nation, which has yet to begin vaccinating its citizens, officials from the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Wednesday (July 7). Dr Carissa Etienne, the director of the […]

Haitian President Jovenel Moïsewas assassinated in an attack at his residence, the country’s interim prime minister said, plunging the unstable Caribbean nation into fresh political turmoil and posing a challenge to U.S. policy makers. A group of assailants carrying high-caliber weapons stormed the house in an upscale residential neighborhood about […]

ISMAILIA, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian authorities announced the release Wednesday of a hulking shipping vessel that had blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week earlier this year. The Ever Given left the canal’s Great Bitter Lake, where it had been held for over three months amid a financial dispute. […]

South Korea is seeing a steep rise in coronavirus infections unseen since the worst of its outbreak last winter as it slips into another surge while most of its people are still unvaccinated. The 1,212 new cases confirmed by Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on Wednesday came close […]

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Defence Department cancelled its US$10 billion (S$13 billion) Jedi cloud-computing project on Tuesday (July 6), pulling the Trump-era award to Microsoft and announcing a new contract that pits the big software firm against rival Amazon.com. The Pentagon initially said Amazon and Microsoft are the only […]

MOSCOW—Search teams found debris of a Russian passenger plane carrying 28 people that disappeared earlier Tuesday above Russia’s sparsely populated far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, leaving little hope of finding survivors, authorities said. Radio contact with the Antonov An-26 plane was lost shortly before it was due to make a landing in […]