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Outside a foreign currency exchange in Zimbabwe’s capital, hordes of people desperate for U.S. dollars are pushed up against each other.“That’s it, keep it tight,” some shout, trying to prevent others from jumping the line to buy the money that could get them a discount on g...
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China plunged a city of 13 million people into lockdown on Thursday to stamp out an increase in coronavirus infections, as the country doubles down on its “zero tolerance” policy just weeks before it is set to host the Winter Olympics.The restrictions in the northeastern city of Xi&rsquo...
The pipeline is built and being filled with natural gas. But Russia’s Nord Stream 2 faces a rocky road before any gas flows to Germany, with its new leaders adopting a more skeptical tone toward the project and tensions ratcheting up over Russia’s troop buildup at the Ukrainian border.Th...
President Joe Biden appears determined to return to the negotiating table with Sen. Joe Manchin, the holdout Democrat who effectively tanked the party’s signature $2 trillion domestic policy initiative with his own jarring year-end announcement.Biden, responding to reporters’ questions T...
The omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in 89 countries, and Covid-19 cases involving the variant are doubling every 1.5 to 3 days in places with community transmission and not just infections acquired abroad, the World Health Organization said Saturday.Omicron’s “substa...
The death toll from a sewer gas blast in Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi jumped to 17 as some critically injured people died overnight and Sunday, police said.Initially, 12 people were reported dead and 11 others injured in Saturday’s gas explosion in a sewage system in the commercial...
Pakistan is rallying Muslim countries to help Afghanistan stave off an economic and humanitarian disaster while also cajoling the neighboring country’s new Taliban rulers to soften their image abroad.Several foreign ministers from the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation are meeting i...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has suffered a stunning defeat in a parliamentary by-election that was a referendum on his government amid weeks of scandal and soaring Covid-19 infections.Liberal Democrat Helen Morgan overturned a Conservative majority of almost 23,000 vot...
As a backhoe dug up the ground to build trenches, Iraqi soldiers scanned the vast farming tracts for militants; not far away, their Kurdish counterparts did the same.The scene earlier this month in the small northern Iraqi farming village of Lheiban was a rare instance of coordination between the fe...
A summit of European Union leaders on Thursday is trying Thursday to coordinate action to tackle the surge of coronavirus infections across the continent and the emergence of the new omicron variant while keeping borders open.With the festive season looming, the bloc's leaders want to avoid a co...
The young woman in Myanmar decided to speak out when she realized that money from the company she loved was now in the hands of the military leaders she hated.She and her parents had long worked for Total Energies, the French company that operates a lucrative gas field off the coast of southern Myan...
Five children died and four others were in critical condition on Thursday after falling from a bouncy castle that was lifted 10 meters (33 feet) into the air by a gust of wind at a school on Australia's island state of Tasmania.The school was holding a celebration to mark the end of the school y...
France will restrict arrivals from Britain because of fast-spreading cases of the omicron coronavirus variant, putting limits on reasons for traveling and requiring 48-hour isolation upon arrival, the government said Thursday.The new measures will take effect first thing Saturday, just after midnigh...
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Norway's data privacy watchdog on Wednesday fined gay dating app Grindr 65 million kroner ($7.16 million) for sending sensitive personal data to hundreds of potential advertising partners without users' consent - a breach of strict European Union privacy rules. The Norwegian Data Protec...
The head of the European Union’s executive branch said Wednesday that omicron is expected to be the dominant coronavirus variant in the 27-nation bloc by mid-January, amid concerns that a dramatic rise in infections will leave Europe shrouded in gloom during the holiday season.European Commiss...
Dozens of people were trapped on the rooftop of a Hong Kong skyscraper after a major fire broke out on Wednesday, as firefighters rushed to rescue them and put out the blaze.The fire started in the early afternoon at the World Trade Centre on Gloucester Road in the city’s popular Causeway Bay ...
For the fifth time since taking office less than a year ago, President Joe Biden is taking on the grim task Wednesday of visiting an area ravaged by natural disaster to offer comfort and condolences.Biden was headed to Kentucky to survey damage and offer federal support for the victims of devastatin...
Libya’s presidential election, meant to help unify the nation after a decade of civil war, is supposed to take place in just over a week, but calls are mounting for a delay.Either scenario — holding the vote on time or postponing it — could turn into a destabilizing setback.The vot...
Marineland has been charged for allegedly using dolphins and whales for entertainment purposes, an accusation the tourist attraction in southern Ontario denies.Niagara regional police said they began an investigation in October over the park’s use of cetaceans in shows. That goes against laws ...
The United States will expand its military and economic relationships with partners in Asia to push back against China’s increasing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday.Blinken said the Biden administration is committed to maintaining peace and p...
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