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By Tom Balmforth and Stefaniia Bern KYIV – In Nova Kakhovka, a city in southern Ukraine occupied by Russian troops five months ago on the first day of its invasion, …

By David Morgan WASHINGTON – During weeks of hearings about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters, Republican Representative Liz Cheney has sat shoulder-to-shoulder with …

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden will lay out plans on Thursday to ask Congress for $37 billion for crime prevention programs as he seeks to address one of the top …

ROME – Mario Draghi, the central banker turned Italian prime minister, won plaudits for his calm leadership as Italy emerged from the coronavirus crisis but suffered the same fate as …

ROME – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi handed in his resignation on Thursday to President Sergio Mattarella, who asked him to remain in office in a caretaker capacity, the head …

TAIPEI – Former U.S. defence secretary Mark Esper said on Thursday he would take back to Washington D.C. concerns expressed in Taiwan about the speed of arms sales to the …

By Jeff Mason and Timothy Gardner SOMERSET, Mass./WASHINGTON -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that climate change is an emergency but stopped short of a formal declaration, announcing a …

SYDNEY – Australia reported one of its highest daily death tolls from the novel coronavirus on Thursday while hospital admissions hovered near record levels, as authorities struggle to get ahead …

By David Lawder, Dave Graham and Steve Scherer WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY -The United States and Canada on Wednesday demanded dispute settlement talks with Mexico under a North American trade deal, charging …

By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON -The U.S. State Department on Wednesday added dozens of current and former officials, lawmakers, judges and business people from Central America to a list that names …

SAN JUAN – Hundreds of people marched on Wednesday in Puerto Rico’s capital San Juan to demand that the island’s government cancel its contract with power grid operator LUMA Energy …

(Reuters) – Russia’s military “tasks” in Ukraine now go beyond the eastern Donbas region, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, as its forces shelled eastern and southern Ukraine. Lavrov …

By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON – Top U.S. Senate Democrats and Republicans said on Wednesday they may have the votes to pass a bill protecting same-sex marriage rights nationwide, the day …

By David Morgan WASHINGTON -A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced two bills on Wednesday to reform election laws, seeking to block a repeat of then-President Donald Trump’s failed attempt …

Sri Lankan Parliament Elects Allegedly Corrupt Former Prime Minister As President Micaela Burrow on July 20, 2022 Sri Lanka’s parliament elected former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, a figure seen by …

Big Tech Indirectly Censored Millions Of Users, Watchdog Report Finds Max Keating on July 20, 2022 Social media users experienced at least 144,301,713 instances of “secondhand censorship” in the first …

Biden Admin Dumps Millions Into Studying ‘Equity’ In School Lunch Programs Gabe Kaminsky on July 20, 2022 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will hand an academic or research group …

China Is Quietly Working To Kill A Major UN Human Rights Report: REPORT Philip Lenczycki on July 20, 2022 Beijing is pressuring the U.N. to suppress a forthcoming report on …

U.S. State Department Funded Film Fest Depicting Incest And Pedophilic Content Reagan Reese on July 20, 2022 The State Department spent $10,000 taxpayer dollars to fund an international LGBTQ+ film …

‘Absolute Madness’: Laura Ingraham Says Green New Deal Proponents Want To Make Americans Feel ‘Pain’ Harold Hutchison on July 20, 2022 Fox News Host Laura Ingraham ripped into proponents of …

Ron Paul Group Hosts Convicted Child Sex Offender At Texas Conference Gabe Kaminsky on July 20, 2022 A think tank founded by former Libertarian Party presidential nominee Ron Paul brought …

White House Considers Declaring National Emergency Over Abortion Pills: REPORT Laurel Duggan on July 20, 2022 President Joe Biden’s White House is considering executive action to make abortion pills accessible …