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Suspected killer of Minnesota lawmaker caught after two-day manhunt

The suspect, 57-year-old Vance Boelter, allegedly disguised himself as a police officer, then shot and killed Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark at their home early Saturday.

8 hours ago
Americas

G7 confronts Israel-Iran crisis as Trump dominates summit

The three-day gathering in the mountain town of Kananaskis marks the return to the international diplomatic calendar for Trump, who has stunned allies by defying norms and slapping sweeping tariffs on friend and foe alike. ...

12 hours ago
Americas

Tens of thousands throng US streets against 'king' Trump

Protest organizers expected rallies in all 50 US states, calling them the largest since Trump returned to office in January, with the aim of "rejecting authoritarianism, billionaire-first politics, and the militarization of our democracy." ...

1 day ago

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Russia postpones Cuba debt payments amid warming relations

The loans, worth $2.3 billion and provided to Cuba by Russia between 2006 and 2019, helped underwrite investments in power generation, metals and transportation infrastructure, according to a statement from the lower house, or Duma.

3 years ago
Americas

Trump's Truth Social app hits Apple app store

The app was also automatically downloaded to Apple device users who pre-ordered the app ahead of the anticipated launch.

3 years ago
Americas

Canada minister calls out 'foreign interference' in trucker-led protests

"My biggest concern as foreign affairs minister is the foreign interference that is happening in the convoy we're seeing in Canada right now -- this information campaign, where it comes from, the financing of it where it comes from," she told the Munich Security Conference.

3 years ago
Americas

Trump can be prosecuted for role in US Capitol riot, judge rules

The former president is the target of several lawsuits by elected officials and police who accuse him of being directly responsible for the violence perpetrated by his supports when they stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

3 years ago
Americas

US judge orders Trump to testify in New York fraud probe

The ruling is the latest legal blow to the 75-year-old as he fights numerous cases that threaten to complicate any bid for another run at the White House in 2024.

3 years ago
Americas

Accountants ditch Trump, say records can't be relied upon

Mazars informed the Trump Organization in a letter last Wednesday that it would no longer work for the company, which is being probed by New York prosecutors for alleged fraud.

3 years ago
Americas

Doodle-covered truck becomes symbol of Canada's COVID protests

Gaëtan, Derek, Ariana, Marc-André, Jessyca -- hundreds of signatures are scrawled in black marker all over the vehicle.

3 years ago
Americas

Trump says he is in touch with North Korea's Kim: book

"As we know, he had a fixation on this relationship," New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN. The revelation is contained in her upcoming book on Trump, "The Confidence Man."

3 years ago
Americas

Soup Nazis? Pro-Trump lawmaker mocked over 'gazpacho' police

In an angry rant delivered Tuesday on One America News, the congresswoman from Georgia described the Washington jail housing US Capitol riot suspects as a "DC Gulag," and denounced US House Speaker "Nancy Pelosi's gazpacho police spying on members of Congress."

3 years ago
Americas

Biden finally mentions 'Tesla' after Elon Musk complains

The White House has indicated a preference for traditional manufacturers employing unionized workers, and Musk has made his feelings about that proclivity known.

3 years ago
Americas

New York Times hits 10 million-subscription mark amid growth spurt

The paper has been trying to diversify its offerings and has successfully launched subscriptions to cooking recipes or to a games platform structured around crossword puzzles.

3 years ago
Americas premium

Trump sets stage for 2024, saying the quiet part louder and louder

Surrounded by "Trump Won" flags at a rally Saturday in Texas, the loser of the 2020 election teased another run for president and dangled impunity for those who waged last year's attack on the Capitol in a failed bid to halt the transfer of power to Joe Biden.

3 years ago
Americas

Trump says he would pardon Jan. 6 rioters if he runs and wins

Trump, who has not said whether he will run for president again after his defeat by Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election, was speaking at a rally in Conroe, Texas.

3 years ago
Americas

Biden vows to name Black woman to US Supreme Court

"This is a bittersweet day for me," Biden said during an appearance with the justice at the White House, noting that he has known Breyer since the 1970s.

3 years ago
Americas

Harris speaks with with Taiwan Vice President in Central America

Speaking after a meeting with Honduras' new president, Xiomara Castro, Harris told reporters they did not discuss China.

3 years ago
Americas

Biden caught insulting Fox News journalist

As journalists were leaving the room after the event, a reporter from Fox News, the favorite channel of conservatives, asked whether inflation is a political liability.

3 years ago
Americas

Lab monkeys found, killed after fleeing road crash

The vehicle turned in front of an oncoming dump truck near Danville, Pennsylvania, on Friday en route to a lab in Florida.

3 years ago
Americas

US Capitol assault probe asks Ivanka Trump to cooperate

The House January 6 select committee told the 40-year-old businesswoman -- then a senior advisor to her father -- it had evidence that she had pleaded with him to call off the violence as his supporters stormed Congress.

3 years ago
Americas

CIA says 'Havana Syndrome' is not attack by foreign power: reports

NBC News, The New York Times and Politico cited multiple officials briefed on a CIA intelligence assessment on the incidents that first surfaced among diplomats in 2016 in the Cuban capital, in which US and Canadian officials complained of severe headaches, nausea and possible brain damage after hearing high-pitched sounds.

3 years ago
Americas

Biden confirms Kamala Harris would be running mate in 2024

"She's going to be my running mate," Biden said of Harris during a press conference held to mark the first year of his presidency. 

3 years ago
Americas

Peru says oil spill caused by Tonga waves is an 'ecological disaster'

The foreign ministry said that the oil spill had harmed animal and plant life in protected zones over a combined area of some 18,000 square kilometers (6,950 square miles) around islands and fishing regions.

3 years ago
Americas

Natural immunity more potent than vaccines during US Delta wave: study

The finding is the latest to weigh in on a debate on the relative strengths of natural versus vaccine-acquired immunity against SARS-CoV-2, but comes this time with the imprimatur of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

3 years ago
Americas

Bolsonaro to visit Suriname and Guayana for talks on oil cooperation

Bolsonaro and the presidents of Suriname, Chandrikapersad Santokhi, and Guayana, Irfaan Ali, will hold a working lunch in the Surinamese capital Paramaribo on Thursday to discuss "projects of common interest," a ministry statement said.

3 years ago
Americas

Texas hostage-taker named as British citizen as UK police arrest 2

The captor, who died in the 10-hour siege in the small town of Colleyville on Saturday, was named by the FBI as 44-year-old Malik Faisal Akram.

3 years ago
Americas

Trump rallies faithful in Arizona

Some of the faithful had arrived in the area days in advance from as far away as Florida or Texas, waiting to hear him trot out a familiar list of grievances.

3 years ago
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Human Rights Watch criticises Biden, others for weak defense of democracy

In contrast to what Human Rights Executive Director Kenneth Roth described as former US President Donald Trump's "embrace of friendly autocrats", Biden took office in January 2021 with a pledge to put human rights at the center of his foreign policy.

3 years ago
Americas

58% of Americans believe US democracy in danger of collapse: poll

Seventy-six percent of those surveyed in the poll by Quinnipiac University said they think political instability in the United States is a bigger danger than foreign threats.

3 years ago
Americas

About 70 South Korean attendees of CES test positive for COVID-19

These included some executives and staff of major South Korean companies, according to industry sources and one company.

3 years ago
Americas

Argentina roasts in record-setting heat wave

With temperatures up around 45°C (113°F) in parts of the South American nation, hundreds of thousands of people were left without electricity when power grids failed in and around populous capital city Buenos Aires.

3 years ago
Americas

US reports at least 1.1 million COVID cases in a day, shattering global record

The previous record was 1.03 million cases on Jan. 3. A large number of cases are reported each Monday due to many states not reporting over the weekend. The seven-day average for new cases has tripled in two weeks to over 700,000 new infections a day.

3 years ago
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