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Gunman killed by US Secret Service after opening fire near White House

A gunman opened fire near the White House on Saturday evening, with US Secret Service agents killing the assailant in a shoot-out during which a bystander was also struck, authorities said.

2 days ago
Americas

Gabbard resigns as Trump's top US intelligence official

Trump said that Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas, a former CIA officer and analyst who served on the National Security Council during Trump's first term, would become acting director. ...

3 days ago
Americas

Bolivians demand president's resignation in new mass protest

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz came to power six months ago, in the midst of the country's worst economic crisis since the 1980s, marked by acute shortages of fuel and foreign currency and runaway inflation. ...

3 days ago

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Canadian privacy regulators launch TikTok probe

Canadian privacy protection regulators said Thursday that they have launched an investigation into TikTok over its use and collection of users' personal information.

3 years ago
Americas

Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 16 years in LA rape case

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Thursday to 16 more years in prison for the rape of a woman in a Beverly Hills hotel room, increasing the likelihood that the disgraced Hollywood mogul will spend the remainder of his life behind bars.

3 years ago
Americas

Google tests blocking news content for some Canadians

The "Online News Act," or House of Commons bill C-18, introduced in April by Justin Trudeau's Liberal government, laid out rules to force platforms like Meta's Facebook and Google to negotiate commercial deals and pay news publishers for their content.

3 years ago
Americas

All hands on deck as UN meets to protect high seas

UN member states are meeting in New York from Monday with the aim of launching a long-berthed high-seas treaty, a crucial step toward the goal of protecting 30 percent of the planet by 2030.

3 years ago
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Was Pablo Neruda poisoned? Chile awaits new report on the poet's death

The latest expert report, presented to a court on Wednesday, will be reviewed by judges in closed hearings ahead of a legally binding ruling on the poet's death in 1973 shortly before the Pinochet dictatorship came to power. 

3 years ago
Americas

Residents near toxic US train derailment told water 'safe' to drink

The cargo train derailment sparked a massive fire and triggered the release of toxic fumes, including from vinyl chloride, a colorless gas deemed carcinogenic by the US National Cancer Institute.

3 years ago
Americas

Ruling out aliens? Senior US general says not ruling out anything yet

Asked whether he had ruled out an extraterrestrial origin for three airborne objects shot down by US warplanes in as many days, General Glen VanHerck said: "I'll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. I haven't ruled out anything."

3 years ago
Americas

US shoots down mysterious object near Canadian border

It was the fourth flying object to be shot down over North America by a US missile in a little more than a week. 

3 years ago
Americas

Biden warns US will act on China after balloon downing

In the annual speech to assembled lawmakers, many of whom have pressed for a hard line on China, Biden called for US investment in the military, technology and alliances to take on the country widely viewed as the chief US competitor.

3 years ago
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ASEAN urge Myanmar junta to implement agreed peace plan

Indonesia is the chair of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for 2023 and will host the bloc's annual leaders' meetings later this year.

3 years ago
Americas

US shoots down Chinese spy balloon over 'unacceptable' violation

The craft spent several days flying over North America, ratcheting up tensions between Washington and Beijing, before it was targeted with a missile shot from an F-22 plane, Pentagon officials said, falling into relatively shallow water just 47 feet (14 meters) deep.

3 years ago
Americas

Republicans oust Ilhan Omar from high-profile US House committee

The deeply divided House voted 218-211 along party lines to remove Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee with Republicans citing the 2019 remarks for which she later apologized. One Republican voted "present."

3 years ago
Americas

White House says US COVID emergency status to end May 11

The White House said Monday that the national and public health emergencies declared just as the COVID-19 pandemic took grip three years ago will officially end May 11.

3 years ago
Americas

Trump warns 2024 election 'our one shot' to save America

Buffeted by political and legal headwinds, the 76-year-old Republican addressed a few hundred supporters at an intimate rally in South Carolina's capital Columbia after speaking to grassroots activists in Salem, New Hampshire.

3 years ago
Americas

US shuts down major global ransomware group Hive

US Attorney General Merrick Garland said that US authorities working with German and Netherlands law enforcement took over Hive's website and servers after having infiltrated it for nearly seven months.

3 years ago
Americas

Boeing pleads not guilty to fraud charge in 737 MAX arraignment

Boeing Co pleaded not guilty on Thursday to a 737 MAX fraud conspiracy felony charge after families objected to a 2021 Justice Department agreement to resolve the investigation into the plane's flawed design.

3 years ago
Americas

US FDA joins global regulators probing tainted overseas cough syrup

In a statement, the FDA said it had no indication that contaminated syrups had entered the US drug supply chain, but it is "investigating the potential impact and scope of this hazard on FDA-regulated products." The agency recommended consumers only take medicines which were made to be sold in the United States, especially for children.

3 years ago
Americas

Meta to reinstate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts

The restoration of his accounts could provide a boost to Trump, who announced in November he will make another run for the White House in 2024. He has 34 million followers on Facebook and 23 million on Instagram, platforms that are key vehicles for political outreach and fundraising. 

3 years ago
Americas

UAE astronaut says not required to fast during Ramadan on ISS

Emirati astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi said Wednesday that he will not be required to fast during Ramadan while on his upcoming space mission.

3 years ago
Americas

California massacres heighten immigrants' fears of US gun violence

Romero was killed on Monday, shot dead by a gunman along with six other farm workers in Half Moon Bay, just south of San Francisco. Even in a nation all too familiar with gun violence, the shooting was stunning, coming just two days after another gunman opened fire at a ballroom in Monterey Park, an Asian American enclave outside Los Angeles.

3 years ago
Americas

Relatives of 737 MAX crash victims to speak at Boeing arraignment

US District Judge Reed O'Connor last week ordered Boeing to appear to be arraigned on a 2021 felony charge after families of those killed in the two crashes objected to a 2021 plea deal. Boeing won immunity from criminal prosecution as part its $2.5 billion January 2021 Justice Department deferred prosecution agreement over a 737 MAX fraud conspiracy charge related to the plane's flawed design.

3 years ago
Americas

California shooting suspect kills himself after Lunar New Year massacre

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said during a Sunday afternoon press conference the motive for the shooting was not known. He identified the suspect as Huu Can Tran, 72, who wielded a pistol with a high-capacity magazine. 

3 years ago
Americas

US Justice Dept found more classified items in Biden home search

Some of the classified documents and "surrounding materials" dated from Biden's tenure in the US Senate, where he represented Delaware from 1973 to 2009, according to his lawyer, Bob Bauer. Other documents were from his tenure as vice president in the Obama administration, from 2009 through 2017, Bauer said.

3 years ago
Americas

Trump says his campaign talking with Meta about possible return to Facebook

"We are talking to them, and we'll see how it all works out," Trump said, according to the report.

3 years ago
Americas

Biden, Kishida held 'very productive' talks on China export controls

US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held "very productive" talks last week on semiconductor-related export controls on China, White House Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell said on Tuesday.

3 years ago
Americas

Brazil's Bolsonaro to be investigated in Jan 8 riot probe

Brazilian far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro will be included in an investigation into the origins of the January 8 sacking of government buildings in Brasilia, a Supreme Court judge announced Friday.

3 years ago
Americas

Blame the voting machines: Brazil riots fit global pattern

Mobs of rioters who stormed Brazil's seats of power raised conspiracy-laden slogans against voting machines, a prime target of disinformation campaigns seeking to undermine trust in electoral systems around the world.

3 years ago
Americas

Florida man Bolsonaro puts awkward twist on Biden democracy push

Florida has for decades served as a home in exile to Latin America's former strongmen and right-wing leaders and more recently is the adopted state of Donald Trump, Bolsonaro's political soulmate who has pushed a narrative of rigged elections.

3 years ago
Americas

Lula slams far-right 'terrorism' as Brazil clears protest camps

Brazilian security forces cleared protest camps Monday and arrested 1,500 people as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned "acts of terrorism" after a far-right mob stormed the seat of power, unleashing chaos on the capital.

3 years ago
Americas

Brazil investigates who led anti-democratic riots in capital

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes also ordered social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and TikTok to block coup-mongering propaganda. 

3 years ago
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