Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is a climate-scoffing populist whose allies are hacking away at the Amazon, the rainforest that sucks up vast amounts of the world's carbon pollution.
The case of the two Michaels has garnered international attention, but another Canadian you may have never heard has been imprisoned in China for nearly 16 years.
Happy Saturday, Mets fans! Cincinnati Reds’ starting pitcher Wade Miley tossed a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians on Friday night, notching the second no-no of the week and the fifth of the short season thus far. The Amazins’ were walk-off winners last night, making a late-game comeback on the backs of a Francisco Lindor game-tying […]
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The best post-Masters field congregates at Quail Hollow Club this week
Facing anti-government protests that have spiraled into deadly violence, Colombian President Ivan Duque is holding a series of talks with his political foes in search of a way out of the crisis. The right-wing leader -- whose approval rating is just 33 percent -- has faced occasional mass protests since taking office in August 2018. But the current unrest has quickly bubbled into an open challenge to his administration just over a year before his term ends. After meeting on Friday with members of the opposition... Читать дальше...
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The ENC also agreed to ferry 25 cryogenic oxygen containers being sourced from Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
The Spanish-American war serves as the backdrop for Chanel Cleeton's new novel, which follows a real-life rebel named Evangelina Cisneros, who attracted a lot of attention from American newspapers.
COVID-19 has renewed interest in a key way humans perceive the world. A reporter who hasn't been able to tell the scent of a rose from a sweaty gym shoe for decades takes heart in the latest science.
Build Your Immunity to Fight Covid: Broccoli and mushroom salad
As the warmer months creep closer, there is still uncertainty on whether overnight summer camps will open across Canada amid the ongoing COVID pandemic.
Sevilla midfielder Papu Gomez admits he doesn't think about former club Atalanta.
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For games, music and voice, this wireless planar magnetic gaming headset for PlayStation or Xbox gets it done.
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A man is walking along the street sighing to himself "what a miserable life."
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Will President Biden cancel student loan debt? Here's what's happening.
The Senate will vote on the GOP tax bill Friday, after debating the plan throughout the night. CBS New congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes reports from Capitol Hill.
Constanze Stelzenmüller, Financial Times
Most parties battling for power in the Bundestag elections have ideas that unsettle the neighbours
Fehim Tastekin, Al Monitor
Turkey's reconciliation with Egypt is not likely to be easy, but progress after the first high-level meeting between the two sides could mark a new course in Ankara's foreign policy and pave the way for its reconciliation with the Gulf heavyweights as well.
Kamran Bokhari, RealClearWorld
Geopolitics is a concept that is often invoked. Yet seldom does one find a serious piece of work that advances the conversation on the topic. Books on what an old colleague of mine refers to as ‘applied geopolitics' are even harder to come by. Hence my state of elation when I discovered Alexander V. Mirtchev's The Prologue: The Alternative Energy Megatrend in the Age of Great Power Competition.
The shifting nature of war has made peacemaking more difficult. A new kind of back-channel diplomacy can help.
Herd immunity might not be a solution to Canada's COVID-19 woes. Here's how it works, and why experts say achieving it could be tricky.