[ad_1] Two and a half years of lackluster rains have dried up crops, killed livestock and brought the Horn of Africa, one of the world’s poorest regions, to the brink of famine. Millions of people have experienced food and water…
[ad_1] A senior Iranian cleric and member of a powerful government committee was shot and killed by security guards at a bank in the northern province of Mazandaran on Wednesday, according to Iranian authorities. In CCTV footage shown on Iranian…
[ad_1] WASHINGTON – President Biden moved on Wednesday to strengthen America’s nuclear umbrella protecting South Korea and vowed that a North Korean nuclear attack would “result in the end” of the government in Pyongyang, stressing a broad shift from diplomacy…
[ad_1] Canada will deploy about 200 troops to help coordinate the evacuation of civilians from war-torn Sudan, Defense Minister Anita Anand confirmed Wednesday. Before question time in the House of Commons, Anand told a group of journalists who quickly gathered…
[ad_1] With Ed Sheeran on the witness stand in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday during a copyright trial, jurors were warned to remain calm as they watched a video of the British pop star performing a medley of his hit…
[ad_1] British regulators on Wednesday blocked Microsoft’s US$69 billion purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard, disrupting the biggest tech deal in history over concerns it would stifle competition in the fast-growing cloud gaming market. The Competition and Market Authority…
[ad_1] Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday that investigators had opened what he called an “absurd” terrorism case against him that could see him sentenced to an additional 30 years in prison. Navalny, a former lawyer who…
[ad_1] A jury on Wednesday convicted Grammy Award-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the hip-hop group The Fugees on criminal charges that he conspired with Malaysian financiers to organize a series of foreign lobbying campaigns aimed at influencing the US…
[ad_1] Transgender children and adults in North Dakota will no longer be able to access bathrooms, locker rooms or showers that match the gender they identify with in places like college dorms or prisons, under new legislation signed by Republican…
[ad_1] Stellantis on Wednesday said it is offering buyouts to groups of white-collar workers and unions in the U.S., as well as hourly workers in Canada. The cuts “are in response to increasingly competitive global market conditions and the changes…