Descrease article font size Increase article font size The U.S. has issued a warning for American nationals in Moscow to avoid large gatherings, including concerts for the next 48 hours, saying it’s monitoring reports of “imminent plans” by extremists to target large gatherings. The alert was posted to the website of the U.S. embassy in … Read more
Ocean temperatures hit a record high in February, with the average global sea surface temperature at 21.06 degrees Celsius (69.91 degrees Fahrenheit), the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. February’s average sea surface temperature surpassed the previous record of 20.98 C (69.77 F) set in August 2023, in a dataset that goes … Read more
Sweden officially joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Thursday, becoming its 32nd member. NATO announced the accession in a statement released Thursday. “This is a historic day,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. “After over 200 years of non-alignment Sweden now enjoys the protection granted under Article 5, the ultimate guarantee of Allies’ … Read more
By Staff The Associated Press Posted March 6, 2024 10:26 am Updated March 6, 2024 10:49 pm 2 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Pope Francis again asked an aide to read his remarks and was unable to get back onto his popemobile Wednesday, as lingering respiratory and mobility problems continued to take … Read more
The lawyer for Michael Spavor, one of two Canadians detained and incarcerated by China for nearly three years, says the legal fight between his client and the federal government is now “resolved.“ Lawyer John K. Phillips did not go into further detail in a statement to Global News, but it comes just four months after … Read more
A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden killed two of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel on Wednesday, authorities said, the first fatal strike in a campaign of assaults by the group over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The attack on … Read more
A deadly outbreak of psittacosis, also known as parrot fever, is spreading across Europe, prompting a warning from the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO announced on Tuesday that parrot fever cases have been on the rise in several European countries since November 2023, resulting in five reported deaths to date. In a disease outbreak … Read more
Is there such thing as too many vaccines? That’s the question German scientists set out to explore recently, as they examined the case of a man who voluntarily received 217 jabs of the COVID-19 vaccine over the course of 29 months. The 62-year-old man from Magdeburg, Germany, told doctors he had the large number of … Read more
Image creation tools powered by artificial intelligence from companies including OpenAI and Microsoft can be used to produce photos that could promote election or voting-related disinformation, despite each having policies against creating misleading content, researchers said in a report on Wednesday. The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit that monitors online hate speech, … Read more
Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country’s prisons. The Toussaint Louverture International Airport was closed when the attack occurred, with no … Read more
