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British Prime Minister Weds Fiancee in Secret, Reports Say 

British Prime Minister Weds Fiancee in Secret, Reports Say 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, in a secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday, The...

France Reports Drop in COVID Hospitalizations

France Reports Drop in COVID Hospitalizations

France reported Saturday that the number of people in intensive care units with COVID-19 had fallen by 76 to 3,028,...

Medics March to WHO Headquarters in Climate Campaign

Medics March to WHO Headquarters in Climate Campaign

Medics concerned about the effects on public health of environmental degradation marched Saturday on the World Health Organization (WHO) in...

Talks Between Russian, Belarusian Leaders Continue Into Second Day: TASS

Talks Between Russian, Belarusian Leaders Continue Into Second Day: TASS

Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in the southern Russian town of Sochi continued...

Young Adolescents in Europe to Get Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine

Young Adolescents in Europe to Get Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine

Britain has confirmed yet another spike in new COVID-19 infections, with close to 4,200 cases identified across the country Friday,...

US Targets Belarus with Sanctions Amid Western Outcry Over Plane

US Targets Belarus with Sanctions Amid Western Outcry Over Plane

The United States on Friday announced punitive measures against Belarus targeting the regime of strongman President Alexander Lukashenko, who met...

EU Authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Young Adolescents

EU Authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Young Adolescents

The European Commission has authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use in children as young as 12, widening the pool...

Warsaw University Aims to Shape Future Conservative Lawyers

Warsaw University Aims to Shape Future Conservative Lawyers

An increasingly influential Polish Catholic legal institute on Friday inaugurated a university in Warsaw that aims to educate a new...

Russia Refuses to Allow 2 EU Airline Flights to Land

Russia Refuses to Allow 2 EU Airline Flights to Land

Russia refused to allow two EU-based airlines to land flights in the country to avoid Belarusian airspace days after Belarus...

Macron in South Africa for Talks on COVID Vaccine

Macron in South Africa for Talks on COVID Vaccine

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Friday in South Africa for a lightning trip to discuss COVID vaccine access for Africa,...

Belarus Threatens West as EU Debates Severe Sanctions

Belarus Threatens West as EU Debates Severe Sanctions

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has threatened to retaliate for any European Union sanctions imposed on him for detaining two...

SolarWinds Hackers Targeted 150 Organizations with Phishing, Microsoft Says

SolarWinds Hackers Targeted 150 Organizations with Phishing, Microsoft Says

The state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted spear-phishing assault on U.S. and foreign government...

Morocco Threatens More Reprisals Over Western Sahara

Morocco Threatens More Reprisals Over Western Sahara

Morocco’s ambassador to Spain has threatened more reprisals against Madrid over its decision to allow a Western Sahara independence leader...

US Tells Russia It Won’t Rejoin Open Skies Arms Control Pact

US Tells Russia It Won’t Rejoin Open Skies Arms Control Pact

The Biden administration informed Russia on Thursday that it will not rejoin a key arms control pact, even as the...

Facebook Won’t Remove Posts Claiming COVID-19 is Human-made

Facebook Won’t Remove Posts Claiming COVID-19 is Human-made

Facebook says it will no longer remove claims that COVID-19 is human-made or manufactured “in light of ongoing investigations into...

Germany says it Committed Genocide in Namibia During Colonial Rule

Germany says it Committed Genocide in Namibia During Colonial Rule

Germany for the first time on Friday recognized it had committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation, with Berlin...

Tanker’s Impossible Voyage Signals New Sanction Evasion Ploy

Tanker’s Impossible Voyage Signals New Sanction Evasion Ploy

The Cyprus-flagged oil tanker Berlina was drifting near the Caribbean island of Dominica earlier this year when tracking technology showed...

US Prosecutors Investigating Whether Ukrainians Interfered in 2020 Election, Report Says

US Prosecutors Investigating Whether Ukrainians Interfered in 2020 Election, Report Says

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether current and former Ukrainian officials unlawfully interfered in the U.S. presidential election, The New York...

Germany, Norway Open NordLink Undersea Power Cable

Germany, Norway Open NordLink Undersea Power Cable

Germany and Norway on Thursday officially launched an undersea power cable between the two countries in a project that aids...

France Had Role in 1994 Rwanda Genocide, Macron Says

France Had Role in 1994 Rwanda Genocide, Macron Says

French President Emmanuel Macron was in Rwanda’s capital Thursday, where he acknowledged France’s role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and...

As Tensions Rise Again, Turkish and Greek Officials to Meet

As Tensions Rise Again, Turkish and Greek Officials to Meet

Turkey’s foreign minister is scheduled to hold talks in Athens with his Greek counterpart Monday in the latest efforts to...

Britain’s Health Minister Denies He Lied About Pandemic

Britain’s Health Minister Denies He Lied About Pandemic

British Health Minister Matt Hancock rejected allegations Thursday he had repeatedly lied during his response to the COVID-19 pandemic made...