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Canadians voted in advanced polls in record numbers ahead of an upcoming election, some looking to beat crowds amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to data released this week, though an expected avalanche of mailin ballots has failed to materialize.

Members of a New York City crime family threatened violence, pressured workers and pocketed phony pension payments in a twodecade plot to seize control of a city construction union and its lucrative employee health insurance program, prosecutors alleged i...

The Mexican government said Tuesday it has successfully completed a threemonth push to provide coronavirus vaccines to all adult residents of communities along its border with the United States.

Just hours before the HBO documentary Jagged was to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday, Alanis Morissette criticized the film about her life as reductive and salacious.

Trudeau, 49, sought the vote - two years ahead of schedule - to try to capitalize on his management of the pandemic to win a majority in parliament.

Two deaths in the Baton Rouge area have now been attributed to Hurricane Ida, the Louisiana Health Department said Monday.

The leader of the militant Hezbollah group said Monday the first tanker carrying Iranian fuel to Lebanon has arrived in a Syrian port and the diesel will be shipped to Lebanon by tanker trucks later this week.

Special envoy to WHO Dr David Nabarro said variants that can evade Covid vaccines are increasingly likely as many parts of the world remain unprotected.

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It also strengthens already-reported links between the two and Fahad al Thumairy, a conservative imam at the King Faad mosque in Los Angeles and an official at the Saudi consulate there.

Explosivesladen drones targeted Irbil international airport in northern Iraq late Saturday where U.S.led coalition troops are stationed with no reports of casualties, according to security forces and officials in Kurdishrun region.

Greece's economy will grow 5.9% during 2021, far more than the original 3.6% estimate, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Saturday.

Among other things, the resolution seeks creation of an interagency task force to work with community-based organisations to review government policies, investigate and document their impact, and dismantle those policies which continue to profile and unfa...

As the United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths met leaders of the Taliban, the first person in the world at that level that went to Kabul to speak to the Taliban leadership, Guterres said.

The five conspirators who have been behind bars at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from the past 15 years, will appear in the military tribunal for the first time since early 2019.

Ties between the world's two biggest economies have been languishing at their lowest point in decades