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Three members of the Canadian Special Operations Forces have been investigated by the military after they allegedly expressed support for ongoing vaccine-mandate protests that have gripped Ottawa for two weeks, the command said in a statement on Sunday.   “I have recently been advised of allegations that at least three CANSOFCOM …

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is free to compete at the Beijing Winter Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected demands to impose a suspension on the teenager, in a case involving a positive doping sample taken in December. The decision comes just one day before the …

Canadian authorities made a push on Sunday to remove the last of the protesters from Ambassador Bridge and surrounding areas after having to close the border crossing in Windsor, Ontario with barricades last week.  Police began arresting non-compliant demonstrators and towing vehicles supporting the anti-Covid mandate trucker protest in Canada …

Kamila Valieva will be among those to testify via video link in her doping case as the Russian teenage figure skating sensation fights for the right to compete again at the Beijing Olympics. Valieva’s case will be heard by a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) panel in Beijing on …

Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK Vadym Prystaiko appeared to allow a possibility that Kiev gives up its long-standing bid of joining the US-led NATO for the sake of preventing a major conflict with Russia, while admitting that such a proposition would go against his country’s principal law. Asked by BBC …

Former US talk show host Jon Stewart defended Joe Rogan amid the ongoing row over alleged Covid-19 ‘conspiracy theories’ by questioning “who gets to decide” what is, and is not, misinformation. Stewart likened the situation to his opposition to the 2003 Iraq War, which he said could have prompted similar …

CNN’s host Jake Tapper has chided US President Joe Biden for rejecting out of hand an exhaustive report suggesting that his administration was largely to blame for the deadly chaos surrounding last year’s US withdrawal from Afghanistan. “It’s difficult to overstate how insulting Biden’s sweeping rejection is to so many …

Reports in the local media have suggested that an exodus of Ukraine’s richest, including the so-called ‘oligarchs,’ from the country has been in full swing. A report published by Ukrayinska Pravda newspaper on Sunday claimed that “about 20 charters and private jets” departed from Kiev on that day alone. The …

Americans may know little about Ukraine and even less about its leadership, but one thing is certain: they strongly oppose sending US soldiers to fight Russians in defense of Kiev’s sovereignty, a new poll has revealed. The Economist/YouGov survey showed that only 13% of US adults believe it would be …

Citizens of Switzerland approved an initiative to tighten their famously lenient tobacco laws by banning virtually all advertising of the products. The campaign, which was opposed by the government and parliament, was backed by nearly 57% of voters and a majority of the country’s 26 cantons on Sunday. At present, …