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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now advises Americans against going to neighboring Canada due to the rising number of Covid cases in the country. The agency updated its guidance on Monday, and now says that “because of the current situation in Canada, even fully vaccinated travelers …

Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has dismissed the government after a wave of protests swept the country over a spike in the price of liquefied petroleum gas, leading to clashes with police. The drastic move was announced on Wednesday morning, following a night of escalating and increasingly violent protests across the …

Every third American – the largest number in more than two decades – believes violence against the government can be justified, especially when the violation of rights is involved, a new poll has found. According to a Washington Post and University of Maryland poll, 34% of respondents were prepared to …

German prosecutors have opened a probe against a Bundeswehr soldier who delivered a video ultimatum to the government demanding it abandon its Covid-19 policies. The man was released after being briefly detained. A series of video appeals surfaced on social media on Thursday, where a man dressed in military uniform …

The British government has advised its employees to refrain from the word ‘Brexit’ in official communication and to replace it with the exact date of when the UK left the EU. The directive has been criticized on social media.  “You can use the term ‘Brexit’ to provide historical context, but …

Covid testing providers are “alphabet hacking” the UK government’s list of approved firms by using punctuation and numerals to beat the site’s filters and promote their products as the preferred choice, an investigation has found. Around one in eight (or 13%) of the private PCR testing firms currently on the …

“I think not seeing that writing on the wall probably was one of the biggest” mistakes Afghani President Ashraf Ghani could have made as the end of the US occupation approached, former national security adviser Hamdullah Mohib told CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday. “We should have understood that the …

Photos and videos from Tripoli in the early hours of Wednesday showed armed men and combat vehicles outside the offices of Libya’s interim Government of National Unity (GNU) Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, and there are reports of militants outside the office of Presidential Council head Mohammed al Menfi.  The …

After a British court ruled on Friday that Assange could be extradited to the US, parliamentarians have called on Canberra, and Morrison in particular, to intervene during what Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt described to The Guardian as a “critical moment in the fight against suppression of press freedom.” Assange’s …

Speaking to a meeting of the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, Putin used the example of Americans within the Russian government to show how foreign countries attempt to interfere in the country’s internal affairs. “In the early 2000s, I had already cleaned everyone out, but in the mid-1990s, …