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The US jets are scheduled to replace Finland’s Hornets, which will be gradually decommissioned beginning in 2025. With its decision, the Scandinavian country has joined nations like Norway, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Italy and Poland, which also opted for the American-made combat aircraft. Lockheed Martin’s F-35 was competing with jets …

A pandemic is tearing a path of pain and suffering across the American heartland, where the very bonds that hold communities together are being tested like never before. Yet this malignancy requires no microscope to witness. From Toledo, Ohio to Albuquerque, New Mexico, people are having their lives cut tragically …

The number of claims reached 37,562 in the year to September, which is the highest total since 2004, the figures show. That is an 18% jump on the previous year and even more than at the peak of the European migration crisis in the year ending June 2016, when 36,546 …

Authorities fear that in reality the figure is even higher, as not all cases are immediately reported or detected. Just a week ago, the number of daily infections across Germany surpassed the 50,000 mark. Among the country’s Covid hotspots are Thuringia, Saxony and Bavaria. In the latter region, hospitals are …

Some 100,306 Americans lost their lives to drug overdoses in the 12 months leading up to April 2021, according to figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Opioids were responsible for just over three-quarters of these deaths, with synthetic opioids – including fentanyl, a drug 50 …

That is 0.8 percentage points lower than a year before but still at record-high levels as a result of the massive fiscal responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Globally, public debt now amounts to $88 trillion, according to the IMF, but is expected to decline by about 1 percentage point of …

Some 96,779 Americans died of drug overdoses over the last 12-month period counted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a report released by the agency this month has revealed. The record-setting number of deaths surpasses what were already record-setting figures from the year before as the nation’s drug …

Just 36% of American adults expressed some level of trust in mass media in a survey done last month, down from 40% last year and historic highs around 70% in the 1970s, Gallup said on Thursday. In fact, only 7% of respondents said they have “a great deal” of trust …

The trade deficit, which amounted to $73.3 billion, topped the previous record of $73.2 billion set in June, according to a report released by the US Department of Commerce. Economists polled by Reuters had expected the trade gap to widen to $70.5 billion. Exports rose 0.5% to $213.7 billion, reflecting …

Melbourne residents endured their 245th day under restrictions on Sunday evening, the country’s national broadcaster ABC reported, adding that it is now the longest cumulative lockdown for any city in the world.  Argentina’s capital was under continuous lockdown between March and November 2020. This was then followed by a short …