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Weather Forecast For Thursday December 17

Most snow will end overnight, but plan on slick and icy roads on Friday morning. It is to be a wet weekend in the north with the heaviest of showers predict...

Cocaine-laden 'ghost ship' found drifting off remote atoll

A small, unassuming boat washed up on a remote island in the Pacific last week carrying no passengers - but packed full of cocaine. "A local resident on Ailuk...

Fiji declares state of natural disaster as powerful cyclone Yasa approaches

More than 95% of the population live in the storm's direct path, said Bainimarama. "There's quite a few villages that are reporting that all homes have been d...

Armenia and Azerbaijan exchange first prisoners after Karabakh war

The exact number of captured soldiers is unclear, but reports range it from 60 to as many as 160, seized as part of an Azerbaijani "anti-terror" operation. Azer...

Germany shatters record for Covid deaths as country enters lockdown

The state's governor said more drastic restrictions might be necessary, calling it "pure poison" when too many people were still going out and about. Chancell...

Bosnia’s Croat, Muslim presidents snub Russia FM over ‘disrespect’

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is scheduled to visit Croatia on Tuesday evening, also addressed the gathering with a video message, and so did Fr...

Good progress in negotiations with United Kingdom but obstacles remain — EU’s Barnier

Ursula von der Leyen said the "next few days are going to be decisive", with negotiators working "day and night" to reach an agreement. Post-Brexit trade talk...

South Korea Reports Record Coronavirus Deaths As Lockdown Fears Spark Panic Buying

Level 3 can be adopted when locally transmitted cases hover between 800 and 1,000 for a week or the daily tally doubles from the previous day. Of the locally ...

Epstein-Confidante Ghislaine Maxwell Asking For Unique Bond Release Plan | 1290 WJNO

Maxwell now proposes the following $28.5 million bail package, which is exceptional on its scope and puts at risk everything that Ms. Maxwell has - all of her a...

Cyberattack On US Government, Companies Poses "Grave Risk": Security Agency

Hackers compromising SolarWinds software have infiltrated federal government networks, according to the FBI, federal cybersecurity officials and the intell...

Putin he will receive Russian-made vaccine against COVID-19 when possible

It was therefore right, said Putin, that Russian security agents kept an eye on him. "But this does not at all mean that it is necessary to poison him. Putin ...

Taliban not exclusively responsible for ceasefire in Afghanistan

In a televised statement after the meeting, the foreign minister while emphasising the "seriousness of Taliban" about the process going forward said: "This proc...

Court's decision on Heathrow's third runway is welcomed in Northern Ireland

Plan B has already responded, saying it intends to take the judgment to the European Court of Justice, stating the Supreme Court had, "betrayed all young people...

Kangaroos can communicate with humans, new study shows

Nine looked at the person and then at the container, as a way of pointing or gesturing toward it. A new study suggests that kangaroos can communicate with h...

India drops two spots to 131 in UNDP’s Human Development Index

Titled, " The next frontier: Human development and the Anthropocene ", the report argues that the globe has entered a new geologic epoch, the Anthropocene , or...

Israeli Court Backs Extradition in Australia Child Sex Case

A psychiatric panel in January decided that the alleged sex offender, who escaped to Israel from Australia, is mentally fit to stand trial and has been feigning...

Richard Shelby accepts electoral college vote; ‘it’s time to move on’

In addition, media reports have surfaced that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , who like Wicker acknowledged Biden as the president-elect this week, has...

Australia to seek WTO intervention in barley row with China

The Australian government is officially taking the Chinese regime to the World Trade Organisation ( WTO ) over its imposition of duties on barley after several ...

French President, Macron tests positive for COVID-19

Complying with the national regulations in France, Macron will now "self isolate for seven days". Because of his age, Macron, 42, is not considered to be pa...

French court finds 14 guilty of being accomplices in 2015 terror attacks

Seventeen people were killed over three days of attacks in January 2015, beginning with the massacre of 12 people at the magazine, which had published cartoon...

Facebook to take United Kingdom users out of European Union privacy laws in 2021

Addressing the European Parliament , von der Leyen said, "As things stand I cannot tell you whether there will be a deal or not, but I can tell you that there ...

World Health Organization team to visit China in January to investigate code-19 origin

Keith Hamilton, an expert at the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) who will take part, told reporters on Tuesday: 'I anticipate the mission will take...

Congress Closes In On Agreement For $900 Billion Stimulus Package

The House could move quickly toward a vote once the legislation is written. "The Democratic Leader and I worked into the evening alongside the Speaker of the ...

PM To Address Farmers In Madhya Pradesh Tomorrow Amid Protest

It says the new acts will benefit the farmers but they have been misled by politicians and middlemen with vested interest. The panel will have members from farm...

Convicted habitual rapists in Pak could be castrated under new law

The new law suggests a set of anti-rape crisis cells to be set up by the prime minister, which would be authorized to conduct medico-legal examinations within s...

Woman plummets to her death from popular scenic Grampians lookout in Victoria

Witnesses to yesterday's tragedy described hearing the woman scream as her family watched on. Earlier this year, prof Kazakhstan A woman fell Over 110 feet...

Paris mayor fined over $100,000 for hiring ‘too many women’

The ministry decision was based on Mayor Anne Hidalgo appointing 11 women to senior Paris city hall positions, making a 69% majority of women, compared to five ...

United Kingdom girl's death caused by air pollution, world-first ruling finds

The full inquest, which began on November 30 and ran for 10 days, considered whether air pollution caused or contributed to Ella's death and how levels were m...

Concerning detail of new Covid-19 strain leaves scientists stumped

Her COG-UK colleague Nick Loman rejected the idea of tightening Christmas restrictions based on the variant's discovery, saying: "You make those sort of decis...

Japan's 'Twitter Killer' gets death sentence for killing 9

Direct messaging young women who expressed suicidal thoughts on their Twitter accounts, Shiraishi convinced them to come to his apartment about 90 minutes out...

Kabul bomb blast kills deputy governor

Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, condemned the attack and said the increase in attacks is a clear enemy of the Afgha...

COVID-19 Vaccination in U.S. a 'miracle': White House

The U.S. has handled the coronavirus pandemic worse than any other wealthy nation, and arguably worse than virtually any nation on earth, regardless of income. ...

Blood donation rules relaxed for men who have sex with other men

Such criteria implements a change long implored by campaigners - focusing on individual behaviours, rather than blanket assumptions. The Committee on the Safe...

Man from Scotland jailed after jet ski trip to Island

Coronavirus restrictions on the tax haven - famous for the annual Tourist Trophy motorcycle race - mean non-residents now require special permission to land on...

Biden Team Divided on Rejoining Iran Nuclear Deal

Biden has expressed readiness to rejoin the deal if Iran accepts the limitations on its nuclear activities that it abandoned after Washington withdrew. "Thank...