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Driver in Fatal Pride Parade Crash Is Linked to Gay Men’s Chorus

The driver's pick-up truck was adorned with a rainbow flag, and he was wearing a Fort Lauderdale Gay Men's Chorus t-shirt. Trantalis, who witnessed the incide...

Senate Passes Bill to Recognize Juneteenth as Official Holiday

Juneteenth is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. That was also about two and a half years after the Em...

Pharmacies to receive deliveries of Covid vaccines today

Saskatchewan has been allocated 89,880 Moderna doses for the week of June 14 and 130,620 Moderna doses for the week of June 21. But out of these, only 4,615 wer...

United Kingdom hails G7 declaration on preventing future pandemics

The leaders were met by the Prime Minister and Carrie Johnson as they arrived at the summit in Cornwall and posed for a "family photograph" ahead of their dis...

Details of The Queen's meeting with President Biden revealed

We want to move to a more stable and predictable relationship that's in our interest. Arriving in the world-famous Air force One , the president was greeted...

USA drops Trump order targeting TikTok, plans its own review

Biden's new executive order revokes the WeChat and TikTok orders, along with another in January that targeted eight other communications and financial techn...

French President Emmanuel Macron slapped in the face

In video circulating on social media , Macron , dressed in shirt sleeves, could be seen walking towards a crowd of well-wishers who were behind a metal barr...

UK’s June 21 reopening in doubt amid new COVID spread

Over-25s in England are to be offered a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine six months after the first jab was administered in the United Kingdom - as ministers...

Ontario schools to remain closed to in-person learning: Doug Ford

But Ford also said that the province could begin its planned three-step reopening plan sooner, if the chief medical officer gave his blessing. On Monday, Ford...

More details about Iran naval ship released

State TV and agencies referred to the Kharg as a "training ship". This photo made available by Asriran.com on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, shows personnel stand...

Osaka fined $15,000 after win, warned of French Open expulsion

The French Open and its clay surface have always been a hurdle for Osaka , who has never been alone in that dynamic. She was fined $15,000 by the French...

Police, FBI seek motive in California shooting rampage

The Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner identified the victims as Paul Delacruz Megia, 42; Taptejdeep Singh, 36; Adrian Balleza, 29; Jose ...

Amy Cooper Is Suing Her Former Employer For Discrimination

Such perspectives would have shown that Amy Cooper was "selected as the next pet owner he would attack" and that she had reasonable fear for her safety, the...

Melbourne Covid cluster grows to nine

Australia has avoided the high COVID-19 numbers seen in many developed countries by closing its global borders in the early stages of the pandemic and with lock...

India's total deaths from COVID-19 surpass 300000

Case numbers also rose in neighbouring Nepal, which on Saturday said it had added 8,591 infections in 24 hours to take its total count above the half-million ma...

Ryanair flight carrying wanted Belarusian journalist forced to land in Minsk

File photo. Minsk airport. The news service for the airport in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, said the plane was diverted because of a bomb scare. Months o...

Eastern DRC Volcano Erupts; Thousands Flee Goma

Five people died in a auto accident when they tried to evacuate, Mr Peyre-Costa told CNN. Elsewhere, authorities said at least five other people had died in a...

Year-old boy killed in apparent ‘road rage’ shooting on California freeway

The incident occurred around 8 a.m., while the child's mother was driving her son to school along the 55 freeway. Said Olivera: "It's nothing related to the ...

Malaysia receives 1.06 million more doses of Covid-19 vaccine

Half of Canada's population has now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The CITF said another shipment of AZ vaccine supply from COVAX with th...

Business groups hope for best with province's reopening plan

Once that threshold is reached, outdoor gatherings for up to 10 people will be allowed, non-essential retail capacity would reopen at 15 per cent capacity, an...

Marjorie Taylor Greene Denies ‘Screaming’ at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Greene went on to criticize the Democrat, stating she uses her social media platform to spread anti-American rhetoric and defend terrorists. "When Hogg, a gun...

Premier Extends Lockdown and Stay At Home Order

Andrea Horwath, leader of the opposition at Queen's Park, said the extension of the stay-at-home order is the result of Ford ignoring the advice of health exp...

Judge: 'Aggravating Factors' Proven in Chauvin Trial

Prosecutors pushing for Chauvin to receive a harsher sentence presented five aggravating factors they believe justified a longer punishment. Second, Chauvin t...

Religious, political events among others behind Covid spike in India

Meanwhile reports of rare blood clots have continued to hobble rollouts of the AstraZeneca vaccine, with some Brazilian states suspending its use in pregnant wo...

Ruins and devastation as Israeli attacks pummel Gaza

On Wednesday, Mr Biden finally broke his silence to say Israel had the right to defend itself against "thousands of rockets" flying into its territory. An estim...

Covid-19: Cases of Indian variant confirmed in South Africa

About 783,000 new cases are reported on average each day globally, almost half in India, where a virus variant, B.1.617, has been spreading. "We are classifyi...

One man dead in YVR airport shooting

At a press conference on Monday, Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) officers identified the victim of the May 9 shooting as Karman Grewal, 28. Jang s...

U.K. Elections: Conservatives Make Gains; Pro-Independence Parties Win In Scotland

Speaking after winning her seat in Glasgow on Friday, Sturgeon said her immediate priority would be to deal with the pandemic and "then when the time is rig...

Chinese rocket expected to reenter

The fragments are from the Long March-5b rocket that was used to launch the first module of China's new space station last month. The debris is in freefal...

Land rights case sparks new east Jerusalem clashes

Israeli police on Saturday clashed with Palestinian protesters outside Jerusalem's Old City during the holiest night of Ramadan in a show of force that thre...

United Kingdom elections: Boris Johnson’s Conservatives win Hartlepool seat in blow to Labour

Results for the Scottish Parliament are due on Saturday. United Kingdom opposition leader Keir Starmer said he would take "full responsibility" if his Labour...

Commission accuses United Kingdom of breaching Brexit trade deal over fishing licenses

Dozens of French boats had descended on St Helier harbour before dawn, only pulling back after talks with Jersey officials. He said the protest over license...

Coronavirus: Indian government faces lockdown calls, contempt charges

Forecasts by India's two current vaccine producers show it will take two months or more to boost total monthly output from current figures of 70 million to 80 m...

How Biden's address to Congress will look different amid COVID-19 pandemic

The $1.8 trillion plan he unveiled his first address to a joint session of Congress along with previous proposals to build roads and bridges, expand other soc...

United States to share AstraZeneca vaccine stockpile with the world

Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on Monday . During a news briefing on Tuesday, Andy Slavitt, the White House senior COVID-19 advisor, add...