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The United Kingdom and Spain warned against President Biden’s controversial decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine ahead of the NATO summit in Lithuania this week.  “The U.K. is signatory to a convention which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions and discourages their use,” British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in a video […]

It was a global battle of the bands. Seventy-three-year-old New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen and his E Street band. Versus 73-year-old Long Island, New York, native Billy Joel and his fine musicians. Two of the best singer-songwriters the U.S. has ever produced. Facing off on consecutive nights, Thursday and Friday, on neutral turf. PAUL MCCARTNEY […]

The French government has banned firework sales ahead of Bastille Day celebrations as the country still reels from widespread anti-police riots.  “In order to prevent the risk of serious disturbances to public order during the July 14 festivities, the sale, carrying, transport and use of pyrotechnic articles and fireworks are prohibited until July 15 inclusively […]

TOKYO — In an unprecedented move, Japan has taken steps to open a NATO liaison office in Tokyo, solidifying its position with the West and against China. Japan’s ambassador to the U.S. recently announced plans to open a NATO liaison office in Tokyo. Japan, which has primarily relied on the U.S. for its national security […]

A Canadian school district fired a special needs teaching assistant after discovering she had an OnlyFans account and she refused to shut it down.  Kristin MacDonald said she received an email April 28 from School District 43 in British Columbia, Canada, advising her to deactivate all accounts related to “Ava James,” a persona she maintained […]

A British nurse lost her job after the hospital learned she had maintained an affair with a patient for over a year, ending when the man died following a sexual encounter with her in the hospital’s parking lot in Wrexham, Wales. The man, known as patient A, suffered from dialysis and died of a heart […]

U.S. authorities arrested a California man allegedly connected to the killing of a sex worker and possibly two others in a Mexican border city. Bryant “Eduardo” Rivera, 30, was captured outside Los Angeles on Thursday and will be extradited to Baja California to face one count of femicide, according to the State Attorney General’s Office. […]

Austria’s top court on Friday dismissed a case brought by a dozen minors seeking to force the government to take tougher action against climate change. The plaintiffs, born between 2006 and 2015, had argued that their constitutional rights were infringed, because the Alpine nation’s climate law doesn’t sufficiently protect them from the consequences of global […]

A drone strike believed to have been carried out by the U.S.-led coalition in northern Syria Friday killed one man with Islamic State links and wounded a passerby, a paramedic group and an opposition war monitor said. The Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, said the man was killed while riding a […]

An explosion at an offshore gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico left six workers injured and several others missing, Mexican officials said Friday. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at his daily morning press briefing that “three or four” people were missing following the fire at the Nohoch gas transfer platform. MEXICAN CARTEL SUSPECTED […]