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The current tension between Russia and the USA has little to do with Ukraine. It's about what Biden and Putin want for Europe. And to be more precise, Germany.

Protesters occupying central Ottawa voiced defiance on Thursday but said they were bracing for a crackdown after police repeated demands to leave the capital and end a crisis that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned was threatening public safety...

U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz discussed Russia's military buildup near Ukraine in a phone call Wednesday and underscored the importance of reinforcing NATO's eastern flank if Moscow invades, the White House said.

Poland has alerted the security services and public administration against threats in cyberspace, the Government Centre for Security said on Tuesday, just hours after Ukraine reported its defence ministry and two banks had been hacked.

Stocks on Wall Street and in Europe rebounded on Tuesday while oil prices fell after Russia indicated it was withdrawing some troops from exercises near Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin said he saw room for further discussion with the West.

Health authorities reported 1,619 infections on Tuesday, a new daily record with around 5,400 preliminary positive cases.

Ecuador's police on Monday said it will investigate the deaths of two people whose bodies were hung from a foot bridge in the small costal city of Duran, a crime officers say could be linked to a recent drugs seizure.

The Taliban on Monday warned that it would reconsider its policy towards the United States if President Joe Biden did not reverse his "unjustified" decision to return only half of Afghanistan's $7 billion deposited on U.S. soil.

Copycat demonstrations have erupted in Paris, Zurich, Canberra and Wellington with many expressing their outrage against Covid mandates

Ukraine pledged funds on Sunday to try to keep its airspace open to commercial flights, as some carriers reviewed their services to the country after the United States warned that Russia could invade at any time.

A standoff between Canadian police and protesters blocking a key bridge to the United States continued on Saturday, more than seven hours after authorities moved in seeking to end the blockade of the important trade corridor.

The status surfaced in an art market in France but the India Pride Project, Singapore and Art Recovery International, London helped in securing it

Oil prices ended 3% higher on Friday at fresh sevenyear highs as escalating fears of an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, a top energy producer, added to concerns over tight global crude supplies.

Canada will seek to join the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia to be included in consultations as part of the European Union's dispute with China at the World Trade Organization over Beijing's alleged trade curbs on Lithuania.

GuineaBissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said on Thursday that three people previously arrested by U.S. authorities for drug trafficking were behind an attempted coup last week.

Five rangers and a soldier were killed and 10 others wounded in an ambush by unnamed militants in a northern Benin park on Tuesday, the park's management said in a statement on Wednesday.