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U.S. Capitol Police arrested around 200 people protesting U.S. weapons sales to Israel inside the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building on Tuesday afternoon, just a day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to speak to Congress.The protest, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, a national Jewish anti-Zionist…

An 81-year-old woman has been identified as the victim of a fatal stabbing in North York. Police were called to a home in the area of Cliffwood Road and Don Mills Road just before 3 p.m. Sunday for reports that someone had been stabbed. When they arrived they found an 81-year-old man and a woman suffering from stab wounds. Both…

Japanese Defense Minister Kihara Minoru said the joint project to develop a next-generation fighter jet will proceed under the new British government. Kihara spoke to reporters after a meeting with his British and Italian counterparts in London on Tuesday. Asked about British media reports that…

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force has launched joint drills with the air forces of Germany, Spain and France. It is the first time air force planes from the three countries have been deployed to Japan at the same time. The three European countries have been sending aircraft to the Pacific region to conduct joint…

Key PointsThe different types of law that govern Australia are statute law made by parliament, delegated law made by government, and common law made by courts.Our legal system with two parallel sets of legislation and courts, reflects the fact the Commonwealth of Australia is a federation of states and territoriesThere are various options for…

A breaching whale landed on a fishing boat off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Tuesday morning, sending two boaters aboard flying into the water, according to footage of the wild incident that quickly went viral on social media.The humpback whale—judging from its distinctive dorsal fin shape—can be seen bursting from the water with its…

At Tokyo 2020 there was dismay among UK Olympics lovers when the BBC provided a much more restricted offering than in London 2012 and Rio 2016 after the rights to the Olympics were sold to a US pay-TV company. These days, Warner Bros Discovery holds the main Olympics rights in the UK, with the BBC sub-licencing from the broadcaster.At Paris 2024…

PARIS (Reuters) -France's leftist New Popular Front coalition, which won the largest number of seats in parliament in elections this month, said it will propose financial crime specialist Lucie Castets as its candidate for prime minister to President…

PAVLOHRAD, Ukraine — Going to work is an escape for Tatyiana Ustymenko. She rides an elevator down more than 1,500 feet into a coal mine and leaves behind her cellphone — meaning no distractions from the latest developments at the eastern front line just 60 miles away. That far below ground, she also can’t hear the air raid sirens warning of a…

NATO is developing a political strategy to counter Russia under the assumption that the Kremlin’s foreign policy will stay Vladimir Putin-like—if not run by the Russian president himself—for the long term. It’s a part of a broader NATO effort to move away from the post-Cold War peace dividend of the 1990s, when allies tried to placate…