A winter storm system dumped heavy snow and freezing rain across the eastern United States on Monday, disrupting travel for millions after bringing hazardous road conditions in the Midwest that saw at least five people killed.Over 175,000 people were without power from Missouri to Virginia as of Monday afternoon, while more than 2,400 flights were …
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on Monday spent his final day as leader of the world’s Anglicans, nearly two months after resigning over failures in the Church of England’s handling of a serial abuse case.Welby, 69, will be replaced on a temporary basis by outgoing Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell, currently the second most senior …
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Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation Monday, saying he would leave office as soon as his party chooses a new leader, with slumping polls and internal division taking their toll.After more than nine years in power, Trudeau’s support within the ruling Liberal party began crumbling in 2024 due to intensifying public criticism focused …
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Tensions mounted in Venezuela ahead of strongman Nicolas Maduro’s swearing-in ceremony, with Caracas vowing Monday to arrest exiled opposition figure Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia — widely recognized as the country’s legitimate president-elect — if he returns home.The threat came as Gonzalez Urrutia, on an international tour to ramp up pressure on Maduro to relinquish power, met …
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Israel said Monday that Hamas had yet to clarify whether 34 hostages it said it was ready to free were dead or alive, throwing doubt on the group’s assertion that it needed time to ascertain their fate.The offer from Hamas came as Israel continued to pound the Gaza Strip, where rescuers said 16 people were …
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Visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein said Israeli forces began withdrawing on Monday from a south Lebanon border town more than halfway into a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.It is the second such pullout since a November 27 ceasefire, and came after United Nations peacekeepers and Lebanon’s prime minister late last month called on the …
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Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation Monday, saying he will leave office as soon as his party chooses a new leader as slumping polls and internal division took their toll.After more than nine years in power, Trudeau’s support within the ruling Liberal party began crumbling in 2024 due to intensifying public criticism focused …
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French President Emmanuel Macron called on Ukraine Monday to have “realistic” expectations on territory as its fight against the Russian invasion heads into a fourth year, saying he saw no “quick and easy solution” to the conflict.Outlining France’s foreign policy for the coming year, Macron also took aim at Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of …
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Several dozen Ukrainian soldiers have deserted while training in France, a French army official told AFP on Monday.”There have been a certain number of desertions, but they remain very marginal given the volume of people who have undergone training,” a French army official told AFP. “They were in French barracks, they had the right to go …
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Tension mounted in Venezuela Monday ahead of strongman Nicolas Maduro’s swearing-in ceremony, with Caracas vowing to arrest exiled opposition figure Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia if he returns to the country.The threat of detention came as Gonzalez Urrutia, on an international tour seeking to increase pressure on Maduro to relinquish power, was set to meet with US …
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