US & Canada
Kabul evacuations stall amid airport chaos, criticism of U.S. pullout
Thousands of civilians desperate to flee Afghanistan thronged Kabul airport on Monday after the Taliban seized the capital, prompting the U.S. military ...US seizes tanker used to deliver oil to N.Korea
The United States on Friday seized a Singapore-owned oil tanker that was used to make illegal oil deliveries to North Korea, the ...Huge quake of magnitude 8.2 on Alaska peninsula triggers tsunami alert
A strong and shallow earthquake of magnitude 8.2 struck the Alaskan peninsula late on Wednesday, prompting tsunami warnings in the U.S. state ...China-Taliban ties warming ahead of US withdrawal
China’s foreign minister met Wednesday with a delegation of high-level Taliban officials as ties between them warm ahead of the U.S. pullout ...US and allies accuse China of global hacking spree
The United States and its allies accused China on Monday of a global cyberespionage campaign, mustering an unusually broad coalition of countries ...U.S. officials say fully vaccinated don’t need booster
U.S. health officials, after meeting with vaccine maker Pfizer PFE.N>, reiterated on Monday that Americans who have been fully vaccinated do not ...First African American wins U.S. spelling bee, conquering with ‘Murraya’
Zaila Avant-garde, 14, became the first African American to win the 90-year-old Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday by correctly spelling ‘Murraya,’ ...Iran takes steps to make enriched uranium metal; U.S., Europe powers dismayed
Iran has begun the process of producing enriched uranium metal, the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Tuesday, a move that could help ...U.S. forces leave Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase after 20 years
American troops pulled out of their main military base in Afghanistan on Friday, a U.S. defence official said, under an agreement with ...Scores dead as record-breaking heat wave grips Canada, US
Scores of deaths in Canada’s Vancouver area are likely linked to a grueling heat wave, authorities said Tuesday, as the country recorded ...














