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“Turn on your television.” Those words were repeated in millions of homes on Sept. 11, 2001. Friends and relatives took to the telephone: Something awful was happening. You have to see. Before social media and with online news in its infancy, the story of the day when terrorists killed nearly …

The United Nations on Tuesday rejected a call by a global non-government network to postpone the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Britain on the grounds that a lack of COVID vaccines risked sidelining developing countries. “For now, no changes are planned, but we understand the concerns,” UN deputy spokesman Farhan …

Taliban gunmen fired into the air to disperse anti-Pakistan protestors in the capital of Afghanistan. Video clips on Tuesday showed people running as gunfire was heard. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Taliban forces open fire into a crowd during a peaceful demonstration protesting Taliban and Pakistani terrorism. https://t.co/WIRZ6XiK4n …

Guinea’s main opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, a long-standing rival of deposed President Alpha Conde, said on Tuesday that he and his party were open to participating in a political transition following Sunday’s military coup. Diallo, 69, who was defeated by Conde in an October presidential election in which the …

Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that penalizing abortion is unconstitutional, a major victory for advocates of women’s health and human rights in the majority Roman Catholic nation. “This is a historic step for the rights of women,” said Supreme Court Justice Luis Maria Aguilar. The unanimous vote by Mexico’s …

Two small children were among the dozens of migrants rescued from the English Channel on Tuesday after a summer that has seen record numbers attempt the dangerous journey from France. This year, hundreds of boats carrying migrants have attempted the dangerous crossing from France to England, often in small, inflatable …

Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gathered in major cities on Tuesday to back the far-right leader in his dispute with the Supreme Court, exacerbating a conflict that has rattled Latin America’s largest democracy. Bolsonaro has urged his supporters to turn out in record numbers, hoping for an overwhelming display …

Police in Paris caught three suspected armed robbers after opening fire on their car as they made their getaway from a 10 million euro ($12 million) jewellery heist at a Bulgari store in the French capital on Tuesday. Three individuals, wearing sharp suits and armed with guns, robbed the recently …

The Islamic Jihad strongly has warned the Israeli regime against trying to punish other Palestinian prisoners over the recent escape of six inmates from a maximum-security Israeli jail. The Palestinian resistance movement issued the warning in a statement on Tuesday after Palestinian sources revealed that the regime was administering “collective …

A protester has pelted pebbles at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a campaign trail in Ontario. The Liberal Party leader was leaving an event and was returning to his campaign bus on Monday when a handful of gravel was thrown at him from the crowd. Apart from Trudeau, two …

A recent poll has found that more Americans were against the government’s intrusive surveillance programs and a lesser number believed that the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were worth the fight. The poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research through interviewing 1,729 American adults in …

Nine miners plummeted to their deaths and another 19 received injuries when a steel rope of a cage broke at a coal mine in Ukraine’s separatist-controlled east, local authorities said on Tuesday. The workers were descending into the mine shaft in the town of Voznesenovka in the eastern Lugansk region …

Russian tech firm Yandex said on Tuesday it had removed jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s tactical voting website from its search engine to comply with a government ban ahead of a parliamentary election this month. Navalny and his allies want to use the website and a separate app to organize …

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday he did not want any more tax rises in this parliament after he broke a 2019 election promise not to put up taxes by announcing plans for an extra levy on workers, employers, and some investors. Asked to rule out any more …

El Salvador purchased 150 additional bitcoins on Tuesday, Salvadoran President Nayib Buekele said on Twitter, hours after the Central American nation became the world’s first to adopt the cryptocurrency as legal tender. Bukele said El Salvador was “buying the dip” after prices of the currency dropped sharply on Tuesday morning. …

Republicans and Democrats have criticized the embarrassing manner in which the US abruptly vacated a key airbase and withdrew its military forces at the direction of Biden. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will appear in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next week to testify and be questioned …

Russia’s FSB security service on Tuesday accused Ukraine of organizing an attack on a gas pipeline in Russian-annexed Crimea, an allegation rejected by Kiev which said Moscow was trying to punish prominent Crimean Tatar figures. The FSB accused the Ukrainian military intelligence service and the Mejlis, the outlawed representative body …

Chancellor Angela Merkel made an impassioned plea to German voters on Tuesday to back a government led by conservative Armin Laschet in this month’s national election, saying their other option was a left-wing ruling coalition. After losing their lead in opinion polls to the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) last month, …

September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others appeared in court for the first time in more than 18 months as US military prosecutors seek justice two decades after the world-shaking terror attacks. On trial for nine years, Mohammed and co-conspirators Ammar al-Baluchi, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, …

The Taliban announced Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund as the leader of their new government in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid also told a press conference that Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar will be the deputy leader. Sarajuddin Haqqani, son of the founder of the Haqqani network, designated as …