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The governors in the six New England states and in New Jersey have suspended interstate youth hockey competitions through the end of the year because of rising coronavirus cases.
The suspension, which starts Saturday, affects public schools, private schools and youth leagues. It does not apply to collegiate hockey …
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Italian mediation on Thursday helped resolve a long-running dispute between Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian government and the Serb minority, allowing a highway project that will bypass a historic Christian Orthodox monastery listed as an endangered World Heritage site.
Serb Orthodox leaders long protested works to greatly widen …
MOSCOW (AP) – Moscow has adopted sanctions against a number of German and French officials in response to the European Union’s sanctions over the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Russia’s foreign minister said Thursday.
Navalny, a corruption investigator and longtime foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is …
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that while the U.S. electoral system may be “the most archaic” in the world, he will respect the election process.
His comments come amid blistering but unsubstantiated accusations from the Trump campaign and the president himself that the election was rigged or conducted …
Fifty nations have joined the United States in shunning the use of Chinese telecommunications equipment over electronic spying fears, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said Thursday.
Mr. Pompeo also said the Treasury Department is preparing additional sanctions against China and the State Department will continue its aggressive efforts to counter …
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal health officials have reached an agreement with pharmacies across the U.S. to distribute free coronavirus vaccines after they are approved and become available to the public.
The goal eventually is to make getting a COVID-19 vaccine like getting a flu shot.
Thursday’s agreement with major chain …
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Judges from Japan, China, Germany, Slovakia and Uganda won seats Thursday on the International Court of Justice, the U.N.’s top judicial organ.
In the contested race, eight candidates were vying for five seats on 15-member world court based in The Hague, Netherlands whose job is to …
President Trump signed an order on Thursday barring U.S. investments in Chinese companies owned or controlled by China’s military, as he tees up a series of executive actions on school choice, immigration and other conservative priorities before Jan. 20 that would force presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden to work to …
China is rapidly building up its nuclear forces, including the expansion of plutonium and uranium plants as part of a secretive, crash program to add warheads to its growing missile and bomber forces, according to declassified U.S. briefing slides obtained by The Washington Times.
The four slides were part of …
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U.N. Security Council voted Thursday to prevent the sale or shipment to Somalia of components of improvised explosive devices if there is “significant risk” they may be used to manufacture the often deadly devices that are increasingly being used in attacks by al-Shabab extremists.
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