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Driver plows bus into Canadian day care, killing 2 children 09 Feb 2023 - 08:50 am
Laval, Canada, Police secure the scene where a city bus (C) crashed into a day care center on February 8, 2023. Photo by Anne-Sophie THILL / AFP
China's conducted spy balloon program for years: Pentagon 08 Feb 2023 - 11:48 pm
This picture provided by the US Navy shows sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in the Atlantic ocean on February 5, 2023.  (Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Thompson / US NAVY / AFP)
White House rejects report that US was behind Nord Stream sabotage 08 Feb 2023 - 10:39 pm
Gas leaking from the sabotaged Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022. Handout / DANISH DEFENCE/AFP
US in touch with allies over global Chinese balloon 'fleet' 08 Feb 2023 - 08:59 pm
This picture provided by the US Navy shows sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in the Atlantic ocean on February 5, 2023.  (Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Thompson / US NAVY / AFP)
US, states weigh farmland restrictions after Chinese balloon 08 Feb 2023 - 03:33 pm
This picture provided by the US Navy shows sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in the Atlantic ocean on February 5, 2023.
Biden urges US blue-collar resurgence in feisty Congress speech 08 Feb 2023 - 03:21 pm
US Vice President Kamala Harris and US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) listen as US President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address, on February 7, 2023. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)
US, EU ministers agree on need for 'full transparency' in green subsidies 08 Feb 2023 - 12:08 am
The German and French economy ministers, Robert Habeck (left) and Bruno Le Maire started meetings with US officials on February 7, 2023.  Brendan Smialowski / AFP
Trudeau promises $34.4 billion to shore up Canadian health care 07 Feb 2023 - 11:54 pm
Reuters file photo
New areas under threat as Chile fires rage and mercury rises 07 Feb 2023 - 10:47 pm
Firefighters rest at the command post after fighting forest fires in Santa Juana, Concepcion province, Chile on February 6, 2023.  (Photo by JAVIER TORRES / AFP)
US trade deficit widens in 2022 to record on strong imports 07 Feb 2023 - 05:56 pm
The US trade deficit widened in December, taking the full year trade gap for 2022 to a record. © MARIO TAMA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File
At least 15 dead in landslides in southern Peru 07 Feb 2023 - 11:03 am
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UN human rights chief to visit Haiti this week 06 Feb 2023 - 11:15 pm
Volker Türk. File. | Photo Credit: AFP
International help arrives for fire-hit Chile 06 Feb 2023 - 11:07 pm
Firefighters prepare to load water into the US DC-10 Air Tanker at the Carriel Sur airport in Concepcion, Chile on February 6, 2023. - The forest fires that hit the south-central zone of Chile have already left 26 dead and have destroyed more than 1,100 homes, at a time when international aid begins to arrive to fight the flames.  (Photo by JAVIER TORRES / AFP)
US recovering balloon debris, won't return to China: White House 06 Feb 2023 - 10:26 pm
John Kirby, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, answers questions during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, US, January 25, 2023. (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)
Brazil deploys police as miners flee Yanomami territory 06 Feb 2023 - 09:24 pm
Brazil's Minister of Justice Flávio Dino.
Five Argentine rugby players sentenced to life for shocking murder 06 Feb 2023 - 09:16 pm
Defendants accused of the murder of Fernando Baez Sosa Ciro Pertossi (front, L), Matias Benicelli (front, 2-L), Blas Cinalli (front, 2-R), Lucas Pertossi (front, R), Ayrton Viollaz (back, L), Maximo Thomsen (back, 2-L), Enzo Comelli (back, 2-R) and Luciano Pertossi (back, R) hear their sentence at the court in Dolores, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on February 6, 2023. (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)
Biden 'deeply saddened' by Turkiye, Syria quake; pledges US aid 06 Feb 2023 - 07:18 pm
Rescue workers and volunteers conduct search and rescue operations in the rubble of a collasped building, in Diyarbakir on February 6, 2023, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's south-east. (Photo by ILYAS AKENGIN / AFP)
Beijing confirms balloon flying over Latin America is Chinese 06 Feb 2023 - 11:38 am
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