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As US-Canada border closures risk trade, more govt action is likely 10 Feb 2022 - 03:11 pm
Vehicles queue on Bank Street as truckers and supporters continue to protest Covid-19 vaccine mandates, in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 9, 2022. Reuters/Blair Gable
United States to host APEC summit next year: White House 10 Feb 2022 - 03:06 pm
 A woman passes by the logo of the APEC Summit 2022 at a department store in Bangkok, Thailand, November 18, 2021. Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo
Tonga's virus outbreak growing rapidly; omicron confirmed 10 Feb 2022 - 10:27 am
A general view from a New Zealand Defence Force P-3K2 Orion surveillance flight shows ash covered homes and vegetation over an area in Tonga. Picture taken January 17, 2022. New Zealand Defence Force/Handout via Reuters
US House passes bill to avert temporary government shutdown 09 Feb 2022 - 11:25 am
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Man arrested for storming US Capitol while out on bail on attempted murder charge 08 Feb 2022 - 08:52 pm
FILE PHOTO: Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
US to Canada crossing blocked by truckers fighting Trudeau's COVID mandate 08 Feb 2022 - 06:21 pm
Signs sit on a police baracade as truckers and their supporters continue to protest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine mandates, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 7, 2022. REUTERS/Patrick Doyle
New Jersey, Delaware to end school mask mandates in move to 'normalcy' 07 Feb 2022 - 09:46 pm
FILE PHOTO: Children wear a masks and wait for U.S. President Joe Biden to visit her pre-Kindergarten class at East End Elementary School to highlight the early childhood education proposal in his Build Back Better infrastructure agenda in North Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S. October 25, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Delta asks DOJ to put unruly passengers on no-fly list 06 Feb 2022 - 09:38 pm
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Protest against vaccine mandates paralyzing Canada capital, mayor says 06 Feb 2022 - 07:36 pm
Police and city crew members start putting up a fence around the temporary soup kitchen in a park, as truckers and supporters continue to protest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine mandates, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 6, 2022. REUTERS/Lars Hagberg
Costa Ricans head to polls, largely undecided, as runoff expected 06 Feb 2022 - 12:56 pm
Samples of voting materials are displayed for the press at a distribution centre ahead of Costa Rica's February 6, 2022 general elections, in San Jose, Costa Rica, January 14, 2022. Reuters/Mayela Lopez/File Photo
CDC backs Moderna Covid-19 shots after full US approval 05 Feb 2022 - 02:35 pm
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Pence says Trump was wrong that he could have overturned 2020 election 05 Feb 2022 - 11:21 am
US Vice President Mike Pence officiates as a joint session of the House and Senate convenes to confirm the Electoral College votes cast in November's election, at the Capitol in Washington, US, January 6, 2021. Saul Loeb/Pool via Reuters/File Photo
Deadly Afghan airport attack was not preventable: Pentagon 05 Feb 2022 - 10:57 am
A sign placed in honor of Navy Corpsman Max Soviak, one of 13 U.S. service members killed in the airport suicide bombing in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, in his hometown of Berlin Heights, Ohio, U.S., September 8, 2021. Reuters/Megan Jelinger/File Photo
US winter storm leaves hundreds of thousands without power 04 Feb 2022 - 05:26 pm
Ken Sayen helps clear the roads and sidewalks in his neighborhood during a snowstorm in Toledo, Ohio, U.S., February 3, 2022. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse
Canada will not use troops to deal with truckers' protest, Trudeau says 03 Feb 2022 - 09:00 pm
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US to cover cost of over-the-counter COVID tests through Medicare 03 Feb 2022 - 08:00 pm
FILE PHOTO: A staff member uses a home coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test to check the heath of volunteers. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
Anti-vaccine mandate protesters say they will block Ottawa for as long as necessary 02 Feb 2022 - 11:43 pm
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Biden aims to reduce cancer deaths by 50% over next 25 years 02 Feb 2022 - 04:53 pm
U.S. President Joe Biden. REUTERS/Leah Millis