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US air travel still messy, with another 2,400 flights scrapped

by Julie CHABANAS Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) - Americans returning home from holiday travel had to battle…

Three people missing in Colorado wildfire

Three people are missing after a wildfire tore through several Colorado towns, quickly destroying nearly 1,000 homes as part of…

Alaska faces ‘Icemageddon’ as temperatures swing wildly

Extreme weather in Alaska that has brought record high temperatures and torrential downpours has left authorities in the far northern…

US airport chaos as more than 2,600 flights cancelled

Air travel continued to be severely disrupted in the United States on Saturday, with bad weather in parts of the…

Biden and Putin trade warnings over Ukraine, but vow diplomacy

by Sebastian Smith with Anna Smolchenko in Moscow WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- President Joe Biden on Thursday warned his…

Thousands told to flee Colorado wildfires

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- Thousands of people were told to flee fast-moving wildfires in the US state of…

Canada’s Quebec decrees 10PM New Year’s curfew as Covid cases soar

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) -- Canada's Quebec province on Thursday announced a nighttime curfew ahead of New Year's Eve celebrations as Covid…

Biden to offer ‘diplomatic path’ to Putin in new Ukraine crisis call

by Shaun Tandon and Sebastian Smith President Joe Biden will offer his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a diplomatic path forward…

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell convicted of sex trafficking

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty on Wednesday of recruiting and grooming young girls to be sexually abused by…

Covid variant ‘tsunami’ as world cases hit record

by Kenan Augeard with AFP Bureaus A Covid variant-driven "tsunami" threatens to overwhelm healthcare systems, the WHO said Wednesday as…

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