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Law enforcement officials said Monday they were working to clear roads after a 100-vehicle crash occurred on snow-blanketed roads in the northern state of Michigan. Michigan State Police said numerous injuries were reported in the crash, with none “believed to be fatal,” after big rig trucks and vehicles collided on the I-196 corridor, causing many vehicles to run off the ...

The US military will deploy aircraft to Greenland’s Pituffik Space Base as tensions escalate over President Donald Trump’s push to acquire the self-governing Danish territory, the North American Aerospace Defense Command announced Monday. “North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) aircraft will soon arrive at Pituffik Space Base, Greenland,” the joint US-Canadian defense organization said on US social media company X. ...

An Iranian official said on Sunday that authorities have verified at least 5,000 deaths linked to protests across the country, including about 500 members of the security forces, blaming what he described as “terrorists and armed rioters” for the killings, reports Reuters. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, told Reuters that ...

Gunmen killed seven people in a township outside the South African city of Cape Town early on Saturday in an incident believed to be extortion-related, police said, reports AFP. The attack is the latest in a string of mass shootings that have shaken the crime-weary country of 63 million people. “Police are investigating a shooting incident in Marikana that claimed ...

At least 14 people were killed and several others were wounded when a mini-truck fell into a canal due to dense fog in Pakistan’s Sargodha region on Friday night, the Rescue officials said on Saturday. The crash happened when thick fog reduced visibility on the road in the city area of Kot Momin, causing the driver to lose control of ...

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on a raft of measures from trade to tourism on Friday at the first meeting between the countries’ leaders in Beijing in eight years, reports AFP. The Canadian premier hailed a “landmark deal” under a “new strategic partnership” with China, turning the page on years of diplomatic spats, retaliatory ...

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had been told the killings of protesters in Iran had been halted, but added that he would “watch it and see” about threatened military action. Trump had repeatedly talked in recent days about coming to the aid of the Iranian people over the crackdown on protests that rights groups say has left at ...

The United States has completed its first sale of Venezuelan oil, valued at $500 million, according to an administration official. Additional sales of oil are expected in the coming days and weeks, the official added. In the days since the United States attacked Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, earlier this month, President Donald Trump has made it clear ...

The death toll from a crackdown on protests in Iran jumps to at least 2,571, activists said early Wednesday. The figure came from the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which has been accurate in multiple rounds of unrest in Iran in recent years. The activist group said 2,403 of the dead were protesters and 147 were government-affiliated. Twelve children ...

US President Donald Trump warned Tuesday of unspecified “very strong action” if Iranian authorities go ahead with threatened hangings of some protesters, with Tehran calling American warnings a “pretext for military intervention”. International outrage has built over the crackdown that a rights group said has likely killed thousands during protests posing one of the biggest challenges yet to Iran’s clerical ...