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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Wednesday authorized its first update to COVID-19 vaccines, booster doses that target today’s most common omicron strain. Shots could begin within days.The move by the Food and Drug Administration tweaks the recipe of shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna that already have saved millionsof lives. The hope is that…

Russia has authorized investments by Japanese trading houses Mitsui & Co. and Mitsubishi Corp. in the Sakhalin 2 oil and gas energy project, a step toward resource-poor Japan procuring stable supplies of liquefied natural gas. Mitsui said Wednesday that the Russian government has approved a plan for the trading house to…

Every week, a smattering of Yukoners patiently wait at the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport. They are not there to welcome friends or family. They are waiting to see whether immigrants fleeing war in Ukraine have made the trip. For the past month or so, a similar scene has played out most Tuesdays, when the weekly Condor flight from…

Australia's states and territories have been easing certain visa conditions as they compete to attract the best skilled migrants.There is a shortage of skilled migrants in the country, something the Federal Government hopes to tackle at its Jobs and Skills Summit, which starts on Thursday.What is state sponsorship?Many migrants are sponsored by…

Schiff: Trump 'put national security at risk'Adam Schiff, a senior Democrat who led the first House impeachment of Donald Trump, says the former president and his allies “knowingly put our national security at risk” by stashing highly classified documents at his Florida residence.The California congressman gave his assessment in a series of…

CLAIM: Starbucks will stop accepting cash at its stores in the U.K. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Starbucks is not going cashless at all of its U.K. stores, but individual franchises can choose not to accept cash, according to a statement posted on the company’s U.K. Twitter account.THE FACTS: Claims that all Starbucks locations in the U.K. are going…

A woman who survived and fled China’s Communist Revolution is warning Americans against what she sees as an abandonment of freedom and a dangerous embrace of socialism. Listen to the latest episode of CBN’s Quick Start podcast:  “I just want to say it’s so ironic — 36 years ago, I run away from socialism when I left China to come to this great…

Donald Trump boasted to close associates that he knew secrets about Emmanuel Macron’s sex life from US intelligence sources, it has been reported.The report in Rolling Stone magazine comes in the wake of the release of court documents on the classified and national defence documents found in a search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on 8 August, which…

Defense officials said the purchase of National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems announced last week is expected to bolster Ukraine's defense against advanced aerial threats, including unmanned aerial vehicles, helicopters and cruise missiles. The Army awarded a not-to-exceed letter contract for $182 million…

Leaders and politicians around the world have expressed their condolences as news spread that the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, whose reforms helped end the Cold War and free Eastern Europe from communism, but also led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, died overnight at the age of 91. Some in Russia and elsewhere took to social…