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EAGAN, Minn. -- The Minnesota Vikings acquired quarterback Nick Mullens from the Las Vegas Raiders on Monday for a conditional 2024 draft pick, giving them an additional option behind starter Kirk Cousins amid an uneven summer for his…

Central bankers will be packing their bags ready for a few days in the great outdoors this week. But unlike for the rest of us, their annual August getaway — to Wyoming — will be no holiday. The Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, which…

Catherine Ready still grapples with nightmares nearly two months after surviving a vicious knife attack that killed her mother and sister, a dark incident that has forever altered the fates of two families in a quiet Ottawa suburb. The…

Street vendor back at work one week after ax attack A beloved fruit vendor was welcomed back to his corner one week after a man tore down his stand with an ax. A now-viral video made rounds last week of a man destroying the vendor's…

Candles are lit at a park in the western Japan city of Hiroshima near the site of 2014 mudslides that claimed 77 lives, on Aug. 20, 2022, the eighth anniversary of the tragedy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following is the…

Children gather at the Temple of Confucius in China's Qufu, the birthplace of the founder of Confucianism, on July 29, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo…

The Indian Air Force contingent, comprising four Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft and two C-17 transport aircraft, has reached Australia to participate in biennial, multi-national exercise ‘Pitch Black 2022’ scheduled to be held from August…

U.S. equity futures were giving back gains from the previous session as investors analyzed conflicting economic signals ahead of a Federal Reserve conference next week.The major futures indexes suggest a decline of 0.5% when the opening…

The bailiff who taped an eviction notice to the doors of St. Brigid's says The United People of Canada (TUPC) need to leave the church immediately and the building's locks will soon be changed.Locks at the Rectory Art House next to the…