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Rex Holwell has spent his life on the sea ice that forms each winter off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador in eastern Canada.

After Italy's last election in 2018, two men embodied the populist wave sweeping the country - Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini, respective leaders of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the right-wing League.

School teacher Claude Koteich, her teenager daughter and 10-year-old son should have all been back in class weeks ago - but a crisis in Lebanon's education sector has left them lounging at home on a Monday afternoon.

"Speaking truth unto power" has long been the motto of Britain's civil service, but now some government workers charged with offering ministers impartial advice whatever their party are fearful of their political bosses and are keeping quiet.

Kremlin proxies to close polls in 'sham' Ukraine annexation votes

The alleged UFO disappeared after a woman took a photo of it, according to a report.

Italy's far-right Meloni begins tricky government talks

The theme for this year's World Tourism Day, "Rethinking Tourism," encourages people to rethink how the tourism sector can be made more sustainable, inclusive and resilient.

Thousands of conscription-age Russian men have fled to neighboring countries in recent days, say reports.

The 32-year-old man told police he was ready to come and surrender to law enforcement on his own, according to reports.

British opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer will on Tuesday lay out his plans to spur economic growth and end what he called a cycle of crisis, saying his party now stood for "sound money" in contrast to the Conservative government.

The draftee kept screaming, "I don't wanna go to the front," when doctors took him away, according to reports.

Spanish court orders Shakira to stand trial in tax fraud case

The day after a Workers Party (PT) official was shot dead by a supporter of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in July, the Federal Police guarding his leftist campaign rival sent a classified memo to senior colleagues across Brazil.

Qatar has called up hundreds of civilians, including diplomats summoned back from overseas, for mandatory military service operating security checkpoints at World Cup stadiums, according to a source and documents seen by Reuters.

USS Zumwalt has been assigned to Destroyer Squadron 15, the Navy's largest destroyer squadron based outside the U.S.

Sardor Boisov wants to improve the education system as a whole. This is how he plans to do it.

A United Nations body has begun global talks to hammer out a consensus on reducing airline emissions in the face of lingering discord over climate change and the impact of war in Ukraine.

For decades, the U.S. has wooed India as an ally and counter-weight against China as Washington seeks to strengthen democratic partnerships in the Indo-Pacific.

Thousands of Russians have fled into Mongolia across its northern frontier in a bid to evade conscription to Ukraine, putting further pressure on the government in Ulaanbaatar and its efforts to distance itself from the conflict.

When movie fan-art becomes the real thing

In Spain, politicians wage tax war ahead of elections

Ireland to unveil budget to tackle cost of living and energy crises

Vietnam urged more people on Tuesday to evacuate as an intensifying Typhoon Noru barrelled towards the southeast Asian nation, after causing at least eight deaths and widespread flooding in the Philippines.

Russian occupiers nicknamed the torture chamber the "basement," according to Ukrainian authorities.

U.S. government workers feared retaliation for raising concerns last year about the treatment of unaccompanied migrant children on a Texas military base, where children have been held amid record arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a watchdog report released on Tuesday.

The Russian economist noted that his spring forecast of a 10% plunge in Russia's GDP looks "overly optimistic" today.

"Meteorologists have only recorded a handful of storms that have ever intensified so much so quickly.": NASA Earth Observatory

Kremlin proxies in Ukraine hold last day of annexation votes