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Romania on Sunday recorded its highest number of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus patients in intensive care units since the pandemic began. The increasing pressure on ICU wards—where 1,334 people are currently receiving care—comes amid a surge of virus cases in the country. Over the past week, Romania has been recording its highest number of […]

Major flooding along the Hawkesbury River in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) could displace residents and cause utility outages for months, authorities say. The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) expects Monday to bring the worst flooding event to the area northwest of Sydney since November 1961, nearly 50 years ago. Floodwaters are expected

MANILA, Philippines—Philippine troops killed a commander of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group blamed for years of ransom kidnappings and on Sunday rescued the last of his four Indonesian captives, the military said. Marines wounded Amajan Sahidjuan in a gunbattle Saturday night and he later died from loss of blood on Kalupag Island in the southernmost province

WASHINGTON—A North Korean citizen was taken into U.S. custody on Saturday after being extradited from Malaysia to face money laundering charges, making him the first North Korean extradited to the U.S. to face trial. Mun Chol Myong was in the custody of the FBI in Washington on Saturday, according to documents obtained by The Associated

The United States is set to open another facility to deal with the surge in illegal immigrants, President Joe Biden’s administration announced March 20. The new facility is in Pecos, Texas. It will initially hold about 500 children, with the potential to expand to 2,000, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of

Commissioners in a Michigan county late last week voted unanimously to hand count every ballot cast in an upcoming primary, avoiding the use of Dominion Voting Systems machines. Antrim County commissioners voted against a proposal from county clerk Sheryl Guy to apportion $5,080 to reinstall election management system software on a computer and tabulators for

New York’s governor in 2018 threatened to compare an official who endorsed a primary challenger to child rapists, according to newly released audio of the call. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, told then-Working Families Party head Bill Lipton: “If you ever say, ‘Well, he’s better than a Republican’ again, then I’m going to say, ‘You’re

NEW DELHI—The United States, India, Australia, and Japan came together for the first QUAD meeting virtually on March 12, and the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, is in India to boost strategic ties and to address common goals in the Indo-Pacific. The events have inspired a strong rhetorical push back from China, Russian, and

Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday said the border is closed but unaccompanied children who unlawfully cross into the United States won’t be turned back. “We are expelling families. We are expelling single adults. And we’ve made a decision that we will not expel young, vulnerable children. I think we are executing on

From 594 to 622, Prince Shotoku ruled Japan. He certainly lived up to his name, for “sho” means sacred and “toku” means virtue.  During his reign, he promoted Buddhism in Japan, so much so that he is popularly known as the founder of Japanese Buddhism. After his death, many even called him “Japan’s Shakyamuni.” A historical figure