U.S. House delivers article of impeachment against Trump to Senate, triggering trial

Democrats marched the impeachment case against former president Donald Trump to the U.S. Senate Monday night for the start of his historic trial.

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Pakistani dissident Karima Mehrab, found dead in Toronto, buried in home village amid high security

A Pakistani dissident and civil rights activist who died in exile in Canada last month was returned to Pakistan and laid to rest in her home village in southwestern Balochistan province under tight security, activists said Monday.

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U.S. watchdog probing whether Justice Department officials tried to overturn election

The U.S. Justice Department's inspector general is launching an investigation to examine whether any former or current department officials "engaged in an improper attempt" to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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9 Chinese miners found dead a day after others rescued following explosions

Chinese rescuers have found the bodies of nine workers killed in explosions at a gold mine in Shandong province earlier this month, raising the death toll to 10, officials said Monday.

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Big advertisers balk at big Super Bowl spending amid COVID-19 gloom

For the first time since 1983, when Anheuser-Busch used all of its ad time to introduce a beer called Bud Light, the beer giant isn't advertising its iconic Budweiser brand during the Super Bowl. Instead, it's donating the money it would have spent on the ad to coronavirus vaccination awareness efforts.

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Intensity of Russian protests indicate outrage about more than Alexei Navalny

More than a 100,000 Russians answered the call of imprisoned anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny to take to the streets over the weekend. The scope of the unrest suggests opposition to President Vladimir Putin is on the rise, writes Chris Brown.

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Earth's ice melt has sped up dramatically in past 30 years

Earth's ice is melting 60 per cent faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests.

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Toronto's Dominion Voting Systems sues Rudy Giuliani for $1.3B US

Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.3 billion US lawsuit against former U.S. president Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, accusing him of defamation in what it called his "big lie" campaign about widespread fraud in the presidential election, court documents on Monday showed.

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Biden overturns ban on transgender people joining U.S. military

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday overturned a controversial ban by his predecessor on transgender individuals serving in the country's military, a move that fulfils a campaign promise.

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U.K. could become 'a failed state' without reform, former PM Gordon Brown says

Unless the United Kingdom is fundamentally reformed it could swiftly become a failed state as many people have lost faith in the way the country is governed by, and in the interests of, a London-centric elite, former prime minister Gordon Brown said.

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U.K. could become 'a failed state' without reform, former PM Gordon Brown says

Unless the United Kingdom is fundamentally reformed it could swiftly become a failed state as many people have lost faith in the way the country is governed by, and in the interests of, a London-centric elite, former prime minister Gordon Brown said.

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Sarah Sanders, ex-White House spokesperson, running for Arkansas governor

Sarah Sanders, the former chief spokesperson for U.S. president Donald Trump and one of his closest aides, announced Monday she's running for Arkansas governor, vying for political office even as the former president's legacy is clouded by an impeachment charge.

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Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Monday

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stepping up efforts to track coronavirus mutations and keep vaccines and treatments effective against new variants until collective immunity is reached, the agency's chief said on Sunday.

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Israel extradites former teacher wanted for multiple sex crimes to Australia

Israeli authorities on Monday extradited a woman wanted on 74 charges of child sex abuse in Australia, following a six-year legal battle that had strained relations between the two governments.

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