Parliamentary elections shock France’s political order to its core

The campaign for the second round of France’s legislative elections pitted two antagonistic forces against each other, Emmanuel Macron’s presidential coalition and the left-wing group, the...

Israel suspects Iranian cyberattack behind false siren alerts

JERUSALEM – Israel suspects an Iranian cyberattack was behind false siren alerts Sunday in several neighborhoods in West Jerusalem and Eilat, according to local media on Monday....

Shooting in US capital leaves teenager dead, 3 others wounded

WASHINGTON – A shooting in the US capital of Washington, D.C. on Sunday left a 15-year-old boy dead and three others injured, including a Metropolitan Police Department...

Luxembourg’s royal family took refuge in Canada during Second World War: crown prince

OTTAWA — The crown prince of Luxembourg, who is in Toronto on an official trade visit, has spoken out publicly about how his family took refuge...

Changes in the jet stream are steering autumn rain away from southeast Australia

You wouldn’t know it from the torrential rains that have inundated large parts of New South Wales and Queensland this year, but average late-autumn rainfall over...

Why can you still get influenza if you’ve had a flu shot?

‘Today is not my day’: how Russia’s journalists, writers and artists are turning silence into speech

“It is impossible to stop a speeding train by throwing oneself onto the tracks,” wrote Russian poet Dmitry Kuzmin back in March. He was commenting on...

Australia has a once in a lifetime opportunity to break the stranglehold fossil fuels have on our politics

In the wake of the Green and teal wave that crashed through the federal Parliament, attention has inevitably turned to what the new cross-benchers will say...

First, COVID hit disadvantaged communities harder. Now, long COVID delivers them a further blow

Disadvantaged communities not only suffer disproportionately from COVID, they are even more likely to be impacted by the cascading effects of long COVID. With a new...

Insurance firms can skim your online data to price your insurance — and there’s little in the law to stop this

What if your insurer was tracking your online data to price your car insurance? Seems far-fetched, right? Yet there is predictive value in the digital traces...