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TORONTO -- "Drunken Birds" will represent Canada in the race for an Oscar nomination for best international feature film. Montreal's Ivan Grbovic directed and co-wrote the drama, about a lovestruck Mexican drug cartel member who becomes a seasonal migrant worker in rural Quebec. Sara Mishara co-wrote the film, which has...

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- The Taliban doubled down on their hard-line trajectory Monday in a third round of Afghanistan government appointments that encompassed a host of men named to deputy positions, a spokesman said. None of the 38 new appointments announced by chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid included women. They were comprised...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Joe Biden urged Republican senators to "get out of the way" and let Democrats suspend the nation's debt limit, hoping to keep the U.S. government from bumping dangerously close to a credit default as Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell refuses to lend his party's help. Biden's...

TORONTO -- The detective who investigated the murder of nine-year-old Cecilia Zhang said he first accused the little girl's mother of killing her daughter, but there was one moment in the police interview that made him immediately know it wasn't her. Stumped for suspects in the kidnapping, a detective on...

TORONTO -- Canada’s outdated approach to assessing the risks of climate change means that many Canadians are currently living in areas considered at risk of climate-related flooding and wildfires without knowing it, says a new report from the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices. The study, released last week by the...

Netflix and Howard University have established a US$5.4 million scholarship in honour of Chadwick Boseman, called The Chadwick A. Boseman Memorial Scholarship. The full scholarship will cover four years of tuition at Howard's College of Fine Arts, which was renamed after Boseman earlier this year. Boseman attended the school studying...

BEIRUT -- More than 100 students, alumni and faculty members of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music have been flown out of Kabul on their way to Portugal, where the government has agreed to grant them asylum, the institute's director said Monday. They were on board a flight carrying 235...

“Yahoo users will not be able to interact via mail with Google email (Gmail) users,” — If tomorrow’s headlines sounded like this, the earth would come to a halt. This headline shall never see the light for all the right reasons. However, blockchain tech and its favorite son, decentralized finance...

Jacobi Asset Management, a London-based multi-asset investment platform, received approval from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) to launch a Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETF). Speaking to Cointelegraph, Jacobi Asset Management CEO Jamie Khurshid said that the regulatory clarity helps corporations and institutions to get involved in Bitcoin investments safely without...

TORONTO -- Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back online after experiencing a worldwide outage on Monday that lasted throughout most of the day. Service began resuming for some users at around 6 p.m. EDT. The outages left people around the world unable to communicate on the platforms for more than...

Trader and cryptocurrency analyst Alessio Rastani believes Bitcoin (BTC) is entering the final stage of the current bull market, which will propel the leading cryptocurrency to a $100,000 price target. To explain his prediction, Rastani cited the Elliott Wave Theory, which divides upward price trends into five waves. Rastani believes we...

NEWPORT, R.I. -- Michael Renzi, who during a storied musical career worked with Peggy Lee, Mel Torme, Lena Horne and some of the other biggest names in jazz and pop, and who for years was also the musical director of "Sesame Street," has died. He was 80. Renzi died Wednesday...

LONDON -- A British nurse in a neonatal ward on Monday denied charges of murdering eight babies and trying to kill 10 more in the hospital where she worked. Lucy Letby, 31, appeared for a brief hearing at Manchester Crown Court by video link from prison. She answered “not guilty”...

India's top court on Monday approved the government's decision to pay about US$670 for every coronavirus death in the country as compensation to the next of kin of the deceased. The payments tally to more than $300 million based on India's current death toll, according to CNN's calculation. It had...

OTTAWA -- A new poll suggests nearly 70 per cent of Canadian organizations facing a ransomware attack last year paid the demands to avoid downtime, reputational damage and other costs. The annual Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Cybersecurity Survey says the high number of groups that pay ransoms comes from...

American finserv Square will soon begin investigating technical requirements for building an open-source Bitcoin (BTC) mining system, according to CEO Jack Dorsey.Dorsey shared a series of tweets explaining his intent to follow a collaborative approach in further decentralizing Bitcoin mining. He said:“Square is considering building a Bitcoin mining system based...

NEW YORK -- A data scientist who was revealed Sunday as the Facebook whistleblower says that whenever there was a conflict between the public good and what benefited the company, the social media giant would choose its own interests. Frances Haugen was identified in a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday as...

Bitcoin (BTC) saw some rare calm on Oct. 16 as the market continued to digest the approval of the United States' first exchange-traded funds (ETFs).BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewLack of faith over non-futures ETF approvalsData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD circling $61,500 on Saturday, still up...

COLLEGE PARK, MD. -- The estate of Henrietta Lacks sued a biotechnology company on Monday, accusing it of selling cells that doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took from the Black woman in 1951 without her knowledge or consent as part of "a racially unjust medical system." Tissue taken from the...

El Salvador’s mainstream Bitcoin (BTC) adoption gains momentum during the ongoing bull run as citizens increasingly exchange their United States dollar savings for Bitcoin. President Nayib Bukele shared this new development on Twitter based on the data acquired from El Salvador’s in-house wallet service, Chivo. President Bukele said:“People are inserting way...