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  1. Biden, Putin agree to return recalled ambassadors during 1st face-to-face meeting

    APTOPIX Switzerland Biden Putin

    U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday concluded their first face-to-face summit since Biden took office with an agreement to return their nations' ambassadors to their posts in Washington and Moscow and a plan to begin replacing the last remaining treaty between the two countries limiting nuclear weapons.

  2. Israeli airstrikes target Gaza sites in response to Palestinian fire balloons for 2nd straight day

    Israel Palestinians

    Israeli airstrikes hit militant sites in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, and Palestinians responded by sending a series of fire-carrying balloons back across the border for a second straight day.

  3. Why NATO's tentative pivot to the Asia-Pacific may be a hard sell

    Belgium NATO Summit

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is reaching out to prospective security partners in the Asia-Pacific as it turns its attention to China. But some NATO members want the focus to remain where it has always been — on Russia.

  4. Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Wednesday

    Iain Rankin and Dr. Robert Strang

    Yukon Premier Sandy Silver is calling on his fellow Yukoners to get vaccinated against COVID-19, to stay vigilant and to follow public health measures, as the territory experiences an ongoing outbreak that now totals dozens of new cases.

  5. 'The Kuzbass is now just one big hole': Siberian coal town residents on their failed effort to come to Canada

    Coal Dust

    In 2019, residents of Kiselyovsk, Russia, a city surrounded by vast, open-pit coal mines, made a video asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to allow them to come to Canada as environmental refugees. Two years later, they've lost hope that Canada or their own government can remedy what they say are unbearable living conditions.