Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government can revoke the Emergencies Act now that the crisis in Ottawa and Canada’s border crossings has calmed down, the Financial Post reports.
Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, which replaced the War Measures Act in 1988, for the first time last week, saying police needed extra help to end blockades that had been ongoing in downtown Ottawa for weeks and had spread to key Canada-U.S. border crossings.
On Monday, Trudeau...
Ukraine has urged its citizens living in Russia to leave the country immediately amid growing fears of war.
In addition to the order affecting more than three million people, Ukraine mobilized its military reserves and declared a state of emergency.
It came as Russian troops, ordered into two rebel-held regions in eastern Ukraine, were reportedly edging closer to the border. Russia has begun evacuating its embassy in Kyiv and lowered its flag there.
Western countries have announced a...
Blood pressure rose moderately during the early months of the pandemic, according to a University of Texas Southwestern study of patients who monitored themselves at home.
"People were less active, ate more, and drank more (alcoholic beverages) during the pandemic, all of which led to higher blood pressure," said Eric Peterson, MD and lead author of the study. "COVID made it challenging for people to see their doctors and have their medications adjusted."
The study, published in the American Heart...
Some apps in the virtual-reality metaverse are "dangerous by design," the U.K.'s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has warned in response to a BBC News investigation.
A researcher posing as a 13-year-old girl witnessed grooming, sexual material, racist insults, and a rape threat in the virtual-reality world.
The children's charity said it was "shocked and angry" at the findings.
Head of online child safety policy for the NSPCC Andy Burrows added the investigation had...
Men with a high body mass index (BMI) in their upper teens had an elevated risk of severe COVID-19, requiring hospitalization, later in life, University of Gothenburg researchers show in a register study.
For some time, overweight and obesity have been recognized risk factors for severe COVID-19. To date, however, there has been no study to monitor large groups of individuals whose obesity was identified at an early age, and to find out how severely ill they...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops into two rebel-held regions in eastern Ukraine, after recognizing them as independent states.
Russia said the troops have not yet been deployed but will be "peacekeeping" in the regions, which it has backed since 2014.
The U.S. said calling them peacekeepers was "nonsense", and accused Russia of creating a pretext for war, the BBC reports.
Several countries have announced sanctions in response.
Ukraine's president said his country was "not afraid of...
OnlyFans has been accused of conspiring to blacklist the social media accounts of adult performers working for rival websites, BBC News has learned.
Legal documents, previously unreported, claim OnlyFans directed an unidentified social media company to disable accounts of performers by placing their content on a terrorism database.
It is alleged that OnlyFans representatives paid bribes to the firm's employees to facilitate the practice. OnlyFans says it is aware of the legal claim and it has...
Canada's Parliament has backed the government's decision to impose emergency powers to deal with weeks-long protest blockades against COVID restrictions.
The motion passed with 185 votes to 151 on Monday, with the support of the Liberals and the left-leaning NDP, reports the BBC.
Over the weekend, police cleared the final protest site in Ottawa on streets around Parliament Hill.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act early last week.
Earlier on Monday, Trudeau defended the continued use...
Donald Trump's social-media platform, Truth Social, has launched, in a limited form, on the U.S. Apple App Store.
The app has similarities to Twitter, commentators noted. Trump was banned from Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube last year.
Some early users had difficulties registering accounts. Project lead and former congressman Devin Nunes said it was expected to be fully operational by the end of March.
Some of those trying to register were told: "Due to massive demand, we have placed...
A trio of researchers from the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, Université de Lyon, and Sorbonne Université, respectively, has made the first official sighting of a quadruple asteroid system – an asteroid with three moons orbiting around it. In their paper published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, Anthony Berdeu, Maud Langlois, and Frédéric Vachier, describe how they spotted a third moon around asteroid Elektra and some of its characteristics.
The asteroid Elektra was first...
