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In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the rate of syphilis spread in Japan. According to experts, the number of people infected with the disease is expected to be higher than 10,000 in a single year.

The body of a dead Indian soldier found after 38 years on world's highest battlefield along the contentious border with Pakistan. Two days after India celebrated its 75th anniversary of independence, an Indian Army unit tweeted images of Chander Shekhar's coffin draped in the national flag. An army patrol reportedly discovered the bones on Monday in a decommissioned bunker in the Siachen Glacier.

The videos spreading on social media reveal the moment as Ikea in Shanghai goes into lockdown, shoppers rush in panic. Panic ensued at an Ikea store in Shanghai, China, after officials forced it to close down due to a COVID-19 concern. Zhao Dandan, the deputy director of the Shanghai Health Commission, told reporters on Sunday that the "store and affected area" would be under "closed loop" control for the next two days. He said this at a press briefing.

United States president Biden intends to close Guantanamo Bay prison. The White House made the announcement on Friday that President Biden intends to close the facility that is located at the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. This is a difficult undertaking that the Obama administration was unable to accomplish about a decade ago.

Because of the extreme heat, China's zero-COVID policy has become much harder and more dangerous for front-line health care workers.

Israel attacked Gaza to protect its people from the threats of the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The U.S. categorized PIJ as a terrorist group. This recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict killed lives and destroyed homes, with the helpless civilians always getting caught in the middle of the chaos.

President Biden departs for two-week COVID isolation. After being let out of COVID isolation on Sunday morning, President Joe Biden left the White House and went to Rehoboth beach. He has tested negative for two days in a row, and his doctor has given him the green light to go to public events and travel with the president.

In the year 1878, two European colonists negotiated a pact with the sultan of Sulu for the use of his territory in what is now Malaysia. This agreement was honored by independent Malaysia until 2013, during which time the country paid the monarch's successors around $1,000 per year.

According to John Kirby, the coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council of the United States, the US is watching Chinese operations on Taiwan ‘very closely’ in the vicinity of Japan.

As Russia turns away from Europe, President Vladimir Putin will have to cope with bargain hunters in the east for the country's oil exports.

For the first time since the COVID-19 epidemic closed them in March 2020, New Zealand's borders completely reopened to tourists from across the globe on Monday.

Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan and Japan's longest-serving leader, passed away on Friday, just hours after he was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election. His death came as a shock to a nation where political violence is uncommon and guns are subject to strict regulations.

According to a recent UN Development Program estimate, the global inflation rises caused by the Ukraine crisis might force more than 71 million people into poverty.

Global inflation declines, primarily as a result of resuming commercial activity in mainland China following the relaxation of Omicron wave-related lockdowns. Other emerging markets reported solid or reviving growth, but developed world output growth slowed to the second-weakest since January 2021, led by the US and Eurozone.

In order to preserve the freedom and safety of the Allies through political and military measures, Turkey backs Finland and Sweden's NATO membership bids. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), often known as the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 30 member states, 28 of which are European and two of which are North American.

The US Navy slows f-35 orders amid rising readiness grades of its fighter fleet in the fiscal year 2023 than the manufacturer Lockheed Martin is able to produce as part of a planned catch-up strategy.

Officials in Ukraine said that a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in Kyiv on Sunday affected some people including a child. That's why the G-7 stands with Ukraine against Russia.

Mourning and outrage have shaken the country as mass shootings continue to be some of the most recent chapters in the country's long history of gun violence.

A mother from British Columbia says she won't give up her fight for accountability even though the doctor who made a mistake while caring for her critically ill daughter and who later died wasn't punished. That is because of the failure to discipline a B.C. doctor in a woman's death.

In contrast to the approach taken by the federal government, the province of B.C is not suspending the mandated vaccination of public sector and healthcare workers. Because of the decision made by the province, everyone who works in hospitals and long-term care facilities will be required to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

A new strain of the virus, which is believed to have come from Central Africa, is to blame for the outbreak in Africa. Monkeypox is a rare virus that usually affects only humans and monkeys.

A man has been arrested after a woman dies in a house fire in Scarborough from severe burns. A woman was found with severe burns in Toronto. After a fire was reported in a Scarborough home Friday afternoon, Toronto police said that they had found the 32nd person who had been killed this year.

Vancouver man’s stolen sailboat returned in time for father's day. Yes, a Vancouver dad had a crazy weekend after the sailboat he and his young daughters worked on for a year was stolen and then found, just in time for Father's Day.

A family's trip to Penticton for Father's Day quickly turned into a mission to save lives. Just before 11:00 p.m. On Friday, while the group was relaxing at their campsite, they heard calls for help coming from Skaha Lake. They have heard a man’s drowning averted at Skaha Lake.