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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — As he starts his second term as U.N. secretary-general, Antonio Guterres said Thursday the world is worse in many ways than it was five years ago because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and geopolitical tensions that have sparked conflicts everywhere — but unlike U.S. President Joe Biden he thinks Russia will not invade Ukraine.Guterres said

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ends his first year in the White House with a clear majority of Americans for the first time disapproving of his handling of the presidency in the face of an unrelenting pandemic and roaring inflation, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.More Americans disapprove than approve of how

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rebuff to former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court is allowing the release of presidential documents sought by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.The justices on Wednesday rejected a bid by Trump to withhold the documents from the committee until the issue is finally resolved by the courts.

At some of the world’s most sensitive spots, authorities have installed security screening devices made by a single Chinese company with deep ties to China’s military and the highest levels of the ruling Communist Party.The World Economic Forum in Davos. Europe’s largest ports. Airports from Amsterdam to Athens. NATO’s borders with Russia. All depend on equipment manufactured

A TWENTY five year old man who assaulted another man and then brandished a knife at police officers has been handed a two-year community payback order.  John Fraser Wright, of Lerwick’s Observatory, admitted assaulting the man and repeatedly striking him on the head with a...

BLOOMSBURG — A Berwick man lost his house, his elderly dog and most of his 14 cats when a fire tore through his two-story home Tuesday morning.Frank Fulkersin, 65, spotted flames coming from a light fixture on his enclosed back porch at 321 E. Tenth St., just before 6 a.m. A passerby who also spotted the smoke and flames stopped to call 9-1-1 as Fulkersin escaped out the front

A TWENTY nine year old man who took video footage of himself viewing child pornography on his computer has had sentence deferred for a criminal justice report. Nathan Bryant, of Lerwick’s Burnside, admitted taking or permitting to be taken indecent photographs of children at...

A TWENTY one year old man who seriously injured another man after crashing into him while driving on the wrong side of the roads has been banned from driving for 21 months and ordered to carry out 210 hours of unpaid work. Ronan Wark, of Lerwick’s Harbour Street, previously...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities said Tuesday that they will cull some 2,000 small animals, including hamsters after several of the rodents tested positive for the virus at a pet store where an infected employee was working.The city will also stop the sale of hamsters and the import of small mammals, according to officials from the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The blast from the volcano could be heard in Alaska, and the waves crossed the ocean to cause an oil spill and two drownings in Peru.