Russia sent paratroopers into Kazakhstan on Thursday to help put down a countrywide uprising after deadly violence spread across the tightly controlled former Soviet state. Police said they had killed dozens of rioters in the Central Asian country's main city Almaty. State television said 13 

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian gunman on Thursday during a clash in the occupied West Bank, the military and Palestinian officials said. The incident occurred in the Palestinian city of Nablus, which the military said soldiers had entered to detain a Palestinian, whom it did not 

The US has smashed records for new daily cases of COVID-19, recording more than one million infections in a single day, but deaths and hospitalizations remain relatively low in a sign that the Omicron variant could bring the pandemic crisis to an end. Across the country, there were 1,082,549 new cases recorded Monday, a number likely inflated by reporting delays over the holiday weekend. On a rolling-average basis, daily cases are at 494,732 over the past seven days, up more than 110 

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine's routine commute from his Virginia home to Washington on Monday turned into a 27-hour ordeal when a blizzard left a major highway south of the nation's capital impassable, stranding him and thousands of other motorists without food and water in the freezing cold. Interstate 95 one of the busiest thoroughfares on the East Coast was closed 

China's most powerful regulators on Friday intensified the country's crackdown on cryptocurrency with a blanket ban on all crypto transactions and mining, hitting bitcoin and other major coins and pressuring crypto and blockchain-related stocks. Ten agencies, including the central bank as well as banking, securities and foreign exchange regulators, vowed to work together to root out "illegal" cryptocurrency activity,