The US Secret Service has created a militarized zone across the nation’s capital within the lead-up to Inauguration Day, prompting comparisons to fortifications arrange in Baghdad after the US invasion of Iraq. ...

New York’s iconic Instances Sq. – often the location of raucous and large celebrations on New 12 months’s Eve – will likely be almost abandoned this 12 months, with crowds banned from the world for the primary time in over a century due to Covid-19. ...

A number of rockets have focused the Iraqi capital’s closely fortified Inexperienced Zone on Sunday night. The US embassy’s C-RAM air protection techniques had been engaged to intercept the missile assault, which it mentioned resulted in no casualties. ...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has urged residents to steer clear of their family members this Thanksgiving with an eerie voice-tweet. He has had hassle convincing native authorities to implement his 10-person gathering restrict. ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a legislation on Monday ratifying an settlement on a free-trade zone between the Russia-led Eurasian Financial Union (EEU) and the Republic of Serbia. ...

Russian troopers and automobiles are losing no time in deploying to Nagorno-Karabakh, the area disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan, for a peacekeeping mission following an armistice that ended hostilities there. ...

Ukraine’s State Border Service has detained two native males who collected 40kg of mushrooms from the Chernobyl exclusion zone, apparently for "private consumption." Eradicating vegetation from the catastrophe space is strictly forbidden. ...

Tyler Joseph, member of the American pop band Twenty One Pilots, needed to undergo a spherical of self-flagellation for the crime of ridiculing using social media for public good, elevating the ire of the net mainstream. ...

Justin Gaethje has vowed to create a "zone of demise" for Khabib Nurmagomedov within the pair's UFC light-weight title battle in October, claiming that the Russian's greatest weak point is that he believes he's "infallible." ...

The household of a younger black man shot lifeless in Seattle’s former protest encampment, referred to as “CHOP,” has filed a wrongful demise declare towards town, arguing first responders failed to supply assist because the 19-year-old bled to demise. ...