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BEIJING: China confirmed that Canadian and British citizens will be able to visit the country visa-free from Tuesday (Feb 17), after the two countries’ leaders had announced such agreements following official trips to Beijing.British and Canadian prime ministers Keir Starmer and Mark Carney both visited Beijing in January, seeking to bolster relations with China and pivot from the increasingly mercurial United States.Both leaders had hailed progress following meetings with top Chinese leaders such as President Xi Jinping, including on issues like visa-free access for their citizens to China. Beijing’s foreign ministry confirmed these agreements on Sunday, saying Canadian and British citizens…

Gaza City, Gaza Strip – With exhausted steps and eyes filled with tears, Hanaa al-Mabhuh moves between the hall displaying photographs of bodies and the morgue at al-Shifa Hospital in a grim search for any trace of her missing son.The 56-year-old mother wipes away tears with the back of her hand and stares at the decomposed faces on the screen, torn between the desire to find out what happened to her youngest child, while at the same time fearing he might be among the dead handed over by Israel under a US-brokered ceasefire deal.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton clashed with a Czech political leader at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday.Clinton was speaking during a panel on the state of the West where she heavily criticized President Donald Trump for his dealings with Europe. Petr Macinka, a Czech deputy prime minister, defended the Trump administration as Clinton repeatedly mocked his statements and tried to speak over him.”First, I think you really don’t like him,” Macinka said as he began to respond to Clinton’s Trump-bashing.”You know, that is absolutely true,” Clinton said. “But…

Bitcoin’s massive slump from a record price above $126,000 last October has darkened sentiment across the crypto landscape. Faith has been shaken in a trade that was viewed as a digital rival to gold as a store of value, and by some others as a risk-on asset that would continue to boom alongside a crypto-friendly Trump administration. Since the all-time high price last October, bitcoin has lost almost half its value and its inability to bounce back in trading is increasing fears about another “crypto winter” — a prolonged slump similar to the time of the FTX crash in 2022…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The controversy in Olympic curling expanded on Sunday as Team Great Britain’s men’s team was hit with the same violation that hurt the Canadians two days in a row.Britain was taking on Germany in round-robin play when officials said Scottish curler Bobby Lammie touched a stone after releasing it down the ice. Britain had a stone removed due to the “double-touching,” but still ended up with a 9-4 win. Britain’s Bobby Lammie in action during the men’s curling round robin session against Germany, at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy,…

All hail Anthropic, the destroyer of everything. What an amazing service. It can wipe out Adobe by allowing you to design something better that has a much simpler commerce system, designed personally for you. That one is child’s play. ServiceNow may call itself the “AI Control Tower” to signify who is in charge, but the cognoscenti doesn’t regard CEO Bill McDermott as anything other than a salesman – even as he has won more business than anyone else from the pre-AI school and I don’t hear many complaints. Aneel Bhusri is coming back to Workday , the software giant he…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Authorities in Georgia are searching for a woman accused of stealing a full-size school bus from an elementary school and driving it nearly 40 miles before abandoning it in another county, officials said.The bus was taken from Arbor Springs Elementary School in Coweta County in the early morning hours of Feb. 9 and later recovered in Temple, a city in Carroll County, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.Investigators said the suspect did not have to force entry because she apparently had a key.NEW JERSEY TEACHER WHO SLEPT WITH STUDENTS AT FAMILY BAGEL SHOP…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size After enjoying relatively mild temperatures in recent weeks, most of Alberta is about to get an abrupt return of winter. Environment Canada has issued special weather statements for much of central and southern regions of the province, with 10 to 20 centimetres expected to fall between Monday and Wednesday.The agency says the snow will likely vary widely from place to place, with local amounts possibly reaching up to 30 cm. 2:07 Wicked Alberta snow storm shuts down highways amid whiteout conditions According to Environment Canada, blowing snow is also expected on Tuesday…

Matthieu Jalibert has put in a masterful shift at flyhalf as France ran in a record eight tries in a record 54-12 bonus-point victory over hapless Wales in their Six Nations Championship clash at a subdued Principality Stadium in Cardiff.France now top the Six Nations table with a full haul of 10 points as the only side to have won both of their matches, with Wales bottom having conceded 102 points so far following Sunday’s humiliation.Wing Theo Attissogbe managed two tries and centre Fabien Brau-Boirie crossed on his debut as the home side lost for the 13th consecutive time in…

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