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The number of murders and other intentional killings surged to a record high across the world in 2021, driven in part by the stress and economic pressures of COVID-19 lockdowns, a U.N. report said on Friday. Around 458,000 people were killed intentionally, higher than the 400,000 to 450,000 recorded every year since researchers started collating the data in 2000, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Global Study on Homicide said. Escalations in gang or political violence in Ecuador, Myanmar and other countries played their part, the study said.
A strike which had shut down ports along Canada's west coast, including the country's largest in Vancouver, has ended after 13 days of nationwide economic repercussions, negotiators announced Thursday.The west coast ports combined handled 16 percent of Canada's total traded goods in the year 2020, the BCMEA had said earlier.
The International Monetary Fund warns of severe consequences if the US defaults on its debt, urging urgent resolution. Republicans and Democrats remain divided over the borrowing limit.