News/World (Page 58)

The Trump administration and billionaire ally Elon Musk moved to shutter an agency that provides crucial aid to fund education and fight starvation overseas, sparking a showdown with congressional Democrats who blasted the effort as illegal and vowed a court fight. In one of the most dramatic efforts to pushContinue Reading

World Beijing says it wants dialogue with U.S. President Donald Trump and will go ahead with unspecified “countermeasures” to new U.S. tariffs on imports from China. Beijing says it will challenge U.S. tariff’s at WTO and take other ‘countermeasures’Thomson Reuters · Posted: Feb 02, 2025 7:27 AM EST | LastContinue Reading

Historian Mo Moulton watched with dismay last week as U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the U.S. will only recognize two sexes, male and female, and that they cannot be changed.  “There’s been so much energy expended trying to police people into fitting into just two boxes,”Continue Reading

Relations between Canada and the U.S. are coming under serious pressure — and that has some commentators offering an unlikely — though not impossible — solution. What if Canada joined the European Union? Even before U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Canadians with “economic force” if they did not want toContinue Reading

World Authorities confirmed 773 bodies and 2,880 injured persons in Goma’s morgues and hospitals, Congolese government spokesperson Patrick Muyaya told a briefing in the capital, Kinshasa, adding that the death toll could be higher. Rebels’ advance into other areas of Congo slowed by weakened military The Associated Press · Posted:Continue Reading

World U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he ordered military airstrikes on a senior Islamic State attack planner and others from the organization in Somalia. Strikes in Golis Mountains killed several operatives, says secretary of defenceThomson Reuters · Posted: Feb 01, 2025 1:21 PM EST | Last Updated: FebruaryContinue Reading

Hamas militants released three male hostages being held in the Gaza Strip on Saturday and Israel released 183 Palestinians from Israeli jails, part of a ceasefire deal that has halted 15 months of intense fighting. Militants handed Yarden Bibas and French-Israeli Ofer Kalderon to Red Cross officials in the southern cityContinue Reading

World A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother and four other adults aboard crashed into a Philadelphia neighbourhood shortly after takeoff Friday evening, exploding in a fireball that engulfed several homes. Child had been treated for life-threatening condition and was being taken home to MexicoThe Associated Press · Posted:Continue Reading

World·Analysis Canada isn’t just at risk of a recession. It faces a reordering of economic ties between the two countries that were built by generations since the Great Depression — and a scrambling of the world we’ve known. Canada’s economy will suffer from tariffs. So will the 90-year project thatContinue Reading