Category: World News

Some of Donald Trump’s friends in Washington suddenly sound nervous about him having the keys to the economy. A few are even talking about wrenching them away. There are a few nascent efforts to pare back the U.S. president’s legal power to set tariffs, now being used in an unprecedented manner. Those efforts are a […]

An uninhabited Antarctic outpost populated by penguins. One of the smallest economies in the world. An Arctic archipelago with more polar bears than people. To quote Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, it really does appear that “nowhere on Earth is safe” from U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. Trump rattled markets, manufacturers and more Wednesday announcing a […]

Since taking over the Labour leadership from Jeremy Corbyn following Labour’s landslide defeat in 2019, Sir Keir Starmer has frequently been accused of ideological flip-flopping. Now a startling new poll reveals that voters are getting more confused about what the Prime Minister stands for as time goes on. Pollsters YouGov asked 2213 British voters what […]

Israeli troops moved into an area of northern Gaza, taking control of more territory around the edge of the enclave, the military said on Friday, days after the government announced plans to seize large areas with an operation in the south. Soldiers carrying out the operation in Shuja’iyya, a suburb east of Gaza City in the north, were […]

U.S. President Donald Trump extended a deadline by 75 days for Chinese technology company ByteDance to sell U.S. assets of popular short video app TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban that was supposed to have taken effect in January under a 2024 law. “The deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed,” Trump said […]

Sean (Diddy) Combs was hit with an expanded federal indictment on Friday, charging the hip-hop mogul with five criminal counts, including racketeering and sex trafficking. Combs, 55, previously pleaded not guilty to an earlier three-count indictment. The new indictment includes additional charges of sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Combs’s trial remains scheduled for […]

Stock markets worldwide are careening even lower Friday after China matched U.S. President Donald Trump’s big raise in tariffs in an escalating trade war. Not even a better-than-expected report on the U.S. job market, which is usually the economic highlight of each month, was enough to stop the slide.     The S&P 500 was down 3.8 per […]

In a sprawling exhibition centre in Hanover, Germany, thousands of businesses, including 250 from Canada, are taking part in one of the world’s largest trade fairs focused on industrial technology and innovation.  Rows of booths and flashy displays are meant to spark conversation, but much of the discussion has been about the U.S. tariffs, which […]

Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the United States on tariffs that risk wiping out nearly half of its exports, its trade minister said, in what could be a death blow to its economy. The 50 per cent reciprocal trade tariff on the tiny southern […]

British police charged actor-comedian Russell Brand with rape and multiple counts of assault connected to a number of allegations between 1999 and 2005, a police statement on Friday said. Brand, 50, the former husband of U.S. pop singer Katy Perry and once one of Britain’s most high-profile comedians and broadcasters, had repositioned himself in recent years as an internet social commentator. Police […]