Business & Commerce
Mexico's president on Tuesday hosted senior Canadian officials to discuss strategy in the face of US President Donald Trump's trade tariff offensive.Trump has imposed additional duties on both countries despite the existence of the three-way USMCA free trade treaty, which he has sa...
World
Japan marked 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Wednesday with a ceremony reminding the world of the horrors unleashed, as sabre-rattling between the United States and Russia keeps the nuclear "Doomsday Clock" close to midnight.A silent prayer was held at 8:15 am (2315 GMT),...
South Korean prosecutors questioned former first lady Kim Keon Hee on Wednesday over a litany of allegations, including stock manipulation and bribery.The questioning comes as her husband, former president Yoon Suk Yeol, remains in detention over his declaration of martial law in December, which bri...
A wildfire in southern France slowed overnight into Wednesday after injuring nine people and burning through 11,000 hectares of vegetation, local officials said.The blaze, which started on Tuesday afternoon, is still threatening several villages in the Aude department, where 1,500 firefighters have ...
Poland's new nationalist president Karol Nawrocki called for a "sovereign Poland" and promised to "fight those who are pushing the nation towards decline" as he was sworn in on Wednesday.Nawrocki, 42, a supporter of US President Donald Trump, won a June 1 election in a major ...
Natural disasters caused $135 billion in economic losses globally in the first half of 2025, fuelled by the Los Angeles wildfires, Swiss Re said Wednesday.Swiss Re, which serves as an insurer of insurance companies, said first half losses were up from the $123 billion in the first half of 2024.The Z...
Gaza's civil defence agency said Wednesday that 20 people were killed when an aid truck overturned near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip."Twenty people were killed and dozens injured around midnight last night in a truck carrying aid overturned... while hundreds of civili...
A flash flood driving a torrent of mud smashed into a town in India's Himalayan region on Tuesday, killing at least four people with around 100 others missing.The roaring waters tore down a narrow mountain valley, demolishing buildings as the flood barrelled into the town of Dharali in Uttarakha...
As it grinds on well into its twenty-second month, Israel's war in Gaza has set friends and families against one another and sharpened existing political and cultural divides.Hostage families and peace activists want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to secure a ceasefire with H...
Asian markets flitted between gains and losses Monday as investors continued to digest last week's tariff blitz by Donald Trump and a US jobs report that fanned fears about the world's top economy.News on Friday that dozens of countries would be hit with levies ranging from 10 to 41 percent ...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Monday vowed that "justice is coming", five years after a catastrophic explosion at Beirut's port for which nobody has been held to account.The blast on August 4, 2020 was one of the world's largest non-nuclear explosions, devastating swathes of th...
At least 76 people have been killed and dozens are missing after a boat carrying mostly Ethiopian migrants sank off Yemen, in the latest tragedy on the perilous sea route, officials told AFP on Monday.Yemeni security officials said 76 bodies had been recovered and 32 people rescued from the shipwrec...
Beijing issued its highest alert for rainstorms on Monday, days after deadly deluges swept parts of the Chinese capital and triggered a rare apology from under-prepared officials.The municipal weather service announced a red alert -- the highest in a four-tier system -- forecasting heavy rain from n...
South Korea said on Monday it has started removing loudspeakers used to blare K-pop and news reports into the North, as a new administration in Seoul tries to ease tensions with its bellicose neighbour.The nations, still technically at war, had already halted propaganda broadcasts along the demilita...
The United Nations on Monday announced plans to enhance air mail security, one year after parcels exploded at DHL depots in Germany and Britain, in a plot blamed on Russia.The strategy announced by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and Universal Postal Union -- two specialized UN ...
Sports
The Los Angeles Olympics are three years away, but Summer McIntosh showed at the swimming world championships why she will be one of the stars of the Games while 12-year-old Yu Zidi is shaping up to be a major threat.The United States also demonstrated that tales of their demise were exaggerated as ...
Sports,Football
Inter Miami captain Lionel Messi will be sidelined indefinitely with what the MLS team described as a "minor muscle injury in his right leg" in a statement on Sunday.The 38-year-old Argentine legend suffered an upper right leg injury early in Miami's penalty-kicks home win over Mexico&...
Sports,Tennis
Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek became the latest seed to fall at the WTA Canadian Open on Sunday, stunned 7-6 (7/1), 6-3 by 19th-ranked Dane Clara Tauson in the fourth round.Swiatek, ranked third in the world and seeded second in Montreal, followed top-seeded Coco Gauff, third-seeded two-time defend...
Saudi Arabia, Russia and six other key members of the OPEC+ alliance are expected to further hike oil production in a meeting Sunday, a move analysts say is aimed at regaining market share amid resilient crude prices.The anticipated output increase by the group of eight oil-producing countries known...
Entertainment & Glomour
Indian filmmakers are rushing to secure movie titles inspired by the recent India-Pakistan conflict, aiming to benefit from a wave of nationalism sparked by the four-day clash that left over 70 people dead.The nuclear-armed neighbours exchanged artillery, drone, and air strikes in May after India bl...
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