Gravitas: Floods inundate China’s southern provinces
Former US President Donald Trump has been indicted over his handling of classified documents after he left the White House. “I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former President of the United States,” he wrote on Truth Social. It is the second indictment of Mr Trump, who is running…
OTTAWA, March 20 (Reuters) – Canada has not approved new arms export permits to Israel since Jan. 8 and the freeze will continue until Ottawa can ensure the weapons are used in accordance with Canadian law, the government said on Wednesday. Export permits that were approved before Jan. 8 remain in effect, the office of…
April 10 (UPI) — The United States has transferred to Ukraine thousands of weapons along with hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition that it seized from Iran en route to its Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Justice Department said Tuesday that the United States transferred more than 5,000 AK-47s, machine guns, sniper rifles and…
Loonie strengthened against greenback to trade as high as $1.3777 per U.S. dollar United States President Donald Trump said newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to visit the White House within the next week. “I think we’re going to have a great relationship. He called me up yesterday. He said ‘Let’s make a deal,’” Trump told reporters…
The second quarter’s 4.7 percent growth was far below the 5.3 percent pace seen in the first quarter of 2024. China’s economy expanded at a slower-than-forecast 4.7 percent annual rate in the last quarter, the government reported Monday, while emphasizing signs of improvement in factory output, income, and investment. The expansion was sharply below the…
CAIRO, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Jordan won’t sign a deal to provide energy to Israel in exchange for water that was planned to be ratified last month, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told AL Jazeera TV on Thursday. “We had a regional dialogue about regional projects. I think that all of this, … the war…