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…
KYIV/WASHINGTON – Ukraine and the U.S. said on Wednesday they signed an agreement on a joint fund to invest in Ukraine’s reconstruction, and a draft of the deal said it would give Washington preferential access to new Ukrainian natural resources deals. The two countries signed the accord in Washington after months of sometimes fraught negotiations, with uncertainty persisting until the last-moment with word of an eleventh-hour snag. “In recognition of the significant financial and…
IDLIB/DAMASCUS, Syria, April 29 (Reuters) – The toppling of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad has been great for Mohammad al-Badawi. His sales have doubled as beverages he imports cheaply from Turkey into the former-rebel stronghold of Idlib can now be sold in the rest of Syria. For Haytham Joud business has collapsed. He built his food,…
The government of Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday declassified over 1,850 official documents detailing the arrival of Nazi German officials to Argentina and their actions in the South American nation following World War II. The files, which can be freely accessed on an Argentine government website, most notably contain documentation detailing the actions of…
Tensions are escalating between the nuclear-armed powers India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is giving the armed forces near complete freedom of action to respond following a deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region on April 22 that saw 26 people killed by terrorists. India and Pakistan have exchanged fire every day…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will remain in office as his Liberal Party won a minority government in Monday’s federal election. Carney took over as Canada’s leader in March when he replaced deeply unpopular former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who had announced his resignation after almost a decade in office. Despite the Liberal victory — which…
The truce is due to be from the start of Thursday 8 May (10pm on 7 May UK time) until the end of Saturday 10 May (10pm on 10 May UK time). Vladimir Putin has declared there will be a three-day ceasefire next week by Russia in its war in Ukraine. The president said it…
A deadly attack on mostly Indian tourists in Pahalgam in contested Kashmir has sparked rising tensions in the region. Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged fire for a third night, and India has held naval drills Troops from India and Pakistan have fired small arms along Kashmir‘s Line of Control (LoC) for a third night as…
The Spanish government said it called an emergency crisis meeting. LONDON — Millions of people in Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France lost power on Monday following a “severe disruption” in the European electrical system, the Spanish prime minister said. The cause of the disruption is still unknown, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said…
Greetings from Tyler, What a brave face Europe’s putting on. The European’s think they’ll band together and that’ll show us. This is a story-line, and we have to wait for it to play out. Everybody’s leaders from all over the world are poised to attend the pope’s funeral, even some crooks who’ve had to overcome travel…