Montreal, Canada – Canada’s governing Liberal Party has chosen Mark Carney to replace outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as its leader. The former governor of the Bank of Canada won the Liberal leadership vote on Sunday, about two months after Trudeau announced plans to resign amid pressure over an affordability crisis and threats of a…

Here is the situation on Wednesday, March 12 : Ceasefire talks Senior officials from the United States and Ukraine met in Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah for nine hours of talks, after which Kyiv said it had agreed to accept an immediate 30-day truce and take steps towards restoring long-lasting peace with Moscow, a…

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on the imports of steel and aluminium by the United States are sending shockwaves through global markets and escalating tensions with key trading partners, including Canada, Mexico and the European Union. Some countries are fighting back with retaliatory tariffs, others are seeking exemptions, and a few are trying to negotiate their…

Taipei, Taiwan – As a TikTok ban looms in the United States, young Americans are flocking to the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu as “TikTok refugees” in search of a similar experience. The app has risen to the top spot on the iOS and Google Play stores in the US in recent days as users…

The Panamanian president has rejected threats by US President-elect Donald Trump that the United States could reassert control over the Panama Canal, saying “there’s nothing to talk about.” President Jose Raul Mulino on Thursday also rejected the possibility of reducing canal tolls for US vessels and denied that China had any influence over the vital…

Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly will meet with her US counterpart Marco Rubio in Washington, DC, as Canada seeks to stave off the threat of steep United States tariffs and a potential trade war between the two countries. Joly is set to hold talks with the US secretary of state on Wednesday afternoon in the…