Trump spurs trade war with steep tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China

NewsFeed Rubio officially sworn into office as US Secretary of State Former Senator Marco Rubio has officially begun his tenure as US Secretary of State, just one day after the Senate unanimously approved his confirmation. He is the first of President Trump’s cabinet nominees to be sworn in. Published On 21 Jan 202521 Jan 2025

Inmate firefighters from the Growlersburg crew hike up a mountain to create a containment fire line to control the Hughes fire in Castaic, a northwestern neighbourhood of Los Angeles County, California. [Apu Gomes/AFP]

Montreal, Canada – Canada has failed to take meaningful action to address systemic abuses in a decades-old foreign worker programme, subjecting thousands of labourers to an “inherently exploitative” system, Amnesty International says. In a 71-page report released on Thursday, the rights group outlined a wide range of abuses linked to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program…

It has now been more than three months since Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States last November with a resounding victory over the sitting vice president, Kamala Harris. A presidential election in the US is not a national referendum as much as it is 51 individual contests. Each state —…

United States President-elect Donald Trump has drawn the ire of world leaders as he highlighted brazen foreign policy plans. Speaking to reporters from his Mar-a-Lago estate in a wide-ranging media conference late on Tuesday, two weeks before he takes the reins at the White House, Trump made startling claims regarding NATO and Ukraine’s potential membership,…

Hamas, Israel wrangle over ceasefire deal as death toll mounts in Gaza