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TORONTO — Canada’s foreign minister said Thursday the country is considering the expulsion of Chinese diplomats over an intelligence agency report saying one of them plotted to intimidate the Hong Kong relatives of a Canadian lawmaker. Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said her department was summoning China’s ambassador to a meeting to underline that Canada won’t tolerate […]
LONDON — A panel of global health experts will meet Thursday to decide if COVID-19 is still an emergency under the World Health Organization’s rules, a status that helps maintain international focus on the pandemic. The WHO first gave COVID its highest level of alert on Jan. 30, 2020, and the panel has continued to apply […]
TORONTO — Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter whose hits including “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” told a tale of Canadian identity that was exported worldwide, died on Monday. He was 84. Representative Victoria Lord said the musician died at a Toronto hospital. His cause of death was not immediately available. […]
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK — The European Union’s environment agency on Wednesday urged member states to reduce pesticide use over concern that sales of harmful chemicals remain strong despite its effects on human health and biodiversity. The warning comes amid findings that one or more pesticides were detected above thresholds of concern at 22% of all monitoring sites […]
Russia Looking to Recruit 400,000 Volunteers to Fight in Ukraine New developments: At least five Russian missiles hit the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and surrounding districts Saturday night. Russia struggles to justify the war in Ukraine to its citizens. Russia claims to have captured three more districts in Bakhmut. Russian billionaires’ wealth rises […]
NAIROBI, KENYA — Kenya’s President William Ruto has offered to mediate between Sudan’s warring parties, after multiple ceasefires failed to hold and fighting raged for a seventh day Friday in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities. Ruto made the offer as he conveyed a message of goodwill to the people of Sudan as the holy month of […]
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — China revealed on Tuesday new details of sanctions it previously announced against two U.S. weapons manufacturers, including a ban on Chinese companies doing business with them. China imposed trade and investment sanctions in February on Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a division of Raytheon Technologies Corp., for supplying weapons to Taiwan, […]
Santo Domingo, D.R. The gross domestic product (GDP) of the Dominican Republic will grow by 4.25% at the end of this year, that is, 0.25% less than estimated last November, the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development informed this Friday. In a press release, the ministry said that growth projections had been revised downwards for […]
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — China vowed reprisals against Taiwan after a meeting between the United States House speaker and the island’s president, saying Thursday that the U.S. was on a “wrong and dangerous road.” Speaker Kevin McCarthy hosted Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday in a show of U.S. support for the self-ruled island, which China claims […]
AKWESASNE, QUEBEC — The bodies of two more migrants who died trying to cross from Canada into the United States were found Friday, bringing the death toll to eight, including two children, police in the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne said. The bodies of six people, described as members of two families of Romanian and Indian descent, […]
