US & World

When Christopher Landry was making his annual trip to New Brunswick from New Hampshire, he didn’t think he would run into any problems. But on his way home crossing the border to the U.S. in Houlton, Maine, he found out he wasn’t allowed back.  Green card holder Christopher Landry is …

A Palestinian American man was beaten to death by settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, says the Palestinian Health Ministry, prompting his family to demand that the U.S. lead an investigation. Another man, 23, was shot dead.  Family of 20-year-old American demand U.S. State Department lead an investigation. A Palestinian …

A preliminary report depicted confusion in the cockpit shortly before an Air India jetliner crashed, killing more than 200 people last month, after the plane’s engine fuel cutoff switches almost simultaneously flipped off, starving the engines of fuel.  Report notes pilot was heard on cockpit voice recorder asking the other …

A U.S. judge has granted Mohammad Younesi permission to travel to the Canadian border to claim asylum. But his petition to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada for a permit to make that happen was rejected.  Mohammad Younesi has been in ICE detention in Texas for nearly a year and faces …

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to slap a 35 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods as the two countries have been engaged in negotiations to reach some sort of trade agreement. Trump and PM Carney have been locked in negotiations to reach a trade agreement by July 21. …

It’s just before noon and several news crews are gathered outside the fire hall in Comfort, Texas, their cameras pointed at a yellow siren high on a pole and set to go off every day at midday. ‘These sirens helped us,’ says local fire official. Alarm sounded on July 4 …

At least seven children were killed by an Israeli strike in broad daylight while waiting in line for nutritional supplements near a medical centre in central Gaza on Thursday, health officials say.  Attack near medical centre in Deir al-Balah killed 15 people, officials say; Israel says it targeted militants. At …

Political leaders in Lithuania were briefly directed to air raid shelters on Thursday after the alarm was raised over an airspace violation from Belarus, Lithuanian media reported. Media reports stated that Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas and Parliament Speaker Saulius Skvernelis were taken to safety as a precaution while the situation …

Today’s letters to seven minor trading partners add to the 14 other tariff rates U.S. President Donald Trump set earlier in the week.  The letters set rates between 20 and 30 per cent for handful of minor trading partners. U.S. President Donald Trump issued final tariff notices to seven minor …

Officials in flood-stricken central Texas on Wednesday again deflected mounting questions about whether they could have done more to warn people ahead of devastating flash flooding that killed at least 119 people on July 4.  Texas governor suggested the word ‘blame’ was for ‘losers.’ Officials in flood-stricken central Texas on …