US & World

Tesla’s earnings are being heralded as an ‘unmitigated disaster.’ A drop in production and deliveries presents a fork in the road and a real challenge for EV makers worldwide.  Tesla’s ‘unmitigated disaster’ exposes trouble ahead for the electric vehicle market. Tesla’s disastrous earnings report this week has sparked a sell-off …

Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in at least 25 years killed seven people on Wednesday, injuring more than 700, with 77 trapped in tunnels and collapsed buildings, authorities said, as rescuers used ladders to help some people descend to safety.  Strongest quake in 25 years collapses buildings and triggers landslide. Taiwan’s biggest …

Canada and several of its allies called for an investigation Tuesday into an Israeli airstrike that killed seven international aid workers who had been delivering food aid in Gaza.  World Central Kitchen identifies workers, including Canadian. Trudeau calls Israeli killing of aid workers unacceptable A dual Canada-U.S. citizen delivering aid …

Wildfires in the normally humid, tropical Amazon rainforest have been supercharged by a disastrous combination of elevated temperatures, historic drought and deforestation. In Roraima State, in northern Brazil, the number of fires in February were more than five times the average.  Elevated temperatures, historic drought and deforestation contributing to wildfires …

Donald Trump. AFP  New York, United States — Embattled former US president Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case Monday, a court document showed, avoiding asset seizures while his case winds through the appeals process. Last week, a New York appeals court cut …

It’s been a cold, brutal winter on a vital political front in Ukraine’s war of self-defense. There hasn’t been much good news lately from Washington. That may be changing. U.S. lawmakers are now predicting a vote on a multibillion-dollar weapons package that would arm Ukraine throughout the year.   Suddenly, …

Canada is expanding its evacuation of citizens from Haiti to include relatives and Canadian permanent residents, starting Wednesday if conditions allow. The government has also arranged for a charter flight for Canadians who pay a market rate to fly between the Dominican Republic and Montreal.   Amid intense gang violence, …

In the face of war, famine and homelessness, desperate Gazans are paying a private company in Cairo exorbitant “travel co-ordination fees” to help them escape into Egypt through the Rafah border. One international affairs expert says the system is war profiteering “at its worst.”   Gaza residents are paying Egyptian …

This is the month Donald Trump goes to trial. It’s the first criminal trial in history for a U.S. president. What will happen in this New York hush-money case? Five legal experts weigh in on the timeline, the verdict and the potential sentence. The timeline, the verdict, the sentence: 5 …

Israeli strikes killed 77 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours, health authorities said on Sunday, as Egypt hosted an Israeli delegation for a new round of talks in a bid to secure a truce with Gaza’s Hamas rulers. Cairo hosts new negotiations with Israeli envoys in bid to …