BBC The US and Canada appear no closer to resolving their ongoing trade dispute. Tensions have been simmering between the two neighbours since President Donald Trump returned to the White House just over 18 months ago, and unleashed a wide-ranging global programme of tariffs. Canada was one of the first countries the Trump administration hit with levies, and is one of two countries to respond with its own reciprocal measures. Currently, the US has hit Canada’s key sectors of steel, aluminium, lumber and automobiles with tariffs, and last week imposedRead more
Reuters Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz are visible near the beach of Bandar Abbas, close to Larak Island Iran and the US have traded strikes after American forces attacked two rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. The first known US strikes on Iran since late July killed two people and injured two others, according to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which vowed “response and punishment”. US Central Command (Centcom) said its had taken “limited, precise action” against “minelaying forces posing an imminent threat inRead more
Some Canadian websites, including for the federal government, displayed maps with Lake Ontario renamed as Lake America on Sunday, a day after Google Maps announced the change to align with an executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump. The search giant said in a Saturday post on its corporate website that it made the change because the U.S. government’s geographic names database has formally renamed the lake. Google said the change would only affect U.S. users, but a number of websites for Ontario and Canadian entities appeared to display LakeRead more
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off carrying NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday. (Joe Skipper/Reuters) NASA began a new mission to probe some of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology with the launch on Sunday of the U.S. space agency’s new flagship astronomical observatory, a repurposed spy satellite that will capture panoramic views of the cosmos. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a roughly $4 billion US project, was carried aloft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in CapeRead more
A view outside of the FIFA global headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland in July. (Getty ImagesRobert Hradil/Getty Images) FIFA confirmed on Monday that Chief Operating Officer Kevin Lamour has left the governing body, weeks after he publicly criticized President Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell a stake in its tournament business, including the World Cup. “FIFA can confirm that the working relationship between FIFA and Kevin Lamour as FIFA’s Chief Operating Officer has ended on 17 August 2026,” a FIFA spokesperson said. “FIFA thanks Kevin for his two years of service andRead more
U.S. President Donald Trump is seen in the Oval Office on Monday. (Kylie Cooper/Reuters) U.S. President Donald Trump has again threatened Oman as Iran says it is working with the Gulf Arab country on a plan to manage shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Fully reopening the waterway has been a key U.S. demand. Meanwhile, the 60-day negotiating period to find a peace deal between the United States and Iran was expiring, with no word of an extension and both sides seemingly as far apart as they were at theRead more
U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyers contend that the trial, which saw a jury in 2023 find him liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll, was unfair. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/The Associated Press) Rebuffing U.S. President Donald Trump for a second time, the United States Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear his appeal of a $5-million US verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the former magazine columnist. The justices rejected Trump’s request to reconsider their previous decisionRead more
Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, speaks with U.S. President Donald Trump at a luncheon with leaders of the G7, in Évian-les-Bains, France, on June 16. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo/The Associated Press) Canada is continuing to negotiate a trade deal with the United States that will allow it to both avoid U.S. President Donald Trump’s crippling tariff threat — set to come into effect on Wednesday — and get some additional relief on existing tariffs in key sectors. But after a flurry of meetings between top Canadian and American negotiators over theRead more
U.S. President Donald Trump is seen with Prime Minister Mark Carney last month. After Trump threatened new tariffs, there are signs that trade talks have accelerated, says Ontario’s rep in Washington. (Evelyn Hockstein/The Associated Press) The Ontario government’s representative in Washington says U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threat to levy 50 per cent tariffs on hundreds of Canadian goods is an indication that the administration is taking notice of the effect Canada’s retaliatory trade action is having on the American economy. Speaking to CBC’s Power & Politics, David Paterson pointedRead more
Migrants cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Thursday, a tiny territory off Morocco’s northern coast. (Antonio Sempere/The Associated Press) Spain will deploy its military to restore order at its border with Morocco in Ceuta after thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory. The announcement comes after local authorities in Ceuta had asked the central government in Madrid for reinforcements to manage a border crisis that had been building up before boiling over on Thursday with large crowds of people breeching the border fence. In a statement Thursday evening,Read more