US & Canada

Donald Trump promises new sanctions over shooting down of US drone as Iran warns of ‘crushing’ response if attacked. US President Donald Trump has vowed to impose fresh sanctions on Iran and said military action was still “on the table” as tensions continued to rise in the Gulf following the …

.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he did not discuss the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a phone call on Friday with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. “I did not because it really didn’t come up in that discussion,” Trump said on NBC’s Meet the Press …

Hundreds of US defense contractor personnel will evacuate Balad Air Base in Iraq due to “potential security threats,” Iraqi military sources have told the media. Nearly 400 employees of Lockheed Martin and Sallyport Global stationed at the base north of Baghdad are due to leave the country in a two-stage …

Amid the ongoing trade war with the US, China appears to be “rolling out the red carpet for the rest of the world,” reducing tariffs on countries competing with the US, an international economics think tank says. Beijing is not sitting idly by, waiting to see who can outlast the …

Leading Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden has criticized President Donald Trump’s strategy on Iran, saying his decision to pull out of the historic nuclear accord with the Islamic Republic had made conflict more likely. “President Trump’s Iran strategy is a self-inflicted disaster”, Biden said in a …

Canada overtook the United States as the world’s leading host of formally resettled refugees in 2018, according to statistics compiled by the United Nations. The findings were released as part of the UN Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) annual Global Trends Report, which found that more than 70 million people have been …

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called Donald Trump a “poster boy for racists,” after the US president renewed his attacks on the Muslim mayor, blaming him for a spate of attacks in the British capital. Trump called Khan a “disaster” who should be thrown out of the office while re-posting …

The mayor of the US city of Phoenix has apologized after a video allegedly showing police threatening to shoot a black family went viral. Officers were responding to an alleged shoplifting incident last month when the video was recorded. The parents say they did not notice that their four-year-old daughter …

US President Donald Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda inked a new defense agreement at the White House on Wednesday that will station an additional 1,000 US troops in Poland on a rotational basis Trump marked the signing and Duda’s visit with a rare military display: a flyover of an …

US President Donald Trump says he would be willing to accept damaging information from a foreign government on his opponent in the 2020 presidential election, after years of denying allegations that Russia helped him get elected in 2016. “I think you might want to listen… there’s nothing wrong with listening,” …

US President Donald Trump has inadvertently revealed some details of his immigration deal with Mexico. He refused to discuss the plans with reporters, saying they were “secret”. But he said this while waving around a sheet of paper that had the specifics of the deal written on it – which …

A pilot died when a helicopter crashed onto the roof of a Midtown Manhattan building in a hard landing on Monday, filling the air with smoke and clogging the city streets with fire trucks, according to police and fire officials. The pilot, Tim McCormack, was the only person on board …

Major U.S. cruise operators said on Wednesday they will no longer sail to Cuba following the Trump administration’s ban on travel to the Caribbean island, angering travelers and prompting worries about trip cancellations and company earnings. The new restrictions are aimed at pressuring Cuba’s Communist government to reform and stop …

US President Donald Trump threatened to hit China with tariffs on “at least” another $300 billion worth of Chinese goods but said he thought both China and Mexico wanted to make deals in their trade disputes with the United States. Tensions between the world’s two largest economies have risen sharply …

The leader of an international religious organization is being held in the US on charges of human trafficking, child rape, and other felonies. Naasón Joaquín García, who heads La Luz del Mundo (The Light of the World) church, was detained at Los Angeles airport, California prosecutors said. Mr. García, known …

Donald Trump is set to join Queen Elizabeth II and 15 other heads of state in the British city of Portsmouth Wednesday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day; the largest joint military operation ever was undertaken. World leaders, royalty and veterans will gather at the Portsmouth Naval Memorial to …

A group of former U.S. ambassadors to Mexico representing both Republican and Democratic presidents have banded together to urge US President Donald Trump to treat trade and migration as separate issues, the diplomats wrote in an article. The article is signed by all six living ex-U.S. ambassadors to Mexico who …

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marked the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on Tuesday by expressing “real concerns” about China’s human rights record, prompting a swift protest from Beijing. Diplomatic relations between the two countries have deteriorated badly since December when police in Vancouver detained Huawei Technologies Co …

The homeless population around Los Angeles, California, has risen sharply during the past year due to a lack of affordable housing in and around America’s second-largest city, pushing more people into poverty, according to new a study. Homelessness in the city of Los Angeles proper jumped by 16 percent, while …

US President Donald Trump has arrived in the UK on a trip overshadowed by public outrage and plans for massive protests across the country. Trump and his wife, Melania, arrived in the capital London on Monday for the three-day state visit during which he will attend a banquet hosted by …