WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG, NYTIMES, AFP) – US President Donald Trump downplayed the chance he would impose tariffs on Australia, a top US ally, after the New York Times reported his administration considered doing so last week. Asked about the report on Sunday (June 2) before a visit to the UK, Mr Trump said the US had […]

The green alternative to the traditional vehicle is surging in Saskatchewan, as sales of electric vehicles have doubled across the province. According to new data from Electric Mobility Canada, the province experienced 100 per cent year-over-year sales growth for electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2019. “It’s absolutely fantastic news,” founder of the Saskatchewan […]

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says the ‘childish insults’ uttered by US President Donald Trump as he landed in the UK are “beneath the President of the United States’. Mr Trump called Mr Khan a “stone cold loser” on the first day of his State visit to the UK today. As Air Force One […]

Colorado on Friday became the 18th state to ban “conversion therapy” for minors, a discredited practice that aims to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender expression. Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado, who is gay, signed the bill into law a day before the start of Pride Month for the L.G.B.T. community. He also signed […]

Leah Lange Chase, the Creole chef whose gumbo sustained everyone from jazz superstars and two United States presidents to troubled families in the housing projects across the street from her family’s New Orleans restaurant, died on Saturday. She was 96. Her death was announced by her family. Mrs. Chase fed fried chicken, jambalaya and red […]

Thousands of High Level residents, who were evacuated nearly two weeks ago because of ongoing wildfires in the region, will be allowed to go home on Monday. “High Level and the surrounding area is reopening its doors to welcome you back,” the town said on Sunday. “At 10 a.m. Monday, the mandatory evacuation order for […]

NEW YORK (AFP) – Former American drug kingpin Frank Lucas, whose criminal exploits were profiled in the film American Gangster, has died at the age of 88, his nephew told media on Friday (May 31). Mr Adrian Lassiter told Rolling Stone magazine his uncle had died of natural causes without giving further details. Raised in […]

At least two bodies were retrieved on Sunday off Libya’s Mediterranean coast after a boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants including women and children capsized, the U.N. migration agency said, as the search for survivors continues. The International Organization for Migration said the boat was carrying over 95 migrants and floundered off the coast of […]

A pair of Edmonton organizations announced Friday they are taking steps to help people impacted by wildfires in northern Alberta this spring. In a Facebook post, the Edmonton Emergency Relief Services Society (EERSS) said it would be accepting donations this weekend. The EERSS said it is look for people to donate new socks, new underwear, […]

Eleven people were killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at a government building in the US state of Virginia on Friday, police said. Police said the suspect, a long-term and current Virginia Beach city employee, fired “indiscriminately” in a public utilities building. The gunman, whose identity has not been released, was killed […]