(Reuters) – Private equity firm Waterton Global Resource Management Inc on Tuesday said it agreed to not increase its stake in Hudbay Minerals Inc to more than 15 percent after the private equity firm settled its drawn out proxy contest with the Canadian miner. Hudbay last week settled a board battle with its second largest […]

Good morning, We’re covering Myanmar’s freedom of speech track record, a changing political climate in Australia and the best and worst of the Met Gala. U.S.-China trade talks continue, shakily Vice Premier Liu He, China’s top trade negotiator, will join a delegation to Washington for talks on Thursday and Friday, Chinese officials said. Mr. Liu’s […]

The stakes could not be higher for Congress as President Trump tries to undermine its constitutional right and responsibility to oversee the executive branch. The president has said he will refuse all subpoenas, has sued banks to stop them from providing information to Congress, has said the special counsel Robert Mueller should not testify and […]

A 20-year-old man from Iowa was able to fulfill his wish of marrying his girlfriend just hours before losing his battle against a rare form of liver cancer. Tristan Laue proposed to the love of his life, Tianna, over the Easter weekend but his family quickly realized the wedding would have to happen soon. “He’s […]

Can U.S. state governments withhold public contracts or financial investments from companies that boycott Israel? Twenty-six states have laws and regulations to this effect (legislation is pending in 13 more), but the American Civil Liberties Union has recently brought suits on behalf of plaintiffs in four states who object to this condition, claiming it infringes […]

Bruce Heyman, former United States ambassador to Canada, has publicly said what we all probably knew but didn’t speak; the new NAFTA deal is dead in the water. Heyman, speaking on CTV’s Question Period this past weekend, stated that the new trilateral deal, in its present form, will never come to pass. He lays a […]

The Treasury Department, with its Monday announcement that it would not comply with a demand from House Democrats to release President Trump’s tax returns to Congress, has set up a battle that will now go to the courts to be settled. President Trump has already filed a novel lawsuit to block his own accounting firm […]

PARIS — Two days after he took office as France’s president, Emmanuel Macron flew to Berlin. It was May 16, 2017, and France and Germany needed a reset. Joined at the hip, the two nations cannot make Europe work if they don’t work together. Mr. Macron had been elected to transform France, and he was […]

In 2017, the Canadian right-wing activist and filmmaker Lauren Southern joined a group of young European nationalists on a boat in Mediterranean waters. Their mission was to interfere with humanitarian groups that rescue migrants at sea. The next year Southern released a documentary about the threat of “white genocide” in South Africa. She’s a proponent […]

The concept of nursing home residents as ‘consumers’, in the same way people buy insurance or some other commercial service, has been missing in the debate about their care up to now. When it comes to looking after the elderly, the focus has been mostly on quality of service, access and cost. But their rights […]