Ottawa( REUTERS/Carlos Osorio/Pool)Former central banker Mark Carney claimed a landslide victory to lead Canada’s Liberal Party and to become the country’s next prime minister. Here’s everything you need to know about him.
US President Donald Trump said that the United States had “just about” ended a suspension of intelligence sharing with Ukraine, and that he expects good results out of upcoming talks with Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, in Kursk, Russian forces have advanced and curled behind Ukrainian forces.
The Republican-controlled US Congress looked set to move ahead this week to keep the government funded and avert a partial shutdown beginning, as Washington is rocked by the president’s rapid moves to slash federal agencies.
US immigration agents arrested a Palestinian graduate student who has played a prominent role in pro-Palestinian protests at New York’s Columbia University as part of Trump’s promised crackdown on some anti-Israel activists.
More than half a million people are facing travel disruption at German airports where a 24-hour strike has led to thousands of flight cancellations in a dispute about workers’ pay.
China will exert utmost efforts to realize “peaceful reunification” with Taiwan, but will take all necessary steps to safeguard China’s territorial integrity, its foreign ministry said.
Police will be out in force, and subway stations and at least one school will be closed over safety concerns when South Korea’s Constitutional Court rules whether to oust or reinstate impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol.
Syria’s leader vowed to hunt down the perpetrators of violent clashes pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country’s new Islamist rulers and said he would hold to account anyone who overstepped their authority.