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Canada’s Liberal Party To Elect New Leader and Prime Minister to Replace Trudeau: What to Know

Two friends from Alberta, both with strong careers overseas and similar backgrounds — Harvard and Oxford graduates, members of the liberal global elite — are vying to replace Justin Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party and of the country just as Canada faces a generational crisis because of the Trump administration’s tariffs and sovereignty […]

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Days of Clashes in Syria Kill More Than 300 Civilians, War Monitor Reports

Three days of clashes between forces from Syria’s new government and fighters loyal to the ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad have killed more than 300 civilians and scores of combatants from both sides, a war monitoring group said on Saturday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has monitored the Syrian conflict since 2011, said

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Will Canadians Warm Up to Mark Carney, the Liberal Party Front-Runner Eyeing Trudeau’s Job?

It was the summer of 2007. Deep inside Canada’s finance ministry, high-ranking officials were staring down the barrel of a global financial meltdown. They weren’t sure exactly when, or how, the market would crash, but as Mark Carney tells it, “We knew that the thing was going to fall apart.” It was a turning point

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Over a Dozen Conservative Party Donors Fund Britain’s Populist Reform U.K.

Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform U.K. party has attracted more than a dozen donors from Britain’s once dominant Conservative Party, an analysis of new data reveals, underlining the threat the Tories face from a right-wing populist party that models itself on President Trump’s MAGA movement. In total, Reform U.K. raised 4.75 million pounds ($6.1 million) last

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As U.S. Tariffs Become Reality, Canadians Prepare for Economic Pain

The trucks that carry about $300 million worth of auto parts each day over the bridge from Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit are still rolling as usual. But in the aftermath of President Trump’s decision to impose 25 percent tariffs on most categories of Canadian exports, the mood in Windsor, like all of Canada, was transformed.

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China and Canada Retaliate Against New Trump Tariffs: Live Updates

Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico, stood underneath a giant Mexican flag and before troops at a military installation in Mexico City. It was Flag Day last month and she used her speech as an opportunity to, figuratively and literally, rally around it. “Mexico must be respected,” she said, adding later: “Its people are brave.

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Israel Halts Aid to Gaza and Proposes New Cease-Fire Framework

Israel announced on Sunday that it was immediately halting the entry of all goods and humanitarian assistance into Gaza, trying to force Hamas into accepting a temporary extension of the cease-fire in the war. The move disrupts the existing, agreed-upon framework for negotiating a permanent end to the war and puts the fate of the

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Vietnamese Journalist Gets 2 ½ Years in Prison for Facebook Posts

A court in Vietnam sentenced one of the country’s most influential journalists to two and a half years in prison Thursday for “abusing democratic freedoms” with about a dozen posts on Facebook that criticized or questioned the government. The journalist, Truong Huy San — known to many by his pen name, Huy Duc — was

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