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The United States consolidated its position as the world’s top weapons exporter — accounting for 43% of global exports — far ahead of the second largest, France, which accounted for 9.6% | Photo Credit: Getty Images NATO countries in Europe more than doubled their arms imports in the past five years, more than 60% of … Read more
The leaders of both Canada and Mexico got on the phone with U.S. President Donald Trump this past week to seek solutions after he slapped tariffs on their countries, but China’s President appears unlikely to make a similar call soon. Beijing, which unlike America’s close partners and neighbours has been locked in a trade and … Read more
A woman carries political placards for the upcoming elections in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP With her colourful Inuit earrings and tattoos on prominent display, Ujammiugaq Engell, like many Greenlanders, flaunts her rediscovered cultural identity, which U.S. President Donald Trump’s expansionist ambitions have only spurred further. “I’m a whole lot … Read more
Thousands of sick, exhausted and terrified young men and women, from countries all over the world squat in rows, packed shoulder to shoulder, surgical masks covering their mouths and eyes. Their nightmare was supposed to be over. Last month, a dramatic and highly publicised operation by Thai, Chinese and Myanmar authorities led to the release … Read more
Police block a road due to flooding on March 09, 2025 in Greenslopes Brisbane, Australia. Australia’s east coast is experiencing severe weather as ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred moves south. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Torrential rain from the remnants of Cyclone Alfred flooded swathes of Australia’s east coast on Monday (March 10, 2025) as workers battled … Read more
People sell gasoline along a street, after hundreds were killed in some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country’s new Islamist rulers in Latakia, Syria March 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Syria’s new leader has vowed accountability and an investigation after … Read more
Elon musk said on Sunday, March 9, 2025, that Ukraine’s “entire front line would collapse” if he turned off Starlink for Kyiv’s forces | Photo Credit: Reuters Billionaire industrialist and senior White House advisor Elon Musk vowed on Sunday (March 9, 2025) to maintain Ukraine’s access to his Starlink satellite network, after a fierce online … Read more
First responders work the scene after a plane crashed in a parking lot of a retirement community Sunday, March 9, 2025, in Manheim Township, Pa. | Photo Credit: AP A single-engine airplane carrying five people crashed and burst into flames on Sunday (March 9, 2025) in the parking lot of a retirement community near a … Read more
Newly appointed Liberal Leader Mark Carney and his wife Diana Fox Carney stand onstage following his speech at the Liberal leadership announcement in Ottawa, Ontario, Sunday, March 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Former central banker Mark Carney will become Canada’s next Prime Minister after a Liberal Party leadership vote in a landslide. Mr. Carney … Read more
Pro-monarchy supporters demanding the restoration of monarchy, which was abolished in 2008, chant slogans as they wait to welcome former King of Nepal Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev outside the Tribhuvan International Airport, in Kathmandu, Nepal on March 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Nepal’s former King Gyanendra Shah on Sunday (March 9, 2025) arrived … Read more