World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Canada launched a complaint with the World Trade Organization on Thursday (March 13, 2025) over U.S. President Donald Trump’s across-the-board imposition of 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. The steep levies, which came into force on Wednesday, contained no exemptions despite countries’ efforts to … Read more
A view of the Quetta station after the Peshawar-Quetta Jaffar Express train was attacked by armed men in Balochistan’s Mach area in Quetta on March 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The driver of Jaffar Express, which was hijacked by Balochistan Liberation Army militants, has described the terrifying moment when the insurgents attacked the train … Read more
Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus greetsUnited Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in Dhaka on Thursday, March 13, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP UN Secretary-General António Guterres is on a four-day visit to assess the situation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as fears mount of serious aid cuts following Washington’s decision to shut down USAID operations. Bangladesh’s … Read more
An image of Pope Francis is shown as Father Fernando Laguna speaks at the altar to members of the Argentine community who gather to pray for Pope Francis on the 12th anniversary of his papacy, at Santa Maria Addolorata church, as the pontiff continues treatment at Gemelli Hospital, in Rome, Italy, March 13, 2025. | … Read more
The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations for resettling Palestinians uprooted from the Gaza Strip under President Donald Trump’s proposed postwar plan, American and Israeli officials say. The contacts with Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of Somalia known as … Read more
The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations for resettling Palestinians uprooted from the Gaza Strip under President Donald Trump’s proposed postwar plan, American and Israeli officials say. The contacts with Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of Somalia known as … Read more
Displaced Palestinian children push into a queue to get a portion of cooked food from a charity kitchen in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. File photo | Photo Credit: AFP Some 6.7 million additional people are expected to be newly displaced around the world by the end of next year, the Danish Refugee … Read more
This image courtesy of Branden Williams shows passengers standing on the wing of an American Airlines plane as they are evacuated after it caught fire while at a gate at Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado, on March 13, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Twelve people were taken to hospitals after an American Airlines plane … Read more
Meta began fact checks in December 2016, after President Donald Trump was elected to his first term [File] | Photo Credit: AP Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms Inc. said Thursday it will begin testing its crowd-sourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, on March 18. It will initially based on a ratings system used by … Read more
A judge in Maryland has blocked for now the mass firings of probationary federal workers and ordered thousands of fired probationary workers to be reinstated, marking the second decision of its kind in a day. The order from U.S. District Judge James Bredar came late on Thursday (March 13, 2025) in a lawsuit filed by … Read more