Canada’s Carney visits Trump as relations between the longtime allies sit at a low point
WASHINGTON (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived at the White House on Tuesday to meet with President Donald Trump at a time when one of the world’s most durable and amicable alliances has been fractured by Trump’s trade war and annexation...
Russia held liable for failing to investigate death of Dutch cameraman
(CN) — Seventeen years after a Dutch cameraman was killed covering the 2008 war in Georgia, Europe’s human rights judges said Tuesday that Russia still hasn’t answered for the missile strike that took his life. The court found that Russian authorities “took no...
Building collapse in central Madrid leaves 3 construction workers injured, 4 more missing
MADRID (AP) — A building under renovation in central Madrid partially collapsed on Tuesday, injuring three construction workers and leaving four others missing, Spanish authorities said. Emergency services are searching for the missing workers, according to central...
France’s Macron should resign, former PM urges
PARIS (AFP) — Emmanuel Macron’s first prime minister and one-time ally on Tuesday urged the cornered French head of state to resign in a shock call that compounded an escalating political crisis. The intervention by Edouard Philippe, Macron’s...
Syria announces ‘comprehensive ceasefire’ with Kurds after clashes
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — Syria announced a comprehensive ceasefire with Kurdish forces after a meeting Tuesday between Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi that followed deadly clashes in the northern city of Aleppo. Syria’s...
Israel marks Oct. 7 anniversary as talks held to end Gaza war
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel marked the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Tuesday, as Hamas and Israeli negotiators held indirect talks aimed at ending the war in Gaza under a U.S.-proposed peace plan. Two years ago to the day, at the close of the Jewish festival...
Trio of California professors wins physics Nobel for quantum mechanical tunnelling
STOCKHOLM (AFP) — Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work on quantum physics in action, the Nobel jury said. The trio was honored “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum...
He said his client was tortured by police. Azerbaijan disbarred him
(CN) — When Azerbaijani lawyer Yalchin Imanov spoke up about his client being tortured in prison, he lost his license — a decision Europe’s rights court ruled on Tuesday was disproportionate and incompatible with the principles of a democratic society. In a...
The mouse that roared
When I was still a kid, I went with my family to a movie called “The Mouse That Roared.” It was a British satire about a tiny European nation that declares war on the United States over a knock-off pinot noir. It starred Peter Sellers and Jean Seberg. As a...