Canada’s incoming prime minister Mark Carney struck a defiant note as the former central banker vowed to win US President Donald Trump’s trade war, saying his country will “never” be part of the United States.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday the United States was cancelling 83 percent of programmes at the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

US President Donald Trump, who wants to take over Greenland, is very erratic, the island’s premier said yesterday, the eve of the self-governing Danish territory’s legislative elections.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday ahead of talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia that Ukraine wants peace and Russia is the “only reason” that the war has dragged on.

French migrant rescue group SOS Mediterranee brought 25 people stranded off the Libyan coast aboard its Ocean Viking vessel on Sunday, the NGO said.

Iran has summoned the Swedish ambassador to protest against “interventionist accusations” made by his country’s education minister, the foreign ministry in Tehran announced yesterday.

Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said this during a weekly press briefing

After imposing a blanket 10 percent tariff on all Chinese goods in early February, Trump hiked the rate to 20 percent last week.

Canada's Liberal Party overwhelmingly elected Mark Carney as the country's next prime minister Sunday

Torrential rain from the remnants of Cyclone Alfred flooded swathes of Australia's east coast on Monday, as workers battled to restore power to more than 200,000 homes and businesses

Israel is due to send a delegation to Doha on Monday for a fresh round of talks on extending a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, after cutting off the electricity supply to ramp up pressure on Hamas

China said yesterday it will accelerate the use of artificial intelligence and big data in elderly and social care as it bets on new technologies to drive economic growth despite an ageing population.

At least four Pakistani paramilitary troops were killed when local Taliban fighters attacked a security checkpoint in a northwestern border region, a police official said yesterday.

US Secret Service agents shot an armed man near the White House during the night, an agency spokesman said early yesterday, while President Donald Trump was spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said later on Saturday that Iran will not be bullied into negotiations, a day after US President Donald Trump said he had sent a letter to the country’s top authority urging Tehran to negotiate a nuclear deal.

Israel carried out an air strike on Hamas members in northern Gaza yesterday, rattling an already fragile ceasefire as it prepared for fresh talks in Doha on the future of its truce with Hamas.

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa yesterday called for peace and national unity after days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of the former government that have killed more than 1,000 people, most of them Alawite civilians.

Five people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in two attacks in Thailand’s troubled south, police said yesterday.

The EU still sees the United States as “allies” despite President Donald Trump’s verbal broadsides against the bloc, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said yesterday, while stressing the need for Europe to “step up” on defence.

Ukraine said yesterday that Russia launched over one hundred drones overnight, targeting the capital and several regions at a crucial point in the war as Washington has frozen aid supplies.