There is not a “snowball’s chance in hell” that Canada will merge with the United States, outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday, while his foreign minister added the country will “never back down” from threats by Donald Trump.

Israeli military strikes across Gaza killed at least 27 people yesterday, Palestinian medics said, as international mediators stepped up efforts to seal a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.

China yesterday accused Taiwan’s ruling party of having “deliberately hyped” an incident in which a Chinese-owned ship was suspected of damaging a subsea telecoms cable.

Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa yesterday warned of “extremely dangerous times ahead” in an interview with AFP after social media giant Meta ended its US fact-checking programme on Facebook and Instagram.

A French magazine produced by autistic journalists went on sale on newsstands for the first time yesterday, further raising the profile of a project that has already made waves on television.

More than 30,000 people evacuated their homes as a wildfire tore through a coastal area of Los Angeles in just a few hours, and a second blaze some 30 miles (50 km) inland was rapidly spreading yesterday.

Antarctic sea ice rebounded in December after a long period of record lows, US scientists said, giving pause to speculation that Earth’s frozen continent could be undergoing a permanent change.

Around 400 foreign nationals were arrested yesterday in a “large-scale” raid on a suspected online scam farm in Manila, the national immigration agency said.

While the UN health agency considers the world more prepared than it was when Covid hit, it warns we are not nearly ready enough

As the sun set over Los Angeles, towering orange flames illuminated the hills leading to Topanga Canyon

South Korean anti-graft investigators yesterday secured a new court-ordered arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, whose failed martial law bid threw the country into turmoil.

Social media giant Meta yesterday scrapped its US fact-checking program for a community-based system similar to X and reduced the curbs on discussions around contentious topics such as immigration and gender identity.

The UN’s World Food Programme has accused Israel of firing on one of its aid convoys in the war-torn Gaza Strip, saying at least 16 bullets hit the clearly marked vehicles but no staff were injured.

A strong earthquake struck the foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s holiest cities yesterday, killing at least 126 people and flattening hundreds of houses, Chinese authorities said.

Over 1.55 crore Delhi voters will vote in the assembly elections on February 5 and the votes will be counted on February 8, the Indian Election Commission announced yesterday.

Kyiv’s army said yesterday there was still active fighting in Kurakhove, a strategic town in Ukraine’s east that Russia said it had seized the previous day.

Denmark’s Prime Minister insisted yesterday that Greenland’s future should be decided by its inhabitants, amid talk of Washington annexing the Danish autonomous territory.

US President Joe Biden’s administration will divert $95 million in military aid allocated for Egypt to Lebanon, which faces threats from Hezbollah and other non-state actors and is enforcing a ceasefire with Israel, according to a document seen by Reuters on Monday.

Three miners were feared dead inside a flooded coal mine in a remote district of India’s northeastern Assam state, authorities said yesterday, and the men were part of a total of nine still trapped as rescue teams worked to reach them.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday said he would step down in the coming months after nine years in power, bowing to legislators alarmed by his Liberal Party’s miserable pre-election polling numbers. Here is what might happen next: