US & Canada
Canadian wildfires prompt new evacuations, alarm over air quality
Firefighters battled hundreds of forest blazes on Wednesday as Canada’s worst-ever early season wildfires prompted the evacuation of thousands and a blanket ...US Congress averts historic default, approves debt-limit suspension
The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed bipartisan legislation backed by President Joe Biden that lifts the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, averting what ...Russia tells United States: don’t lecture Moscow on nuclear deployments
Russia on Saturday dismissed criticism from U.S. President Joe Biden over Moscow’s plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, saying Washington ...Saudi embrace of Assad sends strong signal to US
Once labelled a pariah, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman took centre stage as master of ceremonies last week when Arab states ...G7 offers Ukraine long-term support, Zelenskiy laments Bakhmut ‘tragedy’
Leaders of the world’s richest democracies said on Sunday they would not back down from supporting Ukraine, in a warning to Russian ...Zelenskiy joins Japan G7 as democracies take aim at Russia and China
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy brought his call for support against Russia’s invasion to a Group of Seven (G7) summit on Saturday to Japan, ...More than half of the world’s large lakes are drying up, study finds
More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s, chiefly because of climate change, intensifying ...Google to delete inactive accounts starting December
Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday said it would delete accounts that had remained unused for two years starting December, in a bid to ...G7 finance heads face tricky trade-off in debating steps to counter China
Finance leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies will debate this week the idea of implementing targeted controls on investments ...Donald Trump found guilty of sexually abusing E Jean Carroll
Donald Trump sexually abused magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her by branding her a liar, jurors ...