G7 leaders set to clash with combative Trump over tariffs, trade
QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations are set to clash with a combative U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday when they pressure him to lift sanctions on steel and aluminum they fear could lead to a trade war.
U.S. expands China health alert amid illness reports
BEIJING (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Friday issued an expanded health alert for all of China amid reports some U.S. diplomats based in the country had experienced a mysterious malady that resembles a brain injury and has already affected U….
Canada clears major hurdle in legalizing recreational marijuana
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s Senate on Thursday voted to legalize recreational marijuana, clearing a major hurdle that puts the country on track to become the first Group of Seven nation to permit national use of the drug.
Populist Doug Ford on track to win Ontario election: media
TORONTO (Reuters) – The Progressive Conservative Party, led by populist Doug Ford, is on track to sweep to victory in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, ending 15 years of Liberal rule, Canadian networks projected on Thursday.
Guatemala volcano rescues suspended as death toll hits 109
SAN MIGUEL LOS LOTES, Guatemala (Reuters) – The search for survivors from deadly eruptions of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano was temporarily suspended on Thursday due to dangerous conditions for rescue workers, as the death toll from the disaster climbed to…
Chinese paper slams U.S. stance on Taiwan, says should prepare for ‘crisis’
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China should be prepared for crisis in the Taiwan Strait, the hawkish Global Times newspaper said in an editorial on Friday, amid rising tension between Beijing and Washington over the self-ruled island that China sees as a wayward…
German finance minister seeks to reassure Germans on Italy concerns
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz late on Thursday sought to assuage German citizens about Italy’s financial outlook as the new coalition government in Rome called for tough negotiations with Europe over the economy.
Trump attacks EU and Canada on trade amid backlash ahead of G7 summit
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations headed for a summit in Canada on Thursday more divided than at any time in the group’s 42-year history, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies risk causing a global trade …
Exclusive: U.S. sending 1,600 immigration detainees to federal prisons
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officials told Reuters on Thursday, in the first large-scale use of federal prisons to hold det…
France detains former Iraqi refugee on war crime suspicions
PARIS (Reuters) – French authorities are holding a former Iraqi refugee in custody on suspicions he committed war crimes as a local leader of Islamic State, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Thursday.
