TORONTO (AP) — Canadian freight trains to roll again as government forces railroads into arbitration over labor contract, official says.
The former first lady, who hasn't been seen much on the campaign trail, defended her "celebration of the human form."
The Prime Minister talks with TIME about his balancing act at home and abroad and the lessons he says he learned from his past imprisonment.
Israel said a “new era” of war was beginning Wednesday, tacitly acknowledging its role in shock twin attacks targeting Hezbollah that have pushed the Middle East back to the brink of wider conflict.
Here’s what the latest polls say about the 2024 presidential election, from The Independent’s data correspondent
Hezbollah appears on the backfoot, rattled, and forced to contend with a new reality after unprecedented attacks in Lebanon.
According to South Korea intelligence, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un ordered executions of local officials following catastrophic flooding. CNN’s Will Ripley reports.
China may be preparing a surprise attack against Japan, involving a massive missile barrage against all major U.S. and Japanese military installations, in order to maximize the effectiveness of a massive amphibious operation to conquer Taiwan.
The woman whose company was linked to thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria in an attack on Hezbollah this week has received unspecified “threats” in the days since and has been advised by the Hungarian secret services “not to talk to media,” her mother told The Associated Press on Friday. Beatrix Bársony-Arcidiacono said by phone from Sicily that her daughter, Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, “is currently in a safe place protected by the Hungarian secret services” after her Budapest-based company was linked to the devices used in the simultaneous pager attack on Tuesday. Hungary's Special Service for National Security disputed the claim, though, saying the younger Bársony-Arcidiacono doesn't qualify for such protection but noting that she has been interviewed “several times” since an investigation was launched Wednesday.
An Israeli airstrike in Beirut killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more, Lebanese health officials said. It was the first such Israeli attack on Lebanon’s capital in months and came shortly after Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets. In Gaza, Palestinian authorities said 15 people were killed overnight in Israeli attacks.
Russia has taken two villages in the western Kursk region, a senior commander said, as Russian forces advance against thousands of Ukrainian forces who smashed through the Russian border last month. Ukraine on Aug. 6 launched the biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War Two, bursting through the border into the western Kursk region supported by swarms of drones and heavy weaponry, including Western-made arms. Major General Apti Alaudinov, commander of Chechnya's Akhmat special forces and deputy head of the Russian defence ministry's military-political department, said that Russia had taken Nikolayevo-Darino and Darino.
US President Joe Biden hosted Australia's prime minister at his Delaware home Friday, at the start of a weekend summit with the so-called "Quad" group he has pushed as a counterweight to China.After a one-on-one meeting at his property with Australia's Anthony Albanese on Friday night, he will welcome Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at his beloved house on Saturday.
The former president often claims his crowd sizes are huge – even wildly asserting he drew in a bigger crowd than Martin Luther King Jr during the March on Washington – but this time, he appeared to go even further by claiming there was one at all
Adm. Lisa Franchetti outlined a seven-goal plan for 2027, which Washington has repeatedly said is Xi Jinping's target for readying China's military.
The former president made the remarks while appearing on Fox News
They pointed out the cracks in the former president's claim.
‘This election is the best example of why y’all are so afraid of diversity, equity and inclusion,’ Rep Crockett slammed
Donald Trump said Jewish Americans would be to blame if he lost the election—as he attacked the most senior Jewish elected official as “Hamas all the way.”The Republican candidate used a speech Thursday to Jewish Republicans called “Fighting Antisemitism in America” to make the series of astonishing claims.He attacked the Jewish community for appearing likely to vote more Democratic than Republican, and said, “In my opinion the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss if I’m at 40 per ce
INTERVIEW: Oleksandr Kamyshin spent more than a year as minister of strategic industries, overseeing Ukraine’s defence industry. He tells Askold Krushelnycky about his latest challenge
The Stop Killer Robots campaign has urgently called for an international treaty regulating the use of autonomous weapons systems.
Indian munitions are being diverted by European intermediaries to support Ukraine's defence against Russia, according to government and defence sources and customs data. Despite Indian arms export regulations and protests from Moscow, transfers of Indian ammunition by European providers have been ongoing for more than a year as sources say Delhi intends to develop its nascent arms export sector. Artillery shells sold by Indian arms makers have been diverted by European customers to Ukraine and N
