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KANANASKIS: India and Canada agreed Tuesday to return ambassadors to each other’s capitals, turning the page on a bitter spat over an assassination as Canada’s new leader welcomed counterpart Narendra Modi. Prime Minister Mark Carney, who took office in March, invited Modi to the Canadian Rockies as a guest at the summit of the Group…
JAKARTA: Dozens of flights to and from Indonesia’s resort island of Bali were cancelled on Wednesday, according to authorities and the island’s airport, after a volcano in the archipelago’s east erupted, shooting an ash tower 10 kilometres into the sky. Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a 1,584-metre (5,197-foot) volcano on the tourist island of Flores, erupted on…
LOS ANGELES: Calm appeared to be returning to protest-hit Los Angeles on Tuesday as the mayor lifted a nighttime curfew, while President Donald Trump battled to keep control of California troops he deployed to the city. A fraction of the sprawling US city had been off-limits from 8pm to 6am to most people for a…
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump will extend a June 19 deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of short video app TikTok for 90 days despite a law that mandated a sale or shutdown absent significant progress, the White House said on Tuesday. Trump had already twice granted a reprieve from enforcement of…
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s ex-president Cristina Kirchner began serving a six-year fraud sentence under house arrest on Tuesday, after a judge granted her request to avoid prison in a case that dramatically ended her two-decade career. The Supreme Court last week upheld the 72-year-old’s conviction for “fraudulent administration” while president, along with her lifelong ban on…
KANANASKIS: Group of Seven leaders minus President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed greater support for Ukraine, as the United States blocked a joint call to pressure Russia, which is ramping up attacks on its neighbor. The US president had been due to meet at the G7 summit in Canada with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky,…
NEW YORK: US immigration police handcuffed a New York mayoral candidate at court on Tuesday after he sought to assist migrants threatened with deportation under President Donald Trump’s campaign targeting undocumented people. Images captured by witnesses and American media show Brad Lander, the city’s comptroller, in a suit and tie, being forcefully wrestled and handcuffed…
PRAGUE: NATO member Slovakia would benefit from neutrality, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Tuesday, questioning for the first time the central European country’s membership in the alliance that is rushing to bolster its deterrence against Russia. The comment has no near-term practical implications but is the latest in a stream of anti-Western positions Fico…
SAN FRANCISCO: Xbox president Sarah Bond on Tuesday confirmed that her team is working on a new Xbox video game console. “We’re investing in our next generation of hardware line-up across console, handheld, PC, cloud and accessories,“ Bond said in a video posted on X. Semiconductors powering the new hardware will be made in collaboration…
MEXICO CITY: A tropical storm bore down on Mexico’s Pacific coast Tuesday, likely strengthening to a hurricane bringing life-threatening heavy rains in the days to come, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. By lunchtime Tuesday, storm Erick had reached maximum sustained winds of nearly 50 miles (85 kilometers) an hour with higher gusts, according…
