Canada will allow in fewer temporary foreign workers under tightened rules announced Monday, part of a turnaround in its generous immigration policy that has resulted in an unwieldy surge of newcomers. The rules include reinstituting a ban on temporary foreign ...

Speaking at a meeting of Pacific Island leaders in Tonga, Antonio Guterres warned the region was ‘uniquely exposed’. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued his latest climate SOS, calling on countries to “Save Our Seas” as he warned of a crisis of an “unimaginable ...

Telegram’s Pavel Durov finds himself at the center of a huge legal or political storm following his recent arrest in France. He was detained at Le Bourget airport near Paris after landing on a private jet from Azerbaijan.  Shrouded in secrecy, the arrest has raised alarms in Russia and the ...

Patients and displaced Palestinians are fleeing Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the last functioning medical facility in central Gaza, following the latest evacuation orders. The Israeli army on Sunday demanded Palestinians evacuate an area east of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, previously ...

Harris’s team says $82m came in during last week’s convention as her campaign for the presidency gains momentum. Vice President Kamala Harris has raised $540m in little more than a month since she began her race for United States president, with a surge of donations during the Democratic ...

Former world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather has again outmatched John Gotti III, the grandson of the late New York crime boss, in an exhibition fight rematch that left the Mexico City crowd unimpressed. Mayweather, 47, dominated Gotti from start to finish on Saturday despite confusion ...

As the war enters its 913th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, August 26, 2024. Fighting At least 18 people were killed and 37 injured in Russian missile and drone attacks on Sunday which targeted the front-line Ukrainian regions of Chernihiv, ...

US President Joe Biden reportedly asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a call on Wednesday to move troops back from Gaza's border with Egypt as part of an initial phase of a ceasefire deal so that talks could continue. Netanyahu has insisted Israeli forces remain in the ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The billionaire founder and Chief Executive Officer of Telegram, Pavel Durov, was reportedly detained at Bourget Airport near Paris on Saturday. This is according to French news outlets TF1 and BFM TV. According to Reuters, ...

Meta has blocked WhatsApp accounts involved in "a small cluster of likely social engineering activity" on the service. In its report, it has revealed that it traced the activity to APT42 (also called UNC788 and Mint Sandstorm), which the FBI previously linked to a phishing campaign that ...

Here are the main developments as the war enters its 911th day. Here is the situation on Saturday, August 24, 2024. Diplomacy and aid: The United States has announced a new round of military assistance to Ukraine, following a phone call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

United States of America’s Vice President, Kamala Harris formally accepted the Democratic nomination for President on Thursday with a rousing call to end the war in Gaza and to fight tyranny around the world, drawing a sharp contrast with Republican Donald Trump. “In ...

Several deaths reported as floods caused by torrential rains sweep India’s northeast and neighbouring Bangladesh’s east. Floodwaters have inundated parts of India and Bangladesh, stranding hundreds of thousands of people in India’s northeast and neighbouring Bangladesh’s eastern ...

Moscow has come under one of the largest drone attacks of the war. When President Vladimir Putin launched Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine two-and-a-half years ago, he expected a speedy victory. Not only did that not happen, but Ukraine has now brought the war ...

Israel killed three Palestinians in a drone strike on Thursday in Tulkarem, a city and refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. That was during an Israeli raid – a near-daily occurrence in the West Bank – on the Tulkarem refugee camp, during which Israeli troops clashed with fighters from ...

Three Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air attack on a house in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health says. The attack on Thursday came as the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said fighters from its Tulkarem Battalion ...

Israel has killed at least 50 more Palestinians and wounded more than 120 in Gaza as its military has ordered new evacuations in central and southern parts of the enclave. Gaza’s Civil Defence agency on Wednesday said at least four people were killed and 18 wounded in the latest Israeli ...

By Matthew Atungwu Former US President and Republican candidate, Donald Trump will hold a rally outdoors Wednesday in North Carolina, the first open-air campaign event since he narrowly escaped an assassination ...

The Portuguese footballer’s launch broke the world record for fastest YouTube channel to hit one million subscribers. Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo has launched his YouTube channel, and more than a million subscribers signed up within the first 90 minutes. The 39-year-old, five-time ...

Tomiko Itooka went mountain climbing into her 70s, scaling Japan’s 3,067-metre Mount Ontake – in sneakers. A Japanese woman aged 116 is set to be named the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records. The United States-based Gerontology Research Group announced on Wednesday that ...

Ukraine has launched one of its largest drone attacks on Moscow, as it presses on with a major incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, Russian authorities said. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday that air defence forces shot down 11 drones over Moscow and its surrounding region, ...

When Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee for President in July after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race, nearly the entire party quickly came together to endorse her campaign. But the Vermont independent senator who caucuses with the Democrats, Bernie ...

Top US diplomat Antony Blinken met Egypt's president Tuesday for talks about a Gaza ceasefire after saying Israel had accepted a US "bridging proposal" for a deal and urging Hamas to do the same. The Palestinian group said it was "keen to reach a ceasefire" agreement but protested US ...

Chicago, Illinois – United States President Joe Biden’s send-off speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was often interrupted by adoring chants of “Thank you, Joe.” But outside the convention halls on Monday, thousands of protesters held signs accusing Biden of war crimes ...

Former US president lays out what’s at stake and why Harris-Walz should lead the country. Former United States President Barack Obama has taken to the stage of the Democratic National Convention in a show of support for Kamala Harris in her 11th-hour bid to become the country’s next ...

On August 5, the government of Mali announced its decision to cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine, citing a Ukrainian official’s boastful admission that Kyiv provided Malian rebels with crucial intel for a rebel assault that killed many Russian Wagner Group mercenaries and Malian soldiers. The ...

United States President Joe Biden has delivered the keynote address on the first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, effectively passing the baton to his vice president and party nominee, Kamala Harris. “Are you ready to vote for freedom? Are you ready to vote for democracy ...

Medical source says ‘entire health sector has collapsed’ as Israeli air attacks kill Palestinians across the Gaza Strip. Israeli air strikes have killed at least 35 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, medical sources tell Al Jazeera, as hospitals warn that children are at a risk of ...

Chicago, Illinois – Rich Barnes says that opposing Israel’s war in Gaza is not a complicated issue. “Are we for mass murdering babies, or are we against it? To me, it’s a pretty simple equation,” he said, holding Palestinian and Irish flags near the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in ...

UN office warns that a record number of aid workers were killed in 2023 and fears further grim milestones could be set as wars rage. More than half of the 280 aid workers killed worldwide in 2023 died during the first three months of Israel’s war on Gaza, according to the United ...

The Democratic Party kicks off its convention this week in Chicago with its candidate for President as the favorite to win in November. It’s a remarkable turnaround from when former President Donald Trump entered the Republican National Convention a month ago, with the betting odds in his favor ...

As the war enters its 906th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, August 19, 2024. Fighting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time stated the aim of Ukraine’s August 6 incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, saying the operation ...

Hamas claims the talks in Qatar are being used by the US and Israel to impose their will on Gaza Hamas said on Sunday that a new proposal meant to bridge the gaps between Israel and the Palestinian group over a Gaza ceasefire were too close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says Kyiv has stationed more than 120,000 soldiers along its border with Belarus, the country’s state news agency reported, as fighting continues amid Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. Lukashenko, a staunch ally of Russian President ...

Donald Trump resorted to personal attacks on rival Kamala Harris at a rally in Pennsylvania, calling her a 'lunatic' and a 'communist'. Donald Trump launched fresh personal attacks against White House rival Kamala Harris on Saturday, as new polling showed her making major gains in key ...

Residents in central city of Saint-Marc have been advised by authorities to remain vigilant for escapees. A prison break in central Haiti has resulted in the deaths of at least 11 inmates, the authorities said, the third such incident this year amid a continuing humanitarian crisis ...

The UN is urging a humanitarian pause in fighting to allow Gaza's children to receive polio vaccines Gaza has recorded its first polio case in 25 years, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday, after UN chief Antonio Guterres called for pauses in the Israel-Hamas war to vaccinate ...

In October 2023, Heman Bekele, a rising 10th-grader from Woodson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, made history. He was crowned the winner of the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, a prestigious title that came with a $25,000 prize. He competed against nine other finalists, and his ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for humanitarian pauses in the war in Gaza in order to conduct a polio vaccine campaign after the virus was detected in the besieged territory. “It is impossible to conduct a polio vaccination campaign with war raging all over,” ...

As Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris overtakes her Republican opponent Donald Trump in opinion polls – she is now leading in five crucial swing states – experts warn she will face “a heavy road” when it comes to passing economic legislation should she become the next president of ...

Susya, West Bank – Wadi Raheem is a dry riverbed near the Palestinian village of Susya in the South Hebron hills in the occupied West Bank. The area has a stark beauty that is characterised by rolling hills, rocky outcrops and stunning vistas. Despite the generally poor soil, Palestinians ...

The English Premier League season returns on Friday when Manchester United host Fulham at Old Trafford. Who: Manchester United vs Fulham What: English Premier League opening game Where: Old Trafford, Manchester, United Kingdom When: 8pm local time (19:00 GMT) on Friday, ...

The Nahal Heletz settlement shrinks Palestinian land and poses ‘imminent threat’ to a World Heritage Site. Israel has approved a new illegal settlement on a UNESCO World Heritage Site near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Bezalel Smotrich, the country’s far-right finance ...

Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams were stranded after problems emerged with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. NASA has said it will decide by the end of the month how it will bring home two astronauts who were stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) when their Starliner ...

Marawi, Philippines – Maisara Dandamun-Latiph’s office sits on a hill overlooking the ruins of Marawi, the southern Philippine city that was destroyed during a five-month battle with hardline fighters linked to the ISIL (ISIS) group in 2017. Dandamun-Latiph was named chairperson of the ...

Two French Rafale jets collided midair Wednesday in a rare accident involving the cutting-edge military aircraft and authorities launched a desperate search for two crew. The two supersonic jets were from the Saint-Dizier air base, an air force spokesman in Paris told AFP. It was gathered ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The United States all-items inflation increased to 2.9 percent in July 2024 on a year-on-year basis. This is according to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics data released on Wednesday. The Bureau noted that the Consumer Price Index for AIl Urban Consumers increased by 0.2 percent ...

Iran on Tuesday rejected European countries’ attempts at mediation amid rising tensions in the Middle East, as Tehran insisted on its right to launch a retaliatory strike on Israel. “These calls are politically one-sided and illogical, as they encourage a regime to commit even more crimes in ...

Deir el-Balah, Gaza – In the early hours of Saturday morning, 24-year-old Sajida al-Kafarna was sleeping with her family inside a school classroom when they were woken by a huge explosion. “We reassured each other that we were OK, but when I noticed my father’s empty place, panic set in ...

Africa’s top public health body acts over outbreak of mpox that spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo to neighbouring countries. The African Union’s health watchdog has declared a public health emergency over the growing mpox outbreak on the continent, saying the move is a ...