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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said the question in the upcoming national vote is who would be the best candidate to deal with US President Donald Trump.Mr Carney's comments came in response to Conservative Pierre Poilievre saying during the French-language leaders' debate that Canada needs change and Mr Carney is just like his predecessor Justin Trudeau. "Mr. Poilievre is not Justin Trudeau. I'm not Justin Trudeau either. In this […]

You could have heard a pin drop in the press room at the White House.Patty Morin was there to share her story, one no mother should ever have to tell. Her daughter Rachel, a mother-of-five from Maryland, was brutally raped and murdered in 2023.Patty's graphic account of Rachel's death was heartrending - enough to silence the most seasoned of journalists."Why should we allow people like this, violent criminals that have […]

A US federal judge has warned that he could hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for violating his orders to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador.The comments are an escalation in a row which began last month when US District Judge James E Boasberg issued an order temporarily blocking the deportations. However, lawyers told him there were already two planes with immigrants in the air - one […]

An American pastor abducted by armed men in South Africa has been rescued - and was "miraculously unharmed" in a deadly shootout.Josh Sullivan, who is originally from Tennessee, was kidnapped by four men as he was delivering a sermon to a church congregation in Eastern Cape province last Thursday. The gang stole two mobile phones from worshippers, seized Mr Sullivan from the pulpit, and drove the pastor away using his […]

China's economy performed better than expected in the first quarter of the year - but it reflects a moment in time before the explosive trade war with the US, which has seen the world's two biggest economies effectively decouple.Economists had predicted that gross domestic product would grow by about 5.1% in January to March, compared with a year earlier. In the end, it grew 5.4%. But these impressive figures obscure […]

On 11 April, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its affiliates attacked Zamzam camp in North Darfur.The RSF is a paramilitary organisation comprised of militias that used to be be aligned with Sudan's government. For exactly two years it has been been locked in a civil war with the government's Sudan Armed Forces (SAF). Both sides have been accused of human rights abuses over the course of the conflict.After the […]

Ukraine's military says it has struck the base of the Russian missile brigade behind Sunday's devastating attack on Sumy.A Russian assault on the city killed 35 people and injured at least 119. Children were among the dead and wounded. The Ukrainian military has now said it has struck a base of "the 448th missile brigade of the Russian occupiers". In a statement on messaging app Telegram, it said the base […]

Several French prisons were attacked overnight in response to government efforts to clamp down on drug trafficking in the country, senior officials said.Unknown assailants fired automatic weapons at a prison in the southern city of Toulon, while vehicles were burned outside other facilities across the country and staff were threatened. France's national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office said on Tuesday that it had taken charge of the investigation, while the country's DGSI […]

Donald Trump has suggested "homegrown criminals" in the US could be deported to jails in El Salvador – saying the US attorney general is "studying the laws right now".He made the comment while speaking alongside the Central American nation's president, Nayib Bukele, in the White House. The Trump administration has sent hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to CECOT, a maximum security prison in El Salvador, since March.When asked about […]